Selenium Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Selenium
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 89 103
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +31
Contract jobs citing Selenium 45 18 15
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.00% 1.08% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.78% 10.40% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 8 13
10th Percentile £411 £334 £378
25th Percentile £443 £373 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £581 £413
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% +40.91% -2.94%
75th Percentile £560 £756 £450
90th Percentile £588 - £462
England median daily rate £463 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -14.29%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

Selenium 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 382 173 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.97% 10.35% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 121 100
10th Percentile £363 £375 £319
25th Percentile £429 £434 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -11.90%
75th Percentile £569 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £706 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £41.63 - £57.16
25th Percentile £50.06 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £62.25 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -13.65% -
75th Percentile £70.38 £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £74.65 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Selenium job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Selenium

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Selenium

Selenium
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Shropshire - 33 £480 -
Worcestershire - 5 £575 - 1
Birmingham -22 4 £480 -17.42% 1
Warwickshire - 3 £350 -
Solihull - 1 - -
Selenium
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 17 (37.78%) SAS
2 8 (17.78%) Apache
2 8 (17.78%) JBoss
2 8 (17.78%) WebLogic
3 5 (11.11%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) OpenShift
2 19 (42.22%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (13.33%) Azure
4 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.33%) GitHub
4 6 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 5 (11.11%) Datadog
5 5 (11.11%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (11.11%) npm
5 5 (11.11%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle Database
3 5 (11.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 2 (4.44%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 37 (82.22%) Git
2 35 (77.78%) JUnit
3 28 (62.22%) GitLab
4 24 (53.33%) Jenkins
5 10 (22.22%) Maven
6 8 (17.78%) Cucumber
6 8 (17.78%) Eclipse
6 8 (17.78%) IntelliJ
7 6 (13.33%) Cypress.io
7 6 (13.33%) Postman
8 5 (11.11%) Artifactory
8 5 (11.11%) Bitbucket
8 5 (11.11%) CircleCI
8 5 (11.11%) Gradle
8 5 (11.11%) Mockito
8 5 (11.11%) Snyk
8 5 (11.11%) SonarQube
8 5 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (11.11%) webpack
9 3 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 30 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Test Specialist
2 8 (17.78%) Test Automation Specialist
3 7 (15.56%) Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Network Specialist
6 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Maximo Tester
7 2 (4.44%) QA Leader
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Tester
8 1 (2.22%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (62.22%) REST
2 19 (42.22%) JSON
3 17 (37.78%) pytest
4 13 (28.89%) HTML
4 13 (28.89%) Spring
5 8 (17.78%) EJB
5 8 (17.78%) Hibernate
5 8 (17.78%) HTML5
5 8 (17.78%) J2EE
5 8 (17.78%) J2SE
5 8 (17.78%) Play Framework
5 8 (17.78%) Playwright
5 8 (17.78%) SOAP
5 8 (17.78%) XML
6 6 (13.33%) Gherkin
6 6 (13.33%) OAuth
6 6 (13.33%) React
7 5 (11.11%) JPA
7 5 (11.11%) OpenID
7 5 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Unix
2 5 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (88.89%) Agile
2 35 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 31 (68.89%) DevOps
4 30 (66.67%) Test Automation
5 25 (55.56%) Scrum
6 23 (51.11%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (48.89%) Containerisation
8 20 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (42.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (40.00%) Software Engineering
10 18 (40.00%) Test Strategy
11 17 (37.78%) Analytics
12 15 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (33.33%) Regression Testing
12 15 (33.33%) Test Scripting
13 14 (31.11%) Continuous Delivery
13 14 (31.11%) Integration Testing
14 13 (28.89%) Microservices
14 13 (28.89%) Sprint Retrospective
14 13 (28.89%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) Python
2 17 (37.78%) Java
3 10 (22.22%) SQL
4 9 (20.00%) Scala
5 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) Groovy
6 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) WCAG
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (62.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (28.89%) Puppet
3 10 (22.22%) Grafana
4 5 (11.11%) Ansible
4 5 (11.11%) Kibana
4 5 (11.11%) Podman
4 5 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Oracle
1 8 (17.78%) webMethods
2 5 (11.11%) Splunk
3 2 (4.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft