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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 495 524
Rank change year-on-year -70 +29 +63
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 69 24 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.081% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.16% 0.56% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 17 47
10th Percentile £337 £372 £325
25th Percentile £372 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £435
Median % change year-on-year - -2.30% -3.33%
75th Percentile £482 £500 £484
90th Percentile £515 £509 £547
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £388
% change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 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 5,931 4,308 5,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 14.54% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,841 2,876 3,504
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 83 243
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £28.65
25th Percentile £57.40 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +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 June 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 16 June 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 -80 56 £425 -5.56% 3
UK excluding London -74 46 £425 +3.03% 2
Work from Home -8 27 £425 -7.91% 2
West Midlands -32 27 £425 - 1
Midlands -32 27 £425 - 1
London -76 14 £459 +1.89% 1
North of England -67 7 £452 +18.82% 1
South East -57 6 £214 -
Scotland -7 4 £470 +17.50%
North East - 4 £453 -
North West -40 3 £450 +18.42% 1
South West -27 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 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 19 (27.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (60.87%) Azure
2 35 (50.72%) AWS
3 26 (37.68%) GitHub
4 24 (34.78%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (33.33%) GCP
6 19 (27.54%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
8 3 (4.35%) SaaS
9 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.45%) IaaS
10 1 (1.45%) PaaS
10 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (4.35%) MariaDB
2 3 (4.35%) MySQL
3 2 (2.90%) Power BI
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 69 (100.00%) Selenium
2 47 (68.12%) Cucumber
3 36 (52.17%) Jenkins
4 31 (44.93%) Git
5 30 (43.48%) GitLab
6 28 (40.58%) JMeter
6 28 (40.58%) JUnit
7 23 (33.33%) JIRA
8 13 (18.84%) REST Assured
9 12 (17.39%) Cypress.io
9 12 (17.39%) Postman
10 6 (8.70%) Gatling
11 5 (7.25%) Bitbucket
11 5 (7.25%) TestNG
12 4 (5.80%) TeamCity
13 3 (4.35%) NUnit
13 3 (4.35%) SpecFlow
14 2 (2.90%) Appium
14 2 (2.90%) CircleCI
14 2 (2.90%) Gradle
General
1 31 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.99%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (23.19%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Military
6 2 (2.90%) Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.90%) Retail
7 1 (1.45%) Finance
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Law
7 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Tester
2 18 (26.09%) Senior
3 17 (24.64%) Automation Tester
4 14 (20.29%) QA Engineer
5 12 (17.39%) Test Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Senior Tester
7 8 (11.59%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) QA Automation Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Test Automation Engineer
8 7 (10.14%) Senior Automation Tester
9 6 (8.70%) Developer
9 6 (8.70%) Lead
9 6 (8.70%) Systems Tester
9 6 (8.70%) Test Leader
10 4 (5.80%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (5.80%) Developer in Test
10 4 (5.80%) Senior QA Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Software Developer
11 3 (4.35%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.35%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.99%) WireMock
2 19 (27.54%) Spring
3 10 (14.49%) Playwright
3 10 (14.49%) REST
4 8 (11.59%) Gherkin
5 4 (5.80%) .NET
5 4 (5.80%) Node.js
6 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.90%) Kafka
7 1 (1.45%) Jest
7 1 (1.45%) JSON
7 1 (1.45%) JSR 170
7 1 (1.45%) React
7 1 (1.45%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (1.45%) XML
7 1 (1.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Distributed Architecture
2 13 (18.84%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.80%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.45%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (92.75%) Test Automation
2 57 (82.61%) CI/CD
3 44 (63.77%) Agile
4 40 (57.97%) BDD
5 30 (43.48%) Test Strategy
5 30 (43.48%) Validation
6 28 (40.58%) End-to-End Testing
7 27 (39.13%) API Testing
8 24 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (34.78%) Microservices
9 22 (31.88%) TDD
10 21 (30.43%) Load Testing
11 20 (28.99%) DevOps
12 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (26.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 18 (26.09%) Performance Testing
14 17 (24.64%) Observability
15 16 (23.19%) Scrum
15 16 (23.19%) SDET
16 15 (21.74%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.93%) Java
2 19 (27.54%) C#
3 17 (24.64%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.04%) Python
5 8 (11.59%) SQL
6 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.90%) Bash
7 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.90%) VBScript
8 1 (1.45%) C++
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (46.38%) Security Cleared
2 28 (40.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.80%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Degree
6 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (43.48%) QA
2 8 (11.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.90%) GDPR
3 2 (2.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 17 (24.64%) Grafana
2 17 (24.64%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (1.45%) Adobe
3 1 (1.45%) Micro Focus