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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 494 534
Rank change year-on-year -89 +40 +58
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 62 22 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.075% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.06% 0.54% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 18 44
10th Percentile £350 £356 £321
25th Percentile £363 £366 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £419
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -4.48% -11.84%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £454
90th Percentile £555 £483 £549
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £388
% change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 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 5,825 4,097 5,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.35% 14.02% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,742 3,476
10th Percentile £347 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £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 £688 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 66 195
10th Percentile £37.93 £26.77 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.30 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.38 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -76 49 £425 +6.25% 5
UK excluding London -75 38 £425 +6.25% 3
Work from Home -14 27 £425 +6.25% 3
West Midlands -41 19 £425 -
Midlands -51 19 £425 -
London -45 15 £467 +16.69% 2
South East -44 8 £357 - 1
North of England -75 5 £372 -1.46% 2
Scotland 0 4 £470 +17.50%
Yorkshire -55 3 £355 -5.33%
North West -40 1 £450 +18.42% 1
South West - 1 - -
North East - 1 £425 - 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 16 (25.81%) Confluence
2 3 (4.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 34 (54.84%) Azure
2 30 (48.39%) AWS
3 21 (33.87%) GCP
3 21 (33.87%) GitHub
4 18 (29.03%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.45%) SaaS
7 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.61%) IaaS
8 1 (1.61%) PaaS
8 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.61%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (4.84%) MariaDB
2 3 (4.84%) MySQL
3 2 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 61 (98.39%) Selenium
2 37 (59.68%) Cucumber
3 32 (51.61%) Jenkins
4 27 (43.55%) Git
5 25 (40.32%) JMeter
6 24 (38.71%) JUnit
7 23 (37.10%) JIRA
8 19 (30.65%) GitLab
9 14 (22.58%) Postman
10 12 (19.35%) REST Assured
11 8 (12.90%) Cypress.io
12 7 (11.29%) Gatling
13 5 (8.06%) TestNG
14 4 (6.45%) TeamCity
15 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
15 3 (4.84%) Maven
15 3 (4.84%) NUnit
15 3 (4.84%) SpecFlow
16 2 (3.23%) MSTest
16 2 (3.23%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Banking
5 3 (4.84%) Finance
6 2 (3.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Tester
2 16 (25.81%) Automation Tester
3 12 (19.35%) Senior
4 11 (17.74%) Test Engineer
5 10 (16.13%) Lead
6 9 (14.52%) QA Engineer
6 9 (14.52%) Test Automation Engineer
7 8 (12.90%) Test Leader
8 7 (11.29%) Senior Automation Tester
8 7 (11.29%) Senior Tester
9 6 (9.68%) Developer
10 5 (8.06%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (8.06%) QA Automation Engineer
11 4 (6.45%) Automation Test Lead
11 4 (6.45%) Developer in Test
11 4 (6.45%) Software Developer
11 4 (6.45%) Systems Tester
12 3 (4.84%) Senior Automation Engineer
13 2 (3.23%) Java Engineer
13 2 (3.23%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.42%) Spring
2 16 (25.81%) WireMock
3 11 (17.74%) Playwright
4 8 (12.90%) Gherkin
4 8 (12.90%) REST
5 5 (8.06%) .NET
6 4 (6.45%) SailPoint
7 3 (4.84%) JSR 170
8 2 (3.23%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.23%) HTML
8 2 (3.23%) LDAP
8 2 (3.23%) Node.js
8 2 (3.23%) React
8 2 (3.23%) RESTful
8 2 (3.23%) WebdriverIO
9 1 (1.61%) CSS
9 1 (1.61%) Jest
9 1 (1.61%) JSON
9 1 (1.61%) OpenAPI
9 1 (1.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Distributed Architecture
2 11 (17.74%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.84%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.61%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (96.77%) Test Automation
2 49 (79.03%) CI/CD
3 36 (58.06%) Agile
4 33 (53.23%) BDD
5 27 (43.55%) API Testing
6 26 (41.94%) Validation
7 24 (38.71%) End-to-End Testing
8 22 (35.48%) Test Strategy
9 20 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (32.26%) Microservices
9 20 (32.26%) TDD
10 18 (29.03%) Load Testing
10 18 (29.03%) Performance Testing
11 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (27.42%) Scrum
12 16 (25.81%) DevOps
12 16 (25.81%) Test Scripting
13 15 (24.19%) Observability
14 14 (22.58%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 12 (19.35%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 33 (53.23%) Java
2 19 (30.65%) C#
3 15 (24.19%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.52%) Python
5 8 (12.90%) SQL
6 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.23%) Bash
7 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.23%) VBScript
8 1 (1.61%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (37.10%) Security Cleared
2 21 (33.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.45%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.23%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (40.32%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (33.87%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 21 (33.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (24.19%) Grafana
2 15 (24.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Adobe
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle
3 1 (1.61%) Micro Focus
3 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow