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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 392 363
Rank change year-on-year -75 -29 -159
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 240 257 658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.63% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.81% 5.95% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 207 207 487
10th Percentile £41,150 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,818 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £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 4,134 4,320 9,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.18% 10.56% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 3,013 6,755
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -60 228 £57,500 -11.54% 79
UK excluding London -84 141 £52,500 -12.50% 67
Work from Home +16 92 £52,500 -12.50% 32
London -6 85 £67,500 +3.85% 28
South East -33 62 £50,000 -21.88% 18
South West -19 30 £47,500 -26.92% 4
North of England -69 22 £56,000 +1.82% 17
Midlands -55 19 £60,000 -7.69% 10
West Midlands -27 16 £57,600 -14.67% 6
Yorkshire -52 10 £53,500 -10.83% 6
North West -28 8 £55,500 -7.50% 10
Wales -20 5 £52,000 +7.22% 3
North East -24 4 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East of England -24 3 £62,500 +47.06% 10
East Midlands -58 3 £60,000 - 4

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 17 (7.08%) Confluence
2 3 (1.25%) JBoss
3 2 (0.83%) Apache
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Appian
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.83%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.00%) Azure
2 62 (25.83%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (21.25%) AWS
4 22 (9.17%) GitHub
5 16 (6.67%) BrowserStack
6 11 (4.58%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.33%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.50%) SaaS
11 5 (2.08%) Apigee
11 5 (2.08%) 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 (1.25%) Sauce Labs
14 2 (0.83%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.00%) DNS
2 6 (2.50%) HTTP
3 2 (0.83%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.25%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.00%) DB2
5 4 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.67%) Tableau
6 3 (1.25%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.25%) Redis
7 2 (0.83%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) MySQL
8 1 (0.42%) Power BI
8 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.42%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 67 (27.92%) Cypress.io
2 58 (24.17%) Postman
3 56 (23.33%) JIRA
4 55 (22.92%) Jenkins
5 44 (18.33%) Git
6 40 (16.67%) Cucumber
7 38 (15.83%) WebDriver
8 32 (13.33%) GitLab
9 31 (12.92%) SoapUI
10 27 (11.25%) JMeter
11 22 (9.17%) Robot Framework
12 21 (8.75%) SpecFlow
13 20 (8.33%) JUnit
13 20 (8.33%) REST Assured
14 19 (7.92%) Team Foundation Server
15 16 (6.67%) Snyk
16 14 (5.83%) TeamCity
17 12 (5.00%) Appium
18 11 (4.58%) Bitbucket
18 11 (4.58%) SonarQube
General
1 83 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.92%) Finance
3 42 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.08%) Banking
5 15 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.50%) Law
7 6 (2.50%) Retail
8 4 (1.67%) Advertising
8 4 (1.67%) Back Office
9 3 (1.25%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Marketing
10 2 (0.83%) Electronics
10 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) iGaming
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (28.75%) Lead
2 37 (15.42%) Test Engineer
3 34 (14.17%) Senior
4 31 (12.92%) Developer
4 31 (12.92%) Test Leader
5 30 (12.50%) QA Engineer
6 28 (11.67%) Tester
7 26 (10.83%) QA Leader
8 22 (9.17%) Analyst
8 22 (9.17%) Test Automation Engineer
9 20 (8.33%) Test Analyst
10 14 (5.83%) Automation Tester
11 13 (5.42%) Java Developer
11 13 (5.42%) QA Automation Engineer
12 12 (5.00%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.58%) Automation Engineer
14 10 (4.17%) Senior Developer
15 9 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
16 8 (3.33%) Automation Test Lead
16 8 (3.33%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (38.75%) Playwright
2 50 (20.83%) .NET
3 46 (19.17%) HTML
4 28 (11.67%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (11.67%) SOAP
5 24 (10.00%) React
6 23 (9.58%) REST
7 20 (8.33%) CSS
7 20 (8.33%) pytest
8 18 (7.50%) Gherkin
9 17 (7.08%) Spring Boot
10 16 (6.67%) Node.js
10 16 (6.67%) RESTful
10 16 (6.67%) Spring
11 13 (5.42%) XML
12 9 (3.75%) Web Services
13 8 (3.33%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.33%) Django
13 8 (3.33%) Flask
13 8 (3.33%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.83%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.58%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.33%) 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 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.83%) FMCG
8 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.83%) Linux
2 19 (7.92%) Windows
3 5 (2.08%) Unix
4 3 (1.25%) CentOS
5 2 (0.83%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (77.50%) Test Automation
2 121 (50.42%) Agile
3 115 (47.92%) CI/CD
4 99 (41.25%) DevOps
5 74 (30.83%) Software Testing
6 62 (25.83%) Scrum
7 59 (24.58%) API Testing
8 58 (24.17%) Test Management
9 55 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (22.08%) Mentoring
11 52 (21.67%) BDD
12 48 (20.00%) Test Strategy
13 44 (18.33%) Test Scripting
14 43 (17.92%) Non-Functional Testing
15 41 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (15.00%) Manual Testing
17 33 (13.75%) SDLC
18 32 (13.33%) Regression Testing
19 31 (12.92%) Microservices
20 30 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 115 (47.92%) Java
2 81 (33.75%) SQL
3 69 (28.75%) C#
4 64 (26.67%) Python
5 51 (21.25%) JavaScript
6 32 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.17%) Bash
8 8 (3.33%) Delphi
9 6 (2.50%) PHP
10 5 (2.08%) Go
11 3 (1.25%) Groovy
11 3 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.25%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.25%) RPG
12 2 (0.83%) Bicep
12 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) JCL
13 1 (0.42%) Perl
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (21.25%) Degree
2 49 (20.42%) ISTQB
3 37 (15.42%) Security Cleared
4 21 (8.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 19 (7.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 19 (7.92%) SC Cleared
6 18 (7.50%) DV Cleared
7 12 (5.00%) ISEB
8 9 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.08%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (41.25%) QA
2 33 (13.75%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.83%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (18.33%) Docker
2 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 33 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 32 (13.33%) Terraform
3 21 (8.75%) Ansible
4 18 (7.50%) Grafana
5 8 (3.33%) HP Fortify
6 5 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.67%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.25%) Kibana
8 3 (1.25%) logstash
8 3 (1.25%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.83%) MIIS
9 2 (0.83%) Nessus
9 2 (0.83%) Packer
10 1 (0.42%) Argo
10 1 (0.42%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (7.50%) Oracle
2 16 (6.67%) Black Duck
2 16 (6.67%) Coverity
3 10 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.33%) Google
5 6 (2.50%) Splunk
6 5 (2.08%) IBM
6 5 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.67%) HP
7 4 (1.67%) VMware
8 3 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.25%) SAP
8 3 (1.25%) Siebel
9 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.83%) Veracode
10 1 (0.42%) Concur
10 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.42%) New Relic
10 1 (0.42%) UiPath