Selenium Contracts in the South East

Selenium
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 134 148
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 53 72 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.97% 1.29% 1.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.93% 10.01% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 50 64
10th Percentile £394 £398 £353
25th Percentile £501 £435 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £530 £469
Median % change year-on-year +15.57% +13.07% +25.00%
75th Percentile £656 £602 £548
90th Percentile £688 £619 £629
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £67.00 £45.50
25th Percentile £36.75 £72.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% +50.00% -19.03%
75th Percentile £40.25 - £65.54
90th Percentile - - £67.16
England median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -48.67% +50.00% -15.25%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 534 719 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.82% 12.87% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 476 647
10th Percentile £313 £363 £356
25th Percentile £400 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £698 £673
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 34 23
10th Percentile £40.55 £22.16 £41.65
25th Percentile £52.88 £50.00 £48.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £56.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +2.46% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £62.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.43
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the South East 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
Thames Valley +11 45 £625 +13.64% 12
Berkshire +1 43 £625 +13.64% 10
Hampshire -29 4 £550 +0.23% 10
West Sussex +7 2 £193 -63.20%
Buckinghamshire +26 1 - - 3
East Sussex +3 1 £300 -55.56%
Kent - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £450 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (3.77%) Apache
1 2 (3.77%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 33 (62.26%) Azure
2 17 (32.08%) AWS
3 12 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Functions
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (11.32%) Serverless
5 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.77%) PaaS
7 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.89%) GCP
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.89%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (52.83%) Jenkins
2 27 (50.94%) Cucumber
3 25 (47.17%) REST Assured
4 24 (45.28%) SonarQube
5 18 (33.96%) JIRA
6 14 (26.42%) GitLab
7 11 (20.75%) Git
8 6 (11.32%) Robot Framework
9 5 (9.43%) SpecFlow
10 4 (7.55%) Postman
11 3 (5.66%) Appium
11 3 (5.66%) Cypress.io
11 3 (5.66%) JMeter
12 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
12 2 (3.77%) JUnit
12 2 (3.77%) TestNG
13 1 (1.89%) Android Studio
13 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
13 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
13 1 (1.89%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (71.70%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (52.83%) Social Skills
3 20 (37.74%) Law
4 13 (24.53%) Police
5 2 (3.77%) Automotive
5 2 (3.77%) Finance
5 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Java Engineer
2 11 (20.75%) Developer
3 9 (16.98%) Senior
4 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Analyst
6 5 (9.43%) Java Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Architect
7 4 (7.55%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Lead
7 4 (7.55%) Python Developer
7 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Solutions Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) Test Manager
8 3 (5.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (50.94%) REST
2 25 (47.17%) Java EE
3 13 (24.53%) ARM Templates
4 6 (11.32%) React
5 4 (7.55%) .NET
6 3 (5.66%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.66%) RESTful
7 2 (3.77%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.77%) JSON
7 2 (3.77%) Kafka
7 2 (3.77%) Playwright
7 2 (3.77%) XML
8 1 (1.89%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.89%) HTML
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.89%) SOAP
8 1 (1.89%) Spring
8 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Client/Server
2 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.77%) PKI
3 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Windows
2 8 (15.09%) Linux
2 8 (15.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.77%) VMS
5 1 (1.89%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (96.23%) Test Automation
2 46 (86.79%) DevOps
3 30 (56.60%) Continuous Integration
4 29 (54.72%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (50.94%) Technical Leadership
6 25 (47.17%) Decision-Making
6 25 (47.17%) Software Architecture
7 23 (43.40%) Software Engineering
8 14 (26.42%) Configuration Management
8 14 (26.42%) Containerisation
8 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (24.53%) Agile
10 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
11 9 (16.98%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 7 (13.21%) Microservices
13 6 (11.32%) Application Packaging
13 6 (11.32%) Application Virtualisation
13 6 (11.32%) Full Stack Development
13 6 (11.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 5 (9.43%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (64.15%) Java
2 15 (28.30%) Python
3 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.32%) VBScript
5 3 (5.66%) C#
6 2 (3.77%) Bash
6 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.89%) C
7 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (60.38%) Security Cleared
2 26 (49.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Docker
2 8 (15.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (47.17%) Ansible
2 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
3 14 (26.42%) Terraform
4 12 (22.64%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (22.64%) Podman
5 1 (1.89%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) VMware
2 3 (5.66%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft