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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 413 265
Rank change year-on-year -19 -148 -49
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 222 381 615
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.59% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.26% 6.29% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 180 228 511
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,350 £57,965 £55,659
% change year-on-year -2.79% +4.14% +1.20%

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 3,544 6,056 6,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.54% 9.34% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,272 3,485 5,368
10th Percentile £29,075 £37,500 £42,255
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +7.27%

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 1 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 1 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 +8 202 £60,000 -4.00% 70
UK excluding London -43 131 £56,350 -2.79% 72
Work from Home +60 91 £53,500 -7.70% 39
London +45 74 £67,500 -0.74% 14
South East -26 61 £50,000 -30.31% 38
Midlands +43 26 £60,750 +4.81% 6
North of England -11 18 £60,000 +33.33% 13
West Midlands +54 16 £60,000 +4.35% 5
South West +25 14 £45,000 -10.00% 3
East Midlands +16 10 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North West +23 9 £62,000 +37.78% 9
Yorkshire -10 7 £55,500 +38.75% 3
Wales +15 6 £41,000 -15.46% 4
East of England +25 4 £60,000 +60.00% 7
North East +12 2 £55,200 -4.77% 1
Scotland -13 2 - - 2

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 13 (5.86%) Confluence
2 7 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.15%) Appian
3 5 (2.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.60%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.35%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.45%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 65 (29.28%) Azure
2 63 (28.38%) AWS
3 52 (23.42%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.01%) GitHub
5 15 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.76%) SaaS
6 13 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (5.86%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.05%) Serverless
8 8 (3.60%) BrowserStack
8 8 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.60%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.70%) MinIO
10 5 (2.25%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.80%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (1.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.50%) DNS
2 2 (0.90%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) Internet
3 1 (0.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.01%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.66%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.05%) DB2
5 5 (2.25%) Airbyte
6 4 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.35%) Mixpanel
7 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.90%) Big Data
8 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.90%) Tableau
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 66 (29.73%) Postman
2 64 (28.83%) Jenkins
3 58 (26.13%) JIRA
4 48 (21.62%) Cucumber
5 43 (19.37%) Cypress.io
6 42 (18.92%) Git
7 41 (18.47%) WebDriver
8 30 (13.51%) JMeter
8 30 (13.51%) SoapUI
9 25 (11.26%) GitLab
10 22 (9.91%) JUnit
11 21 (9.46%) Robot Framework
12 19 (8.56%) Appium
12 19 (8.56%) REST Assured
13 18 (8.11%) Snyk
13 18 (8.11%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (6.31%) LoadRunner
15 13 (5.86%) Bitbucket
15 13 (5.86%) TestRail
16 12 (5.41%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 69 (31.08%) Finance
3 51 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.56%) Law
5 17 (7.66%) Banking
5 17 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.05%) Marketing
8 7 (3.15%) Retail
9 6 (2.70%) Legal
10 4 (1.80%) Back Office
10 4 (1.80%) Electronics
11 3 (1.35%) Advertising
11 3 (1.35%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.45%) Games
13 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (26.13%) Lead
2 50 (22.52%) Senior
3 39 (17.57%) Test Engineer
4 32 (14.41%) Test Automation Engineer
5 29 (13.06%) Analyst
6 28 (12.61%) Developer
6 28 (12.61%) Test Analyst
7 27 (12.16%) QA Engineer
8 25 (11.26%) Tester
9 22 (9.91%) QA Leader
10 21 (9.46%) QA Automation Engineer
11 20 (9.01%) Automation Engineer
12 19 (8.56%) Test Leader
13 15 (6.76%) Automation Tester
14 13 (5.86%) Software Developer
15 12 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (5.41%) Senior Developer
15 12 (5.41%) Senior Test Analyst
16 11 (4.95%) Automation Test Lead
16 11 (4.95%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (27.93%) Playwright
2 39 (17.57%) HTML
3 35 (15.77%) .NET
4 29 (13.06%) SOAP
5 27 (12.16%) REST
6 25 (11.26%) pytest
7 21 (9.46%) CSS
8 20 (9.01%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (8.56%) React
10 18 (8.11%) RESTful
11 15 (6.76%) Kafka
12 14 (6.31%) Node.js
13 13 (5.86%) Gherkin
14 12 (5.41%) Spring
15 10 (4.50%) Spring Boot
16 8 (3.60%) Django
16 8 (3.60%) Flask
17 6 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
17 6 (2.70%) Middleware
18 5 (2.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.71%) Product Ownership
2 23 (10.36%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.66%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.05%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.60%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.80%) Derivative
8 4 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.80%) Equities
8 4 (1.80%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.35%) W3C
10 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.90%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.46%) Linux
2 14 (6.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (84.68%) Test Automation
2 131 (59.01%) Agile
3 115 (51.80%) CI/CD
4 92 (41.44%) DevOps
5 73 (32.88%) Software Testing
6 70 (31.53%) API Testing
7 63 (28.38%) Scrum
8 61 (27.48%) Test Management
9 59 (26.58%) Mentoring
9 59 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (24.32%) Test Scripting
11 53 (23.87%) Test Strategy
12 51 (22.97%) BDD
13 45 (20.27%) SDLC
14 44 (19.82%) Non-Functional Testing
15 41 (18.47%) Microservices
16 39 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (15.32%) Manual Testing
18 31 (13.96%) Performance Testing
19 30 (13.51%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (47.30%) Java
2 75 (33.78%) SQL
3 69 (31.08%) C#
3 69 (31.08%) Python
4 46 (20.72%) JavaScript
5 20 (9.01%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.60%) Delphi
6 8 (3.60%) Go
6 8 (3.60%) PHP
7 5 (2.25%) Groovy
8 2 (0.90%) Bash
8 2 (0.90%) RPG
8 2 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (23.87%) ISTQB
2 44 (19.82%) Degree
3 36 (16.22%) Security Cleared
4 20 (9.01%) SC Cleared
5 19 (8.56%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 13 (5.86%) ISEB
7 12 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.35%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (44.14%) QA
2 24 (10.81%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.80%) WCAG
5 3 (1.35%) SEPA
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (14.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.26%) Terraform
3 18 (8.11%) Ansible
4 11 (4.95%) Grafana
5 4 (1.80%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.35%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.90%) Control-M
7 2 (0.90%) Nessus
8 1 (0.45%) Argo
8 1 (0.45%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (8.11%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.66%) Coverity
3 13 (5.86%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.86%) Oracle
4 7 (3.15%) UiPath
5 6 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (2.70%) VMware
6 5 (2.25%) Adobe
6 5 (2.25%) Blue Prism
6 5 (2.25%) IBM
7 4 (1.80%) Databricks
7 4 (1.80%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.80%) SAP
8 3 (1.35%) HP
8 3 (1.35%) Siebel
8 3 (1.35%) Splunk
8 3 (1.35%) Tealium
9 2 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.90%) Workday