Selenium Contracts with Work from Home Options

Selenium
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 216 214 198
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 -6
Contract jobs citing Selenium 133 293 621
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.90% 1.19% 1.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.42% 7.87% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 211 471
10th Percentile £356 £375 £356
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.09% +14.12%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £655
UK median daily rate £496 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 9
10th Percentile - £61.38 £44.50
25th Percentile - £70.31 £46.25
Median hourly rate £90.00 £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +14.43% +11.08%
75th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,792 3,722 8,179
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.11% 15.10% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 2,671 5,888
10th Percentile £360 £388 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 104 109
10th Percentile £25.99 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.50% +18.89%
75th Percentile £86.25 £71.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £86.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Selenium
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Selenium trend for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Selenium.

Selenium daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Selenium over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Selenium daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Selenium.

Selenium hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (3.01%) nginx
2 3 (2.26%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.26%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.33%) Azure
2 41 (30.83%) AWS
3 23 (17.29%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.77%) GitHub
5 8 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.26%) Serverless
7 6 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.01%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (2.26%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.26%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) MQTT
1 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.77%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.02%) MySQL
3 6 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.01%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.26%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.50%) Redis
8 1 (0.75%) Big Data
8 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (31.58%) Cucumber
2 31 (23.31%) Jenkins
3 28 (21.05%) JMeter
4 25 (18.80%) WebDriver
5 24 (18.05%) JIRA
6 23 (17.29%) Git
6 23 (17.29%) Postman
7 20 (15.04%) REST Assured
8 19 (14.29%) JUnit
9 16 (12.03%) Cypress.io
9 16 (12.03%) TestNG
10 15 (11.28%) GitLab
11 13 (9.77%) SoapUI
11 13 (9.77%) SpecFlow
12 11 (8.27%) SonarQube
13 10 (7.52%) Appium
14 8 (6.02%) Bitbucket
14 8 (6.02%) Visual Studio
15 6 (4.51%) Maven
16 5 (3.76%) HP UFT
General
1 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.02%) Finance
5 10 (7.52%) Banking
6 8 (6.02%) Law
7 7 (5.26%) Police
8 6 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.01%) Retail
10 2 (1.50%) Back Office
10 2 (1.50%) Front Office
10 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Aviation
11 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.75%) Local Government
11 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (21.05%) Test Engineer
2 26 (19.55%) Tester
3 24 (18.05%) Developer
3 24 (18.05%) Senior
4 19 (14.29%) Automation Tester
5 16 (12.03%) Analyst
5 16 (12.03%) Test Analyst
5 16 (12.03%) Test Automation Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) Java Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) Lead
7 9 (6.77%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Developer in Test
10 6 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.51%) Senior Test Analyst
10 6 (4.51%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.80%) REST
2 15 (11.28%) .NET
3 12 (9.02%) SOAP
4 11 (8.27%) Spring
4 11 (8.27%) Web Services
5 9 (6.77%) Gherkin
5 9 (6.77%) XML
6 8 (6.02%) .NET Framework
6 8 (6.02%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.02%) ARM Templates
6 8 (6.02%) Java EE
7 7 (5.26%) Playwright
7 7 (5.26%) Spring Boot
8 6 (4.51%) RESTful
9 5 (3.76%) Kafka
9 5 (3.76%) React
10 4 (3.01%) JAX-RS
10 4 (3.01%) jQuery
10 4 (3.01%) Node.js
10 4 (3.01%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.75%) Contactless
5 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.75%) Derivative
5 1 (0.75%) EPoS
5 1 (0.75%) Equities
5 1 (0.75%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.75%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (0.75%) Replication
5 1 (0.75%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.75%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Linux
2 5 (3.76%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (1.50%) Android
3 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (78.20%) Test Automation
2 50 (37.59%) Agile
3 46 (34.59%) DevOps
4 45 (33.83%) CI/CD
5 31 (23.31%) Test Scripting
6 30 (22.56%) Software Testing
7 27 (20.30%) BDD
8 22 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (15.04%) Scrum
11 19 (14.29%) SDET
12 17 (12.78%) Microservices
12 17 (12.78%) Test Strategy
13 15 (11.28%) Test Management
14 14 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (10.53%) Performance Testing
14 14 (10.53%) Software Engineering
15 11 (8.27%) API Testing
16 10 (7.52%) User Stories
17 9 (6.77%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (54.14%) Java
2 32 (24.06%) C#
3 23 (17.29%) Python
3 23 (17.29%) SQL
4 22 (16.54%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.51%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.76%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.26%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.50%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.50%) Bash
8 2 (1.50%) C
9 1 (0.75%) ABAP
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) SOQL
9 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.75%) VBA
9 1 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (35.34%) Security Cleared
2 40 (30.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.77%) ISTQB
4 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.76%) Degree
5 4 (3.01%) ISEB
6 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.53%) Accessibility
2 17 (12.78%) QA
3 7 (5.26%) WCAG
4 2 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (17.29%) Docker
2 8 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.75%) iptables
Systems Management
1 21 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.29%) Terraform
3 11 (8.27%) Ansible
4 9 (6.77%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (6.02%) Podman
6 5 (3.76%) HP ALM
7 4 (3.01%) Grafana
8 2 (1.50%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.50%) Packer
8 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.75%) Kibana
9 1 (0.75%) logstash
9 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (10.53%) Oracle
2 12 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.76%) HP
3 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.01%) IBM
4 4 (3.01%) SAP
5 3 (2.26%) Micro Focus
6 2 (1.50%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.50%) Perfecto Mobile
6 2 (1.50%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.50%) Splunk
7 1 (0.75%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.75%) Google
7 1 (0.75%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (0.75%) NEC
7 1 (0.75%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow