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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 403 361
Rank change year-on-year -62 -42 -163
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 236 258 659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.62% 0.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.70% 5.82% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 205 205 495
10th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,350
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £94,000 £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 4,139 4,430 8,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.39% 10.71% 10.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,685 3,050 6,726
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,006
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 £81,250 £79,438
90th Percentile £91,150 £100,000 £95,000
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 24 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 24 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 -52 224 £57,500 -11.54% 78
UK excluding London -81 141 £52,500 -12.50% 68
Work from Home +18 95 £52,500 -12.50% 31
London +11 81 £67,500 +3.85% 25
South East -27 66 £50,000 -19.35% 17
South West -12 29 £47,500 -34.48% 4
North of England -47 21 £55,200 -4.00% 18
Midlands -51 18 £60,000 -5.88% 11
West Midlands -15 15 £61,000 -9.63% 6
Yorkshire -47 10 £53,500 -10.83% 8
North West -24 7 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Wales -13 5 £52,000 +7.22% 3
North East -20 4 £65,000 +40.54% 1
East Midlands -51 3 £60,000 - 5
East of England -17 2 £55,000 +29.41% 11

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 (6.78%) Confluence
2 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.85%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) Appian
3 2 (0.85%) JBoss
3 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (3.81%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.85%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (29.24%) Azure
2 59 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (21.19%) AWS
4 21 (8.90%) GitHub
5 14 (5.93%) BrowserStack
6 10 (4.24%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (3.81%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.97%) SaaS
9 6 (2.54%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.69%) Apigee
10 4 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.27%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.27%) Sauce Labs
11 3 (1.27%) Serverless
12 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.08%) DNS
2 6 (2.54%) HTTP
3 2 (0.85%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.59%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.93%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.66%) DB2
5 3 (1.27%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.27%) Tableau
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%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.85%) Redis
7 1 (0.42%) MS Access
7 1 (0.42%) Power BI
7 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.42%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 64 (27.12%) Cypress.io
2 60 (25.42%) Postman
3 55 (23.31%) JIRA
4 52 (22.03%) Jenkins
5 44 (18.64%) Git
6 40 (16.95%) WebDriver
7 39 (16.53%) Cucumber
8 32 (13.56%) SoapUI
9 30 (12.71%) GitLab
10 26 (11.02%) JMeter
11 22 (9.32%) Robot Framework
12 21 (8.90%) JUnit
12 21 (8.90%) SpecFlow
12 21 (8.90%) Team Foundation Server
13 20 (8.47%) REST Assured
14 17 (7.20%) Snyk
15 13 (5.51%) Appium
15 13 (5.51%) TeamCity
16 11 (4.66%) Visual Studio
17 10 (4.24%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.42%) Finance
3 42 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.78%) Banking
5 15 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.54%) Law
8 5 (2.12%) Retail
9 4 (1.69%) Back Office
10 3 (1.27%) Advertising
10 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Marketing
11 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.85%) Electronics
11 2 (0.85%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) iGaming
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (28.39%) Lead
2 37 (15.68%) Test Engineer
3 34 (14.41%) Senior
4 31 (13.14%) Developer
5 30 (12.71%) QA Engineer
6 29 (12.29%) Test Leader
7 27 (11.44%) Tester
8 26 (11.02%) QA Leader
9 23 (9.75%) Analyst
9 23 (9.75%) Test Automation Engineer
10 21 (8.90%) Test Analyst
11 14 (5.93%) Automation Tester
11 14 (5.93%) QA Automation Engineer
12 13 (5.51%) Java Developer
13 12 (5.08%) Software Developer
14 11 (4.66%) Automation Engineer
15 10 (4.24%) Senior Developer
16 9 (3.81%) Automation Test Lead
16 9 (3.81%) Senior Software Developer
16 9 (3.81%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (37.71%) Playwright
2 50 (21.19%) .NET
3 47 (19.92%) HTML
4 30 (12.71%) SOAP
5 26 (11.02%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (10.17%) REST
7 22 (9.32%) React
8 19 (8.05%) CSS
9 18 (7.63%) pytest
10 16 (6.78%) Gherkin
11 15 (6.36%) RESTful
11 15 (6.36%) Spring
11 15 (6.36%) Spring Boot
12 14 (5.93%) Node.js
13 12 (5.08%) XML
14 9 (3.81%) Kafka
14 9 (3.81%) Web Services
15 8 (3.39%) Django
15 8 (3.39%) Flask
15 8 (3.39%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.44%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.24%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.69%) Derivative
7 4 (1.69%) Equities
7 4 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.27%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.27%) 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 (0.42%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.02%) Linux
2 18 (7.63%) Windows
3 5 (2.12%) Unix
4 2 (0.85%) CentOS
5 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (78.39%) Test Automation
2 122 (51.69%) Agile
3 114 (48.31%) CI/CD
4 98 (41.53%) DevOps
5 71 (30.08%) Software Testing
6 62 (26.27%) API Testing
6 62 (26.27%) Scrum
7 58 (24.58%) Test Management
8 54 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (22.46%) Mentoring
10 50 (21.19%) BDD
11 47 (19.92%) Non-Functional Testing
11 47 (19.92%) Test Scripting
12 46 (19.49%) Test Strategy
13 39 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (14.41%) Manual Testing
15 32 (13.56%) Microservices
15 32 (13.56%) SDLC
16 29 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (12.29%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 113 (47.88%) Java
2 79 (33.47%) SQL
3 69 (29.24%) C#
4 62 (26.27%) Python
5 49 (20.76%) JavaScript
6 30 (12.71%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.39%) Bash
7 8 (3.39%) Delphi
8 6 (2.54%) PHP
9 5 (2.12%) Go
10 3 (1.27%) RPG
11 2 (0.85%) Bicep
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 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.42%) JCL
12 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (20.76%) Degree
1 49 (20.76%) ISTQB
2 36 (15.25%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 19 (8.05%) DV Cleared
4 19 (8.05%) SC Cleared
5 18 (7.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 12 (5.08%) ISEB
7 7 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (41.10%) QA
2 34 (14.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.85%) GDPR
4 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (16.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (13.14%) Kubernetes
1 31 (13.14%) Terraform
2 21 (8.90%) Ansible
3 16 (6.78%) Grafana
4 7 (2.97%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.69%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.85%) Control-M
7 2 (0.85%) Kibana
7 2 (0.85%) logstash
7 2 (0.85%) MIIS
7 2 (0.85%) Nessus
7 2 (0.85%) Packer
7 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (7.63%) Oracle
2 17 (7.20%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.20%) Coverity
3 10 (4.24%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.81%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.97%) Google
5 7 (2.97%) Splunk
6 6 (2.54%) IBM
7 5 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.69%) HP
8 4 (1.69%) VMware
9 3 (1.27%) SAP
9 3 (1.27%) 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 (0.42%) Concur
11 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.42%) eFront