Selenium Contracts in Reading

Selenium
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Selenium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Selenium over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 57 66
Rank change year-on-year +25 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 28 34 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.69% 2.85% 2.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.18% 23.29% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 20
10th Percentile £583 £501 £363
25th Percentile £613 £531 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +18.92%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £615
90th Percentile £639 £708 £619
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £625 £550
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
Reading

Selenium falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 87 146 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.57% 12.25% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 96 103
10th Percentile £409 £419 £400
25th Percentile £477 £501 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +15.57% +17.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £623
90th Percentile - £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -14.97% +12.00% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 22 (78.57%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) AWS
3 9 (32.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 9 (32.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Azure API Management
4 6 (21.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Git
1 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 10 (35.71%) Cucumber
2 10 (35.71%) GitLab
2 10 (35.71%) JIRA
2 10 (35.71%) REST Assured
3 6 (21.43%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Law
4 4 (14.29%) Electronics
4 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 4 (14.29%) Marketing
4 4 (14.29%) Police
4 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Azure Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Java Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Hardware Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.14%) React Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) Java EE
1 10 (35.71%) REST
2 6 (21.43%) ADO
2 6 (21.43%) ARM Templates
3 3 (10.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) DevOps
2 22 (78.57%) Test Automation
3 15 (53.57%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (39.29%) Agile
5 10 (35.71%) Configuration Management
5 10 (35.71%) Software Architecture
5 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 10 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
6 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
7 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (14.29%) Programme Management
9 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.71%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Java
2 16 (57.14%) Python
3 7 (25.00%) Bash
3 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Ansible
1 6 (21.43%) Docker Swarm
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 6 (21.43%) Podman
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) SAP