WebDriver Contracts in the UK excluding London

Selenium WebDriver
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WebDriver skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebDriver 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 324 379 425
Rank change year-on-year +55 +46 +45
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 12 20 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.096% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.70% 0.88% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 27
10th Percentile £336 - £403
25th Percentile £374 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -22.50% +1.78%
75th Percentile £447 £423 £600
90th Percentile £505 £490 £630
UK median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

WebDriver 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver 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 WebDriver in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver 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 WebDriver in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WebDriver 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 WebDriver 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 West +16 3 £380 +29.91% 1
North of England +15 3 £380 -5.00% 1
Scotland +6 3 £400 +6.67%
South East +45 2 - - 3
Midlands - 2 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £450 -
Wales - 1 £375 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
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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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) IaaS
3 3 (25.00%) PaaS
3 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Selenium
2 7 (58.33%) Cucumber
3 6 (50.00%) JIRA
4 5 (41.67%) Git
4 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (41.67%) Postman
5 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (25.00%) Subversion
5 3 (25.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (16.67%) Appium
7 1 (8.33%) GitLab
7 1 (8.33%) JBehave
7 1 (8.33%) NUnit
7 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
7 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
7 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Aviation
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) QA Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) Chai
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (83.33%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) BDD
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Kanban
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) API Testing
5 3 (25.00%) ATDD
5 3 (25.00%) Feature Driven Development
5 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) SOA
5 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) V-Model
5 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
1 6 (50.00%) Java
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (25.00%) VBA
3 3 (25.00%) VBScript
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) ISEB
1 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 3 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle