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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 404 331
Rank change year-on-year -35 -73 -112
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 231 318 593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.61% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.09% 5.89% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 196 190 496
10th Percentile £39,625 £41,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +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 3,791 5,400 7,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.97% 10.34% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,436 3,056 6,255
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,546 £60,781
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -0.39% -6.49%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 30 January 2026.

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 30 January 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 -11 217 £57,500 -11.54% 140
UK excluding London -54 133 £50,000 -16.67% 138
Work from Home +74 102 £51,000 -15.00% 50
London +51 83 £67,500 -1.46% 29
South East -12 73 £47,500 -29.63% 46
South West +15 22 £47,500 -38.31% 16
Midlands -10 15 £60,000 - 15
North of England -23 14 £55,000 +22.22% 29
West Midlands +5 10 £60,000 -4.00% 4
North West +8 7 £55,000 +22.22% 14
Yorkshire -32 6 £53,500 +64.69% 12
Wales +5 5 £48,100 -0.82% 7
East Midlands -23 5 £60,000 - 10
East of England +24 3 £60,000 +50.00% 20
North East -1 1 £55,200 +47.20% 3
Scotland -21 1 - - 6

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 (7.79%) Confluence
2 4 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.30%) Apache
3 3 (1.30%) Appian
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.30%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (27.71%) Azure
2 55 (23.81%) AWS
2 55 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (10.39%) GitHub
4 12 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.76%) BrowserStack
5 11 (4.76%) SaaS
6 9 (3.90%) OpenShift
7 8 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.16%) Adobe Analytics
8 5 (2.16%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.30%) Datadog
10 3 (1.30%) MinIO
10 3 (1.30%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.30%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.30%) Serverless
11 2 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.87%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.19%) DNS
2 4 (1.73%) HTTP
3 2 (0.87%) DSL
4 1 (0.43%) SSH
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.39%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.63%) DB2
5 4 (1.73%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.30%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.30%) Mixpanel
6 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.87%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.87%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) Big Data
8 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 71 (30.74%) Postman
2 70 (30.30%) JIRA
3 58 (25.11%) Jenkins
4 53 (22.94%) WebDriver
5 50 (21.65%) Cypress.io
6 45 (19.48%) Git
7 44 (19.05%) Cucumber
8 39 (16.88%) SoapUI
9 29 (12.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 25 (10.82%) JMeter
11 24 (10.39%) GitLab
12 22 (9.52%) Robot Framework
13 21 (9.09%) JUnit
14 19 (8.23%) REST Assured
15 18 (7.79%) Snyk
16 16 (6.93%) Bitbucket
17 15 (6.49%) SpecFlow
18 14 (6.06%) Appium
19 13 (5.63%) TeamCity
20 12 (5.19%) LoadRunner
General
1 84 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 64 (27.71%) Finance
3 43 (18.61%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.23%) Banking
5 15 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.63%) Law
7 12 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.03%) Retail
9 5 (2.16%) Advertising
9 5 (2.16%) Electronics
10 4 (1.73%) Back Office
10 4 (1.73%) Marketing
11 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.87%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) iGaming
12 1 (0.43%) International Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (27.71%) Lead
2 47 (20.35%) Senior
3 42 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 33 (14.29%) Developer
5 28 (12.12%) Analyst
5 28 (12.12%) Tester
6 27 (11.69%) Test Analyst
6 27 (11.69%) Test Automation Engineer
7 26 (11.26%) Test Leader
8 21 (9.09%) QA Engineer
9 19 (8.23%) QA Leader
10 16 (6.93%) Automation Tester
11 14 (6.06%) QA Automation Engineer
11 14 (6.06%) Software Developer
12 13 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (5.63%) Java Developer
13 12 (5.19%) Senior Test Engineer
14 11 (4.76%) Senior Developer
15 10 (4.33%) Automation Test Lead
16 8 (3.46%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (28.57%) Playwright
2 53 (22.94%) HTML
3 47 (20.35%) .NET
4 38 (16.45%) SOAP
5 27 (11.69%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (11.26%) REST
7 24 (10.39%) React
8 22 (9.52%) CSS
9 20 (8.66%) RESTful
10 19 (8.23%) pytest
11 16 (6.93%) Gherkin
11 16 (6.93%) Node.js
12 13 (5.63%) Spring
13 11 (4.76%) Kafka
13 11 (4.76%) Spring Boot
14 8 (3.46%) Django
14 8 (3.46%) Flask
14 8 (3.46%) Web Services
15 7 (3.03%) Middleware
15 7 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.12%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (5.19%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 6 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.16%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.73%) Derivative
8 4 (1.73%) Equities
8 4 (1.73%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.30%) W3C
10 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.43%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.69%) Linux
2 17 (7.36%) Windows
3 4 (1.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (80.52%) Test Automation
2 132 (57.14%) Agile
3 117 (50.65%) CI/CD
4 93 (40.26%) DevOps
5 83 (35.93%) Software Testing
6 73 (31.60%) API Testing
6 73 (31.60%) Scrum
7 69 (29.87%) Test Management
8 63 (27.27%) Mentoring
9 60 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (24.24%) Non-Functional Testing
10 56 (24.24%) Test Scripting
11 53 (22.94%) BDD
12 47 (20.35%) Test Strategy
13 40 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (16.45%) Manual Testing
15 37 (16.02%) Microservices
16 34 (14.72%) SDLC
17 31 (13.42%) Cross-Browser Testing
18 27 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 122 (52.81%) Java
2 88 (38.10%) SQL
3 80 (34.63%) C#
4 66 (28.57%) Python
5 47 (20.35%) JavaScript
6 24 (10.39%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.46%) Delphi
8 5 (2.16%) Bash
8 5 (2.16%) Go
8 5 (2.16%) PHP
9 3 (1.30%) RPG
10 2 (0.87%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 58 (25.11%) Degree
2 56 (24.24%) ISTQB
3 44 (19.05%) Security Cleared
4 30 (12.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 26 (11.26%) SC Cleared
6 21 (9.09%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 12 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (4.76%) ISEB
10 4 (1.73%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (41.13%) QA
2 34 (14.72%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.30%) SEPA
4 3 (1.30%) WCAG
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 41 (17.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.55%) Terraform
3 21 (9.09%) Ansible
4 14 (6.06%) Grafana
5 5 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.73%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.30%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.87%) Control-M
8 2 (0.87%) Nessus
8 2 (0.87%) Packer
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.43%) Kibana
9 1 (0.43%) logstash
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (7.79%) Black Duck
1 18 (7.79%) Coverity
1 18 (7.79%) Oracle
2 11 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.33%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.60%) IBM
5 5 (2.16%) Adobe
5 5 (2.16%) Google
5 5 (2.16%) Splunk
6 4 (1.73%) SAP
6 4 (1.73%) UiPath
6 4 (1.73%) VMware
7 3 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (1.30%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.30%) HP
7 3 (1.30%) Siebel
7 3 (1.30%) Tealium
8 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.43%) Concur