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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 497 526
Rank change year-on-year -58 +29 +67
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 55 21 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.071% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.94% 0.51% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 18 43
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £372 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £390 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -8.24% -10.53%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £451
90th Percentile £536 £497 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +8.97% -2.50% -15.79%

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 5,871 4,088 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 13.84% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,954 2,720 3,507
10th Percentile £340 £337 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 72 193
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.03 £37.00
25th Percentile £58.04 £47.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.14% +1.20% +1.63%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -89 42 £425 +12.58% 1
UK excluding London -57 32 £425 +8.97% 2
Work from Home -7 24 £425 -5.56%
West Midlands - 18 £425 -
Midlands - 18 £425 -
London -38 14 £475 +18.01% 1
South East -47 4 £500 -
North of England -78 4 £364 -3.07%
Scotland -1 3 - - 2
Yorkshire -56 3 £355 -5.33%
Northern Ireland -2 1 - -
Wales -5 1 £375 -
North West -28 1 £450 +37.40%
South West - 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 (29.09%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 32 (58.18%) Azure
2 25 (45.45%) AWS
3 21 (38.18%) GCP
4 19 (34.55%) GitHub
5 16 (29.09%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.27%) SaaS
8 1 (1.82%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.82%) IaaS
8 1 (1.82%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.82%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (98.18%) Selenium
2 34 (61.82%) Cucumber
3 29 (52.73%) Jenkins
4 26 (47.27%) Git
5 23 (41.82%) JIRA
5 23 (41.82%) JUnit
6 22 (40.00%) JMeter
7 19 (34.55%) GitLab
8 16 (29.09%) Postman
9 11 (20.00%) REST Assured
10 9 (16.36%) Cypress.io
11 6 (10.91%) Gatling
12 4 (7.27%) TestNG
13 3 (5.45%) Maven
14 2 (3.64%) Appium
14 2 (3.64%) CircleCI
14 2 (3.64%) NUnit
14 2 (3.64%) SoapUI
14 2 (3.64%) TestComplete
14 2 (3.64%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 19 (34.55%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.27%) Finance
6 3 (5.45%) Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Retail
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Law
8 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Tester
2 16 (29.09%) Automation Tester
3 12 (21.82%) Senior
4 10 (18.18%) Lead
5 8 (14.55%) Test Leader
6 7 (12.73%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (12.73%) Senior Tester
6 7 (12.73%) Test Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) QA Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Automation Test Lead
8 4 (7.27%) Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Systems Tester
8 4 (7.27%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) QA Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) QA Manager
10 2 (3.64%) QA Tester
10 2 (3.64%) Quality Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Senior QA Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.91%) Spring
2 16 (29.09%) WireMock
3 11 (20.00%) Playwright
4 5 (9.09%) Gherkin
5 4 (7.27%) .NET
5 4 (7.27%) REST
5 4 (7.27%) SailPoint
6 3 (5.45%) HTML
6 3 (5.45%) JSR 170
7 2 (3.64%) CSS
7 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.64%) LDAP
7 2 (3.64%) Node.js
7 2 (3.64%) React
7 2 (3.64%) RESTful
7 2 (3.64%) WebdriverIO
8 1 (1.82%) Jest
8 1 (1.82%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.82%) SOAP
8 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Distributed Architecture
2 11 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.82%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (96.36%) Test Automation
2 42 (76.36%) CI/CD
3 37 (67.27%) Agile
4 28 (50.91%) BDD
5 22 (40.00%) API Testing
6 21 (38.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (38.18%) End-to-End Testing
6 21 (38.18%) Test Strategy
7 20 (36.36%) TDD
7 20 (36.36%) Validation
8 19 (34.55%) Microservices
9 16 (29.09%) Load Testing
9 16 (29.09%) Performance Testing
9 16 (29.09%) Scrum
10 15 (27.27%) Observability
10 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (25.45%) DevOps
11 14 (25.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 12 (21.82%) Test Scripting
12 12 (21.82%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.82%) Java
2 15 (27.27%) C#
3 14 (25.45%) JavaScript
4 8 (14.55%) Python
4 8 (14.55%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.27%) SQL
6 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) Bash
7 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.64%) VBScript
8 1 (1.82%) C++
8 1 (1.82%) Ruby
8 1 (1.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) ISEB
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (36.36%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 15 (27.27%) Grafana
2 15 (27.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (5.45%) Adobe
2 2 (3.64%) Micro Focus
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle
3 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow