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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 415 264
Rank change year-on-year -5 -151 -55
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 224 381 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.56% 1.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.11% 6.20% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 179 222 507
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £46,875 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £69,375 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,700 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,732 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +4.97% -

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 3,668 6,146 6,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.88% 8.97% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,359 3,495 5,472
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £42,069
25th Percentile £42,780 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 17 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 22 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 -7 203 £60,000 -2.04% 152
UK excluding London -53 132 £57,500 -0.40% 117
Work from Home +67 88 £55,000 -5.11% 80
London +52 75 £67,500 -0.74% 63
South East -30 59 £50,000 -29.08% 44
Midlands +62 26 £61,500 +6.53% 14
North of England -1 19 £58,750 +30.56% 23
West Midlands +52 15 £60,750 +5.65% 9
South West +35 15 £46,250 +13.50% 10
North West +25 12 £62,000 +37.78% 17
East Midlands +29 11 £62,500 +4.17% 4
East of England +19 5 £60,000 +60.00% 6
Yorkshire -9 5 £53,500 +42.67% 4
Wales +14 4 £47,100 - 9
Scotland -8 3 £50,000 +8.70% 6
North East +16 2 £55,200 -4.77% 2
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 15 (6.70%) Confluence
2 7 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.13%) Appian
3 5 (2.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.34%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.45%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 71 (31.70%) AWS
2 68 (30.36%) Azure
3 53 (23.66%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.71%) GitHub
5 15 (6.70%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.70%) SaaS
6 13 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (5.80%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.46%) Serverless
8 9 (4.02%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (3.57%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.68%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.68%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (2.68%) MinIO
12 5 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.46%) DNS
2 2 (0.89%) HTTP
2 2 (0.89%) Internet
3 1 (0.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (8.93%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.04%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.57%) DB2
5 6 (2.68%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.23%) Airbyte
7 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.34%) Big Data
8 3 (1.34%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.89%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.89%) Tableau
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 68 (30.36%) Postman
2 64 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 60 (26.79%) JIRA
4 51 (22.77%) Cucumber
5 45 (20.09%) Cypress.io
6 41 (18.30%) Git
7 37 (16.52%) WebDriver
8 29 (12.95%) JMeter
9 28 (12.50%) SoapUI
10 26 (11.61%) GitLab
11 23 (10.27%) JUnit
12 20 (8.93%) Appium
12 20 (8.93%) REST Assured
12 20 (8.93%) Robot Framework
13 18 (8.04%) Snyk
14 16 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
15 13 (5.80%) LoadRunner
16 12 (5.36%) TestRail
17 11 (4.91%) Bitbucket
17 11 (4.91%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (33.93%) Finance
2 73 (32.59%) Social Skills
3 52 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.16%) Law
5 20 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (8.04%) Banking
7 15 (6.70%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.46%) Marketing
9 7 (3.13%) Legal
10 6 (2.68%) Retail
11 4 (1.79%) Back Office
12 3 (1.34%) Electronics
12 3 (1.34%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.89%) Advertising
13 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.45%) Games
14 1 (0.45%) International Banking
14 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (24.11%) Lead
2 48 (21.43%) Senior
3 35 (15.63%) Test Engineer
4 30 (13.39%) Analyst
4 30 (13.39%) Test Automation Engineer
5 29 (12.95%) Developer
6 27 (12.05%) QA Engineer
6 27 (12.05%) Test Analyst
7 24 (10.71%) Tester
8 23 (10.27%) QA Leader
9 22 (9.82%) Automation Engineer
9 22 (9.82%) QA Automation Engineer
10 17 (7.59%) Test Leader
11 15 (6.70%) Automation Tester
11 15 (6.70%) Software Developer
12 13 (5.80%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.36%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (5.36%) Senior Developer
13 12 (5.36%) Senior Test Analyst
14 11 (4.91%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (28.13%) Playwright
2 41 (18.30%) HTML
3 33 (14.73%) .NET
4 29 (12.95%) REST
5 28 (12.50%) SOAP
6 26 (11.61%) pytest
7 24 (10.71%) CSS
8 21 (9.38%) React
9 18 (8.04%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (8.04%) Kafka
10 17 (7.59%) RESTful
11 15 (6.70%) Node.js
11 15 (6.70%) Spring
12 13 (5.80%) Spring Boot
13 11 (4.91%) Gherkin
14 8 (3.57%) Django
14 8 (3.57%) Flask
15 7 (3.13%) JSON
16 6 (2.68%) Apache NiFi
16 6 (2.68%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.61%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.82%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.59%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.02%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.57%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.79%) Derivative
7 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.79%) Equities
7 4 (1.79%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.34%) W3C
8 3 (1.34%) Wiki
9 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.82%) Linux
2 14 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (85.27%) Test Automation
2 134 (59.82%) Agile
3 120 (53.57%) CI/CD
4 92 (41.07%) DevOps
5 72 (32.14%) API Testing
6 70 (31.25%) Software Testing
7 59 (26.34%) Test Management
8 57 (25.45%) Mentoring
8 57 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (25.45%) Scrum
9 54 (24.11%) Test Scripting
10 53 (23.66%) Test Strategy
11 47 (20.98%) BDD
12 45 (20.09%) SDLC
13 43 (19.20%) Microservices
14 41 (18.30%) Non-Functional Testing
15 39 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (16.07%) Manual Testing
17 33 (14.73%) Software Engineering
18 32 (14.29%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (46.43%) Java
2 74 (33.04%) SQL
3 70 (31.25%) Python
4 66 (29.46%) C#
5 49 (21.88%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.57%) Delphi
7 8 (3.57%) Go
7 8 (3.57%) PHP
8 6 (2.68%) Groovy
9 2 (0.89%) Bash
9 2 (0.89%) Scala
10 1 (0.45%) C
10 1 (0.45%) C++
10 1 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 53 (23.66%) ISTQB
2 39 (17.41%) Degree
3 35 (15.63%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.48%) DV Cleared
4 19 (8.48%) SC Cleared
5 17 (7.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 14 (6.25%) ISEB
7 12 (5.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (44.20%) QA
2 24 (10.71%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.79%) WCAG
5 3 (1.34%) SEPA
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (16.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.16%) Terraform
3 18 (8.04%) Ansible
4 10 (4.46%) Grafana
5 3 (1.34%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.89%) Control-M
6 2 (0.89%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.89%) Nessus
6 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.45%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (8.04%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.59%) Coverity
3 14 (6.25%) Oracle
4 13 (5.80%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.13%) Databricks
5 7 (3.13%) UiPath
6 6 (2.68%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.68%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (2.68%) VMware
7 5 (2.23%) Blue Prism
8 4 (1.79%) Adobe
8 4 (1.79%) SAP
9 3 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.34%) HP
9 3 (1.34%) IBM
9 3 (1.34%) Siebel
9 3 (1.34%) Splunk
9 3 (1.34%) Tealium
10 2 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.89%) Workday