Hybrid/Remote Selenium Contract Job Trends

Selenium
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 222 222
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Selenium 103 115 195
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 0.93% 1.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.64% 7.18% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 77 146
10th Percentile £300 £326 £350
25th Percentile £353 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £524
90th Percentile £589 £658 £600
UK median daily rate £435 £488 £453
% change year-on-year -10.77% +7.73% -9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £73.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -8.33%

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 1,552 1,601 2,619
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.03% 12.89% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,063 1,038 1,913
10th Percentile £325 £346 £357
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £609 £625
90th Percentile £662 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 20 89
10th Percentile £29.25 £21.42 £49.60
25th Percentile £55.31 £50.09 £56.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.26 £84.36
90th Percentile - £71.63 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Selenium and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Selenium job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Selenium

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Selenium over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Selenium daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Selenium

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (4.85%) Confluence
2 4 (3.88%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.94%) Apache
3 2 (1.94%) Appian
3 2 (1.94%) CICS
3 2 (1.94%) JBoss
3 2 (1.94%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 29 (28.16%) Azure
2 26 (25.24%) AWS
3 18 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (9.71%) GitHub
5 5 (4.85%) GCP
5 5 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.91%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.91%) SaaS
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.94%) PaaS
7 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.94%) Serverless
7 2 (1.94%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.94%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.94%) DB2
3 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.97%) MySQL
4 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.97%) Power BI
4 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (29.13%) Cucumber
2 27 (26.21%) Cypress.io
3 26 (25.24%) Jenkins
3 26 (25.24%) JUnit
4 25 (24.27%) JIRA
5 21 (20.39%) Postman
6 20 (19.42%) GitLab
6 20 (19.42%) REST Assured
7 17 (16.50%) Git
8 16 (15.53%) JMeter
9 11 (10.68%) TestNG
10 10 (9.71%) SonarQube
11 8 (7.77%) Maven
12 7 (6.80%) Appium
12 7 (6.80%) Bitbucket
12 7 (6.80%) Gatling
12 7 (6.80%) SpecFlow
13 6 (5.83%) WebDriver
14 5 (4.85%) TestRail
15 4 (3.88%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.45%) Finance
3 15 (14.56%) Banking
4 13 (12.62%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Billing
8 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.97%) Automotive
9 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Law
9 1 (0.97%) Local Government
9 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.97%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (38.83%) Tester
2 26 (25.24%) Automation Tester
3 21 (20.39%) Test Engineer
4 16 (15.53%) Lead
5 11 (10.68%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) QA Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Senior
7 7 (6.80%) Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Analyst
8 6 (5.83%) QA Tester
8 6 (5.83%) Selenium Tester
8 6 (5.83%) Test Analyst
9 5 (4.85%) QA Leader
9 5 (4.85%) Salesforce Tester
9 5 (4.85%) Selenium Automation Tester
10 4 (3.88%) Lead Test Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Test Leader
11 3 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Developer in Test
11 3 (2.91%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (28.16%) Playwright
2 15 (14.56%) REST
3 9 (8.74%) HTML
3 9 (8.74%) RESTful
4 8 (7.77%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.80%) Hibernate
5 7 (6.80%) Node.js
6 6 (5.83%) JSON
6 6 (5.83%) SOAP
7 5 (4.85%) CSS
7 5 (4.85%) Spring
8 4 (3.88%) .NET
8 4 (3.88%) Kafka
8 4 (3.88%) React
8 4 (3.88%) Web Services
8 4 (3.88%) WireMock
8 4 (3.88%) XML
9 3 (2.91%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.91%) Jest
9 3 (2.91%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.88%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.94%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.94%) VSAM
4 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.97%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.97%) NHS
4 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.91%) Android
3 2 (1.94%) Unix
3 2 (1.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (89.32%) Test Automation
2 63 (61.17%) CI/CD
3 53 (51.46%) Agile
4 40 (38.83%) DevOps
5 28 (27.18%) Test Strategy
6 23 (22.33%) Test Scripting
7 21 (20.39%) Software Testing
7 21 (20.39%) TDD
8 20 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (18.45%) API Testing
10 18 (17.48%) BDD
10 18 (17.48%) Regression Testing
11 17 (16.50%) Performance Testing
12 15 (14.56%) Microservices
13 14 (13.59%) Manual Testing
14 13 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (11.65%) Scrum
15 12 (11.65%) SDLC
15 12 (11.65%) Security Testing
16 10 (9.71%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.63%) Java
2 17 (16.50%) JavaScript
3 15 (14.56%) C#
4 14 (13.59%) Python
5 13 (12.62%) SQL
6 3 (2.91%) Scala
7 2 (1.94%) COBOL
7 2 (1.94%) JCL
7 2 (1.94%) Ruby
8 1 (0.97%) Bash
8 1 (0.97%) C++
8 1 (0.97%) Groovy
8 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.97%) VBA
8 1 (0.97%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (23.30%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.56%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.88%) Degree
5 3 (2.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) ISEB
6 1 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.97%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (38.83%) QA
2 18 (17.48%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.80%) WCAG
4 2 (1.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.97%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.97%) SLA
5 1 (0.97%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (19.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.85%) Ansible
3 3 (2.91%) Puppet
3 3 (2.91%) Terraform
4 2 (1.94%) Grafana
5 1 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.97%) Podman
5 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (5.83%) Salesforce
2 5 (4.85%) Veracode
3 4 (3.88%) Oracle
4 3 (2.91%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.91%) Splunk
4 3 (2.91%) UiPath
5 2 (1.94%) Cisco
5 2 (1.94%) IBM
5 2 (1.94%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.94%) Siebel
5 2 (1.94%) webMethods
6 1 (0.97%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.97%) Conga
6 1 (0.97%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.97%) Google
6 1 (0.97%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.97%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.97%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.97%) Reuters
6 1 (0.97%) SAP