Selenium Contracts in the UK excluding London

Selenium
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 256 193
Rank change year-on-year +63 -63 -1
Contract jobs citing Selenium 147 144 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 0.69% 1.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.59% 6.36% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 109 243
10th Percentile £263 £350 £363
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £60.25
25th Percentile - £36.75 £70.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £38.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -48.67% +43.88%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £64.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year -22.18% -14.33% +17.90%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Selenium
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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North of England +22 53 £475 +11.76% 41
South East +45 47 £625 +6.38% 38
Yorkshire +8 29 £475 +11.76% 13
Midlands +30 20 £326 -18.50% 19
North West +18 20 £447 -5.89% 23
East Midlands +19 12 £269 -29.21% 12
Scotland +10 12 £375 -11.76% 6
West Midlands +13 8 £425 -26.09% 7
South West +41 7 £425 -19.05% 25
Wales +1 5 £331 -8.64% 15
North East +2 4 £506 +33.22% 6
East of England - 3 £525 - 26
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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 15 (10.20%) Confluence
2 2 (1.36%) Apache
2 2 (1.36%) Apache Solr
2 2 (1.36%) CICS
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.36%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.36%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (36.05%) Azure
2 34 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (17.01%) AWS
4 9 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (6.12%) Serverless
5 8 (5.44%) SaaS
6 6 (4.08%) Azure API Management
6 6 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (4.08%) GitHub
7 5 (3.40%) Azure Functions
7 5 (3.40%) PaaS
8 4 (2.72%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.04%) BrowserStack
9 3 (2.04%) IaaS
9 3 (2.04%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.36%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) SAN
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
2 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.36%) DB2
5 2 (1.36%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.68%) Power BI
6 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (33.33%) JIRA
2 44 (29.93%) Cucumber
2 44 (29.93%) Jenkins
3 41 (27.89%) Git
4 30 (20.41%) GitLab
5 28 (19.05%) Postman
6 20 (13.61%) Maven
6 20 (13.61%) REST Assured
7 18 (12.24%) Cypress.io
7 18 (12.24%) JUnit
8 17 (11.56%) JMeter
9 14 (9.52%) SonarQube
10 13 (8.84%) IntelliJ
11 10 (6.80%) WebDriver
12 8 (5.44%) Gradle
12 8 (5.44%) HP UFT
12 8 (5.44%) Subversion
13 7 (4.76%) SoapUI
13 7 (4.76%) SpecFlow
14 6 (4.08%) Appium
General
1 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (16.33%) Finance
4 21 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 16 (10.88%) Banking
6 9 (6.12%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.44%) Law
8 7 (4.76%) Electronics
8 7 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.76%) Marketing
9 4 (2.72%) Police
10 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.36%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.36%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.36%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 32 (21.77%) Tester
2 23 (15.65%) Developer
3 17 (11.56%) Test Engineer
4 15 (10.20%) Automation Tester
5 12 (8.16%) Lead
5 12 (8.16%) QA Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (6.80%) Java Developer
7 10 (6.80%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Azure Developer
8 9 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) QA Tester
9 8 (5.44%) Senior
9 8 (5.44%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.65%) REST
2 14 (9.52%) Java EE
3 13 (8.84%) HTML
4 12 (8.16%) .NET
5 11 (7.48%) Playwright
5 11 (7.48%) React
5 11 (7.48%) Web Services
6 10 (6.80%) ARM Templates
6 10 (6.80%) CSS
7 8 (5.44%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.76%) JSON
9 6 (4.08%) ADO
9 6 (4.08%) Hibernate
9 6 (4.08%) J2EE
9 6 (4.08%) jQuery
9 6 (4.08%) pytest
9 6 (4.08%) Spring Boot
9 6 (4.08%) XML
10 5 (3.40%) Bootstrap
10 5 (3.40%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.44%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.08%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.08%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (3.40%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.40%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.40%) Mainframe
3 5 (3.40%) NHS
4 4 (2.72%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.04%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.36%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.36%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.36%) Replication
6 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.36%) VSAM
7 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.12%) Windows
2 5 (3.40%) Linux
3 3 (2.04%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) AIX
5 1 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (89.12%) Test Automation
2 75 (51.02%) DevOps
3 69 (46.94%) Agile
4 53 (36.05%) CI/CD
5 34 (23.13%) Test Strategy
6 32 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (19.73%) API Testing
7 29 (19.73%) Test Scripting
8 27 (18.37%) Manual Testing
9 24 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (12.24%) Configuration Management
11 17 (11.56%) Non-Functional Testing
11 17 (11.56%) Scrum
11 17 (11.56%) Software Testing
12 16 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (10.88%) Performance Testing
12 16 (10.88%) Software Engineering
12 16 (10.88%) Validation
13 15 (10.20%) Functional Testing
14 14 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 73 (49.66%) Java
2 36 (24.49%) Python
3 23 (15.65%) SQL
4 18 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.88%) C#
6 15 (10.20%) Bash
6 15 (10.20%) PowerShell
7 11 (7.48%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.04%) C++
8 3 (2.04%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.04%) VBA
8 3 (2.04%) VBScript
9 2 (1.36%) COBOL
9 2 (1.36%) Go
9 2 (1.36%) JCL
9 2 (1.36%) REXX
9 2 (1.36%) XPath
10 1 (0.68%) Bicep
10 1 (0.68%) Ruby
10 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.56%) ISTQB
4 12 (8.16%) Degree
5 6 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.72%) ISEB
8 3 (2.04%) CEH
8 3 (2.04%) CISSP
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (36.73%) QA
2 9 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (14.29%) Docker
2 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (12.24%) Terraform
2 17 (11.56%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.20%) Ansible
4 10 (6.80%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (6.12%) Podman
5 9 (6.12%) Progress Chef
6 8 (5.44%) Puppet
7 5 (3.40%) Grafana
8 3 (2.04%) Kibana
9 2 (1.36%) HP ALM
9 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.44%) Oracle
3 7 (4.76%) SAP
4 4 (2.72%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (2.72%) HP
5 3 (2.04%) Informatica
5 3 (2.04%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.36%) 3PAR
6 2 (1.36%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.36%) Brio
6 2 (1.36%) Brocade
6 2 (1.36%) Cisco
6 2 (1.36%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.36%) EMC
6 2 (1.36%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.36%) Nintex
6 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.36%) Veracode
6 2 (1.36%) VMware