Selenium
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 212 194
Rank change year-on-year -187 -18 -28
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 644 1,837 3,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 1.82% 2.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.75% 12.76% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 463 1,005 1,835
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +6.06%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Selenium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,537 14,392 35,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.61% 14.25% 22.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,714 8,847 15,794
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Selenium.

Salary trend for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 -187 519 £60,500 - 121
UK excluding London -195 450 £57,500 +4.55% 82
Work from Home -140 248 £62,500 +4.17% 70
South East -42 194 £60,250 +4.78% 26
London -138 173 £80,000 +14.29% 39
Scotland -68 82 £36,000 -39.52% 4
North of England -147 63 £50,000 -9.09% 23
South West -94 53 £60,250 +26.84% 9
Yorkshire -39 33 £53,500 +20.22% 9
Midlands -138 29 £50,000 -7.41% 13
North West -75 27 £47,500 -20.83% 14
Wales +6 23 £50,000 -9.09% 2
West Midlands -68 16 £49,000 -9.26% 9
East Midlands -79 13 £60,000 +29.73% 4
East of England -26 6 £57,500 +9.52% 8
North East -47 3 £52,500 -16.00%

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.73%) Confluence
2 19 (2.95%) Apache
3 5 (0.78%) nginx
4 3 (0.47%) CMS
4 3 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.16%) Drupal
5 1 (0.16%) JBoss
5 1 (0.16%) PrestaShop
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.16%) Magento
1 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (27.80%) AWS
2 168 (26.09%) Azure
3 92 (14.29%) SaaS
4 66 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (7.45%) GCP
6 25 (3.88%) GitHub
7 17 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (2.33%) BrowserStack
8 15 (2.33%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.24%) Slack
11 7 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.09%) Pulumi
12 6 (0.93%) BlazeMeter
12 6 (0.93%) Serverless
13 5 (0.78%) Datadog
13 5 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.78%) Sauce Labs
14 4 (0.62%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (0.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.71%) Network Security
2 5 (0.78%) Internet
3 2 (0.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.16%) DHCP
4 1 (0.16%) DNS
4 1 (0.16%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) Multicast
4 1 (0.16%) SSL
4 1 (0.16%) VLAN
4 1 (0.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.21%) NoSQL
2 34 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.50%) Relational Database
4 21 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.71%) Redis
8 10 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.24%) MySQL
10 4 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.47%) Big Data
11 3 (0.47%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.16%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 195 (30.28%) Cypress.io
2 169 (26.24%) Cucumber
3 164 (25.47%) Git
4 149 (23.14%) Jenkins
5 141 (21.89%) WebDriver
6 120 (18.63%) JUnit
7 118 (18.32%) Postman
8 99 (15.37%) JIRA
9 71 (11.02%) Jasmine
10 66 (10.25%) Protractor
11 64 (9.94%) JMeter
12 60 (9.32%) Karma Test Runner
13 47 (7.30%) SoapUI
14 42 (6.52%) SpecFlow
15 41 (6.37%) Visual Studio
16 39 (6.06%) TestNG
17 38 (5.90%) REST Assured
18 35 (5.43%) Appium
19 34 (5.28%) TeamCity
20 26 (4.04%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 162 (25.16%) Finance
2 105 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 87 (13.51%) Banking
4 84 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (13.04%) Law
5 67 (10.40%) Investment Banking
6 23 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (3.26%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.02%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.86%) Games
12 11 (1.71%) Turkish Language
13 10 (1.55%) Marketing
13 10 (1.55%) Retail
14 7 (1.09%) Automotive
14 7 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.78%) Legal
15 5 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 154 (23.91%) Lead
2 122 (18.94%) Developer
3 107 (16.61%) Senior
4 92 (14.29%) Tester
5 90 (13.98%) Software Engineer
6 67 (10.40%) Java Engineer
7 65 (10.09%) Java Software Engineer
8 62 (9.63%) Automation Tester
9 53 (8.23%) Test Engineer
10 48 (7.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 45 (6.99%) Analyst
11 45 (6.99%) QA Engineer
12 34 (5.28%) Test Analyst
13 32 (4.97%) Java Developer
13 32 (4.97%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.66%) Test Leader
15 29 (4.50%) QA Leader
16 25 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
17 22 (3.42%) QA Analyst
17 22 (3.42%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (25.78%) React
2 118 (18.32%) Jest
3 111 (17.24%) HTML
4 110 (17.08%) CSS
5 102 (15.84%) Spring
6 100 (15.53%) REST
7 90 (13.98%) JSON
8 85 (13.20%) .NET
9 82 (12.73%) AngularJS
10 68 (10.56%) jQuery
11 65 (10.09%) Node.js
12 63 (9.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 60 (9.32%) Hibernate
13 60 (9.32%) J2EE
13 60 (9.32%) JMS
14 43 (6.68%) Playwright
15 41 (6.37%) HTML5
16 40 (6.21%) RESTful
17 34 (5.28%) CSS3
17 34 (5.28%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.32%) Data Structures
2 22 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.26%) Algorithms
4 18 (2.80%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.55%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.24%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.93%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.93%) Hackathon
11 6 (0.93%) IoT
11 6 (0.93%) Social Media
12 5 (0.78%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.78%) Replication
13 3 (0.47%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.86%) Windows
2 10 (1.55%) Android
3 5 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.78%) Linux
4 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (60.71%) Test Automation
2 381 (59.16%) Agile
3 217 (33.70%) CI/CD
4 185 (28.73%) BDD
5 155 (24.07%) Software Testing
6 143 (22.20%) DevOps
6 143 (22.20%) Software Engineering
7 125 (19.41%) Artificial Intelligence
8 124 (19.25%) API Testing
9 118 (18.32%) TDD
10 111 (17.24%) SDET
11 104 (16.15%) Scrum
12 100 (15.53%) Test Strategy
13 98 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
14 97 (15.06%) Test Scripting
15 89 (13.82%) SDLC
16 84 (13.04%) Machine Learning
17 81 (12.58%) Mentoring
17 81 (12.58%) Web Development
18 74 (11.49%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 283 (43.94%) Java
2 244 (37.89%) JavaScript
3 179 (27.80%) C#
4 153 (23.76%) TypeScript
5 149 (23.14%) SQL
6 66 (10.25%) Python
7 40 (6.21%) PHP
8 13 (2.02%) C++
9 12 (1.86%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.55%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.24%) Bicep
12 7 (1.09%) Bash
13 5 (0.78%) Go
13 5 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.62%) Ruby
15 3 (0.47%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.47%) XAML
16 2 (0.31%) VBScript
17 1 (0.16%) VB
17 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 111 (17.24%) Degree
2 64 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 56 (8.70%) ISTQB
4 36 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 29 (4.50%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.57%) ISEB
7 16 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.62%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.31%) HND
11 1 (0.16%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) CCNA
11 1 (0.16%) CCNP
11 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (38.35%) QA
2 37 (5.75%) WCAG
3 17 (2.64%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.71%) GDPR
5 8 (1.24%) PSD2
6 2 (0.31%) PMO
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 147 (22.83%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) Firmware
2 5 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.47%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 128 (19.88%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.50%) Terraform
3 19 (2.95%) Ansible
4 9 (1.40%) Progress Chef
4 9 (1.40%) Puppet
5 7 (1.09%) MIIS
6 5 (0.78%) Argo
6 5 (0.78%) Kibana
7 4 (0.62%) Nagios
8 3 (0.47%) Consul
8 3 (0.47%) Control-M
8 3 (0.47%) logstash
8 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.16%) Iperf
10 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.16%) Packer
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.97%) Google
3 28 (4.35%) Oracle
4 8 (1.24%) Databricks
4 8 (1.24%) Duck Creek
4 8 (1.24%) Splunk
5 5 (0.78%) New Relic
5 5 (0.78%) VMware
6 4 (0.62%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.62%) IBM
7 3 (0.47%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.31%) Finsemble
8 2 (0.31%) SAP
8 2 (0.31%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.16%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.16%) HP
9 1 (0.16%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.16%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.16%) SaltStack