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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 525 523
Rank change year-on-year -70 -2 +54
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 68 26 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.079% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.09% 0.53% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 16 36
10th Percentile £281 £381 £350
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.57% +1.15%
75th Percentile £463 £500 £482
90th Percentile £488 £512 £509
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -2.86% +9.38% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 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 6,235 4,896 5,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 14.88% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,998 3,319 3,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 109 214
10th Percentile £27.19 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.34 £84.05 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -90 59 £425 -5.56% 2
UK excluding London -68 51 £425 -2.86% 1
West Midlands -24 34 £425 -
Midlands -24 34 £425 -
Work from Home -38 24 £425 -7.91% 3
London -51 11 £453 +2.84% 1
North of England -54 7 £452 -17.91%
South East -71 4 £210 +4.48%
North East - 4 £453 -
Scotland -11 3 £470 +8.05%
South West -45 2 £450 -5.26% 1
North West -50 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
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 19 (27.94%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (64.71%) Azure
2 30 (44.12%) AWS
3 27 (39.71%) GitHub
4 26 (38.24%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (33.82%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (26.47%) GCP
7 9 (13.24%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (13.24%) Power Automate
8 6 (8.82%) Azure Functions
8 6 (8.82%) Serverless
9 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.47%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (1.47%) BrowserStack
11 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.24%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.41%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.41%) MySQL
4 2 (2.94%) Power BI
5 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 68 (100.00%) Selenium
2 47 (69.12%) Cucumber
3 34 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 33 (48.53%) Git
5 30 (44.12%) JUnit
6 27 (39.71%) JIRA
7 24 (35.29%) GitLab
7 24 (35.29%) JMeter
8 16 (23.53%) Postman
9 12 (17.65%) Cypress.io
10 8 (11.76%) REST Assured
11 7 (10.29%) TestNG
12 5 (7.35%) Bitbucket
13 4 (5.88%) Maven
13 4 (5.88%) TeamCity
14 3 (4.41%) Gradle
14 3 (4.41%) NUnit
14 3 (4.41%) Protractor
14 3 (4.41%) SpecFlow
15 2 (2.94%) MSTest
General
1 34 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 17 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (13.24%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Military
6 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (35.29%) Senior
2 17 (25.00%) Tester
3 14 (20.59%) Test Engineer
4 12 (17.65%) Automation Tester
4 12 (17.65%) Lead
4 12 (17.65%) Test Leader
5 11 (16.18%) QA Engineer
6 10 (14.71%) Test Automation Engineer
7 9 (13.24%) Analyst
7 9 (13.24%) Senior Tester
7 9 (13.24%) Test Analyst
8 8 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (11.76%) QA Automation Engineer
9 7 (10.29%) Senior Automation Tester
10 6 (8.82%) Lead Test Analyst
10 6 (8.82%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (8.82%) Senior Test Analyst
10 6 (8.82%) Systems Tester
11 5 (7.35%) Developer
12 4 (5.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.41%) WireMock
2 19 (27.94%) Spring
3 16 (23.53%) Gherkin
4 11 (16.18%) REST
5 5 (7.35%) Playwright
6 4 (5.88%) .NET
6 4 (5.88%) JSON
6 4 (5.88%) Node.js
6 4 (5.88%) XML
7 3 (4.41%) Kafka
7 3 (4.41%) XSLT
8 1 (1.47%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.47%) JDBC
8 1 (1.47%) Jest
8 1 (1.47%) React
8 1 (1.47%) RESTful
8 1 (1.47%) WebdriverIO
8 1 (1.47%) XSD
8 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Distributed Architecture
2 13 (19.12%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.41%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (4.41%) Taxonomies
5 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.47%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Android
2 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (91.18%) Test Automation
2 55 (80.88%) CI/CD
3 46 (67.65%) BDD
4 44 (64.71%) Agile
5 36 (52.94%) Test Strategy
6 33 (48.53%) Validation
7 32 (47.06%) End-to-End Testing
8 31 (45.59%) API Testing
9 29 (42.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (41.18%) Load Testing
11 27 (39.71%) DevOps
12 24 (35.29%) Microservices
13 21 (30.88%) TDD
14 20 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (27.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 18 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (25.00%) Observability
18 16 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
19 15 (22.06%) Mentoring
19 15 (22.06%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.76%) Java
2 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
3 16 (23.53%) C#
4 11 (16.18%) SQL
5 9 (13.24%) Python
6 2 (2.94%) Ruby
6 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.12%) ISTQB
4 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (10.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (41.18%) QA
2 15 (22.06%) Accessibility
3 9 (13.24%) GDPR
3 9 (13.24%) WCAG
4 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 19 (27.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (27.94%) Kubernetes
2 17 (25.00%) Grafana
2 17 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (1.47%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.47%) Micro Focus