WebDriver Contracts

Selenium WebDriver
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WebDriver skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebDriver over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 534 591
Rank change year-on-year +37 +57 +99
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 22 66 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.54% 1.28% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 44 93
10th Percentile £356 £321 £370
25th Percentile £366 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -
75th Percentile £438 £454 £553
90th Percentile £483 £549 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £388 £500
% change year-on-year +3.23% -22.50% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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 30 April 2025.

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 13 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 30 April 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 +33 18 £400 -8.31% 9
UK excluding London +46 12 £400 +3.23% 5
London +7 10 £400 -9.60% 4
North of England +25 4 £378 -5.63% 1
Work from Home +29 3 £400 - 6
North West +10 3 £380 +29.91% 1
Scotland +2 3 £400 +6.67%
South East +42 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +13 1 £375 -6.25%
Midlands - 1 £425 -
Wales - 1 £375 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
East of England - 1 £450 - 1

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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) SaaS
4 3 (13.64%) IaaS
4 3 (13.64%) PaaS
4 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
1 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.55%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (86.36%) Selenium
2 15 (68.18%) Cucumber
3 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 10 (45.45%) Postman
4 8 (36.36%) Git
4 8 (36.36%) JIRA
5 4 (18.18%) REST Assured
6 3 (13.64%) Cypress.io
6 3 (13.64%) JMeter
6 3 (13.64%) Subversion
6 3 (13.64%) TeamCity
7 2 (9.09%) Appium
8 1 (4.55%) GitLab
8 1 (4.55%) JBehave
8 1 (4.55%) JUnit
8 1 (4.55%) LoadRunner
8 1 (4.55%) NUnit
8 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
8 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (4.55%) WebStorm
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Aviation
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Test Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) QA Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Developer in Test
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Tester
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Tester
5 2 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Selenium Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) REST
2 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) CSS
2 4 (18.18%) HTML
3 3 (13.64%) Gherkin
3 3 (13.64%) JSON
3 3 (13.64%) Web Services
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js
5 1 (4.55%) Chai
5 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.55%) jQuery
5 1 (4.55%) JSP
5 1 (4.55%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.55%) React
5 1 (4.55%) Redux
5 1 (4.55%) Sass
5 1 (4.55%) Servlets
5 1 (4.55%) SOAP
5 1 (4.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) Client/Server
3 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 14 (63.64%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) BDD
5 7 (31.82%) API Testing
5 7 (31.82%) Software Testing
6 6 (27.27%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) Performance Testing
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) SDET
7 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (22.73%) TDD
7 5 (22.73%) Test Scripting
8 4 (18.18%) Migration
8 4 (18.18%) Scrum
8 4 (18.18%) Validation
8 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
9 3 (13.64%) Feature Driven Development
9 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (13.64%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Java
1 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (22.73%) C#
3 3 (13.64%) C++
3 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.64%) VBA
3 3 (13.64%) VBScript
4 2 (9.09%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) ISEB
2 4 (18.18%) ISTQB
3 3 (13.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (59.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
1 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
1 1 (4.55%) Workday