WebDriver Contracts in the North of England

Selenium WebDriver
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 178 196 242
Rank change year-on-year +18 +46 -66
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 7 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.29% 0.90% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile £319 £310 £358
25th Percentile £371 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £424 £519 £517
90th Percentile £467 - £545
England median daily rate £438 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.89% - +11.76%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 541 669 1,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.17% 12.29% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 501 814
10th Percentile £372 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £641 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 28
10th Percentile £37.55 £37.80 £38.68
25th Percentile £43.80 £38.70 £52.34
Median hourly rate £46.84 £52.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.15% -25.53% +133.33%
75th Percentile £65.94 £56.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.09 £56.38 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +15 4 £293 -42.93% 4
Yorkshire +16 3 £400 +60.00% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
3 4 (57.14%) Gatling
3 4 (57.14%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 4 (57.14%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Manual Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Mac OS X
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Manual Testing
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Groovy
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) Scala
1 4 (57.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Brio