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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 497 518
Rank change year-on-year -67 +21 +65
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 69 21 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.072% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.17% 0.50% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 16 48
10th Percentile £350 £359 £323
25th Percentile £367 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £428
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £484 £481 £476
90th Percentile £515 £512 £547
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £388
% change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 5,890 4,242 5,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 14.61% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,830 2,830 3,467
10th Percentile £350 £340 £352
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 76 227
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.86 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.48 £76.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +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 6 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 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 6 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 -66 56 £425 - 6
UK excluding London -66 46 £425 +6.25% 4
Work from Home -19 27 £425 -7.91% 3
Midlands -32 25 £425 - 2
West Midlands -33 25 £425 - 1
London -67 14 £475 +11.76% 2
North of England -67 9 £425 +11.84% 1
South East -58 6 £214 -
Scotland -7 4 £470 +17.50%
North West -41 3 £450 +18.42% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £355 -
North East - 3 £453 -
South West - 1 - - 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 3 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 39 (56.52%) Azure
2 35 (50.72%) AWS
3 24 (34.78%) GCP
3 24 (34.78%) GitHub
4 22 (31.88%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.80%) SaaS
7 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.45%) IaaS
8 1 (1.45%) PaaS
8 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.45%) Tricentis Tosca
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
4 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 69 (100.00%) Selenium
2 45 (65.22%) Cucumber
3 37 (53.62%) Jenkins
4 30 (43.48%) JUnit
5 29 (42.03%) Git
6 28 (40.58%) JMeter
7 27 (39.13%) GitLab
8 25 (36.23%) JIRA
9 13 (18.84%) Postman
9 13 (18.84%) REST Assured
10 9 (13.04%) Cypress.io
11 6 (8.70%) Gatling
12 4 (5.80%) TeamCity
12 4 (5.80%) TestNG
13 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
13 3 (4.35%) Maven
13 3 (4.35%) NUnit
13 3 (4.35%) SpecFlow
14 2 (2.90%) MSTest
14 2 (2.90%) TestComplete
General
1 30 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.84%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Military
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 23 (33.33%) Tester
2 17 (24.64%) Senior
3 16 (23.19%) Automation Tester
4 15 (21.74%) QA Engineer
5 11 (15.94%) Test Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) QA Automation Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Senior Tester
7 8 (11.59%) Lead
7 8 (11.59%) Test Automation Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Test Leader
8 7 (10.14%) Senior Automation Tester
9 6 (8.70%) Developer
9 6 (8.70%) Systems Tester
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 6 (8.70%) Gherkin
5 4 (5.80%) .NET
6 3 (4.35%) JSR 170
6 3 (4.35%) Node.js
6 3 (4.35%) SailPoint
7 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.90%) RESTful
8 1 (1.45%) Jest
8 1 (1.45%) Kafka
8 1 (1.45%) LDAP
8 1 (1.45%) OpenID
8 1 (1.45%) React
8 1 (1.45%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Distributed Architecture
2 12 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.45%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (92.75%) Test Automation
2 54 (78.26%) CI/CD
3 43 (62.32%) Agile
4 37 (53.62%) BDD
5 30 (43.48%) Validation
6 29 (42.03%) Test Strategy
7 27 (39.13%) API Testing
7 27 (39.13%) End-to-End Testing
8 23 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (33.33%) Microservices
8 23 (33.33%) TDD
9 19 (27.54%) Load Testing
9 19 (27.54%) Performance Testing
9 19 (27.54%) Scrum
10 18 (26.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 17 (24.64%) Observability
11 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (23.19%) DevOps
12 16 (23.19%) SDET
13 15 (21.74%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.83%) Java
2 18 (26.09%) C#
3 15 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.59%) SQL
5 7 (10.14%) Python
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 31 (44.93%) Security Cleared
2 28 (40.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.35%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Degree
6 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (44.93%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (34.78%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 24 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 17 (24.64%) Grafana
2 17 (24.64%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Adobe
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (1.45%) Micro Focus
3 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow