Selenium Contracts in the UK excluding London

Selenium
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 201 191
Rank change year-on-year -46 -10 -23
Contract jobs citing Selenium 152 278 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 1.21% 1.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.75% 9.05% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 202 301
10th Percentile £355 £363 £356
25th Percentile £403 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £525
90th Percentile £688 £680 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 9
10th Percentile - £51.63 £44.50
25th Percentile £36.75 £60.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £71.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.96% +42.50% -20.63%
75th Percentile £40.25 £75.00 £65.42
90th Percentile - - £66.08
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £72.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year -11.38% +33.64% -13.89%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,252 3,071 4,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.80% 13.40% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 2,142 3,168
10th Percentile £350 £337 £360
25th Percentile £413 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.73%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £583
90th Percentile £660 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 166 110
10th Percentile £40.00 £48.13 £41.41
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.84
90th Percentile £78.00 £79.00 £76.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East 0 59 £613 +15.57% 31
North of England +3 46 £438 -16.67% 16
Yorkshire +13 26 £425 -19.05% 1
North West +12 18 £475 -7.32% 14
Scotland -1 17 £388 -18.42% 10
South West +2 16 £481 -8.33% 2
Midlands +1 9 £438 +2.94% 9
West Midlands 0 6 £675 -3.57% 6
Wales +20 3 £363 -14.71% 1
East Midlands +1 3 £380 - 3
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 7
North East -3 2 £380 -36.67% 1
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Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (3.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.97%) CMS
2 3 (1.97%) Drupal
3 2 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Appian
4 1 (0.66%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 70 (46.05%) Azure
2 36 (23.68%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (22.37%) AWS
4 11 (7.24%) Serverless
5 9 (5.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (5.92%) Azure Functions
6 8 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (3.95%) GCP
7 6 (3.95%) GitHub
8 5 (3.29%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.63%) PaaS
9 4 (2.63%) SaaS
10 3 (1.97%) Tricentis Tosca
11 2 (1.32%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.32%) BrowserStack
11 2 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.32%) IaaS
11 2 (1.32%) Sauce Labs
12 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.29%) SSL
2 4 (2.63%) HTTP
3 3 (1.97%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.92%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.29%) MariaDB
4 5 (3.29%) MySQL
5 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.97%) Big Data
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.32%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 55 (36.18%) Jenkins
3 35 (23.03%) JIRA
4 33 (21.71%) Git
5 27 (17.76%) REST Assured
6 26 (17.11%) JMeter
7 25 (16.45%) SonarQube
8 20 (13.16%) GitLab
9 17 (11.18%) WebDriver
10 16 (10.53%) Cypress.io
11 13 (8.55%) Postman
12 11 (7.24%) JUnit
13 10 (6.58%) Maven
14 9 (5.92%) SpecFlow
15 7 (4.61%) Appium
15 7 (4.61%) Robot Framework
16 5 (3.29%) Bitbucket
16 5 (3.29%) Gatling
16 5 (3.29%) Subversion
16 5 (3.29%) TestRail
General
1 48 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 46 (30.26%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.82%) Law
4 13 (8.55%) Police
5 7 (4.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Finance
7 2 (1.32%) Automotive
7 2 (1.32%) Banking
7 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (19.08%) Senior
1 29 (19.08%) Tester
2 23 (15.13%) Analyst
2 23 (15.13%) Developer
2 23 (15.13%) Test Engineer
3 22 (14.47%) Java Engineer
4 20 (13.16%) Automation Tester
5 18 (11.84%) Test Analyst
6 11 (7.24%) Full Stack Developer
7 10 (6.58%) Senior Test Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) Test Automation Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.92%) Lead
8 9 (5.92%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Azure Developer
9 7 (4.61%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Senior Java Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (23.68%) REST
2 25 (16.45%) Java EE
3 14 (9.21%) React
4 13 (8.55%) ARM Templates
5 12 (7.89%) .NET
6 11 (7.24%) Gherkin
7 7 (4.61%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.61%) RESTful
8 6 (3.95%) Kafka
9 5 (3.29%) Playwright
9 5 (3.29%) pytest
9 5 (3.29%) Spring
9 5 (3.29%) Spring Boot
9 5 (3.29%) Web Services
10 4 (2.63%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (2.63%) HTML
10 4 (2.63%) Jest
10 4 (2.63%) Node.js
10 4 (2.63%) SOAP
11 3 (1.97%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.26%) Client/Server
2 7 (4.61%) Mobile App
2 7 (4.61%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.97%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.97%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.32%) NHS
5 2 (1.32%) PKI
6 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.84%) Linux
2 11 (7.24%) Windows
3 8 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.63%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.63%) Unix
5 2 (1.32%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (1.32%) VMS
6 1 (0.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (76.32%) Test Automation
2 75 (49.34%) DevOps
3 68 (44.74%) Agile
4 46 (30.26%) Continuous Integration
5 38 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (23.03%) CI/CD
7 28 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
8 27 (17.76%) Decision-Making
8 27 (17.76%) Software Architecture
9 25 (16.45%) Software Engineering
9 25 (16.45%) Test Scripting
10 24 (15.79%) BDD
11 20 (13.16%) Software Testing
12 19 (12.50%) Manual Testing
13 16 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (10.53%) Test Strategy
14 15 (9.87%) Configuration Management
14 15 (9.87%) Containerisation
15 14 (9.21%) SDLC
16 13 (8.55%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 89 (58.55%) Java
2 33 (21.71%) Python
3 28 (18.42%) JavaScript
4 22 (14.47%) C#
5 17 (11.18%) SQL
6 10 (6.58%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.26%) VBScript
8 6 (3.95%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.63%) Groovy
9 4 (2.63%) Scala
9 4 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.97%) Bash
11 2 (1.32%) C++
11 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.32%) VBA
12 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.66%) C
12 1 (0.66%) SOQL
12 1 (0.66%) VB
12 1 (0.66%) VB6
Qualifications
1 48 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.61%) ISTQB
5 5 (3.29%) Degree
6 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.32%) ISEB
8 2 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.13%) QA
2 9 (5.92%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.61%) WCAG
4 3 (1.97%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (11.84%) Docker
2 10 (6.58%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (19.08%) Ansible
2 22 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.47%) Terraform
3 12 (7.89%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (7.89%) Podman
4 2 (1.32%) Grafana
4 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.66%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.66%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.66%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (7.24%) Oracle
2 7 (4.61%) VMware
3 5 (3.29%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.97%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.32%) Brio
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) Perfecto Mobile
6 2 (1.32%) SAP
7 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.66%) HP
7 1 (0.66%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.66%) Splunk