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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 417 276
Rank change year-on-year -28 -141 -69
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 234 368 640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.54% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.28% 6.15% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 183 217 526
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,687
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £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 3,727 5,985 6,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 8.81% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,376 3,331 5,592
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,574 £42,439
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% +5.45%

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 15 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 15 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 -2 211 £60,000 -4.00% 181
UK excluding London -38 141 £57,500 -0.80% 123
Work from Home +45 89 £55,000 -5.11% 117
London +48 74 £65,000 -3.70% 82
South East -39 62 £50,000 -29.08% 40
Midlands +51 25 £61,500 +6.96% 16
North of England +4 23 £57,500 +27.78% 32
South West +33 16 £52,500 - 10
North West +25 15 £62,000 +37.78% 23
West Midlands +38 14 £60,000 +4.35% 11
East Midlands +26 11 £62,500 +4.17% 5
East of England +27 7 £71,500 +104.29% 4
Yorkshire -9 6 £54,250 +49.66% 7
Wales +14 4 £47,100 - 10
Scotland -18 3 £50,000 +8.70% 5
North East +7 2 £55,200 -4.77% 2
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 18 (7.69%) Confluence
2 12 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.13%) Appian
3 6 (2.56%) Apache
4 5 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.42%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.85%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 82 (35.04%) AWS
2 71 (30.34%) Azure
3 57 (24.36%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (11.54%) GitHub
5 20 (8.55%) Amazon S3
5 20 (8.55%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.98%) SaaS
7 13 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (5.13%) Serverless
9 11 (4.70%) MinIO
10 9 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.85%) BrowserStack
11 8 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.42%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.99%) Amazon Bedrock
12 7 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.99%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.71%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.27%) DNS
2 3 (1.28%) Internet
3 2 (0.85%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.12%) Relational Database
2 19 (8.12%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.99%) DB2
5 6 (2.56%) Airbyte
6 4 (1.71%) Big Data
6 4 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.28%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.85%) MySQL
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.85%) Tableau
9 1 (0.43%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 69 (29.49%) Postman
2 63 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 63 (26.92%) JIRA
3 53 (22.65%) Cucumber
4 46 (19.66%) Cypress.io
5 41 (17.52%) Git
6 38 (16.24%) WebDriver
7 29 (12.39%) GitLab
8 28 (11.97%) JMeter
8 28 (11.97%) SoapUI
9 25 (10.68%) Robot Framework
10 24 (10.26%) JUnit
11 23 (9.83%) Snyk
12 21 (8.97%) Appium
13 20 (8.55%) REST Assured
14 16 (6.84%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (4.70%) LoadRunner
15 11 (4.70%) TeamCity
15 11 (4.70%) TestRail
16 10 (4.27%) Katalon Studio
General
1 79 (33.76%) Finance
2 78 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 54 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.82%) Law
5 24 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (7.69%) Banking
7 16 (6.84%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.70%) Marketing
9 8 (3.42%) Legal
10 6 (2.56%) Retail
11 4 (1.71%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.28%) Back Office
12 3 (1.28%) Electronics
13 2 (0.85%) Advertising
13 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.43%) Games
14 1 (0.43%) iGaming
14 1 (0.43%) International Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (22.65%) Lead
2 48 (20.51%) Senior
3 37 (15.81%) Test Engineer
4 31 (13.25%) Test Automation Engineer
5 29 (12.39%) Developer
6 28 (11.97%) Analyst
6 28 (11.97%) QA Engineer
7 26 (11.11%) Test Analyst
8 24 (10.26%) Tester
9 23 (9.83%) Automation Engineer
9 23 (9.83%) QA Automation Engineer
9 23 (9.83%) QA Leader
10 17 (7.26%) Software Engineer
11 16 (6.84%) Software Developer
11 16 (6.84%) Test Leader
12 15 (6.41%) Automation Tester
13 12 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (5.13%) Senior Developer
13 12 (5.13%) Senior Test Analyst
14 11 (4.70%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (27.78%) Playwright
2 41 (17.52%) HTML
3 32 (13.68%) .NET
4 29 (12.39%) SOAP
5 28 (11.97%) pytest
5 28 (11.97%) REST
6 27 (11.54%) Kafka
7 24 (10.26%) CSS
8 20 (8.55%) React
9 19 (8.12%) Spring
10 17 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (7.26%) Spring Boot
11 16 (6.84%) RESTful
12 14 (5.98%) Node.js
13 11 (4.70%) Apache NiFi
14 10 (4.27%) Gherkin
15 8 (3.42%) Django
15 8 (3.42%) Flask
15 8 (3.42%) JSON
16 6 (2.56%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.68%) Product Ownership
2 23 (9.83%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (9.40%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.56%) Low-Code
5 10 (4.27%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 6 (2.56%) Wiki
8 4 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.28%) Derivative
9 3 (1.28%) Equities
9 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.28%) W3C
10 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.97%) Linux
2 13 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (85.04%) Test Automation
2 146 (62.39%) Agile
3 129 (55.13%) CI/CD
4 99 (42.31%) DevOps
5 71 (30.34%) API Testing
5 71 (30.34%) Software Testing
6 58 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (24.79%) Test Management
7 57 (24.36%) Scrum
8 56 (23.93%) Mentoring
8 56 (23.93%) Test Scripting
9 53 (22.65%) Test Strategy
10 49 (20.94%) Microservices
11 48 (20.51%) SDLC
12 46 (19.66%) BDD
13 41 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (17.52%) Software Engineering
14 40 (17.09%) Non-Functional Testing
15 35 (14.96%) Manual Testing
16 34 (14.53%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 108 (46.15%) Java
2 76 (32.48%) Python
3 74 (31.62%) SQL
4 66 (28.21%) C#
5 46 (19.66%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.40%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.85%) Go
7 9 (3.85%) PHP
8 8 (3.42%) Delphi
9 6 (2.56%) Groovy
10 2 (0.85%) Bash
10 2 (0.85%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) C++
11 1 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 54 (23.08%) ISTQB
2 41 (17.52%) Security Cleared
3 39 (16.67%) Degree
4 23 (9.83%) DV Cleared
5 22 (9.40%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 14 (5.98%) ISEB
8 12 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (4.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (2.14%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (42.74%) QA
2 25 (10.68%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.71%) WCAG
5 3 (1.28%) SEPA
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 40 (17.09%) Docker
2 5 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.25%) Terraform
3 23 (9.83%) Ansible
4 10 (4.27%) Grafana
5 3 (1.28%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.85%) Control-M
6 2 (0.85%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.85%) Nessus
6 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (9.83%) Black Duck
2 18 (7.69%) Coverity
3 15 (6.41%) Oracle
4 13 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 12 (5.13%) UiPath
6 11 (4.70%) BiZZdesign
6 11 (4.70%) VMware
7 9 (3.85%) Databricks
8 6 (2.56%) Blue Prism
9 5 (2.14%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.71%) Adobe
11 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.28%) HP
11 3 (1.28%) IBM
11 3 (1.28%) SAP
11 3 (1.28%) Siebel
11 3 (1.28%) Splunk
11 3 (1.28%) Tealium
12 2 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.85%) Workday