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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 521 525
Rank change year-on-year -88 +4 +58
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 57 32 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.098% 0.099%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.92% 0.64% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 28
10th Percentile £281 £359 £344
25th Percentile £306 £394 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £443
Median % change year-on-year - -3.95% +4.12%
75th Percentile £452 £500 £489
90th Percentile £484 £535 £506
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £413 £425
% change year-on-year -24.24% -2.94% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 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 6,210 4,977 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.47% 15.23% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,976 3,351 3,272
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 111 177
10th Percentile £25.40 £30.75 £29.14
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £87.50 £72.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 September 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 13 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 September 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 -95 49 £425 - 15
UK excluding London -82 35 £313 -24.24% 1
West Midlands -28 19 £313 -26.47% 1
Midlands -30 19 £313 -26.47% 1
London -81 15 £438 +6.06% 13
Work from Home -56 13 £431 -17.54% 8
North of England -68 9 £438 -20.45%
South East -57 4 £210 +4.48%
North East - 4 £453 -
North West -50 3 £275 -50.00%
Scotland -22 2 £470 +8.05%
Yorkshire -33 2 £368 -
South West -46 1 £450 -5.26%

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 4 (7.02%) Confluence
2 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (66.67%) Azure
2 33 (57.89%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (35.09%) GitHub
4 17 (29.82%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (26.32%) AWS
6 10 (17.54%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (17.54%) Power Automate
7 7 (12.28%) Azure Functions
7 7 (12.28%) Serverless
8 4 (7.02%) GCP
8 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (1.75%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.51%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (100.00%) Selenium
2 34 (59.65%) Cucumber
3 31 (54.39%) Jenkins
4 23 (40.35%) Git
5 20 (35.09%) GitLab
5 20 (35.09%) Postman
6 19 (33.33%) JUnit
7 14 (24.56%) Cypress.io
7 14 (24.56%) JIRA
8 13 (22.81%) REST Assured
9 11 (19.30%) JMeter
9 11 (19.30%) TestNG
10 5 (8.77%) Bitbucket
10 5 (8.77%) NUnit
11 4 (7.02%) Maven
11 4 (7.02%) TeamCity
12 3 (5.26%) Gradle
12 3 (5.26%) Protractor
12 3 (5.26%) SpecFlow
13 2 (3.51%) Gatling
General
1 22 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Public Sector
3 14 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (12.28%) Banking
5 7 (12.28%) Finance
6 3 (5.26%) Military
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Senior
2 12 (21.05%) Lead
2 12 (21.05%) Test Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Test Leader
3 10 (17.54%) Analyst
3 10 (17.54%) Test Analyst
4 9 (15.79%) QA Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Test Automation Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Tester
5 7 (12.28%) Lead Test Analyst
5 7 (12.28%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (12.28%) Senior Test Analyst
6 6 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Automation Tester
6 6 (10.53%) QA Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Automation Test Lead
8 4 (7.02%) Developer in Test
8 4 (7.02%) Software Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.58%) Gherkin
2 14 (24.56%) REST
3 8 (14.04%) JSON
3 8 (14.04%) XML
4 7 (12.28%) Kafka
5 5 (8.77%) Playwright
5 5 (8.77%) WireMock
6 4 (7.02%) HTML
6 4 (7.02%) Node.js
6 4 (7.02%) Spring
6 4 (7.02%) XSD
7 3 (5.26%) Terraform
7 3 (5.26%) XSLT
8 2 (3.51%) .NET
9 1 (1.75%) CSS
9 1 (1.75%) JDBC
9 1 (1.75%) RESTful
9 1 (1.75%) Semantic HTML
9 1 (1.75%) Web Services
9 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Management Information System
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.02%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Taxonomies
3 3 (5.26%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Android
2 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (89.47%) Test Automation
2 45 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 38 (66.67%) Agile
4 34 (59.65%) DevOps
5 32 (56.14%) BDD
6 30 (52.63%) API Testing
7 22 (38.60%) Test Strategy
7 22 (38.60%) Validation
8 21 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (36.84%) End-to-End Testing
9 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (28.07%) SDET
9 16 (28.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (26.32%) Load Testing
10 15 (26.32%) Scrum
11 13 (22.81%) Software Testing
12 12 (21.05%) Performance Testing
12 12 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (19.30%) CRM
13 11 (19.30%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 33 (57.89%) Java
2 20 (35.09%) JavaScript
3 18 (31.58%) C#
4 15 (26.32%) Python
5 14 (24.56%) SQL
6 2 (3.51%) Ruby
6 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 14 (24.56%) ISTQB
4 7 (12.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (7.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (49.12%) QA
2 17 (29.82%) Accessibility
3 11 (19.30%) WCAG
4 10 (17.54%) GDPR
5 4 (7.02%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Grafana
2 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle
3 4 (7.02%) IBM
4 1 (1.75%) Guidewire