Selenium Contracts in the South West

Selenium
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 140 134
Rank change year-on-year +34 -6 -19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 5 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.29% 0.49% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.73% 4.36% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £479 £413 £338
25th Percentile £541 £422 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.68% -8.33% +10.24%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £575
90th Percentile - £683 £711
England median daily rate £425 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.41% +8.00%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 183 367 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.68% 11.32% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 216 304
10th Percentile £385 £425 £375
25th Percentile £456 £475 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +7.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £602
90th Percentile £685 £700 £696
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 61 44
10th Percentile £56.50 £56.49 £51.21
25th Percentile £65.31 £65.00 £54.69
Median hourly rate £71.25 £70.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +13.82% +11.82%
75th Percentile £76.88 - £72.25
90th Percentile £83.04 £77.50 £79.40
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Wiltshire - 3 £600 - 3
Gloucestershire +18 1 - - 3
Somerset +3 1 £450 - 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Appium
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Snyk
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) TestRail
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus