Selenium Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Selenium
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Selenium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Selenium over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 209 195
Rank change year-on-year -18 -14 -3
Contract jobs citing Selenium 77 138 329
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 0.90% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.20% 7.45% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 106 241
10th Percentile £268 £350 £375
25th Percentile £380 £379 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £61.38
25th Percentile - - £70.31
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.47%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £64.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year -22.18% -14.33% +17.90%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Selenium falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Selenium
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Selenium trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Selenium.

Selenium daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Selenium over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Selenium daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Selenium.

Selenium hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) JBoss
2 3 (3.90%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 26 (33.77%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (23.38%) AWS
4 5 (6.49%) Azure API Management
4 5 (6.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (6.49%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (5.19%) PaaS
6 3 (3.90%) GitHub
6 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.90%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.60%) GCP
7 2 (2.60%) IaaS
7 2 (2.60%) NuGet
7 2 (2.60%) SaaS
7 2 (2.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (2.60%) Serverless
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (5.19%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.90%) Neo4j
2 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 28 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 26 (33.77%) JIRA
3 19 (24.68%) Cucumber
4 16 (20.78%) Postman
5 15 (19.48%) GitLab
6 14 (18.18%) Git
7 13 (16.88%) JMeter
7 13 (16.88%) JUnit
7 13 (16.88%) REST Assured
8 12 (15.58%) Cypress.io
8 12 (15.58%) SonarQube
9 8 (10.39%) HP UFT
10 7 (9.09%) Appium
10 7 (9.09%) Gatling
10 7 (9.09%) SpecFlow
11 5 (6.49%) Maven
11 5 (6.49%) Subversion
12 4 (5.19%) Gradle
12 4 (5.19%) NeoLoad
12 4 (5.19%) TestComplete
General
1 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Finance
3 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Banking
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.49%) Law
6 4 (5.19%) Police
7 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.30%) Electronics
9 1 (1.30%) Marketing
9 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 18 (23.38%) Developer
2 17 (22.08%) Automation Tester
2 17 (22.08%) Tester
3 16 (20.78%) Test Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) QA Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Test Analyst
6 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Java Automation Tester
6 6 (7.79%) Senior
6 6 (7.79%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Azure Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Developer in Test
7 5 (6.49%) Lead
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) Playwright
2 16 (20.78%) REST
3 10 (12.99%) .NET
4 8 (10.39%) Spring Boot
5 7 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.79%) HTML
6 6 (7.79%) Kafka
7 5 (6.49%) ADO
7 5 (6.49%) ARM Templates
7 5 (6.49%) CSS
7 5 (6.49%) Java EE
7 5 (6.49%) Spring
8 4 (5.19%) Hibernate
8 4 (5.19%) Node.js
8 4 (5.19%) Play Framework
8 4 (5.19%) React
9 3 (3.90%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.90%) pytest
9 3 (3.90%) RESTful
9 3 (3.90%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Data Structures
1 5 (6.49%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (3.90%) Client/Server
2 3 (3.90%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.60%) NHS
3 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.99%) Windows
2 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (88.31%) Test Automation
2 37 (48.05%) Agile
3 33 (42.86%) DevOps
4 31 (40.26%) CI/CD
5 16 (20.78%) Test Scripting
6 14 (18.18%) Scrum
7 12 (15.58%) API Testing
7 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (14.29%) Software Testing
8 11 (14.29%) Test Strategy
9 10 (12.99%) Performance Testing
9 10 (12.99%) TDD
10 9 (11.69%) BDD
10 9 (11.69%) Kanban
10 9 (11.69%) Open Source
10 9 (11.69%) SDET
11 8 (10.39%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (10.39%) Integration Testing
11 8 (10.39%) Microservices
11 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (67.53%) Java
2 24 (31.17%) Python
3 19 (24.68%) JavaScript
4 17 (22.08%) C#
5 12 (15.58%) SQL
6 11 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.79%) C++
8 4 (5.19%) PHP
8 4 (5.19%) Ruby
8 4 (5.19%) Scala
9 3 (3.90%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.60%) VBA
10 2 (2.60%) VBScript
11 1 (1.30%) Bash
11 1 (1.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 28 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) ISEB
4 2 (2.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) CEH
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (31.17%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) GxP
3 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (19.48%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Ansible
1 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
1 8 (10.39%) Terraform
2 5 (6.49%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (6.49%) Podman
2 5 (6.49%) Progress Chef
2 5 (6.49%) Puppet
3 2 (2.60%) Grafana
4 1 (1.30%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (5.19%) Bloomberg
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
1 4 (5.19%) Reuters
1 4 (5.19%) SAP
2 3 (3.90%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (3.90%) Oracle
3 2 (2.60%) CyberArk
3 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.60%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.30%) HP
4 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.30%) Snow
4 1 (1.30%) Splunk
4 1 (1.30%) UiPath
4 1 (1.30%) Veracode