Selenium Jobs

Selenium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Selenium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Selenium over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 409 192
Rank change year-on-year +79 -217 0
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 487 611 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.59% 1.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.68% 6.73% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 202 404 883
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,063 £78,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 5,611 9,079 11,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.35% 8.78% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,300 6,089 7,856
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,025 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Selenium.

Salary trend for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 18 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 15 July 2025. 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 +89 402 £60,000 - 224
UK excluding London +93 392 £57,500 +4.55% 174
Work from Home +161 335 £57,500 -0.80% 126
North of England +115 146 £56,000 +24.44% 41
North West +104 129 £57,500 +27.78% 21
Midlands +151 94 £67,500 +16.45% 26
London +18 71 £57,500 -17.86% 75
Scotland +65 55 £50,000 +42.86% 3
West Midlands +98 48 £67,500 +26.21% 18
East Midlands +78 46 £65,000 +8.33% 8
South East -65 37 £60,000 -4.00% 43
East of England +54 31 £53,000 -7.83% 35
South West +88 19 £67,500 +28.57% 14
Yorkshire +25 12 £57,900 +28.67% 17
Northern Ireland - 6 £55,000 - 11
North East +43 5 £55,000 -5.11% 3
Wales +13 4 £57,000 +14.00% 2
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 1

Selenium
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
1 171 (35.11%) Confluence
2 9 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.85%) Appian
3 8 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.64%) nginx
3 8 (1.64%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.62%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.03%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 324 (66.53%) Azure
2 316 (64.89%) AWS
3 168 (34.50%) GCP
4 46 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (4.72%) GitHub
6 18 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 18 (3.70%) Serverless
7 17 (3.49%) SaaS
8 12 (2.46%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (1.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.64%) Azure Functions
11 8 (1.64%) MinIO
12 7 (1.44%) Amazon Bedrock
12 7 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.44%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.62%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (52.77%) SQL Server
2 22 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.46%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.26%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.64%) Big Data
8 8 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.23%) MySQL
10 4 (0.82%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.62%) Airbyte
11 3 (0.62%) Power BI
12 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.41%) Endeca
12 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.21%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 315 (64.68%) JIRA
2 282 (57.91%) Cucumber
3 265 (54.41%) GitLab
4 262 (53.80%) Maven
4 262 (53.80%) SonarQube
5 259 (53.18%) Bitbucket
6 251 (51.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 58 (11.91%) Postman
8 56 (11.50%) Jenkins
9 48 (9.86%) Cypress.io
10 40 (8.21%) Git
11 35 (7.19%) JMeter
12 28 (5.75%) JUnit
13 27 (5.54%) Appium
14 22 (4.52%) WebDriver
15 18 (3.70%) TestNG
16 14 (2.87%) LoadRunner
16 14 (2.87%) Locust
17 13 (2.67%) SoapUI
17 13 (2.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 306 (62.83%) Finance
2 264 (54.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 260 (53.39%) Banking
4 95 (19.51%) Retail
5 93 (19.10%) Investment Banking
6 90 (18.48%) Corporate Banking
7 54 (11.09%) Social Skills
8 46 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (7.60%) Law
10 22 (4.52%) Legal
11 14 (2.87%) Public Sector
12 12 (2.46%) Marketing
13 8 (1.64%) Cantonese Language
13 8 (1.64%) Mandarin Language
13 8 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.23%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.62%) Front Office
17 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 269 (55.24%) Software Engineer
2 52 (10.68%) QA Engineer
3 46 (9.45%) Lead
4 44 (9.03%) Test Engineer
5 41 (8.42%) Senior
6 29 (5.95%) Automation Engineer
6 29 (5.95%) Test Automation Engineer
6 29 (5.95%) Tester
7 24 (4.93%) Analyst
8 23 (4.72%) QA Automation Engineer
9 22 (4.52%) Test Analyst
10 19 (3.90%) Automation Tester
11 18 (3.70%) Java Engineer
11 18 (3.70%) QA Leader
12 17 (3.49%) Developer
13 15 (3.08%) QA Test Engineer
14 13 (2.67%) Validation Engineer
15 12 (2.46%) Senior QA Engineer
16 9 (1.85%) Architect
16 9 (1.85%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (56.47%) Kafka
2 270 (55.44%) HTML
3 267 (54.83%) CSS
4 266 (54.62%) Spring Boot
5 264 (54.21%) Spring
6 259 (53.18%) React
7 248 (50.92%) JPA
7 248 (50.92%) Redux
8 159 (32.65%) Hibernate
9 120 (24.64%) REST
10 106 (21.77%) RESTful
11 96 (19.71%) HTML5
12 94 (19.30%) Jest
13 92 (18.89%) CSS3
14 90 (18.48%) Sass
15 59 (12.11%) Playwright
16 22 (4.52%) .NET
16 22 (4.52%) pytest
17 17 (3.49%) JSON
17 17 (3.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 256 (52.57%) Product Ownership
2 248 (50.92%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (2.87%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.87%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.67%) Operational Technology
4 13 (2.67%) SCADA
5 10 (2.05%) Low-Code
6 8 (1.64%) Client/Server
6 8 (1.64%) Life Science
7 6 (1.23%) Wiki
8 3 (0.62%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.62%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.62%) Mainframe
8 3 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.41%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.41%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.44%) Linux
2 5 (1.03%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (93.22%) Test Automation
2 384 (78.85%) Agile
3 366 (75.15%) CI/CD
4 330 (67.76%) DevOps
5 297 (60.99%) SDLC
6 285 (58.52%) Software Engineering
7 275 (56.47%) Microservices
8 253 (51.95%) Containerisation
9 252 (51.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 252 (51.75%) Performance Optimisation
10 250 (51.33%) Front End Development
11 183 (37.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 175 (35.93%) TDD
13 162 (33.26%) Clean Code
14 124 (25.46%) Mentoring
15 110 (22.59%) User Experience
16 94 (19.30%) Migration
16 94 (19.30%) Strategic Thinking
17 92 (18.89%) Responsive Web Design
18 70 (14.37%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 326 (66.94%) Java
2 312 (64.07%) JavaScript
3 298 (61.19%) SQL
4 129 (26.49%) TypeScript
5 73 (14.99%) Python
6 46 (9.45%) C#
7 11 (2.26%) PHP
8 10 (2.05%) Go
9 9 (1.85%) Groovy
10 3 (0.62%) Scala
11 2 (0.41%) Ruby
11 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) C++
12 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (15.81%) ISTQB
2 27 (5.54%) Degree
3 21 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.29%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.46%) ISEB
6 7 (1.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.62%) CISSP
9 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.62%) OCP
9 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (74.95%) QA
2 99 (20.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.41%) GDPR
3 2 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.21%) MiFID
4 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 289 (59.34%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 289 (59.34%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.95%) Terraform
3 21 (4.31%) Ansible
4 8 (1.64%) Kustomize
4 8 (1.64%) Packer
5 4 (0.82%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (0.82%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.62%) Argo
6 3 (0.62%) Grafana
6 3 (0.62%) Istio
6 3 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.21%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 247 (50.72%) Solace
2 22 (4.52%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.87%) Databricks
4 9 (1.85%) UiPath
4 9 (1.85%) VMware
5 8 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
5 8 (1.64%) Black Duck
5 8 (1.64%) Oracle
5 8 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.62%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.62%) Blue Prism
6 3 (0.62%) Coverity
6 3 (0.62%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.62%) IBM
7 2 (0.41%) CyberSource
7 2 (0.41%) Google
7 2 (0.41%) Workday
8 1 (0.21%) Brocade
8 1 (0.21%) Spotify
8 1 (0.21%) Veracode