WebDriver Contract Job Trends in the South East

Selenium WebDriver
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring WebDriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 175 207
Rank change year-on-year +13 +32 +29
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 7 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.64% 0.38% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £201 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -54.06% +9.38% -13.51%
England median daily rate £413 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -7.30% +11.25% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £48.13 - £51.63
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £53.75
75th Percentile - - £54.69
90th Percentile - - £54.88
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -10.42%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 426 530 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.92% 12.12% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 325 472
10th Percentile £270 £330 £364
25th Percentile £375 £390 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £613
90th Percentile £615 £650 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 33 43
10th Percentile - £50.80 £48.40
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.87 £53.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.30 £73.00 £76.22
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebDriver relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

WebDriver job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WebDriver.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WebDriver

WebDriver
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WebDriver.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WebDriver

WebDriver
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 WebDriver within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Hampshire - 6 - - 2
Thames Valley - 1 £201 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £201 -
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) JIRA
1 7 (100.00%) Selenium
2 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
2 6 (85.71%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) MSTest
3 1 (14.29%) NUnit
3 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
3 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Exploratory Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Software Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Sprint Planning
3 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
3 5 (71.43%) Manual Testing
3 5 (71.43%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Agile Testing
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) OOP
5 1 (14.29%) SOLID
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared