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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 402 275
Rank change year-on-year -27 -127 -65
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 228 356 558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.63% 1.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.24% 6.14% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 194 226 470
10th Percentile £40,575 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £45,875 £48,750 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,563 £91,451
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% +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 3,651 5,798 6,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.16% 10.32% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,399 3,415 5,084
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £78,375 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.98% +6.36%

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 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 16 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 December 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 -4 217 £57,500 -11.54% 328
UK excluding London -42 138 £53,500 -10.83% 303
Work from Home +72 104 £52,500 -12.50% 67
London +44 80 £67,500 -1.46% 48
South East -23 75 £50,000 -29.58% 97
Midlands +5 21 £60,000 - 44
North of England -7 17 £60,000 +33.33% 67
West Midlands +34 14 £57,500 -0.40% 25
South West +18 14 £45,000 -10.00% 34
North West +18 8 £62,000 +37.78% 32
Yorkshire -14 7 £55,500 +53.14% 31
East Midlands -17 7 £60,000 - 16
East of England +23 5 £60,000 +60.00% 49
Wales +3 5 £48,100 -0.82% 4
North East +5 2 £55,200 -4.77% 4
Scotland -17 1 - - 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 18 (7.89%) Confluence
2 7 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.63%) Appian
4 5 (2.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.82%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
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%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (29.39%) Azure
2 60 (26.32%) AWS
3 56 (24.56%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (9.65%) GitHub
5 17 (7.46%) Power Platform
6 13 (5.70%) SaaS
7 12 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (3.51%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.51%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.51%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.63%) MinIO
11 5 (2.19%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.75%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.75%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.75%) Serverless
13 3 (1.32%) Azure App Service
13 3 (1.32%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) SSH
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.09%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.02%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.70%) DB2
5 5 (2.19%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.32%) Mixpanel
6 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.88%) Big Data
7 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.88%) Tableau
8 1 (0.44%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 73 (32.02%) Postman
2 72 (31.58%) JIRA
3 61 (26.75%) Jenkins
4 53 (23.25%) WebDriver
5 49 (21.49%) Cucumber
6 45 (19.74%) Git
7 43 (18.86%) Cypress.io
8 39 (17.11%) SoapUI
9 29 (12.72%) JMeter
10 28 (12.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 25 (10.96%) GitLab
12 24 (10.53%) Robot Framework
13 21 (9.21%) Snyk
14 20 (8.77%) JUnit
15 18 (7.89%) REST Assured
16 16 (7.02%) Appium
16 16 (7.02%) Bitbucket
17 14 (6.14%) LoadRunner
18 13 (5.70%) SpecFlow
18 13 (5.70%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 69 (30.26%) Finance
3 48 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.33%) Banking
5 16 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.70%) Law
7 11 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.51%) Retail
9 5 (2.19%) Electronics
10 4 (1.75%) Advertising
10 4 (1.75%) Back Office
10 4 (1.75%) Legal
10 4 (1.75%) Marketing
11 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) International Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.44%) Publishing
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (28.51%) Lead
2 47 (20.61%) Senior
3 37 (16.23%) Test Engineer
4 32 (14.04%) Analyst
4 32 (14.04%) Developer
5 31 (13.60%) Test Analyst
6 27 (11.84%) Test Automation Engineer
6 27 (11.84%) Tester
7 24 (10.53%) Test Leader
8 23 (10.09%) QA Engineer
9 19 (8.33%) QA Leader
10 17 (7.46%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (7.46%) QA Automation Engineer
11 16 (7.02%) Automation Tester
12 13 (5.70%) Software Developer
13 12 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
13 12 (5.26%) Java Developer
13 12 (5.26%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (4.82%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (24.56%) Playwright
2 51 (22.37%) HTML
3 46 (20.18%) .NET
4 37 (16.23%) SOAP
5 25 (10.96%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (10.96%) REST
6 23 (10.09%) CSS
6 23 (10.09%) React
7 22 (9.65%) RESTful
8 20 (8.77%) pytest
9 16 (7.02%) Gherkin
10 15 (6.58%) Kafka
10 15 (6.58%) Node.js
11 12 (5.26%) Spring
12 10 (4.39%) Spring Boot
13 8 (3.51%) Django
13 8 (3.51%) Flask
14 7 (3.07%) Middleware
15 6 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
15 6 (2.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.84%) Product Ownership
2 25 (10.96%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.46%) Cloud Native
4 15 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.51%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (3.07%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
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%) W3C
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.88%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.53%) Linux
2 16 (7.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (81.14%) Test Automation
2 138 (60.53%) Agile
3 114 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 94 (41.23%) DevOps
5 79 (34.65%) Software Testing
6 74 (32.46%) Test Management
7 72 (31.58%) Scrum
8 71 (31.14%) API Testing
9 66 (28.95%) Mentoring
10 58 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
11 57 (25.00%) Test Scripting
12 55 (24.12%) BDD
13 51 (22.37%) Test Strategy
14 43 (18.86%) Microservices
15 39 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (16.23%) SDLC
17 33 (14.47%) Manual Testing
18 30 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
19 29 (12.72%) Cross-Browser Testing
Programming Languages
1 118 (51.75%) Java
2 91 (39.91%) SQL
3 80 (35.09%) C#
4 63 (27.63%) Python
5 50 (21.93%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.21%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.51%) Delphi
8 7 (3.07%) Go
8 7 (3.07%) PHP
9 3 (1.32%) Bash
9 3 (1.32%) RPG
10 2 (0.88%) Groovy
10 2 (0.88%) Scala
11 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 60 (26.32%) ISTQB
2 55 (24.12%) Degree
3 41 (17.98%) Security Cleared
4 29 (12.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 23 (10.09%) SC Cleared
6 22 (9.65%) DV Cleared
7 13 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 11 (4.82%) ISEB
10 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (41.67%) QA
2 25 (10.96%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.75%) WCAG
4 3 (1.32%) SEPA
5 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (14.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Firmware
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (12.72%) Kubernetes
1 29 (12.72%) Terraform
2 21 (9.21%) Ansible
3 12 (5.26%) Grafana
4 4 (1.75%) HP Fortify
4 4 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.32%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.88%) Control-M
6 2 (0.88%) Nessus
7 1 (0.44%) Argo
7 1 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (9.21%) Black Duck
2 20 (8.77%) Coverity
3 15 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.14%) Oracle
5 9 (3.95%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.07%) UiPath
7 6 (2.63%) BiZZdesign
7 6 (2.63%) IBM
7 6 (2.63%) VMware
8 5 (2.19%) Adobe
8 5 (2.19%) Blue Prism
9 4 (1.75%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.75%) SAP
9 4 (1.75%) Splunk
10 3 (1.32%) HP
10 3 (1.32%) Siebel
10 3 (1.32%) Tealium
11 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.88%) Google
12 1 (0.44%) New Relic