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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 511 528
Rank change year-on-year -63 +17 +58
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 58 21 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.072% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.00% 0.51% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 18 41
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £370 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -13.16%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £450
90th Percentile £521 £483 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +8.97% -2.50% -20.00%

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 5,798 4,115 5,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 14.02% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,864 2,760 3,484
10th Percentile £343 £336 £356
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 69 181
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.21 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.06 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £75.88 £76.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.70 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +1.63%

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 April 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 15 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 April 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 -83 45 £425 +6.25% 9
UK excluding London -66 35 £425 +8.97% 9
Work from Home -1 26 £425 +6.25% 3
West Midlands -40 19 £425 - 1
Midlands -54 19 £425 - 1
London -64 14 £475 +15.15% 3
South East -51 5 £500 - 4
North of England -70 5 £372 -0.80% 2
Scotland +4 3 - - 2
Yorkshire -52 3 £355 -5.33%
Wales -9 1 £375 -
North West -36 1 £450 +18.42% 1
South West - 1 - -
North East - 1 £425 - 1
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 (27.59%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 33 (56.90%) Azure
2 27 (46.55%) AWS
3 21 (36.21%) GCP
4 20 (34.48%) GitHub
5 17 (29.31%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.90%) SaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.72%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.72%) IaaS
9 1 (1.72%) PaaS
9 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.72%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.45%) MariaDB
2 2 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 57 (98.28%) Selenium
2 35 (60.34%) Cucumber
3 30 (51.72%) Jenkins
4 27 (46.55%) Git
5 23 (39.66%) JIRA
5 23 (39.66%) JMeter
5 23 (39.66%) JUnit
6 19 (32.76%) GitLab
7 16 (27.59%) Postman
8 11 (18.97%) REST Assured
9 8 (13.79%) Cypress.io
10 6 (10.34%) Gatling
11 4 (6.90%) TestNG
12 3 (5.17%) Maven
13 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
13 2 (3.45%) CircleCI
13 2 (3.45%) NUnit
13 2 (3.45%) SoapUI
13 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
13 2 (3.45%) TestComplete
General
1 25 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Tester
2 16 (27.59%) Automation Tester
3 12 (20.69%) Senior
4 10 (17.24%) Lead
5 9 (15.52%) Test Engineer
6 8 (13.79%) QA Engineer
6 8 (13.79%) Test Leader
7 7 (12.07%) Senior Automation Tester
7 7 (12.07%) Senior Tester
8 6 (10.34%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (6.90%) QA Automation Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Systems Tester
11 3 (5.17%) Developer in Test
11 3 (5.17%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
12 2 (3.45%) QA Tester
12 2 (3.45%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.31%) Spring
2 16 (27.59%) WireMock
3 12 (20.69%) Playwright
4 6 (10.34%) Gherkin
4 6 (10.34%) REST
5 5 (8.62%) .NET
6 4 (6.90%) SailPoint
7 3 (5.17%) JSR 170
7 3 (5.17%) Node.js
8 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.45%) HTML
8 2 (3.45%) LDAP
8 2 (3.45%) React
8 2 (3.45%) RESTful
8 2 (3.45%) WebdriverIO
9 1 (1.72%) CSS
9 1 (1.72%) SAML
9 1 (1.72%) SOAP
9 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Distributed Architecture
2 11 (18.97%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.17%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (96.55%) Test Automation
2 46 (79.31%) CI/CD
3 36 (62.07%) Agile
4 30 (51.72%) BDD
5 25 (43.10%) API Testing
6 23 (39.66%) Validation
7 22 (37.93%) End-to-End Testing
8 21 (36.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (36.21%) Test Strategy
9 20 (34.48%) TDD
10 19 (32.76%) Microservices
11 17 (29.31%) Load Testing
12 16 (27.59%) Performance Testing
12 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (27.59%) Scrum
13 15 (25.86%) DevOps
13 15 (25.86%) Observability
14 14 (24.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 14 (24.14%) Test Scripting
15 12 (20.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 27 (46.55%) Java
2 17 (29.31%) C#
3 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.79%) Python
4 8 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.34%) SQL
6 2 (3.45%) Bash
6 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.45%) VBScript
7 1 (1.72%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) Ruby
7 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 20 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.45%) Degree
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (37.93%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (34.48%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 20 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 15 (25.86%) Grafana
2 15 (25.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (5.17%) Adobe
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (1.72%) Micro Focus
3 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow