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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 414 263
Rank change year-on-year -2 -151 -56
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 264 366 658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.54% 1.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.12% 6.15% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 179 218 546
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £69,375 £77,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £84,000 £93,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,965 £55,659
% change year-on-year -0.80% +4.14% +1.20%

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 3,710 5,951 6,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.26% 8.80% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,329 3,299 5,658
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £42,439
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,350 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% -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 8 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 8 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 +11 241 £60,000 -4.00% 349
UK excluding London -7 177 £57,500 -0.80% 292
Work from Home +72 126 £55,000 -5.11% 179
London +59 69 £64,000 -5.19% 129
South East -33 60 £50,000 -28.57% 143
North of England +6 51 £57,500 +27.78% 67
North West +26 42 £66,250 +47.22% 48
Midlands +67 30 £61,500 +6.96% 28
West Midlands +42 17 £60,000 +4.35% 17
South West +35 17 £50,000 -22.48% 21
East Midlands +25 13 £62,500 +4.17% 6
East of England +30 11 £60,000 +71.43% 10
Yorkshire -12 6 £54,250 +55.00% 10
Wales - 4 £47,100 - 8
North East +14 3 £55,200 -4.77% 10
Scotland -22 3 £50,000 +25.00% 12
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 16 (6.06%) Confluence
2 12 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.55%) Appian
3 6 (2.27%) Apache
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.76%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 118 (44.70%) AWS
2 106 (40.15%) Azure
3 55 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (10.23%) GitHub
5 20 (7.58%) Amazon S3
5 20 (7.58%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.92%) SaaS
7 12 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (4.55%) Serverless
8 11 (4.17%) MinIO
9 9 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.41%) BrowserStack
9 9 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.03%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.65%) Amazon Bedrock
11 7 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.65%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.79%) DNS
2 3 (1.14%) Internet
3 2 (0.76%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (20.08%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.41%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.41%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.27%) Airbyte
6 5 (1.89%) DB2
7 4 (1.52%) Big Data
7 4 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.14%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.76%) MySQL
9 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.76%) Tableau
10 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 98 (37.12%) JIRA
2 84 (31.82%) Cucumber
3 65 (24.62%) Postman
4 64 (24.24%) GitLab
5 61 (23.11%) Jenkins
6 45 (17.05%) Cypress.io
7 44 (16.67%) Bitbucket
7 44 (16.67%) Maven
8 42 (15.91%) Git
9 39 (14.77%) SonarQube
10 37 (14.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 37 (14.02%) WebDriver
11 28 (10.61%) JMeter
12 25 (9.47%) SoapUI
13 24 (9.09%) JUnit
13 24 (9.09%) Robot Framework
14 23 (8.71%) Snyk
15 20 (7.58%) Appium
16 19 (7.20%) REST Assured
17 16 (6.06%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 110 (41.67%) Finance
2 72 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 60 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (20.08%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (19.32%) Banking
6 42 (15.91%) Retail
7 36 (13.64%) Corporate Banking
7 36 (13.64%) Investment Banking
8 33 (12.50%) Law
9 15 (5.68%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.17%) Legal
10 11 (4.17%) Marketing
11 4 (1.52%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.14%) Electronics
13 2 (0.76%) Advertising
13 2 (0.76%) Back Office
14 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.38%) Games
14 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (20.08%) Software Engineer
2 51 (19.32%) Lead
2 51 (19.32%) Senior
3 37 (14.02%) Test Engineer
4 31 (11.74%) Test Automation Engineer
5 29 (10.98%) QA Engineer
6 28 (10.61%) Analyst
7 27 (10.23%) Developer
8 26 (9.85%) Test Analyst
9 22 (8.33%) QA Leader
10 21 (7.95%) Tester
11 20 (7.58%) QA Automation Engineer
12 19 (7.20%) Automation Engineer
13 16 (6.06%) Software Developer
14 15 (5.68%) Test Leader
15 13 (4.92%) Automation Tester
16 12 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (4.55%) Senior Developer
16 12 (4.55%) Senior Test Analyst
17 11 (4.17%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (28.03%) HTML
2 63 (23.86%) Kafka
2 63 (23.86%) Playwright
3 62 (23.48%) REST
4 57 (21.59%) CSS
5 55 (20.83%) Spring
6 53 (20.08%) React
6 53 (20.08%) Spring Boot
7 50 (18.94%) RESTful
8 40 (15.15%) HTML5
9 37 (14.02%) CSS3
9 37 (14.02%) Jest
9 37 (14.02%) JPA
9 37 (14.02%) Redux
10 36 (13.64%) Sass
11 32 (12.12%) .NET
12 26 (9.85%) SOAP
13 25 (9.47%) pytest
14 14 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (4.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (22.35%) Product Ownership
2 38 (14.39%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (8.71%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (7.95%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.92%) Low-Code
6 10 (3.79%) Mobile App
7 8 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 6 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.27%) Wiki
9 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.14%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.14%) W3C
11 2 (0.76%) Derivative
11 2 (0.76%) Equities
11 2 (0.76%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.76%) Hackathon
11 2 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.58%) Linux
2 12 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (86.74%) Test Automation
2 181 (68.56%) Agile
3 161 (60.98%) CI/CD
4 133 (50.38%) DevOps
5 91 (34.47%) Mentoring
6 84 (31.82%) Microservices
7 83 (31.44%) SDLC
8 75 (28.41%) Software Engineering
9 72 (27.27%) Software Testing
10 69 (26.14%) API Testing
11 58 (21.97%) Test Scripting
12 57 (21.59%) Test Management
13 56 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
14 54 (20.45%) Containerisation
14 54 (20.45%) Scrum
15 51 (19.32%) Test Strategy
16 48 (18.18%) User Experience
17 45 (17.05%) Front End Development
17 45 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
18 44 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 139 (52.65%) Java
2 104 (39.39%) SQL
3 80 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 71 (26.89%) Python
5 66 (25.00%) C#
6 57 (21.59%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.03%) Delphi
8 6 (2.27%) Go
8 6 (2.27%) Groovy
8 6 (2.27%) PHP
9 2 (0.76%) Scala
10 1 (0.38%) Bash
10 1 (0.38%) C
10 1 (0.38%) C++
10 1 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 55 (20.83%) ISTQB
2 39 (14.77%) Degree
2 39 (14.77%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 21 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 13 (4.92%) ISEB
7 12 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.89%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (51.52%) QA
2 61 (23.11%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.52%) WCAG
5 3 (1.14%) SEPA
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 73 (27.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (26.14%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.98%) Terraform
3 23 (8.71%) Ansible
4 9 (3.41%) Grafana
5 3 (1.14%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.76%) Control-M
6 2 (0.76%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.38%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.38%) Nessus
7 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (13.64%) Solace
2 23 (8.71%) Black Duck
3 18 (6.82%) Coverity
4 15 (5.68%) Oracle
5 14 (5.30%) Microsoft
6 12 (4.55%) UiPath
7 11 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
7 11 (4.17%) VMware
8 9 (3.41%) Databricks
9 6 (2.27%) Blue Prism
10 4 (1.52%) Adobe
11 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.14%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.14%) HP
11 3 (1.14%) IBM
11 3 (1.14%) SAP
11 3 (1.14%) Siebel
11 3 (1.14%) Splunk
11 3 (1.14%) Tealium
12 2 (0.76%) Workday