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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 398 339
Rank change year-on-year -73 -59 -146
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 228 308 608
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.65% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.79% 6.12% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 199 201 494
10th Percentile £40,400 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +6.56%
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +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 3,935 5,035 8,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.68% 10.64% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,538 2,996 6,419
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,625 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -1.79%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -44 215 £57,500 -11.54% 71
UK excluding London -86 130 £51,000 -15.00% 64
Work from Home +48 100 £52,500 -12.50% 28
London +32 85 £67,500 -1.46% 20
South East -40 69 £50,000 -25.93% 21
South West -9 24 £47,500 -38.71% 7
North of England -44 16 £55,000 +22.22% 14
Midlands -36 13 £60,000 - 12
West Midlands -7 9 £58,750 -12.96% 10
Yorkshire -45 8 £53,500 -0.33% 7
North West -9 7 £55,500 +23.33% 6
Wales -1 5 £48,100 -0.82%
East Midlands -39 4 £60,000 - 2
East of England +5 2 £52,500 +31.25% 8
North East -8 1 £55,200 +47.20% 1
Scotland -23 1 - - 5

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 (7.46%) Confluence
2 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.32%) Apache
3 3 (1.32%) Appian
4 2 (0.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.82%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.32%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (28.07%) Azure
2 56 (24.56%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (21.49%) AWS
4 22 (9.65%) GitHub
5 13 (5.70%) BrowserStack
6 12 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (4.82%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.39%) SaaS
9 9 (3.95%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.07%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.75%) Apigee
11 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.75%) Serverless
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.32%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.26%) DNS
2 6 (2.63%) HTTP
3 2 (0.88%) DSL
4 1 (0.44%) SSH
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.14%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.70%) DB2
5 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.32%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.88%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.88%) Tableau
8 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.44%) Big Data
8 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Power BI
8 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 62 (27.19%) JIRA
2 61 (26.75%) Postman
3 55 (24.12%) Jenkins
4 53 (23.25%) Cypress.io
5 45 (19.74%) WebDriver
6 44 (19.30%) Cucumber
7 43 (18.86%) Git
8 33 (14.47%) SoapUI
9 25 (10.96%) GitLab
10 23 (10.09%) JMeter
10 23 (10.09%) Team Foundation Server
11 22 (9.65%) JUnit
11 22 (9.65%) Robot Framework
12 19 (8.33%) SpecFlow
13 18 (7.89%) Snyk
14 17 (7.46%) REST Assured
15 15 (6.58%) Bitbucket
16 13 (5.70%) Appium
16 13 (5.70%) TeamCity
17 11 (4.82%) LoadRunner
General
1 85 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 60 (26.32%) Finance
3 42 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.33%) Banking
5 13 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.51%) Law
7 5 (2.19%) Advertising
7 5 (2.19%) Retail
8 4 (1.75%) Back Office
8 4 (1.75%) Marketing
9 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.88%) Electronics
10 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.44%) Publishing
11 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (27.19%) Lead
2 38 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 34 (14.91%) Developer
3 34 (14.91%) Senior
4 27 (11.84%) Test Automation Engineer
4 27 (11.84%) Tester
5 26 (11.40%) Test Leader
6 25 (10.96%) QA Engineer
7 24 (10.53%) Analyst
8 23 (10.09%) Test Analyst
9 21 (9.21%) QA Leader
10 15 (6.58%) Automation Tester
10 15 (6.58%) Java Developer
11 14 (6.14%) QA Automation Engineer
12 13 (5.70%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (5.26%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.95%) Automation Test Lead
14 9 (3.95%) Senior Developer
14 9 (3.95%) Senior Test Engineer
15 7 (3.07%) Agile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (33.33%) Playwright
2 48 (21.05%) .NET
2 48 (21.05%) HTML
3 32 (14.04%) SOAP
4 27 (11.84%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (11.40%) REST
6 23 (10.09%) React
7 22 (9.65%) CSS
8 18 (7.89%) Gherkin
8 18 (7.89%) pytest
9 17 (7.46%) Node.js
9 17 (7.46%) RESTful
10 13 (5.70%) Spring
10 13 (5.70%) Spring Boot
11 12 (5.26%) XML
12 11 (4.82%) Kafka
13 8 (3.51%) Django
13 8 (3.51%) Flask
13 8 (3.51%) Web Services
14 7 (3.07%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (2.19%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.75%) Derivative
7 4 (1.75%) Equities
7 4 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.44%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.28%) Linux
2 17 (7.46%) Windows
3 5 (2.19%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (80.70%) Test Automation
2 126 (55.26%) Agile
3 115 (50.44%) CI/CD
4 95 (41.67%) DevOps
5 74 (32.46%) Software Testing
6 66 (28.95%) Scrum
7 63 (27.63%) API Testing
8 61 (26.75%) Test Management
9 57 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (23.25%) BDD
11 52 (22.81%) Mentoring
12 51 (22.37%) Non-Functional Testing
13 49 (21.49%) Test Scripting
14 41 (17.98%) Test Strategy
15 37 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (16.23%) Manual Testing
16 36 (15.79%) Microservices
17 31 (13.60%) SDLC
18 27 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
19 26 (11.40%) Cross-Browser Testing
Programming Languages
1 114 (50.00%) Java
2 85 (37.28%) SQL
3 70 (30.70%) C#
4 61 (26.75%) Python
5 49 (21.49%) JavaScript
6 29 (12.72%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.51%) Delphi
8 7 (3.07%) Bash
9 5 (2.19%) Go
9 5 (2.19%) PHP
10 3 (1.32%) RPG
11 2 (0.88%) Groovy
11 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.88%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.44%) Perl
12 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (21.93%) ISTQB
2 48 (21.05%) Degree
3 42 (18.42%) Security Cleared
4 24 (10.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 24 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 21 (9.21%) DV Cleared
6 15 (6.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 11 (4.82%) ISEB
8 9 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (42.54%) QA
2 36 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.32%) SEPA
4 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.88%) WCAG
5 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (18.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.44%) Firmware
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (13.60%) Kubernetes
1 31 (13.60%) Terraform
2 21 (9.21%) Ansible
3 14 (6.14%) Grafana
4 6 (2.63%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.32%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.88%) Control-M
7 2 (0.88%) Nessus
7 2 (0.88%) Packer
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
8 1 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.44%) Kibana
8 1 (0.44%) logstash
8 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (8.33%) Oracle
2 18 (7.89%) Black Duck
2 18 (7.89%) Coverity
3 10 (4.39%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.39%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.63%) Google
4 6 (2.63%) IBM
5 5 (2.19%) Splunk
6 4 (1.75%) SAP
6 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.75%) VMware
7 3 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (1.32%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.32%) HP
7 3 (1.32%) Siebel
7 3 (1.32%) UiPath
8 2 (0.88%) Adobe
8 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.44%) Red Hat