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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 419 264
Rank change year-on-year +122 -155 -66
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 460 384 714
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.94% 0.55% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.30% 6.37% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 168 238 602
10th Percentile £41,175 £36,250 £42,537
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £67,813 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

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 3,739 6,028 7,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.65% 8.63% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,208 3,392 5,951
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,025 £42,399
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,306 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%

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 17 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 18 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 17 October 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 +96 385 £57,500 -4.17% 140
UK excluding London +106 380 £57,500 - 121
Work from Home +198 340 £55,000 -2.22% 86
North of England +68 133 £57,500 +27.78% 22
North West +76 122 £66,250 +47.22% 12
Midlands +107 83 £62,500 +8.70% 16
London +32 60 £62,000 -8.15% 34
South East -66 58 £55,000 -16.98% 58
Scotland +19 52 £50,000 +25.00%
East Midlands +54 47 £65,000 +8.33%
West Midlands +73 36 £61,500 +6.96% 15
East of England +33 32 £53,000 +51.43% 8
South West +56 16 £57,500 -10.85% 17
Yorkshire -6 7 £53,500 +38.06% 5
North East +13 4 - - 5
Wales - 4 £57,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +11 2 £55,000 -18.52%
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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
1 171 (37.17%) Confluence
2 12 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.61%) Appian
3 6 (1.30%) Apache
4 5 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.65%) nginx
5 3 (0.65%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.43%) Elite 3E
1 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.22%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 321 (69.78%) AWS
2 311 (67.61%) Azure
3 162 (35.22%) GCP
4 47 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 18 (3.91%) GitHub
6 18 (3.91%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.83%) SaaS
8 12 (2.61%) Serverless
9 11 (2.39%) MinIO
10 9 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.52%) Amazon Bedrock
12 7 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.52%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (1.30%) BrowserStack
13 6 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.87%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.30%) DNS
2 3 (0.65%) Internet
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
3 1 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (55.22%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.39%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.30%) Airbyte
6 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.87%) Big Data
7 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.65%) DB2
8 3 (0.65%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.43%) MySQL
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.43%) Tableau
10 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.22%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 309 (67.17%) JIRA
2 285 (61.96%) Cucumber
3 265 (57.61%) GitLab
4 259 (56.30%) Maven
5 257 (55.87%) Bitbucket
6 253 (55.00%) SonarQube
7 248 (53.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 64 (13.91%) Postman
9 52 (11.30%) Jenkins
10 48 (10.43%) Cypress.io
11 38 (8.26%) WebDriver
12 31 (6.74%) Git
13 28 (6.09%) JMeter
14 24 (5.22%) SoapUI
15 23 (5.00%) Appium
16 19 (4.13%) JUnit
16 19 (4.13%) Robot Framework
16 19 (4.13%) Snyk
17 17 (3.70%) REST Assured
18 16 (3.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 318 (69.13%) Finance
2 271 (58.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 257 (55.87%) Banking
4 96 (20.87%) Retail
5 90 (19.57%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (19.57%) Investment Banking
6 56 (12.17%) Social Skills
7 46 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (8.48%) Law
9 17 (3.70%) Legal
9 17 (3.70%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.17%) Marketing
11 5 (1.09%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.65%) Electronics
12 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.43%) Advertising
13 2 (0.43%) Cantonese Language
13 2 (0.43%) Mandarin Language
14 1 (0.22%) Games
14 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 261 (56.74%) Software Engineer
2 47 (10.22%) Senior
3 40 (8.70%) Lead
3 40 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 38 (8.26%) QA Engineer
5 32 (6.96%) Test Automation Engineer
6 24 (5.22%) Analyst
7 22 (4.78%) QA Automation Engineer
7 22 (4.78%) Test Analyst
8 20 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
8 20 (4.35%) Developer
8 20 (4.35%) Tester
9 17 (3.70%) QA Leader
10 13 (2.83%) Automation Tester
10 13 (2.83%) Java Engineer
11 12 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (2.61%) Senior Test Analyst
12 11 (2.39%) Applications Architect
12 11 (2.39%) Architect
12 11 (2.39%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (61.52%) HTML
2 277 (60.22%) Kafka
3 266 (57.83%) CSS
4 259 (56.30%) React
4 259 (56.30%) Spring
4 259 (56.30%) Spring Boot
5 248 (53.91%) JPA
5 248 (53.91%) Redux
6 159 (34.57%) Hibernate
7 116 (25.22%) REST
8 106 (23.04%) RESTful
9 95 (20.65%) HTML5
10 92 (20.00%) CSS3
11 91 (19.78%) Jest
12 90 (19.57%) Sass
13 60 (13.04%) Playwright
14 26 (5.65%) SOAP
15 22 (4.78%) .NET
16 17 (3.70%) pytest
17 11 (2.39%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 267 (58.04%) Product Ownership
2 249 (54.13%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.83%) Low-Code
6 11 (2.39%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 6 (1.30%) Wiki
9 4 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.87%) Life Science
10 3 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.65%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.65%) W3C
11 2 (0.43%) Hackathon
11 2 (0.43%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.43%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.04%) Linux
2 7 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (93.04%) Test Automation
2 389 (84.57%) Agile
3 357 (77.61%) CI/CD
4 328 (71.30%) DevOps
5 292 (63.48%) SDLC
6 284 (61.74%) Microservices
7 277 (60.22%) Software Engineering
8 257 (55.87%) Containerisation
9 255 (55.43%) Front End Development
9 255 (55.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 250 (54.35%) Performance Optimisation
11 190 (41.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 177 (38.48%) TDD
13 165 (35.87%) Clean Code
14 136 (29.57%) Mentoring
15 103 (22.39%) User Experience
16 95 (20.65%) Strategic Thinking
17 92 (20.00%) Migration
17 92 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
18 67 (14.57%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 342 (74.35%) Java
2 306 (66.52%) SQL
3 290 (63.04%) JavaScript
4 111 (24.13%) TypeScript
5 64 (13.91%) Python
6 57 (12.39%) C#
7 7 (1.52%) Groovy
8 6 (1.30%) Go
8 6 (1.30%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) C
9 1 (0.22%) C++
9 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (12.17%) ISTQB
2 34 (7.39%) Degree
3 33 (7.17%) Security Cleared
4 20 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 12 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.30%) ISEB
9 5 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (76.09%) QA
2 116 (25.22%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.87%) WCAG
5 3 (0.65%) SEPA
6 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 276 (60.00%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 272 (59.13%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.87%) Terraform
3 22 (4.78%) Ansible
4 3 (0.65%) Kustomize
4 3 (0.65%) Packer
5 2 (0.43%) Control-M
5 2 (0.43%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.22%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 247 (53.70%) Solace
2 19 (4.13%) Black Duck
3 14 (3.04%) Coverity
4 13 (2.83%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.61%) UiPath
6 11 (2.39%) BiZZdesign
6 11 (2.39%) VMware
7 9 (1.96%) Databricks
8 7 (1.52%) Oracle
9 6 (1.30%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.87%) Adobe
11 3 (0.65%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.65%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.65%) Splunk
11 3 (0.65%) Tealium
12 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.43%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.43%) IBM
12 2 (0.43%) SAP
12 2 (0.43%) Workday