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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 209 228
Rank change year-on-year -47 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing Selenium 383 716 1,141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 1.25% 1.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.47% 8.49% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 560 859
10th Percentile £325 £370 £360
25th Percentile £404 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +3.60% +14.29%
75th Percentile £585 £618 £588
90th Percentile £676 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 12
10th Percentile £42.08 £61.38 £45.13
25th Percentile £50.06 £70.31 £48.69
Median hourly rate £64.25 £75.00 £58.93
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% +27.26% +1.61%
75th Percentile £77.56 - £65.54
90th Percentile £85.03 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -48.67% +50.00% -13.79%

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 5,125 8,436 15,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.73% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 5,951 11,155
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.83%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 231 207
10th Percentile £32.48 £42.81 £37.15
25th Percentile £46.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +14.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £82.50 £76.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +19.57%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -26 320 £500 -4.76% 131
London +1 191 £498 -9.55% 41
UK excluding London -64 143 £500 - 108
Work from Home -9 130 £450 -10.00% 71
South East +3 53 £613 +15.57% 42
North of England +1 46 £450 -14.29% 31
Yorkshire +8 25 £425 -15.00% 12
North West +14 19 £450 -12.20% 17
Scotland -12 17 £388 -16.22% 10
South West -1 13 £513 -2.38% 5
Midlands -2 9 £438 +15.13% 14
West Midlands +11 6 £675 +25.58% 12
Wales +21 3 £363 -14.71% 2
East Midlands +7 3 £380 +16.92% 2
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 3
North East -3 2 £380 -36.67% 2

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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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 9 (2.35%) CMS
3 6 (1.57%) nginx
4 5 (1.31%) Camunda
5 4 (1.04%) Apache
5 4 (1.04%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.78%) Drupal
6 3 (0.78%) IIS
6 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.78%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.83%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (1.57%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.26%) Endur
4 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 115 (30.03%) Azure
2 77 (20.10%) AWS
3 68 (17.75%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (7.83%) GitHub
5 20 (5.22%) Entra ID
6 16 (4.18%) Serverless
7 14 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (3.13%) GCP
9 11 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (2.87%) BrowserStack
10 8 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.09%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.09%) PaaS
11 7 (1.83%) Sauce Labs
12 6 (1.57%) SaaS
13 5 (1.31%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.83%) Kerberos
2 6 (1.57%) HTTP
3 5 (1.31%) SSL
4 3 (0.78%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) MQTT
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.61%) MySQL
3 10 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.09%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.31%) MariaDB
7 4 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.04%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (1.04%) Redis
8 3 (0.78%) Big Data
8 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.26%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 127 (33.16%) Cucumber
2 96 (25.07%) Jenkins
3 75 (19.58%) JIRA
4 70 (18.28%) Git
5 64 (16.71%) WebDriver
6 56 (14.62%) JMeter
7 55 (14.36%) Postman
8 54 (14.10%) REST Assured
9 48 (12.53%) Cypress.io
9 48 (12.53%) SpecFlow
10 47 (12.27%) JUnit
11 37 (9.66%) SonarQube
12 35 (9.14%) TestNG
13 34 (8.88%) Appium
13 34 (8.88%) GitLab
14 26 (6.79%) SoapUI
15 25 (6.53%) Visual Studio
16 17 (4.44%) Bitbucket
17 16 (4.18%) Maven
18 15 (3.92%) Robot Framework
General
1 109 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (12.27%) Banking
4 43 (11.23%) Finance
5 36 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.48%) Law
7 13 (3.39%) Police
8 8 (2.09%) Back Office
8 8 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.83%) Prime Brokerage
9 7 (1.83%) Retail
10 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.57%) Front Office
11 5 (1.31%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Automotive
