Selenium Contracts in Scotland

Selenium
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 104 114 91
Rank change year-on-year +10 -23 +27
Contract jobs citing Selenium 12 15 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% 0.68% 2.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.80% 3.61% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 68
10th Percentile £326 - £371
25th Percentile £363 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -10.53% +7.04%
75th Percentile £400 £500 £600
90th Percentile £455 £630 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 316 416 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.45% 18.76% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 261 439
10th Percentile £313 £375 £393
25th Percentile £400 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £538
90th Percentile £575 £644 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £23.77 £35.00 £54.36
25th Percentile £29.81 £37.97 £59.03
Median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%
75th Percentile £49.98 - £66.56
90th Percentile £55.99 - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Selenium in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +1 8 £400 +6.67% 5
Glasgow +4 4 £375 -24.70%
Selenium
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) IaaS
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 4 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) Postman
2 4 (33.33%) Subversion
3 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 3 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (16.67%) JUnit
5 1 (8.33%) GitLab
5 1 (8.33%) Mercurial
5 1 (8.33%) MSTest
5 1 (8.33%) NUnit
5 1 (8.33%) Ranorex
5 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 6 (50.00%) Tester
2 4 (33.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) Playwright
3 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 2 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) DOM
4 1 (8.33%) EJB
4 1 (8.33%) Java EE
4 1 (8.33%) JAX-RS
4 1 (8.33%) JDBC
4 1 (8.33%) JPA
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
4 1 (8.33%) XML
4 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) BDD
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Kanban
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) ATDD
5 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Feature Driven Development
5 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) SOA
5 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (25.00%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) V-Model
5 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (25.00%) C++
5 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (25.00%) VBA
5 3 (25.00%) VBScript
6 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) ISEB
1 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) StreamSets