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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 524 555
Rank change year-on-year -36 +31 +49
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 29 30 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.089% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.53% 0.67% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 34
10th Percentile £354 £356 £325
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £516 £464 £449
90th Percentile £568 £495 £535
UK excluding London median daily rate £372 £425 £419
% change year-on-year -12.47% +1.49% -9.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 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 5,509 4,493 5,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.85% 13.26% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,801 2,831 3,853
10th Percentile £340 £330 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.06%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.97% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 82 207
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.38 £45.37
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.23 £89.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 25 December 2025.

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 11 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 25 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 -39 22 £386 -9.18% 21
UK excluding London -45 13 £372 -12.47% 18
London -12 10 £413 -2.94% 5
Work from Home +1 7 £438 +6.06% 13
South East -25 5 £376 -14.17% 8
Yorkshire -38 4 £355 -5.33% 1
North of England -51 4 £355 -5.33% 4
Wales - 2 £375 -
Scotland -1 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 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 3 (10.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) AWS
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
5 4 (13.79%) BrowserStack
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 27 (93.10%) Selenium
2 15 (51.72%) Cucumber
2 15 (51.72%) Postman
3 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
4 9 (31.03%) Git
4 9 (31.03%) JIRA
5 6 (20.69%) JUnit
5 6 (20.69%) REST Assured
6 5 (17.24%) GitLab
6 5 (17.24%) JMeter
7 4 (13.79%) Gatling
8 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
8 3 (10.34%) Maven
8 3 (10.34%) NUnit
8 3 (10.34%) Zephyr
9 2 (6.90%) Appium
9 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
9 2 (6.90%) SoapUI
9 2 (6.90%) TestNG
10 1 (3.45%) Serenity BDD
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Games
5 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Test Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Lead
2 5 (17.24%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Test Leader
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.90%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) QA Tester
5 2 (6.90%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Developer in Test
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Mobile Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Mobile Tester
6 1 (3.45%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) QA Officer
6 1 (3.45%) SailPoint Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Gherkin
2 4 (13.79%) HTML
2 4 (13.79%) Playwright
2 4 (13.79%) REST
2 4 (13.79%) SailPoint
3 3 (10.34%) CSS
3 3 (10.34%) JSON
3 3 (10.34%) JSR 170
3 3 (10.34%) Node.js
4 2 (6.90%) LDAP
4 2 (6.90%) React
4 2 (6.90%) RESTful
4 2 (6.90%) Web Services
5 1 (3.45%) Next.js
5 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.45%) SAML
5 1 (3.45%) Spring
5 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.45%) Swagger
5 1 (3.45%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
1 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
1 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) Test Automation
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
3 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
4 12 (41.38%) API Testing
5 11 (37.93%) DevOps
5 11 (37.93%) Test Scripting
6 10 (34.48%) BDD
6 10 (34.48%) Scrum
7 9 (31.03%) Performance Testing
8 8 (27.59%) Regression Testing
9 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
10 5 (17.24%) SDLC
10 5 (17.24%) Sprint Planning
11 4 (13.79%) Defect Management
11 4 (13.79%) End-to-End Testing
11 4 (13.79%) Exploratory Testing
11 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
11 4 (13.79%) Identity Management
11 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (13.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) Python
4 4 (13.79%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) Ruby
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) ISTQB
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) ISEB
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (48.28%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Adobe
2 2 (6.90%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.45%) Mercator
3 1 (3.45%) Micro Focus
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow