WebDriver Contract Job Trends

Selenium WebDriver
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WebDriver skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 524 577
Rank change year-on-year -13 +53 +95
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 31 35 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.091% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.62% 0.68% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 47
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £400 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £491 £494
90th Percentile £539 £508 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £48.13 - £51.63
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £53.75
75th Percentile - - £54.69
90th Percentile - - £54.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -10.42%

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 5,003 5,115 6,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 13.28% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,364 3,269 4,608
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 176 245
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.62 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.05 £72.81 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver 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 18 September 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 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 18 September 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 +15 25 £425 -3.41% 10
UK excluding London -2 16 £425 - 8
London +13 12 £413 -6.25% 4
South East +24 7 £201 -54.06% 4
Work from Home +23 7 £523 +16.22% 9
Scotland -4 3 £435 +2.35%
North of England -14 2 £550 +40.58% 3
Midlands - 2 £425 -
North West -15 1 £550 +88.03% 3
Yorkshire -15 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
South West - 1 £475 -
Wales - 1 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £425 -

WebDriver
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 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) nginx
1 1 (3.23%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
1 14 (45.16%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (22.58%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) GitHub
4 3 (9.68%) BrowserStack
4 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.45%) IaaS
5 2 (6.45%) PaaS
5 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (6.45%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (90.32%) Selenium
2 18 (58.06%) Cucumber
3 15 (48.39%) Git
4 14 (45.16%) JIRA
5 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
5 12 (38.71%) Postman
6 6 (19.35%) JUnit
7 5 (16.13%) Appium
7 5 (16.13%) NUnit
8 4 (12.90%) SpecFlow
8 4 (12.90%) Zephyr
9 3 (9.68%) TeamCity
9 3 (9.68%) TestNG
9 3 (9.68%) TestRail
10 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
10 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
10 2 (6.45%) GitLab
10 2 (6.45%) JMeter
10 2 (6.45%) Subversion
11 1 (3.23%) Maven
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.23%) Aviation
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Test Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Software Test Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Tester
3 5 (16.13%) QA Tester
4 4 (12.90%) Automation Tester
4 4 (12.90%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Developer
5 3 (9.68%) QA Automation Tester
5 3 (9.68%) QA Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Selenium Automation Tester
5 3 (9.68%) Selenium Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (6.45%) Developer in Test
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Mobile Specialist
6 2 (6.45%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) REST
2 5 (16.13%) Web Services
3 4 (12.90%) JSON
3 4 (12.90%) SOAP
4 3 (9.68%) .NET
4 3 (9.68%) CSS
4 3 (9.68%) HTML
4 3 (9.68%) RESTful
5 2 (6.45%) Gherkin
5 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.45%) React
5 2 (6.45%) Spring
5 2 (6.45%) XML
6 1 (3.23%) Chai
6 1 (3.23%) JSP
6 1 (3.23%) Next.js
6 1 (3.23%) Playwright
6 1 (3.23%) Redux
6 1 (3.23%) Servlets
6 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Mobile App
2 5 (16.13%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.45%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Android
1 4 (12.90%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Test Automation
2 22 (70.97%) Agile
3 16 (51.61%) DevOps
4 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
5 12 (38.71%) Test Scripting
6 11 (35.48%) BDD
7 10 (32.26%) Scrum
7 10 (32.26%) Software Testing
8 8 (25.81%) Manual Testing
9 7 (22.58%) Exploratory Testing
9 7 (22.58%) SDLC
9 7 (22.58%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (19.35%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 5 (16.13%) Code Quality
11 5 (16.13%) Performance Testing
11 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (16.13%) TDD
12 4 (12.90%) API Testing
12 4 (12.90%) Migration
12 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Java
2 14 (45.16%) JavaScript
3 9 (29.03%) C#
4 7 (22.58%) SQL
5 5 (16.13%) Python
6 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (9.68%) Scala
8 2 (6.45%) C++
8 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
8 2 (6.45%) VBA
8 2 (6.45%) VBScript
9 1 (3.23%) Bash
9 1 (3.23%) Go
9 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) ISTQB
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.45%) ISEB
3 2 (6.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (54.84%) QA
2 5 (16.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.23%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Duck Creek
1 3 (9.68%) Guidewire
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.23%) Mercator
3 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft