Selenium Contracts in England

Selenium
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 234 240
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 -19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 322 551 845
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.88% 1.14% 1.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.57% 7.81% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 428 636
10th Percentile £350 £370 £360
25th Percentile £413 £439 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £575
90th Percentile £688 £800 £651
UK median daily rate £496 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 9
10th Percentile - £60.25 £44.50
25th Percentile £36.75 £70.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% +50.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £40.25 - £65.42
90th Percentile - - £66.08
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £75.00 £58.93
% change year-on-year -14.33% +27.26% +1.61%

All Development Application Skills
England

Selenium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,252 7,052 12,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.64% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,907 5,015 9,022
10th Percentile £352 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 203 186
10th Percentile £31.84 £43.17 £38.68
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.13 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.71
90th Percentile £78.68 £84.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in England

Selenium
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in England.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in England.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +2 191 £498 -9.55% 33
South East -6 53 £613 +15.57% 27
North of England 0 48 £450 -14.29% 25
Yorkshire +4 26 £425 -15.00% 8
North West +19 20 £475 -6.17% 17
South West +1 13 £513 - 6
Midlands +7 9 £438 +15.13% 15
West Midlands +16 6 £675 +25.58% 11
East Midlands +3 3 £380 +16.92% 4
North East -6 2 £380 -36.67%
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (4.35%) Confluence
2 9 (2.80%) CMS
3 6 (1.86%) nginx
4 5 (1.55%) Camunda
5 4 (1.24%) Apache
5 4 (1.24%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.93%) Drupal
6 3 (0.93%) IIS
6 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.93%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) Appian
8 1 (0.31%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (2.17%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (1.86%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Endur
4 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 94 (29.19%) Azure
2 62 (19.25%) AWS
3 59 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (6.52%) GitHub
5 20 (6.21%) Entra ID
6 15 (4.66%) Serverless
7 14 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (2.80%) BrowserStack
9 8 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.48%) Azure Functions
10 7 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.17%) GCP
11 6 (1.86%) PaaS
11 6 (1.86%) Sauce Labs
12 5 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.24%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (1.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.17%) Kerberos
2 6 (1.86%) HTTP
3 5 (1.55%) SSL
4 3 (0.93%) DNS
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) MQTT
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.94%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.11%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.48%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.55%) MySQL
8 4 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.24%) Redis
9 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle BI EE
11 1 (0.31%) Power BI
11 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (32.61%) Cucumber
2 85 (26.40%) Jenkins
3 65 (20.19%) JIRA
4 60 (18.63%) Git
5 50 (15.53%) Postman
6 49 (15.22%) REST Assured
7 48 (14.91%) WebDriver
8 44 (13.66%) SpecFlow
9 43 (13.35%) JMeter
10 38 (11.80%) JUnit
11 35 (10.87%) SonarQube
12 34 (10.56%) Cypress.io
13 29 (9.01%) Appium
14 28 (8.70%) GitLab
15 27 (8.39%) TestNG
16 21 (6.52%) SoapUI
17 20 (6.21%) Visual Studio
18 16 (4.97%) Bitbucket
19 12 (3.73%) Robot Framework
20 11 (3.42%) Maven
General
1 96 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (12.73%) Banking
4 39 (12.11%) Finance
5 25 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.52%) Law
7 13 (4.04%) Police
8 8 (2.48%) Back Office
8 8 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.17%) Prime Brokerage
10 6 (1.86%) Front Office
10 6 (1.86%) Retail
11 5 (1.55%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Automotive
14 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.31%) Local Government
