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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 392 211
Rank change year-on-year -43 -181 -14
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 264 661 1,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.67% 1.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.80% 6.91% 12.54%
Number of salaries quoted 219 476 1,044
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -2.81% +3.75%
75th Percentile £71,250 £91,934 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

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 5,502 9,572 15,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.66% 9.75% 14.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,806 6,754 9,350
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,360 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,875 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 17 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 26 April 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 -53 225 £60,000 -4.00% 333
UK excluding London -3 162 £60,000 - 183
Work from Home +12 91 £60,000 -7.69% 178
London +19 83 £65,000 -21.90% 176
South East -18 49 £60,000 -4.00% 51
Midlands +83 42 £62,500 +25.00% 24
North of England +47 32 £55,500 +8.29% 44
West Midlands +79 28 £67,500 +37.76% 11
North West +23 16 £55,000 +15.79% 20
South West +78 15 £65,000 +7.44% 19
East Midlands +57 14 £60,000 - 13
Yorkshire +52 13 £64,900 +21.31% 21
Scotland +64 11 £55,000 +29.41% 5
Northern Ireland - 8 £55,000 - 5
Wales +24 5 £61,750 +37.22% 11
North East +50 3 £55,000 +2.33% 4
East of England +59 2 £42,500 -26.09% 26

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 11 (4.17%) Confluence
2 9 (3.41%) Tomcat
3 8 (3.03%) nginx
4 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.52%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Jetty
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Elite 3E
1 3 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
2 1 (0.38%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.17%) Azure
2 42 (15.91%) AWS
2 42 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (9.85%) SaaS
4 23 (8.71%) GitHub
5 16 (6.06%) GCP
6 15 (5.68%) Serverless
7 12 (4.55%) Azure Functions
8 10 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 8 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (2.65%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.65%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.52%) Figma
13 4 (1.52%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) SAN
2 1 (0.38%) VoIP
2 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.95%) NoSQL
2 16 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.03%) MySQL
6 6 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.89%) Big Data
8 4 (1.52%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.52%) Power BI
9 3 (1.14%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.14%) Redis
9 3 (1.14%) Tableau
10 2 (0.76%) Endeca
11 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (27.27%) Postman
2 71 (26.89%) Git
3 63 (23.86%) JIRA
4 57 (21.59%) Cypress.io
5 53 (20.08%) Jenkins
6 41 (15.53%) JMeter
7 40 (15.15%) JUnit
8 32 (12.12%) Cucumber
9 30 (11.36%) TestNG
10 29 (10.98%) Appium
11 25 (9.47%) SoapUI
12 24 (9.09%) SpecFlow
13 21 (7.95%) SonarQube
14 17 (6.44%) WebDriver
15 16 (6.06%) Maven
16 15 (5.68%) REST Assured
17 12 (4.55%) LoadRunner
18 11 (4.17%) Bitbucket
18 11 (4.17%) NUnit
18 11 (4.17%) TestRail
General
1 67 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.94%) Finance
3 40 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.30%) Banking
6 10 (3.79%) Law
6 10 (3.79%) Legal
7 9 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.41%) Retail
8 8 (3.03%) Cantonese Language
8 8 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.03%) Mandarin Language
9 7 (2.65%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.89%) Marketing
11 4 (1.52%) Billing
11 4 (1.52%) Front Office
11 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (24.62%) Lead
2 58 (21.97%) Senior
3 48 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 45 (17.05%) QA Engineer
5 32 (12.12%) Tester
6 29 (10.98%) Analyst
6 29 (10.98%) Automation Engineer
7 24 (9.09%) Developer
7 24 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
8 22 (8.33%) Test Analyst
9 21 (7.95%) Automation Tester
10 18 (6.82%) QA Leader
10 18 (6.82%) Validation Engineer
11 15 (5.68%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.55%) Software Engineer
14 11 (4.17%) Java Engineer
14 11 (4.17%) QA Automation Engineer
14 11 (4.17%) QA Test Engineer
14 11 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.15%) Playwright
2 36 (13.64%) .NET
3 27 (10.23%) CSS
3 27 (10.23%) HTML
3 27 (10.23%) REST
4 26 (9.85%) React
5 24 (9.09%) Jest
6 23 (8.71%) JSON
7 20 (7.58%) pytest
8 19 (7.20%) Swagger
8 19 (7.20%) XML
9 17 (6.44%) Kafka
10 16 (6.06%) AngularJS
10 16 (6.06%) RESTful
11 14 (5.30%) SOAP
11 14 (5.30%) Web Services
12 13 (4.92%) .NET Framework
13 12 (4.55%) Gherkin
13 12 (4.55%) Spring Boot
14 10 (3.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.82%) Operational Technology
2 18 (6.82%) SCADA
3 16 (6.06%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.41%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.03%) Life Science
6 6 (2.27%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.52%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.14%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.14%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.76%) NHS
10 2 (0.76%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.38%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.38%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.55%) Linux
2 10 (3.79%) Windows
3 4 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Fedora
5 1 (0.38%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (80.30%) Test Automation
2 134 (50.76%) Agile
3 104 (39.39%) CI/CD
4 84 (31.82%) Software Testing
5 69 (26.14%) DevOps
5 69 (26.14%) Manual Testing
6 62 (23.48%) Test Scripting
7 61 (23.11%) Test Strategy
8 54 (20.45%) Mentoring
9 52 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (19.32%) SDLC
11 45 (17.05%) API Testing
12 40 (15.15%) Performance Testing
13 37 (14.02%) Regression Testing
13 37 (14.02%) Security Testing
14 34 (12.88%) Computer Science
14 34 (12.88%) Scrum
14 34 (12.88%) Validation
15 32 (12.12%) Code Quality
16 30 (11.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 92 (34.85%) JavaScript
2 84 (31.82%) C#
2 84 (31.82%) SQL
3 79 (29.92%) Java
4 77 (29.17%) Python
5 48 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.06%) PHP
7 8 (3.03%) Go
8 7 (2.65%) Scala
9 6 (2.27%) Groovy
10 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.76%) Ruby
10 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (27.27%) ISTQB
2 59 (22.35%) Degree
3 15 (5.68%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.92%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (3.41%) ISEB
7 8 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.14%) CISSP
9 3 (1.14%) OCP
9 3 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (46.97%) QA
2 17 (6.44%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.03%) GDPR
4 7 (2.65%) WCAG
5 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.38%) Basel III
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 57 (21.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) Firmware
2 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.95%) Terraform
3 14 (5.30%) Ansible
4 8 (3.03%) Kustomize
4 8 (3.03%) Packer
5 5 (1.89%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.14%) Argo
7 3 (1.14%) Control-M
7 3 (1.14%) Grafana
7 3 (1.14%) Istio
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.38%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.38%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 7 (2.65%) Oracle
4 5 (1.89%) Databricks
5 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.14%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.14%) IBM
6 2 (0.76%) CyberSource
6 2 (0.76%) HP
6 2 (0.76%) VMware
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) Brocade
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco
7 1 (0.38%) EMC
7 1 (0.38%) Google
7 1 (0.38%) Mercator
7 1 (0.38%) New Relic
7 1 (0.38%) Reuters
7 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.38%) Siebel