Selenium Contracts in the UK excluding London

Selenium
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 183 197
Rank change year-on-year -78 +14 -17
Contract jobs citing Selenium 148 322 427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.32% 1.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.68% 9.14% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 244 323
10th Percentile £350 £350 £351
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +6.51%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £517
90th Percentile £685 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £452 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -13.90% +5.00% +12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 10
10th Percentile - £67.00 £44.75
25th Percentile £36.75 £70.63 £47.06
Median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% +43.88% -7.74%
75th Percentile £40.25 - £65.48
90th Percentile - - £65.81
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £75.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year -14.33% +17.90% +12.59%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,214 3,524 4,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.64% 14.45% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,465 2,485 3,284
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +17.10%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £685 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 191 116
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.64 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.25 £42.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +11.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £60.54
90th Percentile £88.38 £77.00 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +19.42% +14.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
North of England +11 51 £425 -19.05% 21
South East -10 47 £583 +8.37% 30
Yorkshire +12 29 £425 -15.00% 9
North West +24 20 £450 +5.88% 12
Scotland -21 19 £425 -10.53% 12
Midlands +15 14 £450 +18.42% 8
West Midlands +27 11 £463 -7.50% 4
South West -1 10 £525 - 11
Wales +18 5 £363 -32.56% 3
East Midlands -1 3 £380 +49.75% 4
Northern Ireland +4 2 - -
North East +2 2 £380 -33.91%
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UK

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (3.38%) Confluence
2 3 (2.03%) CMS
2 3 (2.03%) Drupal
3 2 (1.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 55 (37.16%) Azure
2 34 (22.97%) AWS
2 34 (22.97%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.73%) GitHub
3 7 (4.73%) SaaS
4 6 (4.05%) GCP
4 6 (4.05%) PaaS
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.70%) IaaS
7 3 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.03%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (1.35%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.35%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.35%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (1.35%) Serverless
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) SSL
2 4 (2.70%) HTTP
3 3 (2.03%) DNS
4 1 (0.68%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.70%) RDBMS
2 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.03%) Big Data
4 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.35%) Redis
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 55 (37.16%) Jenkins
2 54 (36.49%) Cucumber
3 33 (22.30%) JIRA
4 28 (18.92%) Git
4 28 (18.92%) REST Assured
5 24 (16.22%) SonarQube
6 22 (14.86%) JMeter
7 20 (13.51%) GitLab
8 16 (10.81%) WebDriver
9 13 (8.78%) Cypress.io
10 12 (8.11%) Postman
11 11 (7.43%) SpecFlow
12 8 (5.41%) Appium
13 7 (4.73%) Bitbucket
13 7 (4.73%) Subversion
14 6 (4.05%) JUnit
14 6 (4.05%) NUnit
14 6 (4.05%) Robot Framework
14 6 (4.05%) TeamCity
15 5 (3.38%) TestNG
General
1 48 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.70%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.51%) Law
4 15 (10.14%) Finance
5 13 (8.78%) Police
6 5 (3.38%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Automotive
9 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (19.59%) Tester
2 28 (18.92%) Senior
2 28 (18.92%) Test Engineer
3 23 (15.54%) Analyst
3 23 (15.54%) Automation Tester
3 23 (15.54%) Java Engineer
4 18 (12.16%) Test Analyst
5 14 (9.46%) Test Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.43%) Developer
6 11 (7.43%) Senior Test Engineer
7 10 (6.76%) Lead
8 8 (5.41%) Java Developer
8 8 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Senior Java Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Automation Test Analyst
10 6 (4.05%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) QA Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.38%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (22.97%) REST
2 29 (19.59%) Java EE
3 20 (13.51%) .NET
4 16 (10.81%) ARM Templates
5 9 (6.08%) Kafka
5 9 (6.08%) RESTful
6 8 (5.41%) Web Services
7 6 (4.05%) JSON
8 5 (3.38%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.38%) pytest
8 5 (3.38%) React
8 5 (3.38%) Spring
9 4 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (2.70%) DOM
9 4 (2.70%) Gherkin
9 4 (2.70%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.70%) JAX-RS
9 4 (2.70%) JDBC
9 4 (2.70%) Jest
9 4 (2.70%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.76%) Client/Server
2 9 (6.08%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.38%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.03%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.03%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.35%) PKI
5 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.68%) NHS
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.11%) Linux
2 11 (7.43%) Windows
3 8 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.38%) Unix
5 4 (2.70%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.35%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (1.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.68%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (74.32%) Test Automation
2 67 (45.27%) DevOps
3 59 (39.86%) Agile
4 43 (29.05%) Continuous Integration
5 37 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (20.27%) Test Scripting
7 29 (19.59%) BDD
8 28 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (17.57%) CI/CD
10 25 (16.89%) Decision-Making
10 25 (16.89%) Software Architecture
11 24 (16.22%) Software Engineering
12 22 (14.86%) Software Testing
13 20 (13.51%) Test Strategy
14 17 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (10.81%) Manual Testing
16 15 (10.14%) Configuration Management
16 15 (10.14%) Containerisation
16 15 (10.14%) TDD
17 14 (9.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 75 (50.68%) Java
2 28 (18.92%) C#
3 25 (16.89%) JavaScript
4 24 (16.22%) Python
5 20 (13.51%) SQL
6 13 (8.78%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.76%) VBScript
8 8 (5.41%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.38%) Scala
10 4 (2.70%) C++
10 4 (2.70%) Groovy
10 4 (2.70%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.70%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.70%) VBA
11 3 (2.03%) Bicep
12 2 (1.35%) Bash
12 2 (1.35%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.68%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 45 (30.41%) Security Cleared
2 36 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.43%) ISTQB
4 8 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.05%) ISEB
6 5 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.38%) Degree
6 5 (3.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.86%) QA
2 11 (7.43%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.41%) WCAG
4 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (12.84%) Docker
2 6 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (19.59%) Ansible
2 21 (14.19%) Kubernetes
3 20 (13.51%) Terraform
4 12 (8.11%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (8.11%) Podman
5 2 (1.35%) Grafana
5 2 (1.35%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (7.43%) Oracle
2 8 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.05%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.05%) VMware
4 5 (3.38%) Wind River
5 4 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.35%) Google
6 2 (1.35%) HP
6 2 (1.35%) Perfecto Mobile
6 2 (1.35%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) Brio
7 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft