WebDriver Contract Job Trends

Selenium WebDriver
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WebDriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 498 507
Rank change year-on-year -66 +9 +77
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 59 22 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.075% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.02% 0.52% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 49
10th Percentile £350 £359 £324
25th Percentile £363 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £430
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -6.98% -4.44%
75th Percentile £488 £447 £480
90th Percentile £516 £488 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £388
% change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,802 4,203 5,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.06% 14.31% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 2,814 3,452
10th Percentile £349 £334 £353
25th Percentile £408 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £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 72 205
10th Percentile £35.13 £25.03 £32.23
25th Percentile £59.06 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.75 £58.88 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% -9.42% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £78.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WebDriver job vacancy trend in the UK

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

WebDriver
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 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 -87 46 £425 - 5
UK excluding London -79 37 £425 +6.25% 5
Work from Home -3 27 £425 +6.25% 4
West Midlands -42 19 £425 - 2
Midlands -49 19 £425 - 3
London -56 13 £475 +15.15%
South East -56 7 £214 - 2
North of England -65 5 £372 -2.11%
Scotland +2 4 £470 +17.50%
Yorkshire - 3 £355 -
North West -39 1 £450 +18.42%
South West - 1 - -
North East - 1 £425 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

WebDriver
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 16 (27.12%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 33 (55.93%) Azure
2 28 (47.46%) AWS
3 21 (35.59%) GCP
4 20 (33.90%) GitHub
5 18 (30.51%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (20.34%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.78%) SaaS
8 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.69%) IaaS
9 1 (1.69%) PaaS
9 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (5.08%) MariaDB
2 3 (5.08%) MySQL
3 2 (3.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 59 (100.00%) Selenium
2 34 (57.63%) Cucumber
3 31 (52.54%) Jenkins
4 26 (44.07%) Git
5 24 (40.68%) JMeter
6 23 (38.98%) JIRA
6 23 (38.98%) JUnit
7 19 (32.20%) GitLab
8 13 (22.03%) Postman
9 12 (20.34%) REST Assured
10 7 (11.86%) Cypress.io
11 6 (10.17%) Gatling
12 4 (6.78%) TeamCity
12 4 (6.78%) TestNG
13 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
13 3 (5.08%) Maven
13 3 (5.08%) NUnit
13 3 (5.08%) SpecFlow
14 2 (3.39%) Appium
14 2 (3.39%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.20%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.56%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Retail
7 1 (1.69%) Finance
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Tester
2 16 (27.12%) Automation Tester
3 12 (20.34%) Senior
4 10 (16.95%) Test Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Lead
5 9 (15.25%) QA Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Test Automation Engineer
6 8 (13.56%) Test Leader
7 7 (11.86%) Senior Automation Tester
7 7 (11.86%) Senior Tester
8 5 (8.47%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Developer
8 5 (8.47%) QA Automation Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Automation Test Lead
9 4 (6.78%) Systems Tester
10 3 (5.08%) Developer in Test
10 3 (5.08%) Senior Automation Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
11 2 (3.39%) Java Engineer
11 2 (3.39%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.12%) Spring
1 16 (27.12%) WireMock
2 10 (16.95%) Playwright
3 8 (13.56%) REST
4 6 (10.17%) Gherkin
5 5 (8.47%) .NET
6 4 (6.78%) SailPoint
7 3 (5.08%) JSR 170
8 2 (3.39%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.39%) LDAP
8 2 (3.39%) RESTful
9 1 (1.69%) HTML
9 1 (1.69%) Jest
9 1 (1.69%) Node.js
9 1 (1.69%) OAuth
9 1 (1.69%) OpenID
9 1 (1.69%) React
9 1 (1.69%) SAML
9 1 (1.69%) SOAP
9 1 (1.69%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Distributed Architecture
2 11 (18.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.08%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.69%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (96.61%) Test Automation
2 46 (77.97%) CI/CD
3 36 (61.02%) Agile
4 31 (52.54%) BDD
5 25 (42.37%) API Testing
5 25 (42.37%) Validation
6 23 (38.98%) End-to-End Testing
7 22 (37.29%) Test Strategy
8 20 (33.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (32.20%) Microservices
9 19 (32.20%) TDD
10 18 (30.51%) Load Testing
11 17 (28.81%) Performance Testing
11 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (28.81%) Scrum
12 15 (25.42%) Observability
12 15 (25.42%) Test Scripting
13 14 (23.73%) DevOps
13 14 (23.73%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 12 (20.34%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 31 (52.54%) Java
2 19 (32.20%) C#
3 13 (22.03%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.56%) Python
4 8 (13.56%) SQL
5 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.39%) Bash
6 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.39%) VBScript
7 1 (1.69%) C++
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (37.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (35.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.39%) Degree
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.98%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 21 (35.59%) Kubernetes
2 15 (25.42%) Grafana
2 15 (25.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.08%) Adobe
2 3 (5.08%) Oracle
3 1 (1.69%) Micro Focus
3 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow