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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 517 519
Rank change year-on-year -105 +2 +66
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 61 31 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.096% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.99% 0.63% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 36
10th Percentile £281 £362 £350
25th Percentile £306 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +0.06% +3.53%
75th Percentile £449 £500 £488
90th Percentile £482 £544 £509
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 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 6,150 4,925 5,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.24% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,968 3,320 3,250
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 110 181
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £28.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £50.25 £50.75
Median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 4 September 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 13 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 4 September 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 -85 53 £425 - 12
UK excluding London -72 40 £425 - 1
West Midlands -26 22 £425 -
Midlands -28 22 £425 -
Work from Home -51 16 £425 -19.28% 4
London -86 15 £438 +2.94% 12
North of England -68 9 £438 -20.45%
South East -75 4 £210 +4.48% 1
North East - 4 £453 -
Scotland -21 3 £470 +8.05%
North West -44 3 £275 -50.00%
Yorkshire -40 2 £368 -
South West -44 2 £450 -5.26%

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 7 (11.48%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (63.93%) Azure
2 31 (50.82%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (37.70%) GitHub
4 20 (32.79%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (31.15%) AWS
6 9 (14.75%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (14.75%) Power Automate
7 7 (11.48%) GCP
8 6 (9.84%) Azure Functions
8 6 (9.84%) Serverless
9 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.64%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (1.64%) BrowserStack
11 1 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.92%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.92%) MySQL
4 2 (3.28%) Power BI
5 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (100.00%) Selenium
2 37 (60.66%) Cucumber
3 33 (54.10%) Jenkins
4 25 (40.98%) Git
5 23 (37.70%) GitLab
6 21 (34.43%) JUnit
7 18 (29.51%) Postman
8 16 (26.23%) JIRA
9 14 (22.95%) JMeter
10 13 (21.31%) Cypress.io
11 12 (19.67%) REST Assured
12 10 (16.39%) TestNG
13 5 (8.20%) Bitbucket
14 4 (6.56%) Maven
14 4 (6.56%) NUnit
14 4 (6.56%) TeamCity
15 3 (4.92%) Gradle
15 3 (4.92%) Protractor
15 3 (4.92%) SpecFlow
16 2 (3.28%) Gatling
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 20 (32.79%) Public Sector
3 14 (22.95%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 8 (13.11%) Finance
6 3 (4.92%) Military
7 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Senior
2 12 (19.67%) Test Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Lead
3 11 (18.03%) Test Leader
3 11 (18.03%) Tester
4 10 (16.39%) QA Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Analyst
5 9 (14.75%) Test Analyst
5 9 (14.75%) Test Automation Engineer
6 8 (13.11%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (13.11%) Automation Tester
7 7 (11.48%) QA Automation Engineer
8 6 (9.84%) Developer
8 6 (9.84%) Lead Test Analyst
8 6 (9.84%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (9.84%) Senior Test Analyst
8 6 (9.84%) Senior Tester
9 5 (8.20%) Developer in Test
9 5 (8.20%) Software Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.51%) Gherkin
2 14 (22.95%) REST
3 8 (13.11%) JSON
3 8 (13.11%) WireMock
3 8 (13.11%) XML
4 7 (11.48%) Kafka
4 7 (11.48%) Spring
5 5 (8.20%) Playwright
6 4 (6.56%) HTML
6 4 (6.56%) Node.js
6 4 (6.56%) XSD
7 3 (4.92%) .NET
7 3 (4.92%) Terraform
7 3 (4.92%) XSLT
8 1 (1.64%) CSS
8 1 (1.64%) JDBC
8 1 (1.64%) RESTful
8 1 (1.64%) Semantic HTML
8 1 (1.64%) Web Services
8 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.48%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.84%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.92%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.64%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Android
2 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (90.16%) Test Automation
2 49 (80.33%) CI/CD
3 40 (65.57%) Agile
4 35 (57.38%) BDD
5 32 (52.46%) DevOps
6 28 (45.90%) API Testing
7 25 (40.98%) Test Strategy
7 25 (40.98%) Validation
8 23 (37.70%) End-to-End Testing
9 22 (36.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (29.51%) SDET
10 18 (29.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (27.87%) Load Testing
12 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (24.59%) Performance Testing
14 14 (22.95%) Scrum
14 14 (22.95%) Software Testing
15 13 (21.31%) Microservices
16 12 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 11 (18.03%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 33 (54.10%) Java
2 21 (34.43%) JavaScript
3 17 (27.87%) C#
4 14 (22.95%) Python
4 14 (22.95%) SQL
5 2 (3.28%) Ruby
5 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (47.54%) Security Cleared
2 26 (42.62%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.95%) ISTQB
4 7 (11.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (45.90%) QA
2 16 (26.23%) Accessibility
3 10 (16.39%) WCAG
4 9 (14.75%) GDPR
5 4 (6.56%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.84%) Grafana
2 6 (9.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle
3 4 (6.56%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.64%) Micro Focus