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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 408 301
Rank change year-on-year -23 -107 -72
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 234 322 540
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.60% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.34% 5.86% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 198 193 455
10th Percentile £39,775 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +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 3,693 5,491 6,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.09% 10.28% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,390 3,152 5,268
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +12 221 £57,500 -11.54% 257
UK excluding London -54 136 £50,000 -16.67% 254
Work from Home +80 109 £51,500 -14.17% 91
London +66 84 £67,500 -10.00% 28
South East -12 75 £47,500 -33.80% 76
South West +16 20 £47,500 -37.91% 36
Midlands +6 16 £60,000 - 31
North of England -10 16 £55,100 +25.23% 48
West Midlands +16 11 £58,750 -2.08% 8
North West +8 7 £55,000 +22.22% 16
Yorkshire -17 7 £55,500 +70.85% 25
Wales +8 5 £48,100 -0.82% 13
East Midlands -21 5 £60,000 - 23
East of England +24 3 £60,000 +60.00% 43
North East +4 2 £55,200 +47.20% 7
Scotland -15 1 - - 7

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 19 (8.12%) Confluence
2 4 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.28%) Apache
3 3 (1.28%) Appian
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (4.70%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.28%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (28.63%) Azure
2 57 (24.36%) AWS
3 56 (23.93%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (11.54%) GitHub
5 15 (6.41%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (5.13%) BrowserStack
7 11 (4.70%) SaaS
8 10 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.85%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.14%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (2.14%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.71%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.71%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.71%) Serverless
12 3 (1.28%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.28%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.13%) DNS
2 2 (0.85%) DSL
2 2 (0.85%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) SSH
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.41%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.56%) DB2
5 4 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.28%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.28%) Mixpanel
6 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.85%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.85%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.43%) MS Access
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 80 (34.19%) Postman
2 77 (32.91%) JIRA
3 61 (26.07%) Jenkins
4 57 (24.36%) WebDriver
5 49 (20.94%) Cypress.io
6 48 (20.51%) Git
7 46 (19.66%) Cucumber
8 43 (18.38%) SoapUI
9 32 (13.68%) Team Foundation Server
10 27 (11.54%) JMeter
11 25 (10.68%) GitLab
12 22 (9.40%) Robot Framework
13 21 (8.97%) JUnit
14 20 (8.55%) REST Assured
15 18 (7.69%) Snyk
16 16 (6.84%) Bitbucket
16 16 (6.84%) SpecFlow
17 15 (6.41%) Appium
18 13 (5.56%) LoadRunner
18 13 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (36.75%) Social Skills
2 71 (30.34%) Finance
3 46 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.12%) Banking
5 15 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.56%) Law
7 12 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.85%) Retail
9 5 (2.14%) Electronics
10 4 (1.71%) Advertising
10 4 (1.71%) Back Office
10 4 (1.71%) Marketing
11 3 (1.28%) Legal
12 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.43%) iGaming
13 1 (0.43%) International Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (26.92%) Lead
2 50 (21.37%) Senior
3 42 (17.95%) Test Engineer
4 34 (14.53%) Developer
5 31 (13.25%) Analyst
6 30 (12.82%) Test Analyst
7 29 (12.39%) Tester
8 27 (11.54%) Test Automation Engineer
9 26 (11.11%) Test Leader
10 20 (8.55%) QA Engineer
11 17 (7.26%) QA Leader
12 16 (6.84%) Automation Tester
13 14 (5.98%) Automation Engineer
13 14 (5.98%) QA Automation Engineer
13 14 (5.98%) Software Developer
14 13 (5.56%) Java Developer
14 13 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
15 12 (5.13%) Senior Developer
16 11 (4.70%) Automation Test Lead
17 10 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.64%) Playwright
2 55 (23.50%) HTML
3 51 (21.79%) .NET
4 42 (17.95%) SOAP
5 27 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (11.11%) REST
7 24 (10.26%) React
8 23 (9.83%) CSS
9 22 (9.40%) RESTful
10 20 (8.55%) pytest
11 17 (7.26%) Node.js
12 16 (6.84%) Gherkin
13 13 (5.56%) Spring
14 11 (4.70%) Kafka
14 11 (4.70%) Spring Boot
15 8 (3.42%) Django
15 8 (3.42%) Flask
15 8 (3.42%) Swagger
15 8 (3.42%) Web Services
16 7 (2.99%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 24 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (6.84%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (4.70%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (2.99%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.14%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.71%) Derivative
8 4 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.71%) Equities
8 4 (1.71%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.28%) W3C
10 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.54%) Linux
2 17 (7.26%) Windows
3 4 (1.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (79.49%) Test Automation
2 140 (59.83%) Agile
3 114 (48.72%) CI/CD
4 95 (40.60%) DevOps
5 86 (36.75%) Software Testing
6 78 (33.33%) Scrum
7 75 (32.05%) API Testing
7 75 (32.05%) Test Management
8 67 (28.63%) Mentoring
9 60 (25.64%) Non-Functional Testing
9 60 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (24.79%) Test Scripting
11 54 (23.08%) BDD
12 50 (21.37%) Test Strategy
13 42 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (16.67%) Microservices
15 36 (15.38%) Manual Testing
16 35 (14.96%) SDLC
17 33 (14.10%) Cross-Browser Testing
18 27 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 128 (54.70%) Java
2 96 (41.03%) SQL
3 86 (36.75%) C#
4 66 (28.21%) Python
5 49 (20.94%) JavaScript
6 23 (9.83%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.42%) Delphi
8 6 (2.56%) Go
8 6 (2.56%) PHP
9 5 (2.14%) Bash
10 3 (1.28%) RPG
11 2 (0.85%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 64 (27.35%) ISTQB
2 62 (26.50%) Degree
3 44 (18.80%) Security Cleared
4 33 (14.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 26 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 21 (8.97%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 13 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (4.70%) ISEB
10 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (41.88%) QA
2 32 (13.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.71%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.71%) WCAG
4 3 (1.28%) SEPA
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 40 (17.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.39%) Terraform
3 21 (8.97%) Ansible
4 14 (5.98%) Grafana
5 5 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.71%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.28%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.85%) Control-M
8 2 (0.85%) Nessus
8 2 (0.85%) Packer
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.43%) Kibana
9 1 (0.43%) logstash
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (7.69%) Black Duck
1 18 (7.69%) Coverity
1 18 (7.69%) Oracle
2 15 (6.41%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.27%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.56%) IBM
5 5 (2.14%) Adobe
5 5 (2.14%) Splunk
6 4 (1.71%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.71%) SAP
6 4 (1.71%) UiPath
6 4 (1.71%) VMware
7 3 (1.28%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (1.28%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.28%) Google
7 3 (1.28%) HP
7 3 (1.28%) Siebel
7 3 (1.28%) Tealium
8 2 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.43%) Concur