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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 386 353
Rank change year-on-year -72 -33 -155
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 232 289 641
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.66% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.66% 6.13% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 203 212 506
10th Percentile £40,550 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,514 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,625 £77,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £94,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 4,096 4,716 8,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.56% 10.80% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,681 3,068 6,688
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 £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -3.51%

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 13 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 13 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 -42 221 £57,500 -11.54% 83
UK excluding London -79 135 £52,500 -12.50% 76
Work from Home +24 96 £52,500 -12.50% 38
London +17 83 £67,500 - 28
South East -32 67 £50,000 -22.48% 22
South West -8 28 £47,500 -38.31% 5
North of England -53 19 £56,000 -6.67% 18
Midlands -50 15 £60,000 - 11
West Midlands -19 12 £61,000 -9.63% 7
Yorkshire -58 9 £53,500 -23.57% 8
North West -24 7 £56,000 -13.85% 9
Wales -10 4 £48,100 -0.82% 6
North East -22 3 £65,000 +40.54% 1
East Midlands -47 3 £60,000 - 4
East of England -5 2 £55,000 +29.41% 9

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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 3 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.86%) Apache
3 2 (0.86%) Appian
3 2 (0.86%) JBoss
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.31%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (1.29%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.31%) Azure
2 60 (25.86%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (20.26%) AWS
4 20 (8.62%) GitHub
5 13 (5.60%) BrowserStack
6 10 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (4.31%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.88%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.45%) SaaS
9 7 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.59%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.72%) Apigee
11 4 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.29%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.29%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.29%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.17%) DNS
2 6 (2.59%) HTTP
3 2 (0.86%) DSL
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.78%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.03%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.17%) DB2
5 3 (1.29%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.86%) Airbyte
6 2 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.86%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.86%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.86%) Tableau
7 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.43%) MS Access
7 1 (0.43%) MySQL
7 1 (0.43%) Power BI
7 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 64 (27.59%) Cypress.io
2 61 (26.29%) Postman
3 55 (23.71%) JIRA
4 54 (23.28%) Jenkins
5 42 (18.10%) Git
5 42 (18.10%) WebDriver
6 41 (17.67%) Cucumber
7 33 (14.22%) SoapUI
8 30 (12.93%) GitLab
9 25 (10.78%) JMeter
10 22 (9.48%) Robot Framework
10 22 (9.48%) Team Foundation Server
11 21 (9.05%) REST Assured
12 20 (8.62%) SpecFlow
13 19 (8.19%) JUnit
14 17 (7.33%) Snyk
15 14 (6.03%) Appium
16 13 (5.60%) TeamCity
17 11 (4.74%) Bitbucket
17 11 (4.74%) LoadRunner
General
1 84 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 61 (26.29%) Finance
3 42 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.76%) Banking
5 16 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.02%) Law
7 4 (1.72%) Advertising
7 4 (1.72%) Back Office
7 4 (1.72%) Retail
8 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.29%) Marketing
9 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.86%) Electronics
9 2 (0.86%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) iGaming
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) International Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (28.88%) Lead
2 38 (16.38%) Test Engineer
3 32 (13.79%) Developer
3 32 (13.79%) Senior
4 29 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 28 (12.07%) QA Engineer
6 26 (11.21%) QA Leader
6 26 (11.21%) Tester
7 25 (10.78%) Test Automation Engineer
8 23 (9.91%) Analyst
9 21 (9.05%) Test Analyst
10 14 (6.03%) Java Developer
10 14 (6.03%) QA Automation Engineer
11 13 (5.60%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (5.17%) Automation Tester
12 12 (5.17%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.31%) Senior Test Engineer
14 9 (3.88%) Automation Test Lead
14 9 (3.88%) Senior Developer
15 8 (3.45%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (37.50%) Playwright
2 50 (21.55%) .NET
3 47 (20.26%) HTML
4 31 (13.36%) SOAP
5 27 (11.64%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (10.34%) REST
7 21 (9.05%) React
8 20 (8.62%) CSS
9 19 (8.19%) pytest
10 17 (7.33%) Gherkin
11 15 (6.47%) Node.js
11 15 (6.47%) RESTful
12 13 (5.60%) Spring
12 13 (5.60%) Spring Boot
12 13 (5.60%) XML
13 8 (3.45%) Django
13 8 (3.45%) Flask
13 8 (3.45%) Web Services
14 7 (3.02%) JSON
14 7 (3.02%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.72%) Derivative
8 4 (1.72%) Equities
8 4 (1.72%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.72%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.86%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.21%) Linux
2 18 (7.76%) Windows
3 5 (2.16%) Unix
4 2 (0.86%) CentOS
5 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (79.31%) Test Automation
2 123 (53.02%) Agile
3 114 (49.14%) CI/CD
4 95 (40.95%) DevOps
5 71 (30.60%) Software Testing
6 65 (28.02%) Scrum
7 63 (27.16%) API Testing
8 59 (25.43%) Test Management
9 54 (23.28%) Mentoring
9 54 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (22.41%) BDD
11 49 (21.12%) Non-Functional Testing
12 48 (20.69%) Test Scripting
13 46 (19.83%) Test Strategy
14 35 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (14.22%) Manual Testing
15 33 (14.22%) Microservices
16 32 (13.79%) SDLC
17 29 (12.50%) Regression Testing
18 27 (11.64%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (48.71%) Java
2 80 (34.48%) SQL
3 69 (29.74%) C#
4 59 (25.43%) Python
5 48 (20.69%) JavaScript
6 29 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.45%) Bash
7 8 (3.45%) Delphi
8 6 (2.59%) PHP
9 5 (2.16%) Go
10 3 (1.29%) RPG
11 2 (0.86%) Groovy
11 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.43%) JCL
12 1 (0.43%) Perl
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (21.12%) Degree
2 48 (20.69%) ISTQB
3 36 (15.52%) Security Cleared
4 23 (9.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 19 (8.19%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.19%) SC Cleared
6 16 (6.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 12 (5.17%) ISEB
8 8 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (41.81%) QA
2 36 (15.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.43%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (17.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 32 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.36%) Terraform
3 21 (9.05%) Ansible
4 16 (6.90%) Grafana
5 7 (3.02%) HP Fortify
6 5 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.72%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.86%) Control-M
8 2 (0.86%) Kibana
8 2 (0.86%) logstash
8 2 (0.86%) Nessus
8 2 (0.86%) Packer
8 2 (0.86%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) MIIS
Vendors
1 18 (7.76%) Oracle
2 17 (7.33%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.33%) Coverity
3 10 (4.31%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.88%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.02%) Google
5 7 (3.02%) Splunk
6 6 (2.59%) IBM
7 4 (1.72%) HP
7 4 (1.72%) SAP
7 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.72%) VMware
8 3 (1.29%) Siebel
9 2 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (0.86%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.86%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.86%) UiPath
10 1 (0.43%) Concur
10 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.43%) Veracode