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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 525 523
Rank change year-on-year -61 -2 +70
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 69 26 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.082% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.13% 0.56% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 16 47
10th Percentile £301 £389 £333
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £463 £500 £484
90th Percentile £488 £512 £533
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £375
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -21.05%
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 6,096 4,634 5,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.57% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 3,104 3,569
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £693 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 94 251
10th Percentile £26.15 £21.22 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -84 59 £425 -5.56% 1
UK excluding London -79 48 £425 -2.86% 1
West Midlands -29 29 £425 -
Midlands -33 29 £425 -
Work from Home -27 28 £425 -7.91% 1
London -68 15 £453 -
North of England -69 8 £450 -3.23%
South East -52 5 £212 -
Scotland -13 4 £470 +8.05%
North East - 4 £453 -
North West -42 3 £450 -3.23%
South West -27 1 - - 1
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 (27.54%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (59.42%) Azure
2 32 (46.38%) AWS
3 26 (37.68%) GitHub
4 23 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (28.99%) GCP
7 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.80%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.80%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.90%) SaaS
10 2 (2.90%) Serverless
11 1 (1.45%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (1.45%) BrowserStack
11 1 (1.45%) IaaS
11 1 (1.45%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.35%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.35%) MySQL
4 2 (2.90%) Power BI
5 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (100.00%) Selenium
2 46 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 35 (50.72%) Jenkins
4 32 (46.38%) Git
5 29 (42.03%) JUnit
6 27 (39.13%) GitLab
7 26 (37.68%) JMeter
8 25 (36.23%) JIRA
9 14 (20.29%) Postman
10 13 (18.84%) Cypress.io
11 12 (17.39%) REST Assured
12 6 (8.70%) TestNG
13 5 (7.25%) Bitbucket
13 5 (7.25%) TeamCity
14 3 (4.35%) Gatling
14 3 (4.35%) Maven
14 3 (4.35%) NUnit
14 3 (4.35%) SpecFlow
15 2 (2.90%) CircleCI
15 2 (2.90%) TestComplete
General
1 30 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.54%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (26.09%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.35%) Military
7 2 (2.90%) Banking
7 2 (2.90%) Finance
7 2 (2.90%) Retail
8 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (33.33%) Tester
2 19 (27.54%) Senior
3 16 (23.19%) Automation Tester
4 14 (20.29%) Test Engineer
5 12 (17.39%) QA Engineer
6 10 (14.49%) Test Automation Engineer
7 9 (13.04%) Senior Tester
8 8 (11.59%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (11.59%) Lead
8 8 (11.59%) QA Automation Engineer
8 8 (11.59%) Test Leader
9 7 (10.14%) Senior Automation Tester
10 6 (8.70%) Systems Tester
11 5 (7.25%) Developer
12 4 (5.80%) Analyst
12 4 (5.80%) Automation Test Lead
12 4 (5.80%) Developer in Test
12 4 (5.80%) Senior QA Engineer
12 4 (5.80%) Software Developer
12 4 (5.80%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.99%) WireMock
2 19 (27.54%) Spring
3 11 (15.94%) Gherkin
3 11 (15.94%) REST
4 10 (14.49%) Playwright
5 5 (7.25%) .NET
6 4 (5.80%) Node.js
7 3 (4.35%) JSON
8 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.90%) Kafka
8 2 (2.90%) XML
8 2 (2.90%) XSLT
9 1 (1.45%) JDBC
9 1 (1.45%) Jest
9 1 (1.45%) React
9 1 (1.45%) RESTful
9 1 (1.45%) WebdriverIO
9 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Distributed Architecture
2 13 (18.84%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.25%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.90%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.45%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (91.30%) Test Automation
2 58 (84.06%) CI/CD
3 44 (63.77%) Agile
4 42 (60.87%) BDD
5 31 (44.93%) End-to-End Testing
5 31 (44.93%) Validation
6 30 (43.48%) Test Strategy
7 28 (40.58%) API Testing
8 25 (36.23%) Microservices
9 23 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (33.33%) DevOps
9 23 (33.33%) Load Testing
10 22 (31.88%) TDD
11 18 (26.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (24.64%) Observability
13 16 (23.19%) Performance Testing
13 16 (23.19%) Scrum
13 16 (23.19%) SDET
13 16 (23.19%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (40.58%) Java
2 19 (27.54%) C#
2 19 (27.54%) JavaScript
3 10 (14.49%) SQL
4 9 (13.04%) Python
5 7 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.90%) Bash
6 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.90%) Ruby
6 2 (2.90%) VBScript
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.68%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (8.70%) ISTQB
4 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (43.48%) QA
2 10 (14.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.80%) GDPR
3 4 (5.80%) WCAG
4 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 17 (24.64%) Grafana
2 17 (24.64%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (1.45%) Micro Focus