WebDriver Contracts in England

Selenium WebDriver
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WebDriver skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebDriver over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 578 655
Rank change year-on-year +83 +77 -112
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 48 60 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.12% 0.88% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 93
10th Percentile £325 £374 £352
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £470 £549 £550
90th Percentile £537 £588 £625
UK median daily rate £428 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% -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 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 England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,293 6,785 12,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.66% 14.29% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,910 4,830 8,975
10th Percentile £350 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 198 179
10th Percentile £31.57 £45.72 £37.85
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 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.65 £82.65 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%

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 31 May 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 31 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
London +82 40 £439 -7.63% 6
North of England +26 7 £400 -12.09% 3
North West +18 4 £293 -42.22% 3
Yorkshire +18 3 £400 +60.00%
South East +6 1 - - 6
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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 (2.08%) CMS
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (33.33%) Azure
2 15 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (22.92%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.08%) Contentful
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 47 (97.92%) Selenium
2 24 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 18 (37.50%) Visual Studio
4 17 (35.42%) Postman
5 16 (33.33%) Git
6 14 (29.17%) Appium
6 14 (29.17%) JUnit
6 14 (29.17%) REST Assured
6 14 (29.17%) TestNG
7 13 (27.08%) SpecFlow
8 12 (25.00%) SoapUI
9 11 (22.92%) Jenkins
10 10 (20.83%) eggPlant
10 10 (20.83%) SOAtest
11 8 (16.67%) JMeter
12 7 (14.58%) JIRA
13 5 (10.42%) Gatling
14 4 (8.33%) LoadRunner
14 4 (8.33%) Rational Performance Tester
15 2 (4.17%) Maven
General
1 29 (60.42%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Back Office
5 5 (10.42%) Banking
6 3 (6.25%) Front Office
6 3 (6.25%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Senior
2 19 (39.58%) Analyst
2 19 (39.58%) Test Analyst
3 16 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 16 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Test Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Tester
5 6 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Automation Tester
6 4 (8.33%) Consultant
6 4 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Lead
8 2 (4.17%) Automation Consultant
8 2 (4.17%) Automation Test Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Test Automation Consultant
8 2 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (47.92%) .NET
2 21 (43.75%) .NET Framework
3 13 (27.08%) AngularJS
4 12 (25.00%) XML
5 4 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (8.33%) Kafka
5 4 (8.33%) Web Services
6 2 (4.17%) Gherkin
6 2 (4.17%) Node.js
6 2 (4.17%) Playwright
6 2 (4.17%) REST
7 1 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (2.08%) HTML
7 1 (2.08%) JSON
7 1 (2.08%) React
7 1 (2.08%) RESTful
7 1 (2.08%) SOAP
7 1 (2.08%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (2.08%) WebSockets
7 1 (2.08%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.25%) Equities
4 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.08%) Contactless
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Unix
2 4 (8.33%) Mac OS X
3 2 (4.17%) Android
3 2 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (95.83%) Test Automation
2 39 (81.25%) Agile
3 24 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 22 (45.83%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (45.83%) Software Testing
5 20 (41.67%) BDD
5 20 (41.67%) Test Strategy
6 19 (39.58%) Performance Testing
7 15 (31.25%) DevOps
7 15 (31.25%) Scrum
8 14 (29.17%) TDD
9 12 (25.00%) Manual Testing
9 12 (25.00%) Test Scripting
10 11 (22.92%) B2C
11 10 (20.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 9 (18.75%) ATDD
12 9 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
12 9 (18.75%) User Stories
13 7 (14.58%) Acceptance Criteria
14 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) C#
2 26 (54.17%) Java
3 12 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.33%) Groovy
4 4 (8.33%) Scala
4 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.25%) SQL
6 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.17%) Ruby
6 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.08%) C++
7 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) QA
2 6 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Grafana
2 1 (2.08%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.58%) HP
3 4 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (2.08%) Brio
4 1 (2.08%) Finsemble