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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 219 231
Rank change year-on-year -37 +12 -19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 391 677 1,117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 1.21% 1.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.58% 8.39% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 522 837
10th Percentile £326 £363 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% +3.10% +12.36%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £588
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 12
10th Percentile £42.08 £51.63 £45.13
25th Percentile £50.06 £60.63 £48.69
Median hourly rate £64.25 £73.75 £58.93
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +25.14% -6.46%
75th Percentile £77.56 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £85.03 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £72.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -46.90% +45.00% -20.63%

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 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -31 328 £500 -4.76% 87
London +3 190 £500 -9.09% 28
UK excluding London -51 152 £500 - 69
Work from Home +1 131 £470 -5.05% 54
South East +2 59 £613 +15.57% 25
North of England -2 46 £438 -16.67% 16
Yorkshire +11 26 £425 -19.05% 2
North West +18 18 £475 -7.32% 13
Scotland -5 17 £388 -18.42% 7
South West -1 16 £481 -8.33% 2
Midlands -1 9 £438 +2.94% 9
West Midlands -1 6 £675 -3.57% 7
Wales +20 3 £363 -14.71% 1
East Midlands +3 3 £380 - 2
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 7
North East -3 2 £380 -36.67% 1

Selenium
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 (3.84%) Confluence
2 9 (2.30%) CMS
3 6 (1.53%) Apache
4 5 (1.28%) Camunda
5 3 (0.77%) Drupal
5 3 (0.77%) IIS
5 3 (0.77%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.77%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.26%) Appian
7 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.28%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.79%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (1.53%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.26%) Endur
4 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 131 (33.50%) Azure
2 74 (18.93%) AWS
3 72 (18.41%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (7.93%) GitHub
5 21 (5.37%) Entra ID
6 19 (4.86%) Serverless
7 17 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 16 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (3.32%) GCP
10 11 (2.81%) Azure Functions
10 11 (2.81%) BrowserStack
11 10 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.05%) PaaS
13 7 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.79%) Sauce Labs
14 6 (1.53%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.53%) SaaS
15 5 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
16 4 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.79%) Kerberos
2 6 (1.53%) HTTP
3 5 (1.28%) SSL
4 3 (0.77%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) MQTT
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.58%) NoSQL
4 11 (2.81%) MySQL
5 8 (2.05%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.28%) MariaDB
8 5 (1.28%) Redis
9 4 (1.02%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (0.77%) Big Data
10 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.26%) Power BI
12 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 124 (31.71%) Cucumber
2 96 (24.55%) Jenkins
3 76 (19.44%) Git
4 75 (19.18%) JIRA
5 63 (16.11%) WebDriver
6 56 (14.32%) JMeter
7 53 (13.55%) Postman
8 51 (13.04%) REST Assured
8 51 (13.04%) SpecFlow
9 47 (12.02%) Cypress.io
10 45 (11.51%) JUnit
11 36 (9.21%) SonarQube
12 35 (8.95%) Appium
13 33 (8.44%) GitLab
14 31 (7.93%) TestNG
15 25 (6.39%) SoapUI
16 24 (6.14%) Visual Studio
17 21 (5.37%) Maven
18 16 (4.09%) Robot Framework
19 15 (3.84%) Bitbucket
General
1 112 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (13.55%) Banking
4 46 (11.76%) Finance
5 35 (8.95%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.37%) Law
7 13 (3.32%) Police
8 8 (2.05%) Back Office
8 8 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.05%) Retail
9 7 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.79%) Prime Brokerage
10 6 (1.53%) Front Office
10 6 (1.53%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Automotive
13 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (17.65%) Developer
2 63 (16.11%) Tester
3 59 (15.09%) Senior
4 51 (13.04%) Analyst
5 46 (11.76%) Automation Tester
5 46 (11.76%) Test Engineer
6 44 (11.25%) Test Analyst
