Selenium Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Selenium
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 55 85
Rank change year-on-year -11 +30 +11
Contract jobs citing Selenium 13 16 12
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.59% 1.95% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.44% 10.53% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 10
10th Percentile £297 £413 £400
25th Percentile £375 £414 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £504 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +11.89% -
75th Percentile £438 £542 £509
90th Percentile £478 £585 £541
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £500 £433
% change year-on-year -15.00% +15.61% -3.89%

All Development Application Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 154 152 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.78% 18.54% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 117 114
10th Percentile £385 £399 £380
25th Percentile £428 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £635
90th Percentile £675 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.24%
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £26.78
% change year-on-year - - -46.44%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Selenium

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in West Yorkshire

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Selenium

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Leeds -6 13 £420 -18.76% 3
Selenium
Yorkshire

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) NuGet
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) JMeter
2 6 (46.15%) Cucumber
2 6 (46.15%) Cypress.io
2 6 (46.15%) GitLab
2 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Postman
2 6 (46.15%) REST Assured
2 6 (46.15%) TestNG
3 5 (38.46%) Maven
4 3 (23.08%) JUnit
5 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
5 1 (7.69%) JIRA
5 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Test Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Automation Tester
3 3 (23.08%) Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) CRM Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
5 1 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) ADO
2 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (7.69%) pytest
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) API Testing
3 6 (46.15%) TDD
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Testing
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (23.08%) BDD
6 3 (23.08%) Load Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (23.08%) Test Planning
6 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
6 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Open Source
7 2 (15.38%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Accessibility
2 6 (46.15%) WCAG
3 4 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
1 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft