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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 500 554
Rank change year-on-year -51 +54 +37
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 40 27 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.087% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.73% 0.64% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 40
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £362 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -15.79%
75th Percentile £504 £475 £450
90th Percentile £568 £495 £579
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -12.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 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 5,469 4,232 5,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.01% 13.61% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,751 2,670 3,808
10th Percentile £343 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £630
90th Percentile £693 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 63 212
10th Percentile £34.85 £26.30 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £83.40 £77.25 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 7 February 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 12 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 7 February 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 -64 28 £425 +11.84% 4
London -24 15 £425 - 2
UK excluding London -70 15 £375 -6.25% 3
Work from Home -2 14 £475 +18.75% 3
South East -21 5 £500 +17.65% 1
North of England -61 5 £364 -3.07% 1
Yorkshire -51 4 £355 -5.33%
Scotland +4 2 - -
Wales - 2 £375 -
North West -30 1 £450 +37.40% 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 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 3 (7.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (22.50%) AWS
4 8 (20.00%) GitHub
5 7 (17.50%) GCP
6 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.50%) BrowserStack
7 3 (7.50%) SaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.50%) IaaS
8 1 (2.50%) PaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 38 (95.00%) Selenium
2 20 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 20 (50.00%) Postman
3 19 (47.50%) Jenkins
4 12 (30.00%) GitLab
4 12 (30.00%) REST Assured
5 10 (25.00%) Git
6 9 (22.50%) Cypress.io
7 8 (20.00%) JIRA
7 8 (20.00%) JMeter
8 7 (17.50%) Gatling
8 7 (17.50%) JUnit
9 3 (7.50%) Appium
9 3 (7.50%) Maven
9 3 (7.50%) TestNG
9 3 (7.50%) Zephyr
10 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
10 2 (5.00%) NUnit
10 2 (5.00%) SoapUI
10 2 (5.00%) TestComplete
General
1 14 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Games
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Tester
2 8 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 6 (15.00%) Test Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Lead
5 4 (10.00%) QA Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) QA Tester
6 3 (7.50%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Test Leader
7 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Lead Test Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Mobile Tester
8 1 (2.50%) QA Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) QA Manager
8 1 (2.50%) SailPoint Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior
8 1 (2.50%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) Playwright
2 6 (15.00%) REST
3 5 (12.50%) Gherkin
4 4 (10.00%) HTML
4 4 (10.00%) SailPoint
5 3 (7.50%) CSS
5 3 (7.50%) JSON
5 3 (7.50%) JSR 170
5 3 (7.50%) Node.js
6 2 (5.00%) .NET
6 2 (5.00%) LDAP
6 2 (5.00%) React
6 2 (5.00%) RESTful
6 2 (5.00%) Web Services
7 1 (2.50%) OAuth
7 1 (2.50%) OpenID
7 1 (2.50%) SAML
7 1 (2.50%) SOAP
7 1 (2.50%) Spring
7 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Android
1 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (92.50%) Test Automation
2 27 (67.50%) Agile
3 24 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (42.50%) API Testing
5 15 (37.50%) DevOps
5 15 (37.50%) Scrum
5 15 (37.50%) Test Scripting
6 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (30.00%) BDD
7 12 (30.00%) Performance Testing
8 10 (25.00%) Software Testing
8 10 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (22.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (20.00%) Regression Testing
11 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
11 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (12.50%) QA Automation
12 5 (12.50%) TDD
12 5 (12.50%) Test Strategy
13 4 (10.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Java
2 13 (32.50%) C#
2 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
3 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (17.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.50%) SQL
6 2 (5.00%) Bash
6 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) C++
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) Scala
7 1 (2.50%) VBA
7 1 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) ISEB
5 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (55.00%) QA
2 5 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Adobe
2 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.50%) Mercator
3 1 (2.50%) Micro Focus
3 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow