Selenium Job Trends

Selenium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 392 357
Rank change year-on-year -68 -35 -156
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 239 253 658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.62% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.78% 5.81% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 206 205 493
10th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,050
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Selenium falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,138 4,352 8,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.33% 10.72% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,704 3,037 6,737
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,175 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Selenium job vacancy trend in the UK

Selenium
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK over the 6 months to 27 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -42 227 £57,500 -11.54% 79
UK excluding London -65 142 £52,500 -12.50% 67
Work from Home +20 95 £52,500 -12.50% 32
London -2 83 £67,500 +3.85% 28
South East -34 64 £50,000 -16.67% 18
South West -23 29 £47,500 -34.48% 4
North of England -51 22 £55,200 +0.36% 17
Midlands -49 20 £60,000 -7.69% 10
West Midlands -17 17 £60,500 -10.37% 6
Yorkshire -57 11 £53,500 -10.83% 6
North West -25 7 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Wales -21 5 £52,000 +7.22% 3
North East -27 4 £65,000 +40.54% 1
East Midlands -58 3 £60,000 - 4
East of England -21 2 £55,000 +29.41% 10

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.69%) Confluence
2 3 (1.26%) JBoss
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Appian
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.84%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (28.87%) Azure
2 58 (24.27%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (20.92%) AWS
4 22 (9.21%) GitHub
5 14 (5.86%) BrowserStack
6 10 (4.18%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.35%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.93%) SaaS
10 6 (2.51%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.09%) Apigee
11 5 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.67%) Serverless
13 3 (1.26%) Sauce Labs
14 2 (0.84%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.02%) DNS
2 6 (2.51%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.60%) DB2
5 5 (2.09%) Tableau
6 4 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.84%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.84%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.84%) Redis
8 1 (0.42%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.42%) Power BI
8 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.42%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 65 (27.20%) Cypress.io
2 59 (24.69%) Postman
3 54 (22.59%) JIRA
4 53 (22.18%) Jenkins
5 44 (18.41%) Git
6 40 (16.74%) Cucumber
7 39 (16.32%) WebDriver
8 31 (12.97%) GitLab
8 31 (12.97%) SoapUI
9 26 (10.88%) JMeter
10 21 (8.79%) JUnit
10 21 (8.79%) Robot Framework
10 21 (8.79%) SpecFlow
11 20 (8.37%) REST Assured
11 20 (8.37%) Team Foundation Server
12 16 (6.69%) Snyk
13 13 (5.44%) Appium
13 13 (5.44%) TeamCity
14 11 (4.60%) SonarQube
14 11 (4.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (35.15%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.27%) Finance
3 43 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.69%) Banking
5 15 (6.28%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.51%) Law
7 6 (2.51%) Retail
8 4 (1.67%) Back Office
9 3 (1.26%) Advertising
9 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.26%) Marketing
10 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.84%) Electronics
10 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) iGaming
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (28.87%) Lead
2 37 (15.48%) Test Engineer
3 33 (13.81%) Senior
4 31 (12.97%) Developer
4 31 (12.97%) QA Engineer
5 29 (12.13%) Test Leader
5 29 (12.13%) Tester
6 27 (11.30%) QA Leader
7 23 (9.62%) Test Automation Engineer
8 22 (9.21%) Analyst
9 20 (8.37%) Test Analyst
10 14 (5.86%) Automation Tester
10 14 (5.86%) QA Automation Engineer
11 13 (5.44%) Java Developer
12 12 (5.02%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
14 10 (4.18%) Senior Developer
15 9 (3.77%) Automation Test Lead
15 9 (3.77%) Senior Software Developer
15 9 (3.77%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (37.66%) Playwright
2 49 (20.50%) .NET
3 46 (19.25%) HTML
4 29 (12.13%) SOAP
5 26 (10.88%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (10.04%) REST
7 22 (9.21%) React
8 19 (7.95%) CSS
9 18 (7.53%) pytest
10 17 (7.11%) Gherkin
11 16 (6.69%) Spring Boot
12 15 (6.28%) Node.js
12 15 (6.28%) RESTful
12 15 (6.28%) Spring
13 13 (5.44%) XML
14 9 (3.77%) Web Services
15 8 (3.35%) AngularJS
15 8 (3.35%) Django
15 8 (3.35%) Flask
15 8 (3.35%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.30%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.69%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.67%) Derivative
6 4 (1.67%) Equities
6 4 (1.67%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.26%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.84%) FMCG
8 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.46%) Linux
2 18 (7.53%) Windows
3 5 (2.09%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) CentOS
5 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (76.99%) Test Automation
2 120 (50.21%) Agile
3 113 (47.28%) CI/CD
4 96 (40.17%) DevOps
5 70 (29.29%) Software Testing
6 61 (25.52%) API Testing
6 61 (25.52%) Scrum
7 56 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (23.43%) Test Management
8 53 (22.18%) Mentoring
9 51 (21.34%) BDD
10 47 (19.67%) Test Strategy
11 46 (19.25%) Test Scripting
12 45 (18.83%) Non-Functional Testing
13 38 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (14.23%) Manual Testing
15 33 (13.81%) SDLC
16 30 (12.55%) Microservices
16 30 (12.55%) Regression Testing
17 28 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 114 (47.70%) Java
2 81 (33.89%) SQL
3 68 (28.45%) C#
4 63 (26.36%) Python
5 51 (21.34%) JavaScript
6 31 (12.97%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.77%) Bash
8 8 (3.35%) Delphi
9 6 (2.51%) PHP
10 5 (2.09%) Go
11 3 (1.26%) Groovy
11 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.26%) RPG
12 2 (0.84%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.84%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.42%) JCL
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (20.50%) Degree
2 48 (20.08%) ISTQB
3 36 (15.06%) Security Cleared
4 21 (8.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 19 (7.95%) SC Cleared
6 18 (7.53%) DV Cleared
6 18 (7.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 12 (5.02%) ISEB
8 7 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (41.00%) QA
2 34 (14.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (17.15%) Docker
2 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (12.97%) Kubernetes
1 31 (12.97%) Terraform
2 20 (8.37%) Ansible
3 16 (6.69%) Grafana
4 8 (3.35%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.67%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.84%) Control-M
7 2 (0.84%) Kibana
7 2 (0.84%) logstash
7 2 (0.84%) MIIS
7 2 (0.84%) Nessus
7 2 (0.84%) Packer
7 2 (0.84%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (7.53%) Oracle
2 16 (6.69%) Black Duck
2 16 (6.69%) Coverity
3 10 (4.18%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.77%) Atlassian
5 8 (3.35%) Google
6 6 (2.51%) IBM
6 6 (2.51%) Splunk
7 5 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.67%) HP
9 3 (1.26%) SAP
9 3 (1.26%) Siebel
9 3 (1.26%) VMware
10 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.42%) Adobe
11 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.42%) New Relic
11 1 (0.42%) OpenText
11 1 (0.42%) Pega
11 1 (0.42%) Salesforce