WebDriver Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Selenium WebDriver
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring WebDriver skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 105 119
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +50
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 3 6 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% 0.32% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.85% 2.39% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 18
10th Percentile £407 £378 £409
25th Percentile £418 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -8.11% -
75th Percentile £453 £496 £516
90th Percentile £463 £498 £604
UK median daily rate £425 £440 £425
% change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -10.53%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

WebDriver 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 354 251 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.11% 13.48% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 162 306
10th Percentile £378 £356 £386
25th Percentile £423 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £482 £476
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +1.10% +0.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £543
90th Percentile £600 £725 £661
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 7
10th Percentile £16.66 - £58.42
25th Percentile £16.84 - £59.03
Median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.09%
75th Percentile £60.94 - £67.66
90th Percentile £65.75 - £70.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver in Scotland

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WebDriver.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WebDriver

WebDriver
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 WebDriver within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 September 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 +4 2 £400 -
Glasgow -22 1 £470 -5.62%
WebDriver
UK

WebDriver
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ATDD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) V-Model
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
2 2 (66.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle