Selenium Contracts

Selenium
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 199 220
Rank change year-on-year -71 +21 -14
Contract jobs citing Selenium 380 789 1,179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 1.32% 1.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.34% 8.75% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 623 903
10th Percentile £325 £370 £356
25th Percentile £400 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +12.99%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £588
90th Percentile £658 £738 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 13
10th Percentile £42.08 £61.38 £45.25
25th Percentile £50.06 £70.31 £49.50
Median hourly rate £64.25 £75.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% +17.90% +9.68%
75th Percentile £77.56 - £65.54
90th Percentile £85.03 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year -48.67% +43.88% -10.13%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,178 9,015 15,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 15.10% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,476 6,340 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 246 214
10th Percentile £32.23 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.90 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Selenium in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -44 316 £500 -4.76% 135
London -16 187 £484 -12.05% 45
UK excluding London -60 144 £463 -7.50% 98
Work from Home -24 139 £450 -10.00% 81
North of England -4 50 £425 -20.19% 24
South East -10 48 £588 +10.07% 33
Yorkshire +16 29 £425 -15.00% 8
North West +19 19 £475 -5.00% 15
Scotland -21 16 £425 -10.53% 8
Midlands +4 12 £400 +5.26% 10
South West -4 11 £538 +2.38% 9
West Midlands +17 9 £575 +35.29% 6
Wales +17 5 £363 -9.38% 5
East Midlands +9 3 £380 +35.71% 4
Northern Ireland +9 2 - -
North East -2 2 £380 -36.67% 1

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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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.95%) Confluence
2 9 (2.37%) CMS
3 6 (1.58%) nginx
4 4 (1.05%) Apache
4 4 (1.05%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.79%) Camunda
5 3 (0.79%) Drupal
5 3 (0.79%) IIS
5 3 (0.79%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.53%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Appian
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.84%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (1.58%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 107 (28.16%) Azure
2 71 (18.68%) AWS
3 68 (17.89%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (7.11%) GitHub
5 18 (4.74%) Entra ID
6 14 (3.68%) Serverless
7 11 (2.89%) BrowserStack
8 10 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (2.37%) PaaS
10 8 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (2.11%) GCP
11 7 (1.84%) SaaS
12 6 (1.58%) Sauce Labs
13 5 (1.32%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.32%) Azure Storage
13 5 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.84%) Kerberos
2 6 (1.58%) HTTP
3 5 (1.32%) SSL
4 3 (0.79%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) MQTT
5 1 (0.26%) SSH
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.74%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.11%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.11%) MySQL
4 7 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.58%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.58%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (1.05%) Redis
8 3 (0.79%) Big Data
8 3 (0.79%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.79%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 130 (34.21%) Cucumber
2 99 (26.05%) Jenkins
3 70 (18.42%) JIRA
4 68 (17.89%) Git
5 61 (16.05%) WebDriver
6 59 (15.53%) REST Assured
7 56 (14.74%) JMeter
8 55 (14.47%) Postman
9 51 (13.42%) SpecFlow
10 49 (12.89%) JUnit
11 42 (11.05%) Cypress.io
12 39 (10.26%) TestNG
13 36 (9.47%) SonarQube
14 32 (8.42%) Appium
15 31 (8.16%) GitLab
16 26 (6.84%) SoapUI
17 24 (6.32%) Visual Studio
18 19 (5.00%) Bitbucket
19 17 (4.47%) Maven
20 12 (3.16%) TeamCity
General
1 103 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (12.11%) Finance
4 39 (10.26%) Banking
5 31 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.26%) Law
7 13 (3.42%) Police
8 8 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.84%) Back Office
9 7 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.84%) Prime Brokerage
9 7 (1.84%) Retail
10 6 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.32%) Front Office
12 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.53%) Automotive
