Selenium Job Trends

Selenium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Selenium skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 422 257
Rank change year-on-year +119 -165 -55
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 463 417 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.54% 1.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.39% 6.29% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 169 255 674
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.39% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,700 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 3,738 6,632 8,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.61% 8.55% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,215 3,879 6,434
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,069
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,600 £93,750 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,893 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.44% -5.17% +5.45%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium 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 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 18 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 15 September 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 +118 381 £57,500 -4.17% 116
UK excluding London +110 378 £57,500 +4.55% 92
Work from Home +204 341 £55,000 -4.35% 65
North of England +91 143 £55,000 +22.22% 22
North West +88 128 £55,000 +22.22% 13
Midlands +112 85 £62,500 +8.70% 10
London +61 60 £57,500 -14.81% 43
Scotland +59 52 £50,000 +25.00% 3
East Midlands +67 47 £65,000 +30.00% 3
South East -68 39 £57,500 -8.00% 45
West Midlands +78 38 £59,500 +3.48% 7
East of England +20 32 £53,000 -7.83% 8
South West +64 17 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Yorkshire +3 10 £56,000 +40.00% 5
Wales +20 5 £57,000 +11.22%
North East +15 5 £55,000 -5.11% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £55,000 - 1
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 171 (36.93%) Confluence
2 10 (2.16%) Appian
3 9 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.73%) nginx
4 8 (1.73%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.86%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 325 (70.19%) AWS
2 316 (68.25%) Azure
3 168 (36.29%) GCP
4 43 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.89%) Amazon S3
6 17 (3.67%) GitHub
7 16 (3.46%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.59%) SaaS
8 12 (2.59%) Serverless
9 9 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.94%) MinIO
10 8 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (1.73%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 8 (1.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.51%) Amazon Bedrock
11 7 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.51%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (1.30%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.65%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (55.29%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (2.16%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.94%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.73%) Big Data
5 8 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.73%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.30%) MySQL
7 4 (0.86%) Airbyte
7 4 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.86%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.65%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.43%) Endeca
9 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.22%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 316 (68.25%) JIRA
2 282 (60.91%) Cucumber
3 267 (57.67%) GitLab
4 265 (57.24%) Maven
5 261 (56.37%) Bitbucket
6 257 (55.51%) SonarQube
7 248 (53.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 69 (14.90%) Postman
9 55 (11.88%) Jenkins
10 47 (10.15%) Cypress.io
11 36 (7.78%) JMeter
12 30 (6.48%) WebDriver
13 29 (6.26%) Git
14 26 (5.62%) Appium
14 26 (5.62%) JUnit
15 20 (4.32%) TestNG
16 17 (3.67%) SoapUI
17 15 (3.24%) Locust
18 14 (3.02%) REST Assured
18 14 (3.02%) Robot Framework
General
1 310 (66.95%) Finance
2 268 (57.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 254 (54.86%) Banking
4 95 (20.52%) Retail
5 90 (19.44%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (19.44%) Investment Banking
6 51 (11.02%) Social Skills
7 44 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
8 38 (8.21%) Law
9 19 (4.10%) Legal
10 18 (3.89%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.81%) Marketing
12 8 (1.73%) Cantonese Language
12 8 (1.73%) Mandarin Language
12 8 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.65%) Electronics
16 2 (0.43%) Advertising
16 2 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 263 (56.80%) Software Engineer
2 48 (10.37%) Senior
2 48 (10.37%) Test Engineer
3 40 (8.64%) QA Engineer
4 39 (8.42%) Lead
5 31 (6.70%) Test Automation Engineer
6 26 (5.62%) Tester
7 24 (5.18%) Analyst
8 22 (4.75%) Test Analyst
9 21 (4.54%) QA Automation Engineer
10 18 (3.89%) Java Engineer
10 18 (3.89%) QA Leader
11 17 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
11 17 (3.67%) Automation Tester
11 17 (3.67%) Developer
12 13 (2.81%) QA Test Engineer
12 13 (2.81%) Quality Engineer
12 13 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.81%) Senior Test Analyst
13 10 (2.16%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (60.26%) HTML
2 276 (59.61%) Kafka
3 266 (57.45%) CSS
3 266 (57.45%) Spring Boot
4 264 (57.02%) Spring
5 257 (55.51%) React
6 248 (53.56%) JPA
6 248 (53.56%) Redux
7 159 (34.34%) Hibernate
8 121 (26.13%) REST
9 112 (24.19%) RESTful
10 96 (20.73%) HTML5
11 92 (19.87%) CSS3
12 91 (19.65%) Jest
13 90 (19.44%) Sass
14 60 (12.96%) Playwright
15 23 (4.97%) .NET
15 23 (4.97%) SOAP
16 18 (3.89%) pytest
17 13 (2.81%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 260 (56.16%) Product Ownership
2 250 (54.00%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (3.46%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.81%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.16%) Low-Code
7 9 (1.94%) Life Science
8 6 (1.30%) Wiki
9 5 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (0.86%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.65%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.65%) W3C
12 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.43%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.43%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.43%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.16%) Linux
2 3 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (93.09%) Test Automation
2 390 (84.23%) Agile
3 365 (78.83%) CI/CD
4 329 (71.06%) DevOps
5 291 (62.85%) SDLC
6 280 (60.48%) Software Engineering
7 276 (59.61%) Microservices
8 256 (55.29%) Containerisation
9 254 (54.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 253 (54.64%) Front End Development
11 252 (54.43%) Performance Optimisation
12 186 (40.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 179 (38.66%) TDD
14 164 (35.42%) Clean Code
15 126 (27.21%) Mentoring
16 108 (23.33%) User Experience
17 95 (20.52%) Strategic Thinking
18 92 (19.87%) Migration
18 92 (19.87%) Responsive Web Design
19 64 (13.82%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 345 (74.51%) Java
2 304 (65.66%) SQL
3 301 (65.01%) JavaScript
4 116 (25.05%) TypeScript
5 67 (14.47%) Python
6 57 (12.31%) C#
7 8 (1.73%) Groovy
8 5 (1.08%) Go
8 5 (1.08%) PHP
9 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.22%) C
10 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 67 (14.47%) ISTQB
2 30 (6.48%) Degree
3 27 (5.83%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.54%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 8 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.08%) ISEB
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.22%) CISSP
12 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (77.32%) QA
2 111 (23.97%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.65%) SEPA
4 3 (0.65%) WCAG
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 284 (61.34%) Docker
2 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 281 (60.69%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.83%) Terraform
3 17 (3.67%) Ansible
4 8 (1.73%) Kustomize
4 8 (1.73%) Packer
5 2 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.22%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 247 (53.35%) Solace
2 19 (4.10%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.02%) Databricks
4 11 (2.38%) Oracle
5 10 (2.16%) UiPath
6 9 (1.94%) BiZZdesign
6 9 (1.94%) Black Duck
6 9 (1.94%) VMware
7 8 (1.73%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.08%) Adobe
9 4 (0.86%) Blue Prism
9 4 (0.86%) Coverity
10 3 (0.65%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.65%) Tealium
11 2 (0.43%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.43%) CyberSource
11 2 (0.43%) Google
11 2 (0.43%) Workday
12 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.22%) Siebel