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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 534 574
Rank change year-on-year -21 +40 +41
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 29 27 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.074% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.53% 0.57% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 34
10th Percentile £355 £357 £350
25th Percentile £375 £363 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year - +1.49% -12.30%
75th Percentile £500 £484 £473
90th Percentile £553 £495 £518
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -0.59% - -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £47.38 - -
25th Percentile £49.06 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

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 5,478 4,752 6,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.20% 13.04% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,779 2,943 4,190
10th Percentile £331 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 121 226
10th Percentile £29.50 £33.07 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.44 £87.66
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 29 November 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 12 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 29 November 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 -18 23 £425 - 9
UK excluding London -27 14 £423 -0.59% 12
London +15 11 £425 - 1
Work from Home +8 8 £500 +11.11% 5
South East +8 7 £376 -14.17% 5
Scotland -1 2 £470 +4.44% 1
Wales - 2 £375 - 3
Yorkshire -29 1 - -
North of England -44 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £475 -
Midlands - 1 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) BrowserStack
4 4 (13.79%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (89.66%) Selenium
2 16 (55.17%) Cucumber
3 13 (44.83%) Git
4 12 (41.38%) Postman
5 10 (34.48%) JIRA
6 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
7 5 (17.24%) NUnit
8 4 (13.79%) Appium
8 4 (13.79%) JMeter
8 4 (13.79%) JUnit
9 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
9 3 (10.34%) GitLab
9 3 (10.34%) SpecFlow
9 3 (10.34%) Zephyr
10 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
10 2 (6.90%) Gatling
10 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
10 2 (6.90%) TestNG
11 1 (3.45%) TestRail
11 1 (3.45%) WebPageTest
General
1 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Test Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Software Test Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Developer in Test
4 3 (10.34%) QA Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Mobile Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Mobile Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Mobile Tester
6 1 (3.45%) QA Automation Tester
6 1 (3.45%) QA Officer
6 1 (3.45%) Selenium Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) HTML
1 6 (20.69%) REST
2 5 (17.24%) CSS
2 5 (17.24%) Gherkin
2 5 (17.24%) JSON
3 4 (13.79%) Playwright
3 4 (13.79%) Web Services
4 3 (10.34%) Node.js
4 3 (10.34%) RESTful
5 2 (6.90%) React
5 2 (6.90%) SOAP
5 2 (6.90%) Spring
5 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.45%) Next.js
6 1 (3.45%) OAuth
6 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
6 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
6 1 (3.45%) Swagger
6 1 (3.45%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Android
1 4 (13.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) Test Automation
2 18 (62.07%) Agile
3 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
4 15 (51.72%) DevOps
5 13 (44.83%) Test Scripting
6 10 (34.48%) BDD
6 10 (34.48%) Software Testing
7 7 (24.14%) Exploratory Testing
7 7 (24.14%) Performance Testing
7 7 (24.14%) Scrum
8 6 (20.69%) API Testing
8 6 (20.69%) SDLC
9 5 (17.24%) Manual Testing
9 5 (17.24%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (13.79%) Code Quality
10 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (13.79%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 4 (13.79%) SDET
10 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy
11 3 (10.34%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
3 7 (24.14%) C#
4 5 (17.24%) Python
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) Ruby
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) ISTQB
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) ISEB
5 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (48.28%) QA
2 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.45%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) AppDynamics
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Duck Creek
2 1 (3.45%) Guidewire
2 1 (3.45%) Mercator
2 1 (3.45%) Micro Focus
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle