WebDriver Contracts

Selenium WebDriver
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WebDriver skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebDriver over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 527 595
Rank change year-on-year +14 +68 +130
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 26 63 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 1.17% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 47 63
10th Percentile £389 £325 £370
25th Percentile £400 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £484 £525
90th Percentile £512 £533 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -21.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £47.75 - £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 - - +2.38%

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 4,567 5,362 7,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.33% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 3,565 5,520
10th Percentile £331 £355 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £693 £725 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 248 232
10th Percentile £20.98 £30.28 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.36 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +18.72%
75th Percentile £72.81 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebDriver.

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebDriver.

Hourly rate trend for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Top 14 Contract 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 3 July 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 +32 22 £450 +2.27% 61
UK excluding London +33 16 £438 +16.67% 29
London +13 10 £453 +2.90% 39
South East +46 6 - - 11
Work from Home +13 5 £462 +11.88% 26
Scotland -7 3 £435 +16.00% 4
North West +7 2 £465 +58.97% 5
North of England +6 2 £465 +18.85% 8
Midlands - 2 £425 -
East of England - 1 £450 - 3
East Midlands - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £375 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
South West - 1 £475 - 3

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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
2 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
1 9 (34.62%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.69%) IaaS
4 2 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (7.69%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.85%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (88.46%) Selenium
2 16 (61.54%) Cucumber
3 12 (46.15%) Git
3 12 (46.15%) JIRA
4 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
5 9 (34.62%) Postman
6 5 (19.23%) JUnit
7 4 (15.38%) Appium
8 3 (11.54%) NUnit
8 3 (11.54%) SpecFlow
8 3 (11.54%) TestNG
8 3 (11.54%) TestRail
8 3 (11.54%) Zephyr
9 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
9 2 (7.69%) Subversion
9 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
10 1 (3.85%) JBehave
10 1 (3.85%) JMeter
10 1 (3.85%) Maven
10 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.85%) Aviation
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Test Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Tester
3 5 (19.23%) Automation Tester
3 5 (19.23%) Software Test Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) QA Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) QA Tester
4 4 (15.38%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 4 (15.38%) Selenium Tester
5 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Developer
5 3 (11.54%) QA Automation Tester
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
6 2 (7.69%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) Developer in Test
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Mobile Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) REST
2 5 (19.23%) Web Services
3 4 (15.38%) .NET
3 4 (15.38%) SOAP
4 3 (11.54%) CSS
4 3 (11.54%) HTML
4 3 (11.54%) JSON
4 3 (11.54%) RESTful
5 2 (7.69%) Gherkin
5 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.69%) Spring
5 2 (7.69%) XML
6 1 (3.85%) jQuery
6 1 (3.85%) JSP
6 1 (3.85%) Kafka
6 1 (3.85%) Node.js
6 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.85%) Sass
6 1 (3.85%) Servlets
6 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Mobile App
2 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Android
1 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) Test Automation
2 20 (76.92%) Agile
3 11 (42.31%) DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 10 (38.46%) Scrum
5 9 (34.62%) Software Testing
6 8 (30.77%) BDD
6 8 (30.77%) Manual Testing
6 8 (30.77%) Test Scripting
7 6 (23.08%) Exploratory Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
9 4 (15.38%) Migration
9 4 (15.38%) SDLC
9 4 (15.38%) TDD
9 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
10 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (11.54%) Test Management
10 3 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Java
2 13 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (26.92%) C#
4 4 (15.38%) Python
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.69%) C++
6 2 (7.69%) Scala
6 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.69%) VBA
6 2 (7.69%) VBScript
7 1 (3.85%) Bash
7 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) ISTQB
2 3 (11.54%) ISEB
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (57.69%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Duck Creek
1 3 (11.54%) Guidewire
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft