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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 406 271
Rank change year-on-year -17 -135 -57
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 226 388 611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.58% 1.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.12% 6.30% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 181 229 506
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,965 £56,318
% change year-on-year -0.80% +2.92% +2.40%

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 3,694 6,161 6,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.84% 9.22% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 3,515 5,371
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £42,439
25th Percentile £42,570 £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 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.98% +6.36%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 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 +2 205 £60,000 -2.04% 80
UK excluding London -37 134 £57,500 -0.80% 82
Work from Home +61 89 £53,500 -7.70% 45
London +41 75 £67,500 -0.74% 17
South East -33 60 £50,000 -29.58% 36
Midlands +56 26 £60,750 +5.23% 11
North of England -11 19 £58,750 +30.56% 13
West Midlands +56 16 £60,000 +4.35% 7
South West +23 16 £45,000 +10.43% 8
East Midlands +17 10 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North West +28 9 £62,000 +37.78% 8
Yorkshire 0 8 £53,500 +42.67% 4
Wales +16 6 £41,000 - 4
East of England +30 5 £60,000 +60.00% 5
North East +11 2 £55,200 -4.77% 1
Scotland -11 2 - - 5

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 13 (5.75%) Confluence
2 7 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.10%) Appian
3 5 (2.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.54%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.33%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 68 (30.09%) AWS
2 67 (29.65%) Azure
3 52 (23.01%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (8.85%) GitHub
5 15 (6.64%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.64%) SaaS
6 13 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (5.75%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.42%) Serverless
8 9 (3.98%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (3.54%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.65%) MinIO
12 5 (2.21%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (2.21%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (2.21%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.42%) DNS
2 2 (0.88%) HTTP
2 2 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.62%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.29%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.96%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.98%) DB2
5 5 (2.21%) Airbyte
6 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.33%) Big Data
7 3 (1.33%) Mixpanel
7 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.88%) Tableau
9 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.44%) MySQL
9 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 66 (29.20%) Jenkins
1 66 (29.20%) Postman
2 56 (24.78%) JIRA
3 48 (21.24%) Cucumber
4 46 (20.35%) Cypress.io
5 42 (18.58%) Git
6 41 (18.14%) WebDriver
7 29 (12.83%) JMeter
8 28 (12.39%) SoapUI
9 25 (11.06%) GitLab
10 22 (9.73%) JUnit
11 21 (9.29%) Robot Framework
12 19 (8.41%) Appium
13 18 (7.96%) REST Assured
13 18 (7.96%) Snyk
14 16 (7.08%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (6.19%) LoadRunner
16 13 (5.75%) TestRail
17 12 (5.31%) Bitbucket
17 12 (5.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 71 (31.42%) Finance
2 70 (30.97%) Social Skills
3 52 (23.01%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.18%) Law
5 20 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (8.41%) Banking
7 15 (6.64%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.42%) Marketing
9 7 (3.10%) Retail
10 6 (2.65%) Legal
11 4 (1.77%) Back Office
11 4 (1.77%) Electronics
12 3 (1.33%) Advertising
12 3 (1.33%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Games
14 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (25.22%) Lead
2 50 (22.12%) Senior
3 39 (17.26%) Test Engineer
4 33 (14.60%) Test Automation Engineer
5 31 (13.72%) Developer
6 28 (12.39%) Analyst
7 27 (11.95%) QA Engineer
8 26 (11.50%) Test Analyst
9 25 (11.06%) Tester
10 23 (10.18%) QA Leader
11 21 (9.29%) QA Automation Engineer
12 20 (8.85%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (8.41%) Test Leader
14 15 (6.64%) Automation Tester
14 15 (6.64%) Software Developer
15 12 (5.31%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (5.31%) Senior Developer
15 12 (5.31%) Senior Test Analyst
16 11 (4.87%) Quality Engineer
16 11 (4.87%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (28.32%) Playwright
2 41 (18.14%) HTML
3 33 (14.60%) .NET
4 29 (12.83%) REST
5 27 (11.95%) SOAP
6 25 (11.06%) pytest
7 24 (10.62%) CSS
8 22 (9.73%) React
9 19 (8.41%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (8.41%) RESTful
10 16 (7.08%) Kafka
11 15 (6.64%) Node.js
12 13 (5.75%) Gherkin
12 13 (5.75%) Spring
13 11 (4.87%) Spring Boot
14 8 (3.54%) Django
14 8 (3.54%) Flask
15 6 (2.65%) AngularJS
15 6 (2.65%) GraphQL
15 6 (2.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.50%) Product Ownership
2 23 (10.18%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.52%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.87%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.98%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.54%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.77%) Derivative
8 4 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.77%) Equities
8 4 (1.77%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.33%) W3C
10 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.73%) Linux
2 14 (6.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (84.51%) Test Automation
2 133 (58.85%) Agile
3 119 (52.65%) CI/CD
4 92 (40.71%) DevOps
5 71 (31.42%) Software Testing
6 70 (30.97%) API Testing
7 61 (26.99%) Scrum
8 60 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (26.11%) Test Management
10 57 (25.22%) Mentoring
11 53 (23.45%) Test Scripting
11 53 (23.45%) Test Strategy
12 50 (22.12%) BDD
13 47 (20.80%) SDLC
14 42 (18.58%) Non-Functional Testing
15 41 (18.14%) Microservices
16 39 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (15.04%) Manual Testing
18 31 (13.72%) Performance Testing
18 31 (13.72%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (45.58%) Java
2 76 (33.63%) SQL
3 70 (30.97%) Python
4 67 (29.65%) C#
5 50 (22.12%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.54%) Delphi
7 8 (3.54%) Go
7 8 (3.54%) PHP
8 5 (2.21%) Groovy
9 2 (0.88%) Bash
9 2 (0.88%) RPG
9 2 (0.88%) Scala
10 1 (0.44%) C
10 1 (0.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 52 (23.01%) ISTQB
2 42 (18.58%) Degree
3 36 (15.93%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.85%) SC Cleared
5 19 (8.41%) DV Cleared
6 17 (7.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 14 (6.19%) ISEB
8 12 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (5.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (43.81%) QA
2 24 (10.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.77%) WCAG
5 3 (1.33%) SEPA
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (15.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (12.83%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.06%) Terraform
3 18 (7.96%) Ansible
4 10 (4.42%) Grafana
5 4 (1.77%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.33%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.88%) Control-M
7 2 (0.88%) Nessus
7 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (7.96%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.52%) Coverity
3 14 (6.19%) Oracle
4 13 (5.75%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.10%) UiPath
6 6 (2.65%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.65%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (2.65%) Databricks
6 6 (2.65%) VMware
7 5 (2.21%) Adobe
7 5 (2.21%) Blue Prism
7 5 (2.21%) IBM
8 4 (1.77%) SAP
9 3 (1.33%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.33%) HP
9 3 (1.33%) Siebel
9 3 (1.33%) Splunk
9 3 (1.33%) Tealium
10 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.88%) Workday