WebDriver Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Selenium WebDriver
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WebDriver skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebDriver 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 301 321 421
Rank change year-on-year +20 +100 +117
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 3 24 56
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 1.30% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 44
10th Percentile - £353 £400
25th Percentile - £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -
75th Percentile - £450 £501
90th Percentile - £498 £544
UK median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

WebDriver 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%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WebDriver trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WebDriver daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WebDriver hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ATDD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) V-Model
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
2 2 (66.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA