Selenium Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Selenium
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 46 47
Rank change year-on-year -32 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Selenium 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.87% 1.14% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.47% 4.65% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £317 £330 -
25th Percentile £319 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £481
90th Percentile - £570 £508
South Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -27.78% +5.88% -5.56%

All Development Application Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 243 86 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.06% 24.43% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 59 34
10th Percentile £319 £407 £383
25th Percentile £400 £458 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +19.83% -25.43%
75th Percentile £530 £600 £534
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £523 £438
% change year-on-year -7.75% +19.26% -24.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Selenium

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Sheffield over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Sheffield

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) TestNG
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead Test Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
2 1 (16.67%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) OOP
4 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Review
4 2 (33.33%) System Testing
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
5 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle