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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 409 308
Rank change year-on-year -14 -101 -85
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 227 318 541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.59% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.34% 5.80% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 192 192 457
10th Percentile £34,300 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,313 £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 3,581 5,484 6,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.04% 10.25% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,332 3,150 5,278
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,566 £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 12 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 12 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 +22 219 £57,500 -11.54% 173
UK excluding London -44 137 £50,000 -16.67% 162
Work from Home +65 103 £52,250 -12.92% 69
London +72 83 £67,500 -10.00% 28
South East -14 75 £47,500 -33.80% 52
South West +19 19 £47,500 -5.00% 21
Midlands -2 19 £57,500 -4.17% 17
North of England -16 15 £55,200 +25.45% 36
West Midlands +14 13 £56,350 -6.08% 4
Yorkshire -20 7 £55,500 +70.85% 18
North West +16 6 £58,250 +29.44% 13
East Midlands -20 6 £60,000 - 13
Wales +3 5 £48,100 -0.82% 7
East of England +20 3 £60,000 +60.00% 26
North East +5 2 £55,200 +47.20% 5
Scotland -12 1 - - 4

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 (8.37%) Confluence
2 5 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.76%) Apache
3 4 (1.76%) Appian
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.85%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.32%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.96%) Azure
2 57 (25.11%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (23.35%) AWS
4 24 (10.57%) GitHub
5 16 (7.05%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.96%) SaaS
9 8 (3.52%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.52%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.64%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.20%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.76%) MinIO
12 4 (1.76%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.76%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.76%) Serverless
13 3 (1.32%) Azure App Service
13 3 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.29%) DNS
2 2 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) SSH
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.57%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.61%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.73%) DB2
5 4 (1.76%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.32%) Mixpanel
6 3 (1.32%) NoSQL
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%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.88%) Tableau
8 1 (0.44%) Big Data
8 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 77 (33.92%) JIRA
2 75 (33.04%) Postman
3 57 (25.11%) Jenkins
4 56 (24.67%) WebDriver
5 46 (20.26%) Cypress.io
6 45 (19.82%) Cucumber
7 44 (19.38%) Git
8 41 (18.06%) SoapUI
9 32 (14.10%) Team Foundation Server
10 25 (11.01%) JMeter
11 23 (10.13%) GitLab
12 22 (9.69%) Robot Framework
13 21 (9.25%) JUnit
14 19 (8.37%) Snyk
15 18 (7.93%) REST Assured
16 16 (7.05%) Bitbucket
17 15 (6.61%) Appium
18 14 (6.17%) SpecFlow
19 13 (5.73%) LoadRunner
19 13 (5.73%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (37.44%) Social Skills
2 70 (30.84%) Finance
3 47 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.37%) Banking
5 16 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.73%) Law
7 12 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.96%) Retail
9 5 (2.20%) Electronics
10 4 (1.76%) Advertising
10 4 (1.76%) Back Office
10 4 (1.76%) Marketing
11 3 (1.32%) Legal
12 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Games
13 1 (0.44%) iGaming
13 1 (0.44%) International Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
13 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (27.31%) Lead
2 46 (20.26%) Senior
3 36 (15.86%) Test Engineer
4 33 (14.54%) Developer
5 31 (13.66%) Analyst
6 30 (13.22%) Test Analyst
6 30 (13.22%) Tester
7 26 (11.45%) Test Leader
8 25 (11.01%) Test Automation Engineer
9 20 (8.81%) QA Engineer
10 18 (7.93%) QA Leader
11 16 (7.05%) Automation Tester
12 15 (6.61%) Automation Engineer
13 14 (6.17%) QA Automation Engineer
13 14 (6.17%) Software Developer
14 12 (5.29%) Java Developer
14 12 (5.29%) Senior Developer
15 11 (4.85%) Automation Test Lead
16 10 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
16 10 (4.41%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (24.67%) Playwright
2 55 (24.23%) HTML
3 51 (22.47%) .NET
4 40 (17.62%) SOAP
5 26 (11.45%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (10.13%) CSS
6 23 (10.13%) React
6 23 (10.13%) REST
7 21 (9.25%) RESTful
8 19 (8.37%) pytest
9 16 (7.05%) Gherkin
10 15 (6.61%) Node.js
11 13 (5.73%) Spring
12 12 (5.29%) Kafka
13 11 (4.85%) Spring Boot
14 8 (3.52%) Django
14 8 (3.52%) Flask
15 7 (3.08%) Middleware
15 7 (3.08%) Swagger
16 5 (2.20%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.01%) Product Ownership
2 24 (10.57%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (7.05%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (5.29%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 6 (2.64%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.64%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.76%) Derivative
7 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.76%) Equities
7 4 (1.76%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.32%) W3C
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.57%) Linux
2 16 (7.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (79.74%) Test Automation
2 135 (59.47%) Agile
3 110 (48.46%) CI/CD
4 95 (41.85%) DevOps
5 84 (37.00%) Software Testing
6 76 (33.48%) API Testing
7 75 (33.04%) Test Management
8 74 (32.60%) Scrum
9 65 (28.63%) Mentoring
10 60 (26.43%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (25.99%) Non-Functional Testing
11 59 (25.99%) Test Scripting
12 53 (23.35%) BDD
13 46 (20.26%) Test Strategy
14 38 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (16.74%) Microservices
15 36 (15.86%) Manual Testing
16 35 (15.42%) SDLC
17 32 (14.10%) Cross-Browser Testing
18 25 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 123 (54.19%) Java
2 94 (41.41%) SQL
3 85 (37.44%) C#
4 61 (26.87%) Python
5 49 (21.59%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.81%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.52%) Delphi
8 6 (2.64%) Go
8 6 (2.64%) PHP
9 4 (1.76%) Bash
10 3 (1.32%) RPG
11 2 (0.88%) Groovy
11 2 (0.88%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 62 (27.31%) ISTQB
2 60 (26.43%) Degree
3 39 (17.18%) Security Cleared
4 33 (14.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 22 (9.69%) SC Cleared
6 21 (9.25%) DV Cleared
7 13 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (5.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (4.85%) ISEB
9 4 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (41.85%) QA
2 28 (12.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.76%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.76%) WCAG
4 3 (1.32%) SEPA
5 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (15.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Firmware
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (13.22%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.89%) Terraform
3 19 (8.37%) Ansible
4 13 (5.73%) Grafana
5 5 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.76%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.32%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.88%) Control-M
8 2 (0.88%) Nessus
9 1 (0.44%) Argo
9 1 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (8.37%) Black Duck
1 19 (8.37%) Coverity
2 15 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.61%) Oracle
3 9 (3.96%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.64%) IBM
5 5 (2.20%) Adobe
5 5 (2.20%) UiPath
6 4 (1.76%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (1.76%) Blue Prism
6 4 (1.76%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.76%) SAP
6 4 (1.76%) Splunk
6 4 (1.76%) VMware
7 3 (1.32%) Google
7 3 (1.32%) HP
7 3 (1.32%) Siebel
7 3 (1.32%) Tealium
8 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.44%) Concur