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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 512 533
Rank change year-on-year -68 +21 +63
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 71 25 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.077% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.14% 0.53% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 15 44
10th Percentile £281 £387 £345
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £466 £500 £482
90th Percentile £488 £514 £523
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £375
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 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 6,206 4,728 5,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 14.55% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,990 3,170 3,533
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 104 245
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.94 £29.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.53 £73.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +5.69%

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 16 July 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 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 16 July 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 -70 60 £425 -6.13%
UK excluding London -69 51 £425 -2.86%
West Midlands -26 31 £425 -
Midlands -31 31 £425 -
Work from Home -45 28 £425 -7.91%
London -64 13 £467 +2.47%
North of England -76 8 £450 -3.23%
South East -61 5 £212 -
Scotland -11 4 £470 +8.05%
North East - 4 £453 -
North West -50 3 £450 -3.23%
South West -27 2 £450 -5.26%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -

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 19 (26.76%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (61.97%) Azure
2 32 (45.07%) AWS
3 28 (39.44%) GitHub
4 24 (33.80%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (33.80%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (28.17%) GCP
6 6 (8.45%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (8.45%) Power Automate
7 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.23%) PowerApps
8 3 (4.23%) Serverless
9 2 (2.82%) SaaS
10 1 (1.41%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (1.41%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.41%) IaaS
10 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.41%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.17%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.23%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.23%) MySQL
4 2 (2.82%) Power BI
5 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (100.00%) Selenium
2 48 (67.61%) Cucumber
3 37 (52.11%) Jenkins
4 34 (47.89%) Git
5 30 (42.25%) JUnit
6 28 (39.44%) GitLab
7 26 (36.62%) JIRA
7 26 (36.62%) JMeter
8 16 (22.54%) Postman
9 13 (18.31%) Cypress.io
10 11 (15.49%) REST Assured
11 7 (9.86%) TestNG
12 5 (7.04%) Bitbucket
12 5 (7.04%) TeamCity
13 3 (4.23%) Appium
13 3 (4.23%) Gatling
13 3 (4.23%) Maven
13 3 (4.23%) NUnit
13 3 (4.23%) Protractor
13 3 (4.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 33 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.68%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.23%) Military
6 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Finance
6 2 (2.82%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Tester
2 20 (28.17%) Senior
3 16 (22.54%) Automation Tester
4 14 (19.72%) Test Engineer
5 12 (16.90%) QA Engineer
6 10 (14.08%) Test Automation Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Lead
7 9 (12.68%) Senior Tester
7 9 (12.68%) Test Leader
8 8 (11.27%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (11.27%) QA Automation Engineer
9 7 (9.86%) Senior Automation Tester
10 6 (8.45%) Analyst
10 6 (8.45%) Systems Tester
10 6 (8.45%) Test Analyst
11 5 (7.04%) Developer
12 4 (5.63%) Automation Test Lead
12 4 (5.63%) Developer in Test
12 4 (5.63%) Senior QA Engineer
12 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.17%) WireMock
2 19 (26.76%) Spring
3 13 (18.31%) Gherkin
4 11 (15.49%) REST
5 8 (11.27%) Playwright
6 5 (7.04%) .NET
7 4 (5.63%) JSON
7 4 (5.63%) Node.js
8 3 (4.23%) XML
8 3 (4.23%) XSLT
9 2 (2.82%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.82%) Kafka
10 1 (1.41%) JDBC
10 1 (1.41%) Jest
10 1 (1.41%) React
10 1 (1.41%) RESTful
10 1 (1.41%) WebdriverIO
10 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Distributed Architecture
2 13 (18.31%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.04%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.23%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.23%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.41%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Android
2 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (91.55%) Test Automation
2 60 (84.51%) CI/CD
3 47 (66.20%) Agile
4 45 (63.38%) BDD
5 32 (45.07%) Test Strategy
6 31 (43.66%) API Testing
6 31 (43.66%) End-to-End Testing
6 31 (43.66%) Validation
7 26 (36.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (36.62%) DevOps
8 25 (35.21%) Load Testing
8 25 (35.21%) Microservices
9 22 (30.99%) TDD
10 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (26.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 17 (23.94%) Observability
12 17 (23.94%) Scrum
12 17 (23.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (22.54%) Performance Testing
13 16 (22.54%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) Java
2 19 (26.76%) JavaScript
3 18 (25.35%) C#
4 10 (14.08%) SQL
5 9 (12.68%) Python
6 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.82%) Ruby
7 2 (2.82%) VBScript
8 1 (1.41%) Bash
8 1 (1.41%) C++
8 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (42.25%) Security Cleared
2 27 (38.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) ISTQB
4 6 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (42.25%) QA
2 12 (16.90%) Accessibility
3 6 (8.45%) GDPR
3 6 (8.45%) WCAG
4 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (29.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) Kubernetes
2 17 (23.94%) Grafana
2 17 (23.94%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.23%) Oracle
3 1 (1.41%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.41%) Micro Focus