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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 505 548
Rank change year-on-year -51 +43 +48
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 31 27 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.083% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 0.62% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 35
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £359 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £515 £450 £441
90th Percentile £566 £495 £530
UK excluding London median daily rate £374 £425 £413
% change year-on-year -12.12% +3.03% -10.81%
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 5,471 4,330 5,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.78% 13.28% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,758 2,719 3,803
10th Percentile £336 £326 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.36%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.37% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 76 205
10th Percentile £39.00 £34.38 £42.59
25th Percentile £53.13 £46.81 £50.00
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 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.40 £75.75 £89.50
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 3 January 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 11 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 3 January 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 -40 22 £400 +5.96% 13
UK excluding London -60 13 £374 -12.12% 11
London -18 10 £413 +2.48% 4
Work from Home -1 8 £438 +6.06% 9
South East -12 5 £500 +14.29% 4
Yorkshire -43 4 £355 -5.33% 2
North of England -55 4 £355 +1.43% 4
Wales - 2 £375 -
Scotland -6 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 (9.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) AWS
4 6 (19.35%) GitHub
5 5 (16.13%) GCP
6 4 (12.90%) BrowserStack
7 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (6.45%) SaaS
9 1 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 29 (93.55%) Selenium
2 16 (51.61%) Cucumber
3 15 (48.39%) Postman
4 14 (45.16%) Jenkins
5 9 (29.03%) Git
6 8 (25.81%) JIRA
7 7 (22.58%) GitLab
7 7 (22.58%) JUnit
7 7 (22.58%) REST Assured
8 6 (19.35%) JMeter
9 5 (16.13%) Gatling
10 4 (12.90%) NUnit
11 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket
11 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
11 3 (9.68%) Maven
11 3 (9.68%) TestNG
11 3 (9.68%) Zephyr
12 2 (6.45%) Appium
12 2 (6.45%) SoapUI
13 1 (3.23%) Serenity BDD
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Games
6 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Test Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Lead
2 5 (16.13%) Test Automation Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Tester
3 3 (9.68%) Automation Tester
3 3 (9.68%) QA Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Test Leader
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Developer
4 2 (6.45%) QA Tester
5 1 (3.23%) Developer in Test
5 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Mobile Tester
5 1 (3.23%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) QA Leader
5 1 (3.23%) QA Officer
5 1 (3.23%) SailPoint Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Gherkin
1 5 (16.13%) Playwright
2 4 (12.90%) HTML
2 4 (12.90%) SailPoint
3 3 (9.68%) CSS
3 3 (9.68%) JSON
3 3 (9.68%) JSR 170
3 3 (9.68%) Node.js
3 3 (9.68%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) LDAP
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) RESTful
4 2 (6.45%) Web Services
5 1 (3.23%) Next.js
5 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.23%) SAML
5 1 (3.23%) Spring
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.23%) Swagger
5 1 (3.23%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
1 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Android
1 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Test Automation
2 18 (58.06%) Agile
3 17 (54.84%) CI/CD
4 13 (41.94%) API Testing
5 12 (38.71%) DevOps
5 12 (38.71%) Test Scripting
6 11 (35.48%) BDD
7 10 (32.26%) Performance Testing
7 10 (32.26%) Scrum
8 8 (25.81%) Regression Testing
9 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.13%) Software Testing
10 5 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
10 5 (16.13%) Test Strategy
11 4 (12.90%) Identity Management
11 4 (12.90%) Integration Testing
11 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (12.90%) SDLC
11 4 (12.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) C#
2 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.13%) Python
4 4 (12.90%) SQL
5 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby
6 1 (3.23%) Scala
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) ISEB
5 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (48.39%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Adobe
2 2 (6.45%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.23%) Mercator
3 1 (3.23%) Micro Focus
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow