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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 420 274
Rank change year-on-year -24 -146 -61
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 228 366 614
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.54% 1.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.15% 6.11% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 180 213 505
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £47,188 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £69,063 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,225 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,965 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.39% -

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 3,709 5,987 6,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.95% 8.88% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,368 3,356 5,452
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,574 £42,251
25th Percentile £43,320 £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 £95,000 £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 21 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 21 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 -2 206 £60,000 -4.00% 162
UK excluding London -47 135 £57,500 -0.80% 121
Work from Home +62 88 £55,000 -5.11% 81
London +44 75 £67,500 - 72
South East -18 60 £50,000 -28.57% 41
Midlands +56 26 £61,500 +6.96% 17
North of England -4 19 £58,750 +30.56% 24
South West +36 17 £46,250 -7.50% 11
West Midlands +46 15 £60,750 +5.65% 11
North West +21 12 £62,000 +37.78% 16
East Midlands +29 11 £62,500 +4.17% 5
East of England +23 5 £60,000 +71.43% 4
Yorkshire -9 5 £53,500 +42.67% 6
Wales +15 4 £47,100 - 12
Scotland -10 3 £50,000 +8.70% 5
North East +8 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 (6.58%) Confluence
2 8 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.51%) Appian
3 5 (2.19%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.63%) 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 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.32%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 75 (32.89%) AWS
2 69 (30.26%) Azure
3 54 (23.68%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.53%) GitHub
5 16 (7.02%) Power Platform
6 15 (6.58%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.58%) SaaS
7 13 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (4.82%) Serverless
9 9 (3.95%) BrowserStack
10 8 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.51%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.07%) Amazon Bedrock
11 7 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.07%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (3.07%) MinIO
12 5 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.39%) DNS
2 3 (1.32%) Internet
3 2 (0.88%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (8.77%) SQL Server
3 19 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.51%) DB2
5 6 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.19%) Airbyte
7 4 (1.75%) Big Data
7 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.32%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.88%) MySQL
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.88%) Tableau
10 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 69 (30.26%) Postman
2 66 (28.95%) Jenkins
3 60 (26.32%) JIRA
4 51 (22.37%) Cucumber
5 46 (20.18%) Cypress.io
6 41 (17.98%) Git
7 37 (16.23%) WebDriver
8 29 (12.72%) JMeter
9 28 (12.28%) SoapUI
10 26 (11.40%) GitLab
11 23 (10.09%) JUnit
12 21 (9.21%) Robot Framework
13 20 (8.77%) Appium
13 20 (8.77%) REST Assured
14 19 (8.33%) Snyk
15 16 (7.02%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (5.70%) LoadRunner
17 12 (5.26%) TeamCity
17 12 (5.26%) TestRail
18 11 (4.82%) Bitbucket
General
1 79 (34.65%) Finance
2 74 (32.46%) Social Skills
3 53 (23.25%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.28%) Law
5 23 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (8.77%) Banking
7 15 (6.58%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.82%) Marketing
9 7 (3.07%) Legal
10 6 (2.63%) Retail
11 4 (1.75%) Back Office
12 3 (1.32%) Electronics
12 3 (1.32%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.88%) Advertising
13 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Games
14 1 (0.44%) International Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (24.12%) Lead
2 48 (21.05%) Senior
3 36 (15.79%) Test Engineer
4 31 (13.60%) Test Automation Engineer
5 30 (13.16%) Analyst
6 29 (12.72%) Developer
7 27 (11.84%) QA Engineer
7 27 (11.84%) Test Analyst
8 24 (10.53%) QA Leader
8 24 (10.53%) Tester
9 22 (9.65%) Automation Engineer
9 22 (9.65%) QA Automation Engineer
10 17 (7.46%) Test Leader
11 15 (6.58%) Automation Tester
11 15 (6.58%) Software Developer
11 15 (6.58%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (5.26%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
13 11 (4.82%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (28.51%) Playwright
2 42 (18.42%) HTML
3 33 (14.47%) .NET
4 30 (13.16%) REST
5 28 (12.28%) SOAP
6 27 (11.84%) pytest
7 25 (10.96%) CSS
8 22 (9.65%) React
9 20 (8.77%) Kafka
10 18 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (7.46%) RESTful
12 16 (7.02%) Spring
13 15 (6.58%) Node.js
14 14 (6.14%) Spring Boot
15 11 (4.82%) Gherkin
16 8 (3.51%) Django
16 8 (3.51%) Flask
17 7 (3.07%) Apache NiFi
17 7 (3.07%) JSON
18 6 (2.63%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.65%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.95%) Low-Code
4 9 (3.95%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.75%) Derivative
7 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.75%) Equities
7 4 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.32%) W3C
8 3 (1.32%) Wiki
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.65%) Linux
2 14 (6.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (85.09%) Test Automation
2 137 (60.09%) Agile
3 124 (54.39%) CI/CD
4 94 (41.23%) DevOps
5 74 (32.46%) API Testing
6 70 (30.70%) Software Testing
7 59 (25.88%) Test Management
8 58 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 57 (25.00%) Scrum
10 55 (24.12%) Test Scripting
11 53 (23.25%) Test Strategy
12 47 (20.61%) BDD
12 47 (20.61%) SDLC
13 44 (19.30%) Microservices
14 41 (17.98%) Non-Functional Testing
15 40 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (15.79%) Manual Testing
16 36 (15.79%) Software Engineering
17 33 (14.47%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (46.05%) Java
2 75 (32.89%) SQL
3 72 (31.58%) Python
4 66 (28.95%) C#
5 50 (21.93%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.65%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.51%) Delphi
7 8 (3.51%) Go
7 8 (3.51%) PHP
8 6 (2.63%) Groovy
9 2 (0.88%) Bash
9 2 (0.88%) Scala
10 1 (0.44%) C
10 1 (0.44%) C++
10 1 (0.44%) RPG
Qualifications
1 54 (23.68%) ISTQB
2 39 (17.11%) Degree
3 36 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.77%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 15 (6.58%) ISEB
8 12 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 11 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.19%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (43.86%) QA
2 24 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.75%) WCAG
5 3 (1.32%) SEPA
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 38 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.84%) Terraform
3 19 (8.33%) Ansible
4 10 (4.39%) Grafana
5 3 (1.32%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.88%) Control-M
6 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.88%) Nessus
6 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (8.33%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.46%) Coverity
3 15 (6.58%) Oracle
4 13 (5.70%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.95%) Databricks
6 8 (3.51%) UiPath
7 7 (3.07%) BiZZdesign
7 7 (3.07%) VMware
8 6 (2.63%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.19%) Blue Prism
10 4 (1.75%) Adobe
10 4 (1.75%) SAP
11 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.32%) HP
11 3 (1.32%) IBM
11 3 (1.32%) Siebel
11 3 (1.32%) Splunk
11 3 (1.32%) Tealium
12 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.88%) Workday