7 29 (7.42%) Java Engineer
8 28 (7.16%) Lead
9 26 (6.65%) Test Automation Engineer
10 25 (6.39%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (6.14%) Senior Test Analyst
12 23 (5.88%) Test Manager
13 21 (5.37%) Full Stack Developer
14 19 (4.86%) Software Engineer
15 16 (4.09%) Java Developer
16 15 (3.84%) Automation Engineer
16 15 (3.84%) QA Engineer
17 12 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
17 12 (3.07%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (17.14%) REST
2 54 (13.81%) .NET
3 32 (8.18%) AngularJS
3 32 (8.18%) React
4 28 (7.16%) .NET Framework
5 25 (6.39%) Java EE
6 23 (5.88%) Node.js
6 23 (5.88%) Spring
7 22 (5.63%) Gherkin
8 21 (5.37%) XML
9 20 (5.12%) Spring Boot
10 18 (4.60%) SOAP
11 17 (4.35%) HTML
11 17 (4.35%) Playwright
11 17 (4.35%) RESTful
12 15 (3.84%) CSS
12 15 (3.84%) pytest
13 14 (3.58%) Web Services
14 13 (3.32%) ARM Templates
14 13 (3.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.93%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.37%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.30%) Equities
4 8 (2.05%) Client/Server
4 8 (2.05%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.53%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.53%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.02%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.77%) Derivative
8 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.51%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.51%) NHS
9 2 (0.51%) PKI
10 1 (0.26%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.42%) Linux
2 20 (5.12%) Windows
3 13 (3.32%) Unix
4 10 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.79%) Android
7 4 (1.02%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.02%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.51%) VMS
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (71.10%) Test Automation
2 180 (46.04%) Agile
3 154 (39.39%) DevOps
4 119 (30.43%) CI/CD
5 77 (19.69%) Continuous Integration
6 70 (17.90%) BDD
6 70 (17.90%) Software Testing
7 66 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (15.09%) Scrum
9 58 (14.83%) Test Scripting
10 53 (13.55%) Test Strategy
11 48 (12.28%) Software Engineering
12 42 (10.74%) Performance Testing
13 41 (10.49%) Microservices
14 39 (9.97%) SDLC
14 39 (9.97%) TDD
15 38 (9.72%) SDET
16 36 (9.21%) Manual Testing
17 34 (8.70%) Test Management
18 31 (7.93%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 207 (52.94%) Java
2 99 (25.32%) C#
3 76 (19.44%) Python
4 65 (16.62%) JavaScript
5 51 (13.04%) SQL
6 26 (6.65%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.84%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.30%) VBScript
10 8 (2.05%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.53%) Bash
12 4 (1.02%) Groovy
12 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.02%) Scala
13 3 (0.77%) C
13 3 (0.77%) C++
13 3 (0.77%) Ruby
13 3 (0.77%) Swift
13 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 95 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 81 (20.72%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.86%) Degree
4 17 (4.35%) ISTQB
5 13 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.79%) ISEB
8 4 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (18.16%) QA
2 28 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.56%) WCAG
4 3 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.51%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.51%) HL7
System Software
1 43 (11.00%) Docker
2 27 (6.91%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) iptables
Systems Management
1 49 (12.53%) Kubernetes
2 43 (11.00%) Ansible
3 36 (9.21%) Terraform
4 13 (3.32%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (3.07%) Podman
6 8 (2.05%) Grafana
7 5 (1.28%) HP ALM
7 5 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.28%) Puppet
8 3 (0.77%) Kibana
8 3 (0.77%) Netcool
9 2 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.51%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.26%) Packer
10 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.44%) Oracle
3 11 (2.81%) HP
4 8 (2.05%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.05%) Splunk
4 8 (2.05%) VMware
5 7 (1.79%) Checkmarx
5 7 (1.79%) Google
5 7 (1.79%) IBM
5 7 (1.79%) Okta
6 6 (1.53%) SAP
7 5 (1.28%) Perfecto Mobile
7 5 (1.28%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.77%) Ab Initio
8 3 (0.77%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.77%) Micro Focus
8 3 (0.77%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.51%) Adobe
9 2 (0.51%) Brio
9 2 (0.51%) MuleSoft