14 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.31%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (18.63%) Developer
2 50 (15.53%) Senior
3 44 (13.66%) Analyst
3 44 (13.66%) Tester
4 42 (13.04%) Test Engineer
5 38 (11.80%) Test Analyst
6 29 (9.01%) Automation Tester
6 29 (9.01%) Java Engineer
7 21 (6.52%) Lead
7 21 (6.52%) Test Automation Engineer
8 20 (6.21%) Senior Analyst
8 20 (6.21%) Senior Test Analyst
9 19 (5.90%) Full Stack Developer
10 18 (5.59%) Test Manager
11 17 (5.28%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.97%) QA Engineer
13 15 (4.66%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (4.04%) Java Developer
15 11 (3.42%) C# Developer
15 11 (3.42%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (18.63%) REST
2 48 (14.91%) .NET
3 32 (9.94%) React
4 28 (8.70%) .NET Framework
5 27 (8.39%) AngularJS
6 25 (7.76%) Java EE
7 19 (5.90%) Node.js
7 19 (5.90%) Spring
8 18 (5.59%) Spring Boot
8 18 (5.59%) XML
9 17 (5.28%) HTML
10 16 (4.97%) Gherkin
11 15 (4.66%) CSS
12 14 (4.35%) Kafka
12 14 (4.35%) Web Services
13 13 (4.04%) ARM Templates
14 12 (3.73%) .NET Core
14 12 (3.73%) JSON
14 12 (3.73%) Playwright
14 12 (3.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.66%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.80%) Equities
4 7 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.86%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.24%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.24%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.62%) Derivative
8 2 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.62%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.62%) NHS
8 2 (0.62%) PKI
8 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.31%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.52%) Linux
2 18 (5.59%) Windows
3 13 (4.04%) Unix
4 10 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.55%) Android
7 4 (1.24%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.24%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.62%) VMS
10 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (70.81%) Test Automation
2 141 (43.79%) Agile
3 121 (37.58%) DevOps
4 96 (29.81%) CI/CD
5 73 (22.67%) Continuous Integration
6 57 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (17.70%) Software Testing
7 56 (17.39%) BDD
8 54 (16.77%) Scrum
9 44 (13.66%) Test Scripting
9 44 (13.66%) Test Strategy
10 39 (12.11%) Software Engineering
11 36 (11.18%) TDD
12 35 (10.87%) Manual Testing
12 35 (10.87%) Microservices
13 34 (10.56%) SDLC
14 30 (9.32%) SDET
15 29 (9.01%) Performance Testing
15 29 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (8.70%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 180 (55.90%) Java
2 82 (25.47%) C#
3 57 (17.70%) Python
4 45 (13.98%) JavaScript
5 32 (9.94%) SQL
6 27 (8.39%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.83%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.42%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.17%) Bash
10 6 (1.86%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.86%) VBScript
11 5 (1.55%) Scala
12 4 (1.24%) Groovy
12 4 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.93%) Swift
13 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.62%) Ruby
15 1 (0.31%) Bicep
15 1 (0.31%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 93 (28.88%) Security Cleared
2 78 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.04%) ISTQB
4 11 (3.42%) Degree
5 10 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.24%) ISEB
8 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (20.19%) QA
2 26 (8.07%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.42%) WCAG
4 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.62%) HL7
System Software
1 50 (15.53%) Docker
2 25 (7.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 48 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 41 (12.73%) Ansible
3 34 (10.56%) Terraform
4 13 (4.04%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (3.73%) Podman
6 7 (2.17%) Grafana
7 5 (1.55%) Puppet
8 4 (1.24%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.93%) Kibana
9 3 (0.93%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.93%) Netcool
9 3 (0.93%) Packer
10 2 (0.62%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.62%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.62%) logstash
11 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.83%) Oracle
3 8 (2.48%) HP
3 8 (2.48%) Splunk
3 8 (2.48%) VMware
4 7 (2.17%) IBM
4 7 (2.17%) Okta
5 5 (1.55%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.24%) Checkmarx
6 4 (1.24%) Perfecto Mobile
7 3 (0.93%) Ab Initio
7 3 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 3 (0.93%) Micro Focus
7 3 (0.93%) Optimizely
7 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.62%) Adobe
8 2 (0.62%) Brio
8 2 (0.62%) Google
8 2 (0.62%) SAP