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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 385 358
Rank change year-on-year -86 -27 -159
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 234 273 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.64% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.72% 5.95% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 204 208 497
10th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,650
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 £71,250 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,250 £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 4,090 4,589 8,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.47% 10.73% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,665 3,060 6,689
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -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% -4.35%

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 18 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 18 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 -38 223 £57,500 -11.54% 79
UK excluding London -79 138 £52,500 -12.50% 69
Work from Home +19 96 £52,500 -12.50% 43
London +1 82 £67,500 +1.89% 30
South East -14 66 £50,000 -19.35% 17
South West -12 29 £47,500 -37.91% 5
North of England -52 21 £55,200 -8.00% 15
Midlands -46 16 £60,000 - 11
West Midlands -14 13 £61,000 -9.63% 7
Yorkshire -46 10 £53,500 -23.57% 6
North West -23 8 £55,500 -14.62% 7
Wales -17 4 £48,100 -0.82% 7
North East -19 3 £65,000 +40.54% 2
East Midlands -49 3 £60,000 - 4
East of England -17 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 17 (7.26%) Confluence
2 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.85%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) Appian
3 2 (0.85%) JBoss
3 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (4.27%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.85%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (28.63%) Azure
2 58 (24.79%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (20.94%) AWS
4 20 (8.55%) GitHub
5 14 (5.98%) BrowserStack
6 10 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (4.27%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.42%) SaaS
9 7 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.71%) Apigee
11 4 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.28%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.28%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.13%) DNS
2 6 (2.56%) HTTP
3 2 (0.85%) DSL
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.98%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.13%) DB2
5 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.85%) Airbyte
6 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.85%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.85%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.85%) Tableau
7 1 (0.43%) MS Access
7 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.43%) Power BI
7 1 (0.43%) Redis
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.43%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 65 (27.78%) Cypress.io
2 61 (26.07%) Postman
3 56 (23.93%) JIRA
4 54 (23.08%) Jenkins
5 44 (18.80%) Git
6 40 (17.09%) Cucumber
6 40 (17.09%) WebDriver
7 32 (13.68%) SoapUI
8 30 (12.82%) GitLab
9 25 (10.68%) JMeter
10 22 (9.40%) Robot Framework
11 21 (8.97%) REST Assured
11 21 (8.97%) Team Foundation Server
12 20 (8.55%) JUnit
12 20 (8.55%) SpecFlow
13 17 (7.26%) Snyk
14 14 (5.98%) Appium
15 13 (5.56%) TeamCity
16 11 (4.70%) Bitbucket
17 10 (4.27%) LoadRunner
General
1 83 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.50%) Finance
3 42 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.69%) Banking
5 15 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.56%) Law
8 4 (1.71%) Advertising
8 4 (1.71%) Back Office
8 4 (1.71%) Retail
9 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Marketing
10 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.85%) Electronics
10 2 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) iGaming
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) International Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (28.63%) Lead
2 39 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 33 (14.10%) Senior
4 31 (13.25%) Developer
4 31 (13.25%) QA Engineer
5 28 (11.97%) Test Leader
6 27 (11.54%) QA Leader
7 26 (11.11%) Tester
8 25 (10.68%) Test Automation Engineer
9 23 (9.83%) Analyst
10 21 (8.97%) Test Analyst
11 15 (6.41%) QA Automation Engineer
12 14 (5.98%) Java Developer
13 13 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (5.56%) Automation Tester
14 11 (4.70%) Software Developer
15 10 (4.27%) Senior Test Engineer
16 9 (3.85%) Automation Test Lead
16 9 (3.85%) Senior Developer
17 8 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (37.18%) Playwright
2 49 (20.94%) .NET
3 46 (19.66%) HTML
4 30 (12.82%) SOAP
5 27 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (9.83%) REST
7 22 (9.40%) React
8 20 (8.55%) CSS
9 18 (7.69%) pytest
10 17 (7.26%) Gherkin
11 15 (6.41%) Node.js
11 15 (6.41%) RESTful
12 14 (5.98%) Spring
12 14 (5.98%) Spring Boot
13 12 (5.13%) XML
14 8 (3.42%) Django
14 8 (3.42%) Flask
14 8 (3.42%) Kafka
14 8 (3.42%) Web Services
15 7 (2.99%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.26%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.71%) Derivative
7 4 (1.71%) Equities
7 4 (1.71%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.28%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.11%) Linux
2 18 (7.69%) Windows
3 5 (2.14%) Unix
4 2 (0.85%) CentOS
5 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (79.49%) Test Automation
2 124 (52.99%) Agile
3 117 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 97 (41.45%) DevOps
5 71 (30.34%) Software Testing
6 64 (27.35%) Scrum
7 63 (26.92%) API Testing
8 58 (24.79%) Test Management
9 53 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (22.22%) BDD
10 52 (22.22%) Mentoring
11 48 (20.51%) Non-Functional Testing
12 47 (20.09%) Test Scripting
13 44 (18.80%) Test Strategy
14 38 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (14.96%) Manual Testing
16 33 (14.10%) SDLC
17 32 (13.68%) Microservices
18 29 (12.39%) Regression Testing
19 28 (11.97%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (49.15%) Java
2 78 (33.33%) SQL
3 68 (29.06%) C#
4 60 (25.64%) Python
5 49 (20.94%) JavaScript
6 30 (12.82%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.42%) Bash
7 8 (3.42%) Delphi
8 6 (2.56%) PHP
9 5 (2.14%) Go
10 3 (1.28%) RPG
11 2 (0.85%) Groovy
11 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.85%) 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 48 (20.51%) Degree
1 48 (20.51%) ISTQB
2 36 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 20 (8.55%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.12%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 12 (5.13%) ISEB
8 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (41.88%) QA
2 35 (14.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.85%) GDPR
3 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (13.25%) Kubernetes
1 31 (13.25%) Terraform
2 21 (8.97%) Ansible
3 16 (6.84%) Grafana
4 7 (2.99%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.71%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.85%) Control-M
7 2 (0.85%) Kibana
7 2 (0.85%) logstash
7 2 (0.85%) Nessus
7 2 (0.85%) Packer
7 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.43%) Argo
8 1 (0.43%) MIIS
Vendors
1 18 (7.69%) Oracle
2 17 (7.26%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.26%) Coverity
3 10 (4.27%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.99%) Google
5 7 (2.99%) Splunk
6 6 (2.56%) IBM
7 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.71%) HP
8 4 (1.71%) VMware
9 3 (1.28%) SAP
9 3 (1.28%) Siebel
10 2 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.85%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.85%) UiPath
11 1 (0.43%) Concur
11 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.43%) eFront