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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 399 269
Rank change year-on-year -37 -130 -56
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 220 388 617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.58% 1.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.04% 6.32% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 177 230 511
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,650 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,965 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.39% -

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 3,643 6,136 6,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.83% 9.13% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 3,491 5,418
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £42,780 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -15 199 £60,000 -4.00% 88
UK excluding London -44 129 £57,500 -0.80% 87
Work from Home +63 87 £55,000 -5.11% 48
London +49 74 £67,500 - 25
South East -35 59 £50,000 -29.58% 38
Midlands +48 25 £61,500 +6.53% 12
North of England 0 17 £58,750 +30.56% 16
West Midlands +50 15 £60,750 +5.65% 8
South West +39 15 £46,250 +13.50% 8
East Midlands +25 10 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North West +29 9 £62,000 +37.78% 10
Yorkshire +1 6 £53,500 +42.67% 4
East of England +19 5 £60,000 +60.00% 3
Wales +17 5 £41,000 - 6
North East +17 2 £55,200 -4.77% 2
Scotland -12 2 - - 4
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 12 (5.45%) Confluence
2 7 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.18%) Appian
3 5 (2.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.36%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.45%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 68 (30.91%) AWS
2 66 (30.00%) Azure
3 51 (23.18%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (9.55%) GitHub
5 15 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.82%) SaaS
6 13 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (5.91%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.55%) Serverless
8 9 (4.09%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (3.64%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.73%) MinIO
12 5 (2.27%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (0.91%) HTTP
2 2 (0.91%) Internet
3 1 (0.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.18%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.64%) DB2
5 5 (2.27%) Airbyte
6 4 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.36%) Big Data
7 3 (1.36%) Mixpanel
7 3 (1.36%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.91%) Tableau
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 68 (30.91%) Postman
2 63 (28.64%) Jenkins
3 56 (25.45%) JIRA
4 48 (21.82%) Cucumber
5 45 (20.45%) Cypress.io
6 40 (18.18%) Git
7 38 (17.27%) WebDriver
8 28 (12.73%) JMeter
8 28 (12.73%) SoapUI
9 24 (10.91%) GitLab
10 22 (10.00%) JUnit
11 20 (9.09%) Robot Framework
12 19 (8.64%) Appium
12 19 (8.64%) REST Assured
13 18 (8.18%) Snyk
14 16 (7.27%) Team Foundation Server
15 13 (5.91%) LoadRunner
16 12 (5.45%) TestRail
17 11 (5.00%) Bitbucket
17 11 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (32.73%) Finance
2 71 (32.27%) Social Skills
3 49 (22.27%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.91%) Law
5 20 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (8.18%) Banking
7 15 (6.82%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.09%) Marketing
9 7 (3.18%) Legal
10 6 (2.73%) Retail
11 4 (1.82%) Back Office
12 3 (1.36%) Electronics
12 3 (1.36%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.91%) Advertising
13 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.45%) Games
14 1 (0.45%) International Banking
14 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (24.55%) Lead
2 49 (22.27%) Senior
3 36 (16.36%) Test Engineer
4 30 (13.64%) Analyst
4 30 (13.64%) Developer
4 30 (13.64%) Test Automation Engineer
5 27 (12.27%) QA Engineer
5 27 (12.27%) Test Analyst
6 23 (10.45%) QA Leader
6 23 (10.45%) Tester
7 21 (9.55%) Automation Engineer
7 21 (9.55%) QA Automation Engineer
8 17 (7.73%) Test Leader
9 15 (6.82%) Software Developer
10 14 (6.36%) Automation Tester
11 12 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (5.45%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.45%) Senior Test Analyst
12 11 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
13 10 (4.55%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (27.73%) Playwright
2 40 (18.18%) HTML
3 33 (15.00%) .NET
4 28 (12.73%) REST
5 27 (12.27%) SOAP
6 25 (11.36%) pytest
7 23 (10.45%) CSS
8 21 (9.55%) React
9 18 (8.18%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (8.18%) RESTful
10 16 (7.27%) Node.js
11 15 (6.82%) Kafka
12 13 (5.91%) Spring
13 12 (5.45%) Gherkin
14 11 (5.00%) Spring Boot
15 8 (3.64%) Django
15 8 (3.64%) Flask
16 6 (2.73%) Apache NiFi
16 6 (2.73%) GraphQL
16 6 (2.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.27%) Product Ownership
2 22 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.73%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.09%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.64%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.82%) Derivative
8 4 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.82%) Equities
8 4 (1.82%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.36%) W3C
10 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.91%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.00%) Linux
2 14 (6.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (85.00%) Test Automation
2 131 (59.55%) Agile
3 115 (52.27%) CI/CD
4 88 (40.00%) DevOps
5 70 (31.82%) API Testing
6 69 (31.36%) Software Testing
7 59 (26.82%) Test Management
8 58 (26.36%) Scrum
9 57 (25.91%) Mentoring
9 57 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (24.09%) Test Scripting
10 53 (24.09%) Test Strategy
11 49 (22.27%) BDD
12 45 (20.45%) SDLC
13 41 (18.64%) Non-Functional Testing
14 40 (18.18%) Microservices
15 39 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (15.45%) Manual Testing
17 31 (14.09%) Performance Testing
18 29 (13.18%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 102 (46.36%) Java
2 74 (33.64%) SQL
3 70 (31.82%) Python
4 67 (30.45%) C#
5 47 (21.36%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.55%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.64%) Delphi
7 8 (3.64%) Go
7 8 (3.64%) PHP
8 5 (2.27%) Groovy
9 2 (0.91%) Bash
9 2 (0.91%) Scala
10 1 (0.45%) C
10 1 (0.45%) C++
10 1 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 53 (24.09%) ISTQB
2 39 (17.73%) Degree
3 35 (15.91%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.64%) DV Cleared
4 19 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 17 (7.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 14 (6.36%) ISEB
7 12 (5.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.82%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (44.55%) QA
2 23 (10.45%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.82%) WCAG
5 3 (1.36%) SEPA
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (12.73%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.36%) Terraform
3 18 (8.18%) Ansible
4 10 (4.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.36%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.36%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.91%) Control-M
6 2 (0.91%) Nessus
6 2 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.45%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (8.18%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.73%) Coverity
3 14 (6.36%) Oracle
4 12 (5.45%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.18%) UiPath
6 6 (2.73%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.73%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (2.73%) Databricks
6 6 (2.73%) VMware
7 5 (2.27%) Blue Prism
8 4 (1.82%) Adobe
8 4 (1.82%) SAP
9 3 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.36%) HP
9 3 (1.36%) IBM
9 3 (1.36%) Siebel
9 3 (1.36%) Splunk
9 3 (1.36%) Tealium
10 2 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.91%) Workday