WebDriver Contracts

Selenium WebDriver
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 584 687
Rank change year-on-year +77 +103 -123
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 69 100 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.34% 1.19% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 77 114
10th Percentile £324 £390 £340
25th Percentile £363 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £480 £519 £550
90th Percentile £555 £588 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -18.42% - +14.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £48.70
25th Percentile - - £58.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +36.28%
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £80.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.35%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebDriver within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +100 49 £438 -7.89% 9
London +94 41 £440 -7.37% 2
Work from Home +99 27 £413 -8.33% 9
UK excluding London +39 18 £388 -18.42% 11
Scotland +23 10 £375 -21.05% 3
North of England +25 7 £400 -20.00% 3
North West +18 4 £293 -42.22% 3
Yorkshire +16 3 £400 +60.00%
South East +12 1 - - 3

WebDriver
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 1 (1.45%) CMS
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.23%) Azure
2 22 (31.88%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.94%) AWS
3 11 (15.94%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (4.35%) GitHub
4 3 (4.35%) SaaS
5 2 (2.90%) IaaS
5 2 (2.90%) PaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.45%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.54%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.35%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.35%) MySQL
4 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 64 (92.75%) Selenium
2 35 (50.72%) Cucumber
3 21 (30.43%) Git
4 20 (28.99%) Postman
4 20 (28.99%) REST Assured
5 19 (27.54%) Visual Studio
6 18 (26.09%) JUnit
6 18 (26.09%) TestNG
7 16 (23.19%) Jenkins
8 15 (21.74%) SoapUI
9 14 (20.29%) Appium
9 14 (20.29%) SpecFlow
10 12 (17.39%) JMeter
11 10 (14.49%) eggPlant
11 10 (14.49%) JIRA
11 10 (14.49%) SOAtest
12 8 (11.59%) Maven
13 7 (10.14%) Cypress.io
14 6 (8.70%) Gatling
15 5 (7.25%) Gradle
General
1 36 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Back Office
5 5 (7.25%) Banking
5 5 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Front Office
6 3 (4.35%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (2.90%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Senior
2 22 (31.88%) Analyst
2 22 (31.88%) Test Analyst
3 18 (26.09%) Senior Analyst
3 18 (26.09%) Senior Test Analyst
4 15 (21.74%) Tester
5 14 (20.29%) Automation Tester
6 7 (10.14%) Test Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Consultant
8 4 (5.80%) Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Lead
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Developer in Test
9 3 (4.35%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.90%) QA Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
10 2 (2.90%) Test Automation Consultant
10 2 (2.90%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (39.13%) .NET
2 23 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 15 (21.74%) AngularJS
4 12 (17.39%) XML
5 8 (11.59%) REST
6 5 (7.25%) Gherkin
6 5 (7.25%) Node.js
6 5 (7.25%) Web Services
7 4 (5.80%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (5.80%) Kafka
7 4 (5.80%) SOAP
8 3 (4.35%) Chai
8 3 (4.35%) JAXB
8 3 (4.35%) JAX-RS
8 3 (4.35%) Middleware
8 3 (4.35%) React
8 3 (4.35%) RESTful
8 3 (4.35%) Spring
8 3 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.35%) Equities
3 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.90%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.45%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.45%) Contactless
5 1 (1.45%) NHS
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Unix
2 4 (5.80%) Linux
2 4 (5.80%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.90%) Android
3 2 (2.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (94.20%) Test Automation
2 48 (69.57%) Agile
3 33 (47.83%) CI/CD
4 31 (44.93%) BDD
5 30 (43.48%) Software Testing
6 24 (34.78%) DevOps
7 23 (33.33%) Test Strategy
8 22 (31.88%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (30.43%) Performance Testing
10 19 (27.54%) Test Scripting
11 16 (23.19%) TDD
12 15 (21.74%) Scrum
13 14 (20.29%) Manual Testing
14 11 (15.94%) ATDD
14 11 (15.94%) B2C
15 10 (14.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 10 (14.49%) SDET
16 9 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
16 9 (13.04%) User Stories
17 8 (11.59%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (56.52%) C#
2 36 (52.17%) Java
3 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 10 (14.49%) SQL
6 6 (8.70%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.25%) Python
8 4 (5.80%) Groovy
8 4 (5.80%) Scala
9 3 (4.35%) C++
9 3 (4.35%) Ruby
10 2 (2.90%) C
10 2 (2.90%) Go
10 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.90%) VBA
10 2 (2.90%) VBScript
11 1 (1.45%) Bicep
11 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) Degree
4 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.90%) ISEB
5 2 (2.90%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) QA
2 10 (14.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.90%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Grafana
3 1 (1.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) HP
3 5 (7.25%) Oracle
4 4 (5.80%) IBM
5 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.90%) SAP
6 1 (1.45%) Brio
6 1 (1.45%) Finsemble