WebDriver Contracts

Selenium WebDriver
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WebDriver skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebDriver over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 598 687
Rank change year-on-year +66 +89 -109
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 66 121 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.29% 1.34% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 93 116
10th Percentile £321 £370 £340
25th Percentile £356 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% - +13.77%
75th Percentile £454 £553 £557
90th Percentile £549 £600 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -22.50% +0.50% +22.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £48.70
25th Percentile - - £58.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +36.28%
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £80.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.35%

All Development Application Skills
UK

WebDriver is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

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 27 April 2024.

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 9 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 27 April 2024. 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 +92 48 £436 -8.64% 18
London +76 38 £443 -6.84% 6
Work from Home +100 24 £400 -11.11% 12
UK excluding London +48 20 £388 -22.50% 16
Scotland +23 10 £375 -25.00% 5
North of England +28 7 £400 -21.95% 2
North West +11 4 £293 -42.93% 2
South East +26 3 - - 3
Yorkshire +22 3 £400 +60.00%

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 (1.52%) CMS
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.88%) Azure
2 22 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 10 (15.15%) AWS
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (4.55%) GitHub
5 3 (4.55%) SaaS
6 2 (3.03%) IaaS
6 2 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.52%) Contentful
7 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.58%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.55%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.55%) MySQL
4 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 61 (92.42%) Selenium
2 36 (54.55%) Cucumber
3 22 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 21 (31.82%) Git
5 20 (30.30%) Postman
6 18 (27.27%) JUnit
6 18 (27.27%) TestNG
7 17 (25.76%) Visual Studio
8 16 (24.24%) Jenkins
9 15 (22.73%) SoapUI
9 15 (22.73%) SpecFlow
10 13 (19.70%) Appium
11 12 (18.18%) JMeter
12 10 (15.15%) eggPlant
12 10 (15.15%) JIRA
12 10 (15.15%) SOAtest
13 8 (12.12%) Maven
14 6 (9.09%) Cypress.io
14 6 (9.09%) Gatling
15 5 (7.58%) Gradle
General
1 30 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Back Office
3 5 (7.58%) Banking
3 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Finance
4 3 (4.55%) Front Office
4 3 (4.55%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 22 (33.33%) Senior
2 19 (28.79%) Analyst
2 19 (28.79%) Test Analyst
3 16 (24.24%) Senior Analyst
3 16 (24.24%) Senior Test Analyst
4 15 (22.73%) Tester
5 14 (21.21%) Automation Tester
6 7 (10.61%) Test Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Consultant
8 4 (6.06%) Lead
8 4 (6.06%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Developer in Test
9 3 (4.55%) QA Manager
9 3 (4.55%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Automation Consultant
10 2 (3.03%) Functional Analyst
10 2 (3.03%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (40.91%) .NET
2 23 (34.85%) .NET Framework
3 13 (19.70%) AngularJS
4 12 (18.18%) XML
5 8 (12.12%) REST
6 6 (9.09%) Gherkin
7 5 (7.58%) Node.js
7 5 (7.58%) Web Services
8 4 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (6.06%) Kafka
8 4 (6.06%) RESTful
8 4 (6.06%) SOAP
9 3 (4.55%) Chai
9 3 (4.55%) JAXB
9 3 (4.55%) JAX-RS
9 3 (4.55%) Middleware
9 3 (4.55%) Spring
9 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
10 2 (3.03%) Playwright
11 1 (1.52%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.55%) Equities
3 3 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.03%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.52%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.52%) Contactless
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.58%) Unix
2 4 (6.06%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Mac OS X
3 2 (3.03%) Android
3 2 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (96.97%) Test Automation
2 46 (69.70%) Agile
3 34 (51.52%) CI/CD
4 32 (48.48%) BDD
5 28 (42.42%) Software Testing
6 24 (36.36%) DevOps
7 22 (33.33%) Test Strategy
8 19 (28.79%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (28.79%) Performance Testing
9 17 (25.76%) Test Scripting
10 16 (24.24%) Scrum
10 16 (24.24%) TDD
11 13 (19.70%) Manual Testing
12 11 (16.67%) ATDD
12 11 (16.67%) B2C
13 10 (15.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 9 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
14 9 (13.64%) Microservices
14 9 (13.64%) SDET
14 9 (13.64%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 36 (54.55%) C#
1 36 (54.55%) Java
2 12 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 10 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.64%) SQL
5 6 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.06%) Groovy
6 4 (6.06%) Python
6 4 (6.06%) Scala
7 3 (4.55%) C++
8 2 (3.03%) C
8 2 (3.03%) Ruby
8 2 (3.03%) VBA
8 2 (3.03%) VBScript
9 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.03%) ISEB
4 2 (3.03%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) QA
2 8 (12.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) Grafana
3 1 (1.52%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) HP
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle
4 3 (4.55%) IBM
5 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.52%) Finsemble
6 1 (1.52%) Wind River