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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 388 341
Rank change year-on-year -63 -47 -145
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 230 308 628
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.66% 0.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.85% 6.22% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 202 205 504
10th Percentile £40,525 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £110,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +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 3,929 4,948 8,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.61% 10.59% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,531 3,008 6,503
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,625 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,376 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -2.65%

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 1 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 15 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 1 March 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 -23 218 £57,500 -11.54% 105
UK excluding London -76 130 £51,000 -15.00% 97
Work from Home +24 100 £52,500 -12.50% 58
London +36 87 £67,500 -1.46% 25
South East -39 70 £50,000 -23.08% 30
South West -6 25 £47,500 -38.71% 12
North of England -42 16 £55,000 +22.22% 18
Midlands -41 12 £60,000 - 14
West Midlands -1 9 £58,750 -12.96% 11
Yorkshire -47 8 £53,500 -0.33% 9
North West -10 7 £55,500 +23.33% 6
Wales -6 5 £48,100 -0.82% 3
East Midlands -47 3 £60,000 - 3
East of England +4 2 £55,000 +37.50% 16
North East -10 1 £55,200 +19.35% 3

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 (6.96%) Confluence
2 4 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.30%) Apache
3 3 (1.30%) Appian
4 2 (0.87%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.78%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (1.30%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (27.83%) Azure
2 56 (24.35%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (20.87%) AWS
4 21 (9.13%) GitHub
5 13 (5.65%) BrowserStack
6 12 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.35%) SaaS
8 9 (3.91%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.04%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.74%) Apigee
10 4 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.30%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.30%) MinIO
11 3 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.22%) DNS
2 6 (2.61%) HTTP
3 2 (0.87%) DSL
4 1 (0.43%) SSH
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.43%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.65%) DB2
5 4 (1.74%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.30%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.30%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.87%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.87%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) Big Data
8 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.43%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 61 (26.52%) JIRA
2 60 (26.09%) Postman
3 55 (23.91%) Cypress.io
4 54 (23.48%) Jenkins
5 46 (20.00%) WebDriver
6 43 (18.70%) Cucumber
7 40 (17.39%) Git
8 33 (14.35%) SoapUI
9 25 (10.87%) GitLab
10 23 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
11 22 (9.57%) JMeter
11 22 (9.57%) Robot Framework
12 21 (9.13%) JUnit
13 20 (8.70%) SpecFlow
14 18 (7.83%) Snyk
15 17 (7.39%) REST Assured
16 15 (6.52%) Bitbucket
17 14 (6.09%) Appium
18 13 (5.65%) TeamCity
19 11 (4.78%) LoadRunner
General
1 84 (36.52%) Social Skills
2 61 (26.52%) Finance
3 42 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.26%) Banking
5 13 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.48%) Law
7 5 (2.17%) Advertising
8 4 (1.74%) Back Office
8 4 (1.74%) Marketing
8 4 (1.74%) Retail
9 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.87%) Electronics
10 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Games
11 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.43%) Publishing
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (27.83%) Lead
2 37 (16.09%) Test Engineer
3 33 (14.35%) Developer
4 32 (13.91%) Senior
5 28 (12.17%) Test Leader
6 27 (11.74%) Tester
7 26 (11.30%) QA Engineer
7 26 (11.30%) Test Automation Engineer
8 24 (10.43%) Analyst
9 23 (10.00%) Test Analyst
10 22 (9.57%) QA Leader
11 15 (6.52%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.09%) Automation Tester
12 14 (6.09%) QA Automation Engineer
13 13 (5.65%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (5.22%) Software Developer
15 9 (3.91%) Automation Test Lead
16 8 (3.48%) Senior Developer
16 8 (3.48%) Senior Test Engineer
17 7 (3.04%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (34.35%) Playwright
2 49 (21.30%) .NET
3 47 (20.43%) HTML
4 32 (13.91%) SOAP
5 27 (11.74%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (11.30%) REST
7 22 (9.57%) React
8 21 (9.13%) CSS
9 18 (7.83%) Gherkin
9 18 (7.83%) pytest
10 16 (6.96%) Node.js
11 15 (6.52%) RESTful
12 13 (5.65%) Spring
12 13 (5.65%) Spring Boot
12 13 (5.65%) XML
13 11 (4.78%) Kafka
14 8 (3.48%) Django
14 8 (3.48%) Flask
14 8 (3.48%) JSON
14 8 (3.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.87%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.96%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.74%) Derivative
6 4 (1.74%) Equities
6 4 (1.74%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.74%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.74%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.17%) Linux
2 17 (7.39%) Windows
3 5 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (80.43%) Test Automation
2 124 (53.91%) Agile
3 115 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 93 (40.43%) DevOps
5 73 (31.74%) Software Testing
6 65 (28.26%) Scrum
7 62 (26.96%) API Testing
8 61 (26.52%) Test Management
9 57 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (23.48%) BDD
11 51 (22.17%) Mentoring
11 51 (22.17%) Non-Functional Testing
12 49 (21.30%) Test Scripting
13 43 (18.70%) Test Strategy
14 36 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (15.65%) Manual Testing
15 35 (15.22%) Microservices
16 31 (13.48%) SDLC
17 27 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (11.74%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 116 (50.43%) Java
2 84 (36.52%) SQL
3 69 (30.00%) C#
4 60 (26.09%) Python
5 48 (20.87%) JavaScript
6 29 (12.61%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.48%) Delphi
8 7 (3.04%) Bash
9 5 (2.17%) Go
9 5 (2.17%) PHP
10 3 (1.30%) RPG
11 2 (0.87%) Groovy
11 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.87%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.43%) Perl
12 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (21.30%) Degree
2 48 (20.87%) ISTQB
3 42 (18.26%) Security Cleared
4 24 (10.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 24 (10.43%) SC Cleared
5 21 (9.13%) DV Cleared
6 15 (6.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 11 (4.78%) ISEB
8 9 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.74%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (43.04%) QA
2 36 (15.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.30%) SEPA
4 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (17.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (13.48%) Terraform
2 30 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.13%) Ansible
4 14 (6.09%) Grafana
5 6 (2.61%) HP Fortify
6 5 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.30%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.87%) Control-M
8 2 (0.87%) Nessus
8 2 (0.87%) Packer
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) Kibana
9 1 (0.43%) logstash
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (8.70%) Oracle
2 18 (7.83%) Black Duck
2 18 (7.83%) Coverity
3 10 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.91%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.61%) Google
5 6 (2.61%) IBM
6 5 (2.17%) Splunk
7 4 (1.74%) SAP
7 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.74%) VMware
8 3 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (1.30%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.30%) HP
8 3 (1.30%) Siebel
8 3 (1.30%) UiPath
9 2 (0.87%) Adobe
9 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.43%) Salesforce