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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 273 287
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 -63
Contract jobs citing Selenium 327 316 370
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.88% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.97% 6.70% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 205 290
10th Percentile £310 £330 £350
25th Percentile £360 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £448
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +6.11% -12.66%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £648 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -11.50% +14.29% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £47.75 - -
25th Percentile - £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile - £47.50 -
90th Percentile £65.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

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 5,481 4,716 5,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 13.21% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,957 4,102
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £693 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £514
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 109 224
10th Percentile £30.35 £34.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £89.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the UK

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Selenium in the UK

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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 13 December 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
England -17 280 £445 -6.32% 74
UK excluding London -16 169 £443 -11.50% 73
London -6 122 £450 +5.88% 16
Work from Home +8 108 £450 -5.26% 46
Midlands +3 55 £463 +8.82% 6
North of England -27 46 £350 -17.65% 22
West Midlands 0 44 £490 -15.70% 4
South East -42 28 £420 -28.21% 35
North West -4 21 £325 -31.58% 11
Yorkshire -37 19 £363 -14.20% 9
South West -20 12 £520 +4.00% 2
East Midlands -7 11 £313 -16.67% 2
Wales - 11 £675 - 1
Scotland -1 8 £523 +30.63% 2
East of England -9 7 - - 6
North East -4 6 £460 -5.64% 2
Northern Ireland -5 3 - -

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 32 (9.79%) Confluence
2 17 (5.20%) SAS
3 11 (3.36%) WebLogic
4 9 (2.75%) Apache
4 9 (2.75%) JBoss
5 7 (2.14%) Appian
6 4 (1.22%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.61%) CMS
7 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.31%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.61%) Maximo
1 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (29.36%) Azure
2 72 (22.02%) Azure DevOps
3 70 (21.41%) AWS
4 43 (13.15%) GitHub
5 26 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (6.12%) OpenShift
7 16 (4.89%) GCP
8 13 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.98%) Serverless
9 12 (3.67%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.06%) Tricentis Tosca
11 9 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.45%) BrowserStack
12 8 (2.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (1.53%) Apigee
13 5 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.53%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.53%) npm
14 4 (1.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) HTTP
2 2 (0.61%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) DSL
3 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.98%) MongoDB
2 12 (3.67%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.45%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.53%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.92%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.92%) DB2
8 2 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.61%) MySQL
8 2 (0.61%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.31%) Power BI
9 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 107 (32.72%) Cucumber
2 91 (27.83%) Jenkins
3 87 (26.61%) JIRA
4 85 (25.99%) Git
5 81 (24.77%) Postman
6 73 (22.32%) GitLab
7 72 (22.02%) JUnit
8 56 (17.13%) Cypress.io
9 47 (14.37%) REST Assured
10 44 (13.46%) JMeter
11 30 (9.17%) Bitbucket
12 28 (8.56%) SonarQube
13 25 (7.65%) WebDriver
14 23 (7.03%) Maven
15 22 (6.73%) Zephyr
16 20 (6.12%) SpecFlow
17 16 (4.89%) TestRail
18 15 (4.59%) Mockito
19 14 (4.28%) MSTest
20 13 (3.98%) TestNG
General
1 94 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.65%) Finance
3 41 (12.54%) Public Sector
4 33 (10.09%) Banking
5 28 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.75%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.45%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.83%) Back Office
11 4 (1.22%) Front Office
11 4 (1.22%) Retail
12 3 (0.92%) Automotive
13 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.61%) Billing
13 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.61%) Marketing
13 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.61%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 86 (26.30%) Tester
2 61 (18.65%) Test Engineer
3 59 (18.04%) Automation Tester
4 46 (14.07%) Lead
4 46 (14.07%) Senior
5 32 (9.79%) Developer
6 29 (8.87%) Test Automation Engineer
7 22 (6.73%) Analyst
8 19 (5.81%) Test Analyst
9 17 (5.20%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.20%) QA Engineer
9 17 (5.20%) QA Leader
9 17 (5.20%) Test Leader
9 17 (5.20%) Test Specialist
10 16 (4.89%) Senior Tester
11 15 (4.59%) Senior Automation Tester
12 12 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.36%) QA Tester
14 10 (3.06%) Automation Test Lead
14 10 (3.06%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (24.46%) REST
2 74 (22.63%) Playwright
3 47 (14.37%) JSON
4 33 (10.09%) HTML
5 29 (8.87%) XML
6 27 (8.26%) .NET
6 27 (8.26%) React
6 27 (8.26%) SOAP
7 26 (7.95%) Spring
8 25 (7.65%) RESTful
9 23 (7.03%) Gherkin
10 22 (6.73%) pytest
10 22 (6.73%) Spring Boot
11 21 (6.42%) Node.js
12 20 (6.12%) Hibernate
12 20 (6.12%) Web Services
13 16 (4.89%) CSS
14 13 (3.98%) JPA
15 9 (2.75%) EJB
15 9 (2.75%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.42%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.22%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
6 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.92%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.61%) NHS
7 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.31%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.31%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.31%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.59%) Unix
2 13 (3.98%) Linux
3 8 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.83%) Windows
5 5 (1.53%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (81.35%) Test Automation
2 187 (57.19%) Agile
2 187 (57.19%) CI/CD
3 144 (44.04%) DevOps
4 97 (29.66%) Test Strategy
5 81 (24.77%) Test Scripting
6 79 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (23.24%) Scrum
8 70 (21.41%) Software Testing
9 67 (20.49%) API Testing
10 60 (18.35%) Regression Testing
11 55 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (16.51%) Microservices
13 52 (15.90%) BDD
14 44 (13.46%) Performance Testing
14 44 (13.46%) Validation
15 38 (11.62%) Containerisation
15 38 (11.62%) SDLC
15 38 (11.62%) Sprint Planning
15 38 (11.62%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 137 (41.90%) Java
2 76 (23.24%) Python
3 65 (19.88%) C#
4 63 (19.27%) JavaScript
4 63 (19.27%) SQL
5 14 (4.28%) Scala
6 10 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.14%) XPath
8 6 (1.83%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.22%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.22%) Ruby
10 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.61%) Bash
11 2 (0.61%) Groovy
11 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) Go
12 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 68 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.62%) ISTQB
4 23 (7.03%) Degree
5 17 (5.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 12 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.61%) MCP
10 1 (0.31%) HP APS
10 1 (0.31%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (30.28%) QA
2 26 (7.95%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.50%) WCAG
4 7 (2.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 7 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.22%) GDPR
6 3 (0.92%) EU AI Act
6 3 (0.92%) NIST
6 3 (0.92%) SLA
6 3 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.31%) HL7
8 1 (0.31%) MiFID
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 73 (22.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (14.68%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.28%) Ansible
2 14 (4.28%) Puppet
2 14 (4.28%) Terraform
3 10 (3.06%) Grafana
4 6 (1.83%) HP ALM
4 6 (1.83%) Kibana
5 5 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.22%) Argo
6 4 (1.22%) Podman
6 4 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.61%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 24 (7.34%) Oracle
2 23 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.20%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.28%) Veracode
5 9 (2.75%) Splunk
5 9 (2.75%) webMethods
6 8 (2.45%) UiPath
7 7 (2.14%) Cisco
7 7 (2.14%) Google
8 6 (1.83%) HP
9 5 (1.53%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.53%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.22%) IBM
11 3 (0.92%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.61%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.61%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.61%) SAP
12 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.61%) Siebel
12 2 (0.61%) Workday