Selenium Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Selenium
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 83 45 52
Rank change year-on-year -38 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing Selenium 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.80% 1.05% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.45% 4.44% 7.84%
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
Yorkshire median daily rate £363 £423 £425
% change year-on-year -14.20% -0.59% -5.56%

All Development Application Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 245 90 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 32.54% 23.56% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 60 36
10th Percentile £319 £408 £388
25th Percentile £400 £460 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £523 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +19.26% -24.46%
75th Percentile £530 £600 £541
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Selenium

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Sheffield -32 6 £325 -27.78% 11
Selenium
Yorkshire

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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