WebDriver Contracts in England

Selenium WebDriver
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WebDriver skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebDriver 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 488 588 646
Rank change year-on-year +100 +58 -106
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 49 63 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.15% 0.89% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 47 95
10th Percentile £325 £373 £350
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% - +12.43%
75th Percentile £475 £539 £550
90th Percentile £563 £588 £633
UK median daily rate £430 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £48.70
25th Percentile - - £58.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +36.28%
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £80.30
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £77.00
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +36.28%

All Development Application Skills
England

WebDriver 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%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WebDriver 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 WebDriver 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 +94 41 £440 -7.37% 2
North of England +25 7 £400 -20.00% 3
North West +18 4 £293 -42.22% 3
Yorkshire +16 3 £400 +60.00%
South East +12 1 - - 3
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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 1 (2.04%) CMS
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 15 (30.61%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (22.45%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.16%) AWS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.04%) Contentful
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub
5 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (97.96%) Selenium
2 25 (51.02%) Cucumber
3 18 (36.73%) Visual Studio
4 17 (34.69%) Git
4 17 (34.69%) Postman
5 15 (30.61%) JUnit
5 15 (30.61%) REST Assured
5 15 (30.61%) TestNG
6 14 (28.57%) Appium
7 13 (26.53%) SoapUI
7 13 (26.53%) SpecFlow
8 12 (24.49%) Jenkins
9 10 (20.41%) eggPlant
9 10 (20.41%) SOAtest
10 9 (18.37%) JMeter
11 7 (14.29%) JIRA
12 5 (10.20%) Gatling
13 4 (8.16%) LoadRunner
13 4 (8.16%) Rational Performance Tester
14 3 (6.12%) Maven
General
1 29 (59.18%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Back Office
5 5 (10.20%) Banking
6 3 (6.12%) Front Office
6 3 (6.12%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (4.08%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Senior
2 19 (38.78%) Analyst
2 19 (38.78%) Test Analyst
3 16 (32.65%) Senior Analyst
3 16 (32.65%) Senior Test Analyst
4 7 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Tester
5 6 (12.24%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Automation Tester
6 4 (8.16%) Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Lead
8 2 (4.08%) Automation Consultant
8 2 (4.08%) Automation Test Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Test Automation Consultant
8 2 (4.08%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (46.94%) .NET
2 21 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 13 (26.53%) AngularJS
4 12 (24.49%) XML
5 4 (8.16%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (8.16%) Kafka
5 4 (8.16%) Web Services
6 3 (6.12%) Node.js
6 3 (6.12%) REST
7 2 (4.08%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.08%) Playwright
7 2 (4.08%) SOAP
8 1 (2.04%) Chai
8 1 (2.04%) HTML
8 1 (2.04%) JAX-RS
8 1 (2.04%) React
8 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.04%) WebdriverIO
8 1 (2.04%) WebSockets
8 1 (2.04%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.16%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.12%) Equities
4 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.04%) Contactless
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Unix
2 4 (8.16%) Mac OS X
3 2 (4.08%) Android
3 2 (4.08%) Windows
4 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (95.92%) Test Automation
2 40 (81.63%) Agile
3 25 (51.02%) CI/CD
4 22 (44.90%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (44.90%) Software Testing
5 21 (42.86%) BDD
6 20 (40.82%) Test Strategy
7 19 (38.78%) Performance Testing
8 15 (30.61%) DevOps
8 15 (30.61%) Scrum
9 14 (28.57%) TDD
10 12 (24.49%) Manual Testing
10 12 (24.49%) Test Scripting
11 11 (22.45%) B2C
12 10 (20.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 9 (18.37%) ATDD
13 9 (18.37%) Continuous Deployment
13 9 (18.37%) User Stories
14 7 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
15 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) C#
2 27 (55.10%) Java
3 12 (24.49%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.16%) Groovy
4 4 (8.16%) Scala
4 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.12%) SQL
6 2 (4.08%) Python
6 2 (4.08%) Ruby
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (30.61%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) QA
2 6 (12.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Grafana
2 1 (2.04%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) HP
3 4 (8.16%) IBM
4 1 (2.04%) Brio
4 1 (2.04%) Finsemble