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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 391 365
Rank change year-on-year -79 -26 -163
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 237 271 658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.64% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.72% 5.95% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 206 209 496
10th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,938 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 4,143 4,551 8,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.42% 10.73% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,692 3,066 6,713
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £79,500
90th Percentile £90,900 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

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 22 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 15 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 22 March 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 -32 225 £57,500 -11.54% 86
UK excluding London -79 141 £52,500 -12.50% 76
Work from Home +22 97 £52,500 -12.50% 37
London -5 82 £67,500 +3.85% 29
South East -27 67 £50,000 -21.88% 19
South West -14 29 £47,500 -36.24% 4
North of England -59 22 £55,600 -3.30% 19
Midlands -59 16 £60,000 -4.00% 12
West Midlands -15 13 £61,000 -9.63% 7
Yorkshire -43 10 £53,500 -10.83% 8
North West -26 8 £55,500 -14.62% 9
Wales -20 5 £52,000 +7.22% 4
North East -26 4 £65,000 +40.54% 2
East Midlands -52 3 £60,000 - 5
East of England -14 2 £55,000 +29.41% 12

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 17 (7.17%) Confluence
2 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) Appian
3 2 (0.84%) JBoss
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (4.22%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.84%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (29.11%) Azure
2 60 (25.32%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (20.68%) AWS
4 22 (9.28%) GitHub
5 14 (5.91%) BrowserStack
6 10 (4.22%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.38%) SaaS
9 7 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.53%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.69%) Apigee
11 4 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.27%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.27%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.06%) DNS
2 6 (2.53%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.97%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.91%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.06%) DB2
5 3 (1.27%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.27%) Tableau
6 2 (0.84%) Airbyte
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.84%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.84%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.42%) MS Access
7 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.42%) Power BI
7 1 (0.42%) Redis
7 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.42%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 65 (27.43%) Cypress.io
2 61 (25.74%) Postman
3 56 (23.63%) JIRA
4 54 (22.78%) Jenkins
5 44 (18.57%) Git
6 40 (16.88%) Cucumber
6 40 (16.88%) WebDriver
7 32 (13.50%) SoapUI
8 30 (12.66%) GitLab
9 26 (10.97%) JMeter
10 22 (9.28%) Robot Framework
11 21 (8.86%) REST Assured
11 21 (8.86%) SpecFlow
11 21 (8.86%) Team Foundation Server
12 20 (8.44%) JUnit
13 17 (7.17%) Snyk
14 14 (5.91%) TeamCity
15 13 (5.49%) Appium
16 11 (4.64%) Bitbucket
16 11 (4.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.16%) Finance
3 42 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.59%) Banking
5 16 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.53%) Law
8 5 (2.11%) Retail
9 4 (1.69%) Advertising
9 4 (1.69%) Back Office
10 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.84%) Electronics
11 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) iGaming
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) International Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (28.27%) Lead
2 39 (16.46%) Test Engineer
3 35 (14.77%) Senior
4 32 (13.50%) Developer
5 31 (13.08%) QA Engineer
6 28 (11.81%) Test Leader
7 27 (11.39%) QA Leader
7 27 (11.39%) Tester
8 25 (10.55%) Test Automation Engineer
9 23 (9.70%) Analyst
10 21 (8.86%) Test Analyst
11 15 (6.33%) QA Automation Engineer
12 14 (5.91%) Automation Tester
12 14 (5.91%) Java Developer
13 12 (5.06%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (5.06%) Software Developer
14 10 (4.22%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.22%) Senior Test Engineer
15 9 (3.80%) Automation Test Lead
15 9 (3.80%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (37.13%) Playwright
2 50 (21.10%) .NET
3 47 (19.83%) HTML
4 30 (12.66%) SOAP
5 27 (11.39%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (10.13%) REST
7 22 (9.28%) React
8 20 (8.44%) CSS
9 18 (7.59%) pytest
10 17 (7.17%) Gherkin
11 16 (6.75%) RESTful
12 15 (6.33%) Node.js
13 14 (5.91%) Spring
13 14 (5.91%) Spring Boot
14 12 (5.06%) XML
15 9 (3.80%) Web Services
16 8 (3.38%) Django
16 8 (3.38%) Flask
16 8 (3.38%) Kafka
17 7 (2.95%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.81%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.17%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.69%) Derivative
7 4 (1.69%) Equities
7 4 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.27%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.97%) Linux
2 18 (7.59%) Windows
3 5 (2.11%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) CentOS
5 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (78.90%) Test Automation
2 125 (52.74%) Agile
3 116 (48.95%) CI/CD
4 98 (41.35%) DevOps
5 71 (29.96%) Software Testing
6 64 (27.00%) Scrum
7 63 (26.58%) API Testing
8 58 (24.47%) Test Management
9 54 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (22.36%) Mentoring
11 52 (21.94%) BDD
12 49 (20.68%) Non-Functional Testing
13 47 (19.83%) Test Scripting
14 45 (18.99%) Test Strategy
15 39 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (14.77%) Manual Testing
17 33 (13.92%) Microservices
18 32 (13.50%) SDLC
19 29 (12.24%) Regression Testing
20 28 (11.81%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (48.52%) Java
2 80 (33.76%) SQL
3 70 (29.54%) C#
4 62 (26.16%) Python
5 51 (21.52%) JavaScript
6 30 (12.66%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.38%) Bash
7 8 (3.38%) Delphi
8 6 (2.53%) PHP
9 5 (2.11%) Go
10 3 (1.27%) RPG
11 2 (0.84%) Bicep
11 2 (0.84%) Groovy
11 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.84%) Scala
12 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.42%) JCL
12 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (20.68%) Degree
1 49 (20.68%) ISTQB
2 36 (15.19%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 20 (8.44%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.02%) SC Cleared
6 18 (7.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 12 (5.06%) ISEB
8 7 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (41.35%) QA
2 35 (14.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (17.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 32 (13.50%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.08%) Terraform
3 21 (8.86%) Ansible
4 16 (6.75%) Grafana
5 7 (2.95%) HP Fortify
6 5 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.69%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.84%) Control-M
8 2 (0.84%) Kibana
8 2 (0.84%) logstash
8 2 (0.84%) MIIS
8 2 (0.84%) Nessus
8 2 (0.84%) Packer
8 2 (0.84%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (7.59%) Oracle
2 17 (7.17%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.17%) Coverity
3 10 (4.22%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.22%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.95%) Google
4 7 (2.95%) Splunk
5 6 (2.53%) IBM
6 5 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.69%) HP
7 4 (1.69%) VMware
8 3 (1.27%) SAP
8 3 (1.27%) Siebel
9 2 (0.84%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (0.84%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.84%) UiPath
10 1 (0.42%) Concur
10 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.42%) eFront