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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 408 300
Rank change year-on-year -13 -108 -79
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 229 319 540
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.59% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.35% 5.79% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 194 193 457
10th Percentile £35,400 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +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 3,604 5,505 6,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.08% 10.25% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,348 3,166 5,268
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.35% +4.55%

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 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 16 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 11 January 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 +19 221 £57,500 -11.54% 245
UK excluding London -36 138 £50,000 -16.67% 240
Work from Home +85 103 £52,250 -12.92% 66
London +60 84 £67,500 -10.00% 28
South East -9 76 £47,500 -33.10% 72
South West +11 19 £47,500 -5.00% 33
Midlands 0 19 £57,500 -4.17% 31
North of England -8 15 £55,200 +25.45% 50
West Midlands +26 13 £56,350 -6.08% 8
Yorkshire -25 7 £55,500 +70.85% 28
North West +7 6 £58,250 +29.44% 16
East Midlands -20 6 £60,000 - 23
Wales +1 5 £48,100 -0.82% 11
East of England +14 3 £60,000 +60.00% 37
North East +6 2 £55,200 +47.20% 6
Scotland -10 1 - - 6

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 19 (8.30%) Confluence
2 6 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.18%) Appian
4 4 (1.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.80%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.31%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (30.13%) Azure
2 58 (25.33%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (23.58%) AWS
4 24 (10.48%) GitHub
5 17 (7.42%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.93%) SaaS
9 8 (3.49%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.49%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.06%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.18%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.18%) MinIO
12 4 (1.75%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.75%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.75%) Serverless
13 3 (1.31%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.24%) DNS
2 2 (0.87%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) SSH
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.48%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.55%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.68%) DB2
5 4 (1.75%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.31%) Mixpanel
6 3 (1.31%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.87%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.87%) Tableau
8 1 (0.44%) Big Data
8 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 77 (33.62%) JIRA
2 75 (32.75%) Postman
3 57 (24.89%) Jenkins
4 56 (24.45%) WebDriver
5 46 (20.09%) Cypress.io
6 45 (19.65%) Cucumber
7 44 (19.21%) Git
8 41 (17.90%) SoapUI
9 32 (13.97%) Team Foundation Server
10 25 (10.92%) JMeter
11 23 (10.04%) GitLab
11 23 (10.04%) Robot Framework
12 21 (9.17%) JUnit
13 20 (8.73%) Snyk
14 18 (7.86%) REST Assured
15 16 (6.99%) Bitbucket
16 15 (6.55%) Appium
17 14 (6.11%) LoadRunner
17 14 (6.11%) SpecFlow
18 13 (5.68%) TeamCity
General
1 87 (37.99%) Social Skills
2 71 (31.00%) Finance
3 47 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.30%) Banking
5 16 (6.99%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.68%) Law
7 12 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.93%) Retail
9 5 (2.18%) Electronics
10 4 (1.75%) Advertising
10 4 (1.75%) Back Office
10 4 (1.75%) Marketing
11 3 (1.31%) Legal
12 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Games
13 1 (0.44%) iGaming
13 1 (0.44%) International Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
13 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (27.07%) Lead
2 46 (20.09%) Senior
3 36 (15.72%) Test Engineer
4 33 (14.41%) Developer
5 31 (13.54%) Analyst
6 30 (13.10%) Test Analyst
6 30 (13.10%) Tester
7 26 (11.35%) Test Leader
8 25 (10.92%) Test Automation Engineer
9 20 (8.73%) QA Engineer
10 18 (7.86%) QA Leader
11 16 (6.99%) Automation Tester
12 15 (6.55%) Automation Engineer
13 14 (6.11%) QA Automation Engineer
13 14 (6.11%) Software Developer
14 12 (5.24%) Java Developer
14 12 (5.24%) Senior Developer
15 11 (4.80%) Automation Test Lead
16 10 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
16 10 (4.37%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (24.45%) Playwright
2 55 (24.02%) HTML
3 51 (22.27%) .NET
4 40 (17.47%) SOAP
5 26 (11.35%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (10.04%) CSS
6 23 (10.04%) React
6 23 (10.04%) REST
7 21 (9.17%) RESTful
8 19 (8.30%) pytest
9 16 (6.99%) Gherkin
10 15 (6.55%) Node.js
11 13 (5.68%) Kafka
11 13 (5.68%) Spring
12 11 (4.80%) Spring Boot
13 8 (3.49%) Django
13 8 (3.49%) Flask
14 7 (3.06%) Middleware
14 7 (3.06%) Swagger
15 5 (2.18%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 24 (10.48%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (6.99%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (5.68%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (3.06%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.62%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.75%) Derivative
8 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Equities
8 4 (1.75%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.31%) W3C
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.48%) Linux
2 16 (6.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (79.91%) Test Automation
2 137 (59.83%) Agile
3 111 (48.47%) CI/CD
4 97 (42.36%) DevOps
5 84 (36.68%) Software Testing
6 76 (33.19%) API Testing
7 75 (32.75%) Test Management
8 74 (32.31%) Scrum
9 65 (28.38%) Mentoring
10 60 (26.20%) Non-Functional Testing
10 60 (26.20%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (25.76%) Test Scripting
12 53 (23.14%) BDD
13 46 (20.09%) Test Strategy
14 39 (17.03%) Microservices
15 38 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (15.72%) Manual Testing
17 35 (15.28%) SDLC
18 32 (13.97%) Cross-Browser Testing
19 26 (11.35%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 123 (53.71%) Java
2 94 (41.05%) SQL
3 85 (37.12%) C#
4 62 (27.07%) Python
5 49 (21.40%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.73%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.49%) Delphi
8 6 (2.62%) Go
8 6 (2.62%) PHP
9 4 (1.75%) Bash
10 3 (1.31%) RPG
11 2 (0.87%) Groovy
11 2 (0.87%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 62 (27.07%) ISTQB
2 60 (26.20%) Degree
3 40 (17.47%) Security Cleared
4 33 (14.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 22 (9.61%) DV Cleared
5 22 (9.61%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 11 (4.80%) ISEB
8 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (41.48%) QA
2 29 (12.66%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.75%) WCAG
4 3 (1.31%) SEPA
5 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (15.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Firmware
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.23%) Terraform
3 20 (8.73%) Ansible
4 13 (5.68%) Grafana
5 5 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.75%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.31%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.87%) Control-M
8 2 (0.87%) Nessus
9 1 (0.44%) Argo
9 1 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (8.73%) Black Duck
2 19 (8.30%) Coverity
3 15 (6.55%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.55%) Oracle
4 9 (3.93%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.62%) IBM
5 6 (2.62%) UiPath
6 5 (2.18%) Adobe
6 5 (2.18%) BiZZdesign
6 5 (2.18%) Splunk
6 5 (2.18%) VMware
7 4 (1.75%) Blue Prism
7 4 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.75%) SAP
8 3 (1.31%) Google
8 3 (1.31%) HP
8 3 (1.31%) Siebel
8 3 (1.31%) Tealium
9 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.44%) Concur