13 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (16.97%) Developer
2 64 (16.71%) Tester
3 54 (14.10%) Senior
4 48 (12.53%) Analyst
5 47 (12.27%) Automation Tester
6 46 (12.01%) Test Engineer
7 42 (10.97%) Test Analyst
8 29 (7.57%) Java Engineer
9 28 (7.31%) Lead
10 26 (6.79%) Test Automation Engineer
11 22 (5.74%) Senior Analyst
11 22 (5.74%) Senior Test Analyst
11 22 (5.74%) Test Manager
12 19 (4.96%) Full Stack Developer
12 19 (4.96%) Software Engineer
13 17 (4.44%) QA Engineer
14 16 (4.18%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (3.66%) Java Developer
16 12 (3.13%) Test Leader
17 11 (2.87%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (17.75%) REST
2 55 (14.36%) .NET
3 33 (8.62%) React
4 29 (7.57%) .NET Framework
5 27 (7.05%) AngularJS
6 25 (6.53%) Java EE
7 23 (6.01%) Spring
8 22 (5.74%) Node.js
9 21 (5.48%) XML
10 20 (5.22%) Playwright
10 20 (5.22%) Spring Boot
11 19 (4.96%) Gherkin
11 19 (4.96%) SOAP
12 17 (4.44%) HTML
13 15 (3.92%) CSS
13 15 (3.92%) Web Services
14 14 (3.66%) Kafka
14 14 (3.66%) RESTful
15 13 (3.39%) ARM Templates
16 12 (3.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.05%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.96%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.35%) Equities
4 8 (2.09%) Client/Server
4 8 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.57%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.04%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.52%) Derivative
8 2 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.52%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.52%) NHS
8 2 (0.52%) PKI
8 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.31%) Linux
2 20 (5.22%) Windows
3 13 (3.39%) Unix
4 10 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.57%) Android
7 4 (1.04%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.04%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.52%) VMS
10 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (71.54%) Test Automation
2 163 (42.56%) Agile
3 138 (36.03%) DevOps
4 120 (31.33%) CI/CD
5 77 (20.10%) Continuous Integration
6 72 (18.80%) BDD
7 70 (18.28%) Software Testing
8 66 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (15.93%) Test Scripting
10 55 (14.36%) Scrum
11 52 (13.58%) Test Strategy
12 45 (11.75%) Software Engineering
13 41 (10.70%) Microservices
14 39 (10.18%) Performance Testing
14 39 (10.18%) TDD
15 38 (9.92%) SDET
16 36 (9.40%) Manual Testing
16 36 (9.40%) SDLC
17 35 (9.14%) Test Management
18 30 (7.83%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 199 (51.96%) Java
2 97 (25.33%) C#
3 67 (17.49%) Python
4 60 (15.67%) JavaScript
5 49 (12.79%) SQL
6 27 (7.05%) PowerShell
7 22 (5.74%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.66%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.09%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.09%) VBScript
10 7 (1.83%) Bash
11 5 (1.31%) Scala
12 4 (1.04%) Groovy
12 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.78%) C
13 3 (0.78%) C++
13 3 (0.78%) Swift
13 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.52%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 92 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.70%) Degree
3 18 (4.70%) ISTQB
4 12 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.09%) ISEB
7 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (20.10%) QA
2 32 (8.36%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.61%) WCAG
4 3 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.52%) HL7
System Software
1 52 (13.58%) Docker
2 25 (6.53%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) iptables
Systems Management
1 52 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 42 (10.97%) Ansible
3 37 (9.66%) Terraform
4 13 (3.39%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (3.13%) Podman
6 7 (1.83%) Grafana
7 6 (1.57%) HP ALM
8 5 (1.31%) Puppet
9 4 (1.04%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.78%) Kibana
10 3 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.78%) Netcool
10 3 (0.78%) Packer
11 2 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.52%) logstash
12 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.88%) Oracle
3 12 (3.13%) HP
4 8 (2.09%) IBM
4 8 (2.09%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.09%) Splunk
4 8 (2.09%) VMware
5 7 (1.83%) Okta
6 6 (1.57%) Google
6 6 (1.57%) SAP
7 5 (1.31%) Checkmarx
7 5 (1.31%) Perfecto Mobile
7 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.78%) Ab Initio
8 3 (0.78%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.78%) Micro Focus
8 3 (0.78%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.78%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.52%) Adobe
9 2 (0.52%) Brio