14 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (15.79%) Tester
2 57 (15.00%) Developer
3 55 (14.47%) Senior
4 52 (13.68%) Test Engineer
5 48 (12.63%) Analyst
5 48 (12.63%) Automation Tester
6 42 (11.05%) Test Analyst
7 30 (7.89%) Lead
7 30 (7.89%) Test Automation Engineer
8 28 (7.37%) Java Engineer
9 23 (6.05%) Test Manager
10 21 (5.53%) Senior Analyst
10 21 (5.53%) Senior Test Analyst
11 18 (4.74%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.21%) Automation Engineer
12 16 (4.21%) QA Engineer
13 14 (3.68%) Java Developer
14 13 (3.42%) Full Stack Developer
15 12 (3.16%) Senior Test Engineer
15 12 (3.16%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (17.11%) REST
2 57 (15.00%) .NET
3 30 (7.89%) .NET Framework
4 27 (7.11%) AngularJS
4 27 (7.11%) React
5 25 (6.58%) Java EE
6 21 (5.53%) Spring
6 21 (5.53%) XML
7 20 (5.26%) Gherkin
8 19 (5.00%) Node.js
8 19 (5.00%) Playwright
9 17 (4.47%) Spring Boot
10 16 (4.21%) HTML
10 16 (4.21%) SOAP
11 14 (3.68%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.68%) ARM Templates
11 14 (3.68%) CSS
11 14 (3.68%) RESTful
12 13 (3.42%) Kafka
12 13 (3.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.32%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.74%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.37%) Equities
4 8 (2.11%) Client/Server
4 8 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.58%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.05%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.53%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.53%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.53%) PKI
8 2 (0.53%) W3C
9 1 (0.26%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.11%) Linux
2 18 (4.74%) Windows
3 12 (3.16%) Unix
4 10 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.84%) Android
7 4 (1.05%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.05%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.53%) VMS
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (71.58%) Test Automation
2 154 (40.53%) Agile
3 130 (34.21%) DevOps
4 122 (32.11%) CI/CD
5 79 (20.79%) BDD
6 74 (19.47%) Software Testing
7 72 (18.95%) Continuous Integration
8 65 (17.11%) Test Scripting
9 63 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (14.21%) Scrum
11 53 (13.95%) Test Strategy
12 42 (11.05%) Software Engineering
13 41 (10.79%) TDD
14 40 (10.53%) SDET
15 37 (9.74%) Microservices
16 36 (9.47%) Performance Testing
17 34 (8.95%) Test Management
18 31 (8.16%) Manual Testing
18 31 (8.16%) SDLC
19 29 (7.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 194 (51.05%) Java
2 99 (26.05%) C#
3 66 (17.37%) Python
4 57 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 44 (11.58%) SQL
6 26 (6.84%) PowerShell
7 18 (4.74%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.42%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.11%) VBScript
10 7 (1.84%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.32%) Bash
11 5 (1.32%) Scala
12 4 (1.05%) Groovy
12 4 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.79%) C++
14 2 (0.53%) C
14 2 (0.53%) Ruby
14 2 (0.53%) Swift
14 2 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 105 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 90 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.53%) ISTQB
4 16 (4.21%) Degree
5 11 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.11%) ISEB
8 4 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (19.74%) QA
2 36 (9.47%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.16%) WCAG
4 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 50 (13.16%) Docker
2 22 (5.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) iptables
Systems Management
1 50 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 42 (11.05%) Ansible
3 38 (10.00%) Terraform
4 13 (3.42%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (3.16%) Podman
6 9 (2.37%) HP ALM
7 7 (1.84%) Grafana
8 5 (1.32%) Puppet
9 4 (1.05%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.79%) Kibana
10 3 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.79%) Netcool
10 3 (0.79%) Packer
11 2 (0.53%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.95%) Oracle
3 14 (3.68%) HP
4 9 (2.37%) IBM
4 9 (2.37%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.11%) Splunk
5 8 (2.11%) VMware
6 7 (1.84%) Okta
7 6 (1.58%) SAP
8 5 (1.32%) Perfecto Mobile
8 5 (1.32%) Wind River
9 4 (1.05%) Checkmarx
9 4 (1.05%) Optimizely
9 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.79%) Ab Initio
10 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.79%) Google
10 3 (0.79%) IBM Sterling
10 3 (0.79%) Micro Focus
10 3 (0.79%) Red Hat