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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 534 568
Rank change year-on-year -21 +34 +34
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 26 30 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.087% 0.099%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.47% 0.66% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 33
10th Percentile £353 £356 £330
25th Percentile £373 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £493 £464 £450
90th Percentile £562 £495 £498
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -11.76% - -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 5,509 4,577 5,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 13.24% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 2,877 4,018
10th Percentile £338 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.03% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 98 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.43 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.44 £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 £76.53
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £89.75
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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 -39 20 £400 -5.88% 9
UK excluding London -46 12 £375 -11.76% 10
London -7 10 £400 -5.88% 1
Work from Home +19 9 £438 +6.06% 6
South East +5 5 £376 -14.17% 5
Scotland -2 2 £470 +7.43%
North of England -38 2 £372 -0.80% 3
Yorkshire -44 2 £372 -0.80% 1
Wales - 2 £375 - 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 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 4 (15.38%) BrowserStack
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (92.31%) Selenium
2 13 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 12 (46.15%) Postman
4 9 (34.62%) Git
4 9 (34.62%) JIRA
5 8 (30.77%) Jenkins
6 5 (19.23%) NUnit
7 4 (15.38%) Appium
7 4 (15.38%) JUnit
8 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
8 3 (11.54%) GitLab
8 3 (11.54%) JMeter
8 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
8 3 (11.54%) SpecFlow
8 3 (11.54%) Zephyr
9 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
9 2 (7.69%) Gatling
9 2 (7.69%) SoapUI
9 2 (7.69%) TestNG
10 1 (3.85%) Gradle
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Test Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Tester
4 2 (7.69%) Automation Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer in Test
4 2 (7.69%) Mobile Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) QA Tester
4 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Mobile Tester
5 1 (3.85%) QA Officer
5 1 (3.85%) SailPoint Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Gherkin
2 4 (15.38%) HTML
2 4 (15.38%) Playwright
2 4 (15.38%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) CSS
3 3 (11.54%) JSON
3 3 (11.54%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) LDAP
4 2 (7.69%) React
4 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 2 (7.69%) SailPoint
4 2 (7.69%) Web Services
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) Next.js
5 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.85%) SAML
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.85%) Swagger
5 1 (3.85%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Android
1 4 (15.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) Test Automation
2 17 (65.38%) Agile
3 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 13 (50.00%) DevOps
5 11 (42.31%) Test Scripting
6 9 (34.62%) BDD
7 8 (30.77%) API Testing
8 7 (26.92%) Performance Testing
8 7 (26.92%) Scrum
8 7 (26.92%) Software Testing
9 6 (23.08%) Test Strategy
10 5 (19.23%) Regression Testing
10 5 (19.23%) SDLC
11 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
11 4 (15.38%) Exploratory Testing
12 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
12 3 (11.54%) Cross-Browser Testing
12 3 (11.54%) SDET
12 3 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
12 3 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
2 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 7 (26.92%) C#
4 4 (15.38%) Python
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Ruby
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) ISTQB
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) ISEB
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (15.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
2 1 (3.85%) Adobe
2 1 (3.85%) Mercator
2 1 (3.85%) Micro Focus
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow