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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 514 527
Rank change year-on-year -115 +13 +47
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 56 31 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.093% 0.087%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.88% 0.61% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 17 26
10th Percentile £281 £356 £363
25th Percentile £306 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -4.49% +4.71%
75th Percentile £453 £500 £493
90th Percentile £488 £526 £509
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £400 £438
% change year-on-year -21.88% -8.57% -
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 6,335 5,095 5,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.59% 15.35% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,053 3,446 3,176
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
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 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 109 173
10th Percentile £22.68 £21.80 £31.61
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.50 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 October 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 October 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 -100 48 £425 +3.03% 24
UK excluding London -87 32 £313 -21.88% 8
Midlands -26 18 £313 - 3
West Midlands - 18 £313 - 3
London -82 15 £438 +6.06% 17
Work from Home -73 10 £442 -15.44% 13
North of England -58 9 £438 - 1
North East - 4 £453 -
South East -63 3 £206 +2.49% 1
North West - 3 £275 - 1
Yorkshire -39 2 £368 -
Scotland -27 1 £470 +8.05%
South West -32 1 £450 -5.26% 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 (5.36%) Confluence
1 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (64.29%) Azure
2 32 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (33.93%) GitHub
4 16 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (25.00%) AWS
6 11 (19.64%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (19.64%) Power Automate
7 8 (14.29%) Azure Functions
7 8 (14.29%) Serverless
8 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 3 (5.36%) GCP
10 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.79%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (1.79%) BrowserStack
11 1 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.79%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (100.00%) Selenium
2 33 (58.93%) Cucumber
3 30 (53.57%) Jenkins
4 21 (37.50%) Git
4 21 (37.50%) Postman
5 18 (32.14%) GitLab
5 18 (32.14%) JUnit
6 15 (26.79%) Cypress.io
7 14 (25.00%) REST Assured
8 13 (23.21%) JIRA
9 11 (19.64%) TestNG
10 10 (17.86%) JMeter
11 5 (8.93%) NUnit
12 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
12 4 (7.14%) Maven
13 3 (5.36%) Gradle
13 3 (5.36%) Protractor
13 3 (5.36%) TeamCity
14 2 (3.57%) Gatling
14 2 (3.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 21 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 15 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (19.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (12.50%) Banking
5 7 (12.50%) Finance
6 3 (5.36%) Military
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Senior
2 13 (23.21%) Lead
2 13 (23.21%) Test Leader
3 11 (19.64%) Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Test Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Test Engineer
4 10 (17.86%) QA Engineer
4 10 (17.86%) Tester
5 8 (14.29%) Lead Test Analyst
5 8 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
5 8 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Automation Tester
7 6 (10.71%) QA Automation Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
10 3 (5.36%) Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Developer in Test
10 3 (5.36%) Software Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.14%) Gherkin
2 13 (23.21%) REST
3 8 (14.29%) JSON
3 8 (14.29%) XML
4 7 (12.50%) Kafka
5 5 (8.93%) Playwright
6 4 (7.14%) HTML
6 4 (7.14%) Node.js
6 4 (7.14%) WireMock
6 4 (7.14%) XSD
7 3 (5.36%) RESTful
7 3 (5.36%) Spring
7 3 (5.36%) Terraform
7 3 (5.36%) XSLT
8 1 (1.79%) .NET
8 1 (1.79%) CSS
8 1 (1.79%) JDBC
8 1 (1.79%) Semantic HTML
8 1 (1.79%) Web Services
8 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.36%) Taxonomies
3 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Android
1 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (89.29%) Test Automation
2 43 (76.79%) CI/CD
3 39 (69.64%) Agile
4 33 (58.93%) DevOps
5 30 (53.57%) API Testing
5 30 (53.57%) BDD
6 22 (39.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 22 (39.29%) Test Strategy
7 21 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (35.71%) Validation
9 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (28.57%) Scrum
10 16 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (26.79%) Load Testing
12 14 (25.00%) SDET
13 13 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (21.43%) CRM
14 12 (21.43%) Performance Testing
14 12 (21.43%) Software Testing
15 11 (19.64%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 32 (57.14%) Java
2 20 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 17 (30.36%) C#
4 15 (26.79%) Python
5 13 (23.21%) SQL
6 2 (3.57%) Ruby
6 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (48.21%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 15 (26.79%) ISTQB
4 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (53.57%) QA
2 19 (33.93%) Accessibility
3 12 (21.43%) WCAG
4 11 (19.64%) GDPR
5 4 (7.14%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Grafana
2 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) IBM
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (1.79%) Guidewire