Selenium Contracts

Selenium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 267 226
Rank change year-on-year -16 -41 +5
Contract jobs citing Selenium 279 387 639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.90% 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.21% 7.29% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 284 483
10th Percentile £258 £338 £363
25th Percentile £325 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £501 £589 £619
90th Percentile £588 £675 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -19.80% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £47.75 £37.90 £51.25
25th Percentile - £39.63 £58.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -37.93% +39.09%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £81.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £41.75 £71.25
% change year-on-year +19.76% -41.40% +42.50%

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 4,492 5,306 7,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.29% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 3,522 5,519
10th Percentile £331 £353 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 251 232
10th Percentile £20.86 £31.25 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the UK

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Top 16 Contract 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 1 July 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 -4 243 £425 -15.00% 815
UK excluding London +31 149 £401 -19.80% 572
London -22 108 £425 -15.00% 330
Work from Home +13 99 £425 -10.05% 305
North of England +16 54 £425 - 128
South East +29 38 £500 -16.63% 167
Midlands +37 32 £270 -53.04% 63
Yorkshire +6 31 £475 +8.57% 46
East Midlands +26 25 £268 -29.47% 30
North West +15 20 £340 -22.29% 77
Scotland -5 13 £466 +22.70% 47
West Midlands +8 7 £425 -37.04% 33
Wales +13 6 £322 -17.01% 20
South West +22 5 £600 +20.00% 48
North East -3 3 £385 -9.41% 5
East of England - 3 £325 - 86

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (8.60%) Confluence
2 5 (1.79%) CICS
3 4 (1.43%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.08%) JBoss
4 3 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.72%) nginx
5 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.72%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 71 (25.45%) Azure
2 63 (22.58%) AWS
3 47 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (7.53%) GitHub
5 9 (3.23%) BrowserStack
6 8 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (2.87%) SaaS
6 8 (2.87%) Serverless
7 7 (2.51%) GCP
8 6 (2.15%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.43%) PaaS
10 4 (1.43%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.08%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.72%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.72%) BlazeMeter
12 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.72%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) SSH
2 2 (0.72%) Internet
2 2 (0.72%) SAN
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.58%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.79%) DB2
5 4 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.08%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.08%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.08%) Power BI
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.72%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.72%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.72%) MySQL
8 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 94 (33.69%) Jenkins
2 88 (31.54%) JIRA
3 82 (29.39%) Cucumber
4 69 (24.73%) Postman
5 65 (23.30%) Git
6 48 (17.20%) GitLab
6 48 (17.20%) JUnit
7 44 (15.77%) JMeter
8 43 (15.41%) REST Assured
9 36 (12.90%) Cypress.io
10 29 (10.39%) Maven
11 26 (9.32%) SonarQube
12 23 (8.24%) WebDriver
13 22 (7.89%) Appium
14 21 (7.53%) SpecFlow
14 21 (7.53%) TestNG
15 16 (5.73%) IntelliJ
16 13 (4.66%) HP UFT
17 12 (4.30%) Gradle
17 12 (4.30%) NUnit
General
1 94 (33.69%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (11.83%) Finance
4 32 (11.47%) Banking
5 22 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.58%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.87%) Law
8 7 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.15%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Electronics
10 4 (1.43%) Marketing
10 4 (1.43%) Police
11 3 (1.08%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Billing
12 2 (0.72%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (25.45%) Tester
2 57 (20.43%) Test Engineer
3 48 (17.20%) Automation Tester
4 35 (12.54%) Developer
5 30 (10.75%) QA Engineer
6 27 (9.68%) Lead
7 23 (8.24%) Analyst
8 20 (7.17%) Test Analyst
9 19 (6.81%) Test Automation Engineer
10 17 (6.09%) Java Developer
11 15 (5.38%) QA Tester
12 14 (5.02%) Senior
13 12 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (3.94%) Java Engineer
14 11 (3.94%) Test Leader
14 11 (3.94%) Test Manager
15 10 (3.58%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.58%) Software Engineer
16 9 (3.23%) Senior Test Engineer
16 9 (3.23%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.92%) REST
2 42 (15.05%) Playwright
3 25 (8.96%) HTML
4 24 (8.60%) .NET
5 18 (6.45%) Web Services
6 16 (5.73%) CSS
6 16 (5.73%) jQuery
6 16 (5.73%) pytest
7 15 (5.38%) React
7 15 (5.38%) Spring Boot
8 14 (5.02%) Java EE
9 13 (4.66%) Kafka
9 13 (4.66%) RESTful
10 11 (3.94%) Gherkin
10 11 (3.94%) JSON
10 11 (3.94%) SOAP
11 10 (3.58%) DOM
11 10 (3.58%) Hibernate
11 10 (3.58%) Node.js
12 9 (3.23%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.73%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.30%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.23%) Mainframe
4 8 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.51%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.15%) NHS
7 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.79%) VSAM
8 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.08%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.72%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.72%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (0.72%) Mobile Payment
9 2 (0.72%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.81%) Windows
2 8 (2.87%) Android
2 8 (2.87%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.15%) Linux
4 4 (1.43%) Unix
4 4 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (89.25%) Test Automation
2 138 (49.46%) Agile
3 126 (45.16%) CI/CD
4 102 (36.56%) DevOps
5 74 (26.52%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (23.66%) Test Strategy
7 65 (23.30%) API Testing
8 60 (21.51%) Test Scripting
9 53 (19.00%) Software Testing
10 51 (18.28%) Scrum
11 44 (15.77%) Manual Testing
12 39 (13.98%) BDD
13 35 (12.54%) Performance Testing
14 34 (12.19%) TDD
15 31 (11.11%) Regression Testing
16 30 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
17 25 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (8.96%) Integration Testing
17 25 (8.96%) User Acceptance Testing
17 25 (8.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 159 (56.99%) Java
2 73 (26.16%) Python
3 53 (19.00%) JavaScript
4 46 (16.49%) C#
5 42 (15.05%) SQL
6 18 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.38%) Bash
7 15 (5.38%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.15%) C++
8 6 (2.15%) Ruby
9 5 (1.79%) COBOL
9 5 (1.79%) JCL
9 5 (1.79%) Scala
9 5 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.43%) PHP
11 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.72%) RPG
12 2 (0.72%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.72%) VBA
12 2 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 59 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.39%) ISTQB
4 22 (7.89%) Degree
5 15 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.87%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.08%) CEH
7 3 (1.08%) CISSP
7 3 (1.08%) ISEB
7 3 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (41.58%) QA
2 19 (6.81%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.51%) WCAG
4 3 (1.08%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.72%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.36%) GxP
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (12.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (9.32%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.89%) Terraform
3 16 (5.73%) Ansible
4 10 (3.58%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (3.23%) Podman
5 9 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.87%) Puppet
7 5 (1.79%) Grafana
7 5 (1.79%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.08%) Kibana
9 2 (0.72%) vRealize
10 1 (0.36%) Argo
10 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.30%) Oracle
3 8 (2.87%) SAP
4 7 (2.51%) HP
4 7 (2.51%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.51%) UiPath
5 6 (2.15%) Informatica
5 6 (2.15%) Veracode
6 4 (1.43%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.43%) Reuters
7 3 (1.08%) Duck Creek
7 3 (1.08%) Google
7 3 (1.08%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.08%) IBM
7 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.72%) 3PAR
8 2 (0.72%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.72%) Nintex
8 2 (0.72%) Parasoft