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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 418 265
Rank change year-on-year -9 -153 -55
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 230 359 623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.54% 1.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.24% 6.08% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 182 208 514
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,874
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 £87,350 £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 3,688 5,900 6,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.01% 8.81% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,345 3,284 5,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,574 £42,403
25th Percentile £43,500 £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 £82,500
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 18 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 18 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 -6 208 £60,000 -4.00% 158
UK excluding London -30 138 £57,500 -0.80% 113
Work from Home +56 88 £55,100 -4.56% 91
London +39 74 £66,250 -1.85% 73
South East -25 62 £50,000 -30.31% 39
Midlands +47 26 £61,500 +6.96% 12
North of England +9 20 £57,500 +27.78% 22
West Midlands +50 15 £60,750 +5.65% 8
South West +38 15 £50,000 -2.44% 12
North West +23 12 £62,000 +37.78% 15
East Midlands +27 11 £62,500 +4.17% 4
East of England +18 7 £71,500 +104.29% 4
Yorkshire -6 6 £54,250 +44.67% 5
Wales +15 4 £47,100 - 13
Scotland -21 3 £50,000 +8.70% 5
North East +5 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 14 (6.09%) Confluence
2 12 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.22%) Appian
3 6 (2.61%) Apache
4 5 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.48%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.30%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.87%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 78 (33.91%) AWS
2 72 (31.30%) Azure
3 58 (25.22%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.43%) GitHub
5 20 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 19 (8.26%) Amazon S3
7 15 (6.52%) SaaS
8 13 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (4.78%) MinIO
9 11 (4.78%) Serverless
10 9 (3.91%) BrowserStack
11 8 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.48%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.04%) Amazon Bedrock
12 7 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.04%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.74%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.35%) DNS
2 3 (1.30%) Internet
3 2 (0.87%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.26%) Relational Database
2 19 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.04%) DB2
4 6 (2.61%) Airbyte
4 6 (2.61%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.74%) Big Data
5 4 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.30%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.87%) MySQL
7 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.87%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 70 (30.43%) Postman
2 64 (27.83%) Jenkins
3 60 (26.09%) JIRA
4 51 (22.17%) Cucumber
5 44 (19.13%) Cypress.io
6 40 (17.39%) Git
7 37 (16.09%) WebDriver
8 29 (12.61%) JMeter
8 29 (12.61%) SoapUI
9 26 (11.30%) GitLab
10 25 (10.87%) Robot Framework
11 23 (10.00%) JUnit
11 23 (10.00%) Snyk
12 20 (8.70%) Appium
12 20 (8.70%) REST Assured
13 16 (6.96%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (5.22%) LoadRunner
15 11 (4.78%) TeamCity
15 11 (4.78%) TestRail
16 10 (4.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 77 (33.48%) Finance
2 75 (32.61%) Social Skills
3 52 (22.61%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.61%) Law
5 23 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (7.83%) Banking
7 15 (6.52%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.78%) Marketing
9 8 (3.48%) Legal
10 6 (2.61%) Retail
11 3 (1.30%) Back Office
11 3 (1.30%) Electronics
11 3 (1.30%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.87%) Advertising
12 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) iGaming
13 1 (0.43%) International Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (23.91%) Lead
2 48 (20.87%) Senior
3 35 (15.22%) Test Engineer
4 30 (13.04%) Test Automation Engineer
5 28 (12.17%) Analyst
5 28 (12.17%) Developer
5 28 (12.17%) QA Engineer
6 26 (11.30%) Test Analyst
7 24 (10.43%) Automation Engineer
7 24 (10.43%) QA Leader
7 24 (10.43%) Tester
8 23 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
9 17 (7.39%) Test Leader
10 15 (6.52%) Automation Tester
10 15 (6.52%) Software Developer
10 15 (6.52%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (5.22%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.22%) Senior Test Analyst
12 11 (4.78%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (27.39%) Playwright
2 41 (17.83%) HTML
3 32 (13.91%) .NET
4 29 (12.61%) REST
4 29 (12.61%) SOAP
5 28 (12.17%) pytest
6 24 (10.43%) CSS
6 24 (10.43%) Kafka
7 20 (8.70%) React
8 17 (7.39%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (6.96%) RESTful
9 16 (6.96%) Spring
10 14 (6.09%) Node.js
10 14 (6.09%) Spring Boot
11 11 (4.78%) Apache NiFi
12 10 (4.35%) Gherkin
13 8 (3.48%) Django
13 8 (3.48%) Flask
13 8 (3.48%) JSON
14 6 (2.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.30%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.57%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (5.65%) Low-Code
4 9 (3.91%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.30%) Derivative
8 3 (1.30%) Equities
8 3 (1.30%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.30%) W3C
8 3 (1.30%) Wiki
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.13%) Linux
2 13 (5.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (85.22%) Test Automation
2 140 (60.87%) Agile
3 125 (54.35%) CI/CD
4 97 (42.17%) DevOps
5 73 (31.74%) API Testing
6 69 (30.00%) Software Testing
7 59 (25.65%) Test Management
8 57 (24.78%) Mentoring
8 57 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (24.35%) Scrum
10 54 (23.48%) Test Scripting
11 52 (22.61%) Test Strategy
12 47 (20.43%) BDD
12 47 (20.43%) SDLC
13 46 (20.00%) Microservices
14 40 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (17.39%) Non-Functional Testing
15 38 (16.52%) Software Engineering
16 35 (15.22%) Manual Testing
17 34 (14.78%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.22%) Java
2 75 (32.61%) Python
3 74 (32.17%) SQL
4 66 (28.70%) C#
5 46 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.91%) Go
7 9 (3.91%) PHP
8 8 (3.48%) Delphi
9 6 (2.61%) Groovy
10 2 (0.87%) Bash
10 2 (0.87%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) C++
11 1 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 53 (23.04%) ISTQB
2 40 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 38 (16.52%) Degree
4 23 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 21 (9.13%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 14 (6.09%) ISEB
8 11 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (2.17%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (43.48%) QA
2 24 (10.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.74%) WCAG
5 3 (1.30%) SEPA
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 37 (16.09%) Docker
2 5 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (14.35%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.48%) Terraform
3 23 (10.00%) Ansible
4 10 (4.35%) Grafana
5 3 (1.30%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.87%) Control-M
6 2 (0.87%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.87%) Nessus
6 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (10.00%) Black Duck
2 18 (7.83%) Coverity
3 15 (6.52%) Oracle
4 13 (5.65%) Microsoft
5 12 (5.22%) UiPath
6 11 (4.78%) BiZZdesign
6 11 (4.78%) VMware
7 9 (3.91%) Databricks
8 6 (2.61%) Blue Prism
9 5 (2.17%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.74%) Adobe
10 4 (1.74%) SAP
11 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.30%) HP
11 3 (1.30%) IBM
11 3 (1.30%) Siebel
11 3 (1.30%) Splunk
11 3 (1.30%) Tealium
12 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.87%) Workday