Selenium Contracts in the Thames Valley

Selenium
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 113 142
Rank change year-on-year +14 +29 -31
Contract jobs citing Selenium 44 33 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.66% 1.16% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.25% 10.22% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 29 18
10th Percentile £445 £363 £353
25th Percentile £525 £450 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £469
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +17.33% +26.69%
75th Percentile £675 £590 £488
90th Percentile £693 £619 £538
South East median daily rate £600 £530 £475
% change year-on-year +13.21% +11.58% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -48.67% +50.00% -19.03%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

Selenium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 255 323 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.64% 11.38% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 221 262
10th Percentile £306 £363 £350
25th Percentile £406 £450 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +7.34%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £563
90th Percentile £688 £725 £650
South East median daily rate £528 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile £43.23 £23.25 £54.51
25th Percentile £46.25 £33.75 £56.77
Median hourly rate £51.25 £52.50 £60.58
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -13.34% +35.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.88 £64.44
90th Percentile - £66.75 £66.72
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £56.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.91% +2.46% +10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +1 42 £625 +13.64% 7
Buckinghamshire +23 1 - - 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £450 -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 26 (59.09%) Azure
2 14 (31.82%) AWS
3 8 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (11.36%) Serverless
5 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.27%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (61.36%) Jenkins
2 26 (59.09%) Cucumber
3 25 (56.82%) REST Assured
4 24 (54.55%) SonarQube
5 15 (34.09%) JIRA
6 13 (29.55%) GitLab
7 8 (18.18%) Git
8 5 (11.36%) SpecFlow
9 4 (9.09%) Postman
10 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
10 3 (6.82%) Robot Framework
11 2 (4.55%) Appium
12 1 (2.27%) Android Studio
12 1 (2.27%) JUnit
12 1 (2.27%) MSTest
12 1 (2.27%) NUnit
12 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
12 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
12 1 (2.27%) TestNG
12 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (72.73%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (59.09%) Social Skills
3 20 (45.45%) Law
4 13 (29.55%) Police
5 2 (4.55%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Java Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Senior
4 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Software Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Java Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Architect
7 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Analyst
8 3 (6.82%) Full Stack Python Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Lead
8 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Test Manager
8 3 (6.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (59.09%) REST
2 25 (56.82%) Java EE
3 13 (29.55%) ARM Templates
4 5 (11.36%) React
5 2 (4.55%) .NET
5 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.55%) JSON
5 2 (4.55%) Playwright
5 2 (4.55%) XML
6 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.27%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.27%) HTML
6 1 (2.27%) RESTful
6 1 (2.27%) Spring
6 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Client/Server
1 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (95.45%) Test Automation
2 39 (88.64%) DevOps
3 28 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
4 26 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (56.82%) Decision-Making
5 25 (56.82%) Software Architecture
5 25 (56.82%) Technical Leadership
6 23 (52.27%) Software Engineering
7 14 (31.82%) Configuration Management
7 14 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (29.55%) Containerisation
9 9 (20.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 8 (18.18%) Agile
10 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
11 6 (13.64%) Microservices
12 5 (11.36%) Full Stack Development
13 4 (9.09%) Unit Testing
14 3 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 3 (6.82%) Release Management
14 3 (6.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (75.00%) Java
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.82%) VBScript
5 2 (4.55%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.27%) C
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (65.91%) Security Cleared
2 26 (59.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Docker
2 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (56.82%) Ansible
2 14 (31.82%) Terraform
3 12 (27.27%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.27%) Podman
4 1 (2.27%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) VMware
2 1 (2.27%) Google
2 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft