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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 395 274
Rank change year-on-year -45 -121 -64
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 221 358 573
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.62% 1.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.10% 6.14% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 188 229 482
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £111,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,200 £60,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.54% +2.40%

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 3,621 5,827 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.18% 10.16% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,386 3,429 5,163
10th Percentile £28,375 £37,500 £42,248
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,513
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.58% +8.21%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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 -7 208 £60,000 -4.59% 95
UK excluding London -56 133 £55,200 -8.00% 87
Work from Home +58 99 £53,000 -8.56% 55
London +43 76 £67,500 -0.74% 23
South East -29 69 £50,000 -31.03% 37
Midlands +10 23 £60,000 - 10
North of England -9 17 £60,000 +33.33% 21
West Midlands +20 15 £58,750 +2.17% 5
South West +22 13 £45,000 -10.00% 8
North West +8 8 £62,000 +37.78% 8
East Midlands -12 8 £60,000 - 5
Yorkshire -23 7 £55,500 +38.75% 9
East of England +21 5 £60,000 +60.00% 6
Wales +3 5 £48,100 -0.82%
North East +1 2 £55,200 -4.77% 4
Scotland -15 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 16 (7.24%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.71%) Appian
4 5 (2.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (4.52%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.36%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (29.86%) Azure
2 59 (26.70%) AWS
3 53 (23.98%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.05%) GitHub
5 15 (6.79%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.79%) SaaS
6 12 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.62%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.62%) BrowserStack
7 8 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.62%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.71%) MinIO
9 5 (2.26%) Adobe Analytics
9 5 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.81%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.81%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.81%) Serverless
11 3 (1.36%) Azure App Service
11 3 (1.36%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.43%) DNS
2 2 (0.90%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) SSH
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.50%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.24%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.43%) DB2
5 5 (2.26%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.36%) Mixpanel
6 3 (1.36%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.90%) Big Data
7 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.90%) Tableau
8 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.45%) MS Access
8 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 68 (30.77%) Postman
2 64 (28.96%) JIRA
3 59 (26.70%) Jenkins
4 48 (21.72%) Cucumber
4 48 (21.72%) WebDriver
5 45 (20.36%) Git
6 40 (18.10%) Cypress.io
7 35 (15.84%) SoapUI
8 29 (13.12%) JMeter
9 24 (10.86%) GitLab
9 24 (10.86%) Robot Framework
9 24 (10.86%) Team Foundation Server
10 21 (9.50%) Snyk
11 19 (8.60%) JUnit
12 18 (8.14%) REST Assured
13 17 (7.69%) Appium
14 15 (6.79%) Bitbucket
15 14 (6.33%) LoadRunner
16 13 (5.88%) SpecFlow
17 12 (5.43%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 63 (28.51%) Finance
3 47 (21.27%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.14%) Banking
5 15 (6.79%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.43%) Law
7 10 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.62%) Retail
9 5 (2.26%) Electronics
10 4 (1.81%) Advertising
10 4 (1.81%) Back Office
10 4 (1.81%) Legal
10 4 (1.81%) Marketing
11 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.45%) iGaming
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (29.41%) Lead
2 46 (20.81%) Senior
3 37 (16.74%) Test Engineer
4 31 (14.03%) Developer
5 30 (13.57%) Analyst
6 29 (13.12%) Test Analyst
6 29 (13.12%) Test Automation Engineer
7 25 (11.31%) Tester
8 23 (10.41%) QA Engineer
8 23 (10.41%) Test Leader
9 19 (8.60%) QA Leader
10 18 (8.14%) Automation Engineer
10 18 (8.14%) QA Automation Engineer
11 15 (6.79%) Automation Tester
12 13 (5.88%) Automation Test Lead
12 13 (5.88%) Software Developer
13 12 (5.43%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.98%) Java Developer
15 10 (4.52%) Senior Test Analyst
15 10 (4.52%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (25.34%) Playwright
2 46 (20.81%) HTML
3 41 (18.55%) .NET
4 33 (14.93%) SOAP
5 24 (10.86%) REST
6 23 (10.41%) Elastic Stack
7 22 (9.95%) CSS
8 21 (9.50%) React
8 21 (9.50%) RESTful
9 20 (9.05%) pytest
10 16 (7.24%) Gherkin
11 15 (6.79%) Kafka
12 14 (6.33%) Node.js
13 11 (4.98%) Spring
14 9 (4.07%) Spring Boot
15 8 (3.62%) Django
15 8 (3.62%) Flask
16 7 (3.17%) Middleware
17 6 (2.71%) Apache NiFi
18 5 (2.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.67%) Product Ownership
2 24 (10.86%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.33%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.62%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.62%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.81%) Derivative
7 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.81%) Equities
7 4 (1.81%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.36%) W3C
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.90%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.86%) Linux
2 16 (7.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (82.35%) Test Automation
2 132 (59.73%) Agile
3 113 (51.13%) CI/CD
4 91 (41.18%) DevOps
5 74 (33.48%) Software Testing
6 70 (31.67%) Test Management
7 69 (31.22%) Scrum
8 68 (30.77%) API Testing
9 63 (28.51%) Mentoring
10 56 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (24.43%) BDD
12 53 (23.98%) Test Scripting
13 52 (23.53%) Non-Functional Testing
14 49 (22.17%) Test Strategy
15 42 (19.00%) Microservices
16 39 (17.65%) SDLC
17 38 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (14.93%) Manual Testing
19 30 (13.57%) Infrastructure as Code
20 29 (13.12%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 111 (50.23%) Java
2 84 (38.01%) SQL
3 76 (34.39%) C#
4 62 (28.05%) Python
5 49 (22.17%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.05%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.62%) Delphi
8 7 (3.17%) Go
8 7 (3.17%) PHP
9 3 (1.36%) Groovy
9 3 (1.36%) RPG
10 2 (0.90%) Bash
10 2 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 54 (24.43%) ISTQB
2 49 (22.17%) Degree
3 41 (18.55%) Security Cleared
4 25 (11.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 23 (10.41%) SC Cleared
6 22 (9.95%) DV Cleared
7 12 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (4.98%) ISEB
9 4 (1.81%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (42.08%) QA
2 23 (10.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.81%) WCAG
4 3 (1.36%) SEPA
5 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 32 (14.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Firmware
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (13.12%) Terraform
2 27 (12.22%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.50%) Ansible
4 11 (4.98%) Grafana
5 4 (1.81%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.36%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.90%) Control-M
7 2 (0.90%) Nessus
8 1 (0.45%) Argo
8 1 (0.45%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (9.50%) Black Duck
2 20 (9.05%) Coverity
3 13 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.88%) Oracle
4 8 (3.62%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.17%) UiPath
6 6 (2.71%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (2.71%) IBM
6 6 (2.71%) VMware
7 5 (2.26%) Adobe
7 5 (2.26%) Blue Prism
8 4 (1.81%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.81%) SAP
9 3 (1.36%) HP
9 3 (1.36%) Siebel
9 3 (1.36%) Splunk
9 3 (1.36%) Tealium
10 2 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.45%) Concur
11 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft