WebDriver Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Selenium WebDriver
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring WebDriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.48% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 2.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £378 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £425 £378 £406
% change year-on-year +12.58% -7.08% -17.09%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 483 182 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.69% 12.96% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 115 136
10th Percentile £350 £346 £260
25th Percentile £415 £410 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% +8.67% -16.36%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £536
90th Percentile £600 £650 £586
England median daily rate £500 £508 £535
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.50
25th Percentile £25.33 £56.25 £21.63
Median hourly rate £47.30 £57.50 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% +1.10% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.75 - £60.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

WebDriver job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

WebDriver
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 WebDriver within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Birmingham - 9 £425 -
Solihull - 2 £425 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £425 - 1
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
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 11 (84.62%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
1 10 (76.92%) GCP
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub
3 6 (46.15%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Selenium
2 12 (92.31%) Git
3 11 (84.62%) Cucumber
3 11 (84.62%) JIRA
3 11 (84.62%) JMeter
3 11 (84.62%) JUnit
4 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
5 3 (23.08%) GitLab
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Tester
2 5 (38.46%) Automation Tester
2 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 5 (38.46%) Test Leader
3 4 (30.77%) Automation Test Lead
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Systems Tester
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Automation Tester
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Tester
5 1 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Selenium Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Integration Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Spring
1 11 (84.62%) WireMock
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Distributed Architecture
1 7 (53.85%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 13 (100.00%) Validation
2 11 (84.62%) End-to-End Testing
2 11 (84.62%) Load Testing
2 11 (84.62%) Microservices
2 11 (84.62%) Test Strategy
3 10 (76.92%) BDD
3 10 (76.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (76.92%) Observability
3 10 (76.92%) TDD
4 9 (69.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 8 (61.54%) Agile
6 7 (53.85%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (38.46%) Data Validation
7 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
8 4 (30.77%) API Testing
8 4 (30.77%) Coaching
8 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
8 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C#
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Grafana
1 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
1 10 (76.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft