Selenium Automation Tester Contracts

Automation Tester - Selenium
UK

The median Automation Tester - Selenium daily rate in the UK is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 683 849
Rank change year-on-year +90 +166 -129
Contract jobs requiring a Selenium Automation Tester 1 14 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.025% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.027% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 14
10th Percentile - £264 £338
25th Percentile - £363 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% +8.57% +12.90%
75th Percentile - £500 £494
90th Percentile - £520 £532
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £363
% change year-on-year - +10.34% +11.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

Selenium Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Selenium Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium Automation Tester in the UK

Selenium Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Selenium Automation Tester in the UK

Selenium Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Selenium Automation Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Selenium Automation Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Selenium Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared