Selenium Contracts in the South East

Selenium
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 112 157 146
Rank change year-on-year +45 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing Selenium 47 48 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.56% 0.86% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.17% 8.86% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 52
10th Percentile £500 £363 £400
25th Percentile £500 £501 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £534
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +10.07% +11.20%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £615
90th Percentile £653 £688 £680
England median daily rate £425 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - £36.75 £72.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £38.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -48.67% +29.87%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £38.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.87% -48.67% +43.88%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 357 542 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.86% 9.75% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 334 481
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £619 £628
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £47.25 £38.65 £35.74
25th Percentile £49.50 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the South East 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
Thames Valley +40 37 £625 - 5
Berkshire +29 37 £625 - 3
Surrey - 9 £656 - 2
Hampshire +23 1 - - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (4.26%) Apache Solr
1 2 (4.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (4.26%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) Azure
2 15 (31.91%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (27.66%) AWS
4 9 (19.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (19.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (12.77%) Azure API Management
5 6 (12.77%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (6.38%) Serverless
7 2 (4.26%) SaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (31.91%) GitLab
1 15 (31.91%) JIRA
2 14 (29.79%) Cucumber
2 14 (29.79%) Git
2 14 (29.79%) Jenkins
3 13 (27.66%) REST Assured
4 9 (19.15%) SonarQube
5 5 (10.64%) JUnit
6 4 (8.51%) Appium
7 3 (6.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.26%) Maven
8 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (4.26%) SpecFlow
8 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (4.26%) WebDriver
9 1 (2.13%) JMeter
9 1 (2.13%) Postman
9 1 (2.13%) TestRail
General
1 17 (36.17%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Law
4 5 (10.64%) Finance
4 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.51%) Electronics
5 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.51%) Marketing
5 4 (8.51%) Police
5 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.13%) Billing
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Azure Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Java Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Software Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Lead
4 4 (8.51%) Product Manager
4 4 (8.51%) QA Manager
4 4 (8.51%) QA Test Manager
4 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Strategy Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Test Strategy Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) REST
2 13 (27.66%) Java EE
3 9 (19.15%) ARM Templates
4 7 (14.89%) React
5 6 (12.77%) ADO
6 2 (4.26%) Ajax
6 2 (4.26%) Bootstrap
6 2 (4.26%) CSS
6 2 (4.26%) HTML
6 2 (4.26%) JAXB
6 2 (4.26%) JAX-WS
6 2 (4.26%) JSON
6 2 (4.26%) RESTful
6 2 (4.26%) SOAP
6 2 (4.26%) Web Services
6 2 (4.26%) XML
6 2 (4.26%) XSD
6 2 (4.26%) XSL
6 2 (4.26%) XSLT
6 2 (4.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.77%) Algorithms
2 6 (12.77%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (82.98%) Test Automation
2 34 (72.34%) DevOps
3 21 (44.68%) Agile
4 20 (42.55%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
6 15 (31.91%) Software Engineering
7 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (27.66%) Configuration Management
8 13 (27.66%) Software Architecture
8 13 (27.66%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
9 9 (19.15%) Decision-Making
9 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (17.02%) Mathematics
11 7 (14.89%) Exploratory Testing
12 6 (12.77%) Manual Testing
12 6 (12.77%) Optimization Problems
12 6 (12.77%) Scenario Testing
12 6 (12.77%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 32 (68.09%) Java
2 22 (46.81%) Python
3 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
4 7 (14.89%) Bash
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) SQL
7 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.77%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
2 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Ansible
1 9 (19.15%) Docker Swarm
1 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
1 9 (19.15%) Podman
1 9 (19.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) SAP
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle