Selenium Contract Job Trends

Selenium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 272 256
Rank change year-on-year -71 -16 -46
Contract jobs citing Selenium 314 278 383
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.96% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.42% 6.68% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 186 290
10th Percentile £313 £263 £325
25th Percentile £361 £344 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £497
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -14.44% -4.10%
75th Percentile £530 £520 £585
90th Percentile £638 £588 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £436 £447 £500
% change year-on-year -2.40% -10.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £42.08
25th Percentile - - £50.06
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year - -22.18% -14.33%
75th Percentile - - £77.56
90th Percentile - - £85.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year - +29.87% -48.67%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,797 4,162 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.01% 14.30% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,787 3,445
10th Percentile £350 £338 £353
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 71 207
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.00 £32.48
25th Percentile £56.40 £47.21 £46.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £71.94 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £78.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in the UK

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Selenium

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Selenium

Selenium
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
England -82 269 £450 +5.88% 68
UK excluding London -103 154 £436 -2.40% 58
London -38 121 £459 +8.52% 19
Work from Home -33 101 £420 -2.61% 44
North of England -66 65 £450 -2.39% 16
Midlands -34 50 £425 +57.41% 13
West Midlands -19 46 £425 - 10
Yorkshire -50 35 £500 +5.26% 5
North West -38 23 £463 +6.44% 7
South East -80 20 £550 -12.00% 11
North East -17 12 £375 -23.08% 4
South West -31 10 £436 -16.90% 4
Scotland -3 7 £470 +17.50% 6
East Midlands -42 4 £373 +39.09% 3
Wales -11 3 £700 +111.37% 1
East of England -25 3 £300 -38.46% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 55 (17.52%) Confluence
2 5 (1.59%) SAS
3 4 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.91%) Shopify
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.64%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 117 (37.26%) Azure
2 107 (34.08%) AWS
3 78 (24.84%) GitHub
4 55 (17.52%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (15.92%) GCP
6 38 (12.10%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (4.46%) BrowserStack
8 12 (3.82%) Apigee
8 12 (3.82%) SaaS
9 11 (3.50%) OpenShift
10 8 (2.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.23%) Serverless
12 6 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.91%) Tricentis Tosca
13 5 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 4 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.27%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.32%) DSL
1 1 (0.32%) HTTP
1 1 (0.32%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.73%) MongoDB
3 14 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.82%) MySQL
5 10 (3.18%) Big Data
5 10 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.87%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.96%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.96%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.96%) Power BI
10 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.64%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.64%) HBase
10 2 (0.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 126 (40.13%) Jenkins
2 111 (35.35%) JIRA
3 108 (34.39%) Cucumber
4 88 (28.03%) GitLab
5 85 (27.07%) Git
6 84 (26.75%) Postman
7 79 (25.16%) REST Assured
8 66 (21.02%) Cypress.io
9 59 (18.79%) JMeter
9 59 (18.79%) WebDriver
10 57 (18.15%) JUnit
11 26 (8.28%) Gatling
12 19 (6.05%) Zephyr
13 18 (5.73%) TestNG
14 16 (5.10%) Serenity BDD
14 16 (5.10%) SpecFlow
14 16 (5.10%) TestRail
15 15 (4.78%) Appium
16 14 (4.46%) NUnit
17 11 (3.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 83 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.15%) Public Sector
3 50 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.10%) Finance
5 25 (7.96%) Banking
6 8 (2.55%) Military
6 8 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.27%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.96%) Retail
10 2 (0.64%) Front Office
10 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.64%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Back Office
11 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Law
11 1 (0.32%) Police
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (25.80%) Test Engineer
2 55 (17.52%) Tester
3 52 (16.56%) Lead
4 48 (15.29%) Senior
5 41 (13.06%) QA Engineer
5 41 (13.06%) Test Automation Engineer
6 29 (9.24%) Automation Tester
7 27 (8.60%) Developer
8 23 (7.32%) Test Leader
9 21 (6.69%) Lead Test Engineer
10 20 (6.37%) Analyst
11 19 (6.05%) Test Analyst
12 17 (5.41%) Automation Test Lead
13 16 (5.10%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (4.78%) QA Automation Engineer
15 14 (4.46%) Senior Test Engineer
16 12 (3.82%) Senior Tester
16 12 (3.82%) Test Manager
17 10 (3.18%) Salesforce Developer
17 10 (3.18%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (31.21%) Playwright
2 54 (17.20%) REST
3 41 (13.06%) Spring
4 30 (9.55%) Gherkin
5 27 (8.60%) Kafka
6 26 (8.28%) Spring Boot
7 24 (7.64%) .NET
8 21 (6.69%) pytest
9 20 (6.37%) WireMock
10 17 (5.41%) SailPoint
11 14 (4.46%) LDAP
11 14 (4.46%) OpenID
12 13 (4.14%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (4.14%) RESTful
13 12 (3.82%) Spring Cloud
14 10 (3.18%) Web Services
15 9 (2.87%) HTML
16 8 (2.55%) Jest
16 8 (2.55%) Node.js
16 8 (2.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.78%) Distributed Architecture
4 14 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (1.59%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.96%) Hedge funds
6 3 (0.96%) Mainframe
6 3 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.64%) Clustering
7 2 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.64%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.87%) Linux
2 7 (2.23%) Windows
3 4 (1.27%) Android
3 4 (1.27%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.96%) Unix
5 2 (0.64%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (89.49%) Test Automation
2 199 (63.38%) CI/CD
3 148 (47.13%) Agile
4 112 (35.67%) DevOps
5 96 (30.57%) Test Strategy
6 94 (29.94%) API Testing
7 83 (26.43%) BDD
8 70 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (21.02%) End-to-End Testing
10 64 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (20.38%) Performance Testing
11 62 (19.75%) Microservices
12 57 (18.15%) Test Scripting
13 55 (17.52%) Validation
14 50 (15.92%) Regression Testing
15 48 (15.29%) Software Testing
16 47 (14.97%) Scenario Testing
16 47 (14.97%) Scrum
17 46 (14.65%) Integration Testing
18 42 (13.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 150 (47.77%) Java
2 77 (24.52%) Python
3 68 (21.66%) JavaScript
4 65 (20.70%) SQL
5 59 (18.79%) C#
6 20 (6.37%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.18%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.55%) Ruby
10 6 (1.91%) Bash
10 6 (1.91%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.91%) PHP
11 3 (0.96%) Go
11 3 (0.96%) Groovy
11 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.96%) Scala
12 2 (0.64%) C++
12 2 (0.64%) VBA
12 2 (0.64%) VBScript
12 2 (0.64%) XPath
Qualifications
1 112 (35.67%) Security Cleared
2 93 (29.62%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.28%) ISTQB
4 18 (5.73%) Degree
5 15 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.91%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CFA
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) HP APS
10 1 (0.32%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (42.04%) QA
2 43 (13.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.23%) WCAG
4 5 (1.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.27%) GDPR
6 3 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.96%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.32%) GxP
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
7 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (22.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (18.47%) Kubernetes
2 37 (11.78%) Grafana
3 34 (10.83%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.87%) HP ALM
4 9 (2.87%) Terraform
5 2 (0.64%) Ansible
5 2 (0.64%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.64%) Istio
5 2 (0.64%) Kibana
5 2 (0.64%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.32%) Podman
6 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (8.92%) Oracle
2 25 (7.96%) Salesforce
3 19 (6.05%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.78%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.78%) Splunk
5 10 (3.18%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.87%) HP
7 6 (1.91%) Google
7 6 (1.91%) Talend
8 5 (1.59%) SAP
9 4 (1.27%) Citrix
9 4 (1.27%) Micro Focus
10 3 (0.96%) Adobe
10 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.96%) Databricks
10 3 (0.96%) OpenText
10 3 (0.96%) Workday
11 2 (0.64%) IBM
11 2 (0.64%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.64%) Red Hat