WebDriver Contracts in England

Selenium WebDriver
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WebDriver skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebDriver over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 578 667
Rank change year-on-year +77 +89 -104
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 49 58 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.10% 0.87% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 38 89
10th Percentile £325 £373 £350
25th Percentile £363 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £475 £566 £550
90th Percentile £535 £588 £628
UK median daily rate £435 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £52.00 -
25th Percentile - £53.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -20.35%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -20.35%

All Development Application Skills
England

WebDriver falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,456 6,634 12,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.88% 14.10% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,997 4,742 8,916
10th Percentile £350 £369 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 196 177
10th Percentile £32.87 £46.22 £38.24
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.78 £75.34
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £51.10
% change year-on-year +4.00% +22.31% +6.74%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WebDriver as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WebDriver in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebDriver within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +79 41 £440 -7.37% 5
North of England +18 7 £400 -20.00% 5
North West +15 4 £293 -42.93% 4
Yorkshire +16 3 £400 +60.00% 1
South East +10 1 - - 9
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.04%) CMS
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 15 (30.61%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (22.45%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.12%) AWS
5 2 (4.08%) GitHub
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.04%) Contentful
6 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (97.96%) Selenium
2 25 (51.02%) Cucumber
3 18 (36.73%) Postman
3 18 (36.73%) Visual Studio
4 16 (32.65%) Git
5 15 (30.61%) JUnit
5 15 (30.61%) REST Assured
5 15 (30.61%) TestNG
6 14 (28.57%) Appium
7 13 (26.53%) SpecFlow
8 12 (24.49%) Jenkins
8 12 (24.49%) SoapUI
9 10 (20.41%) eggPlant
9 10 (20.41%) SOAtest
10 8 (16.33%) JIRA
10 8 (16.33%) JMeter
11 5 (10.20%) Gatling
12 4 (8.16%) LoadRunner
12 4 (8.16%) Rational Performance Tester
13 3 (6.12%) Maven
General
1 30 (61.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.24%) Back Office
4 5 (10.20%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Front Office
5 3 (6.12%) Prime Brokerage
6 2 (4.08%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Senior
2 19 (38.78%) Analyst
2 19 (38.78%) Test Analyst
3 16 (32.65%) Senior Analyst
3 16 (32.65%) Senior Test Analyst
4 8 (16.33%) Test Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Tester
6 6 (12.24%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Automation Tester
7 4 (8.16%) Consultant
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Lead
9 2 (4.08%) Automation Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Automation Test Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) QA Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) QA Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) QA Test Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Test Automation Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (46.94%) .NET
2 21 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 13 (26.53%) AngularJS
4 12 (24.49%) XML
5 4 (8.16%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (8.16%) Kafka
5 4 (8.16%) Web Services
6 3 (6.12%) REST
7 2 (4.08%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.08%) Node.js
7 2 (4.08%) Playwright
8 1 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (2.04%) HTML
8 1 (2.04%) JSON
8 1 (2.04%) React
8 1 (2.04%) RESTful
8 1 (2.04%) SOAP
8 1 (2.04%) WebdriverIO
8 1 (2.04%) WebSockets
8 1 (2.04%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.16%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.12%) Equities
4 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.04%) Contactless
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Unix
2 4 (8.16%) Mac OS X
3 2 (4.08%) Android
3 2 (4.08%) Windows
4 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (95.92%) Test Automation
2 40 (81.63%) Agile
3 24 (48.98%) CI/CD
4 23 (46.94%) Continuous Integration
4 23 (46.94%) Software Testing
5 21 (42.86%) BDD
6 20 (40.82%) Test Strategy
7 19 (38.78%) Performance Testing
8 16 (32.65%) Scrum
9 15 (30.61%) DevOps
10 14 (28.57%) TDD
11 12 (24.49%) Manual Testing
11 12 (24.49%) Test Scripting
12 11 (22.45%) B2C
13 10 (20.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 9 (18.37%) ATDD
14 9 (18.37%) Continuous Deployment
14 9 (18.37%) User Stories
15 7 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
16 6 (12.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) C#
2 27 (55.10%) Java
3 12 (24.49%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.16%) Groovy
4 4 (8.16%) Scala
4 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.12%) Ruby
5 3 (6.12%) SQL
6 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) QA
2 6 (12.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Grafana
2 1 (2.04%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) HP
3 4 (8.16%) IBM
4 1 (2.04%) Brio
4 1 (2.04%) Finsemble