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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 588 682
Rank change year-on-year +81 +94 -79
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 68 94 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.32% 1.16% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 68 108
10th Percentile £323 £373 £347
25th Percentile £363 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £476 £519 £556
90th Percentile £547 £588 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -18.42% -4.04% +19.28%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - £53.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +19.44% -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 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England +74 48 £436 -8.16% 15
London +89 40 £439 -7.63% 5
Work from Home +95 27 £413 -8.33% 10
UK excluding London +23 18 £388 -18.42% 13
Scotland +27 10 £375 -21.05% 1
North of England +23 7 £400 -12.09% 3
North West +20 4 £293 -42.22% 3
Yorkshire +20 3 £400 +60.00%
South East +6 1 - - 7

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 (1.47%) CMS
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.76%) Azure
2 22 (32.35%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.18%) Entra ID
4 10 (14.71%) AWS
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub
5 3 (4.41%) SaaS
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.94%) IaaS
6 2 (2.94%) PaaS
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.47%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.94%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.41%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.41%) MySQL
4 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 63 (92.65%) Selenium
2 34 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 20 (29.41%) Git
3 20 (29.41%) Postman
4 19 (27.94%) REST Assured
4 19 (27.94%) Visual Studio
5 17 (25.00%) JUnit
5 17 (25.00%) TestNG
6 15 (22.06%) Jenkins
7 14 (20.59%) Appium
7 14 (20.59%) SoapUI
7 14 (20.59%) SpecFlow
8 11 (16.18%) JMeter
9 10 (14.71%) eggPlant
9 10 (14.71%) JIRA
9 10 (14.71%) SOAtest
10 7 (10.29%) Maven
11 6 (8.82%) Cypress.io
11 6 (8.82%) Gatling
12 4 (5.88%) Gradle
General
1 36 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Back Office
5 5 (7.35%) Banking
5 5 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Front Office
6 3 (4.41%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (2.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (35.29%) Senior
2 22 (32.35%) Analyst
2 22 (32.35%) Test Analyst
3 18 (26.47%) Senior Analyst
3 18 (26.47%) Senior Test Analyst
4 15 (22.06%) Tester
5 14 (20.59%) Automation Tester
6 7 (10.29%) Test Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Consultant
8 4 (5.88%) Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Lead
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Developer in Test
9 3 (4.41%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Automation Consultant
10 2 (2.94%) QA Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) QA Test Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (39.71%) .NET
2 23 (33.82%) .NET Framework
3 15 (22.06%) AngularJS
4 12 (17.65%) XML
5 7 (10.29%) REST
6 5 (7.35%) Gherkin
6 5 (7.35%) Web Services
7 4 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (5.88%) Kafka
7 4 (5.88%) Node.js
8 3 (4.41%) React
8 3 (4.41%) RESTful
8 3 (4.41%) SOAP
9 2 (2.94%) Chai
9 2 (2.94%) JAXB
9 2 (2.94%) Middleware
9 2 (2.94%) Playwright
9 2 (2.94%) Polymer
9 2 (2.94%) Spring
9 2 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.82%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.41%) Equities
4 2 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.47%) Contactless
5 1 (1.47%) NHS
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Unix
2 4 (5.88%) Linux
2 4 (5.88%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.94%) Android
3 2 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 47 (69.12%) Agile
3 32 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 30 (44.12%) BDD
4 30 (44.12%) Software Testing
5 24 (35.29%) DevOps
6 23 (33.82%) Test Strategy
7 22 (32.35%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (30.88%) Performance Testing
9 19 (27.94%) Test Scripting
10 16 (23.53%) TDD
11 15 (22.06%) Scrum
12 14 (20.59%) Manual Testing
13 11 (16.18%) ATDD
13 11 (16.18%) B2C
14 10 (14.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 9 (13.24%) Continuous Deployment
15 9 (13.24%) SDET
15 9 (13.24%) User Stories
16 8 (11.76%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (57.35%) C#
2 35 (51.47%) Java
3 12 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 12 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.71%) SQL
5 6 (8.82%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.88%) Groovy
6 4 (5.88%) Python
6 4 (5.88%) Scala
7 3 (4.41%) C++
7 3 (4.41%) Ruby
8 2 (2.94%) C
8 2 (2.94%) Go
8 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.94%) VBA
8 2 (2.94%) VBScript
9 1 (1.47%) Bicep
9 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.94%) ISEB
5 2 (2.94%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.65%) QA
2 10 (14.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.47%) Grafana
3 1 (1.47%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) HP
3 5 (7.35%) Oracle
4 4 (5.88%) IBM
5 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (1.47%) Brio
6 1 (1.47%) Finsemble