Selenium Contract Job Trends in Reading

Selenium
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 57 75
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 8 39 13
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.37% 3.60% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.90% 26.35% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 29 12
10th Percentile £356 £555 £466
25th Percentile £358 £568 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +13.64% +18.92%
75th Percentile £771 £650 £616
90th Percentile - £654 £620
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -19.92% +13.64% +17.33%

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 62 148 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 10.63% 13.65% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 87 97
10th Percentile £359 £387 £400
25th Percentile £452 £497 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% -2.50% +30.79%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £638 £670 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.75 £58.49 -
% change year-on-year +14.12% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Selenium job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Selenium

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Reading over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Reading

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Selenium

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (25.00%) Robot Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) NUnit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Billing
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Head of Development
2 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Java EE
1 2 (25.00%) Jinja
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (25.00%) Playwright
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
2 3 (37.50%) Test Management
2 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Podman
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (25.00%) Veracode