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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 412 267
Rank change year-on-year -26 -145 -55
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 225 381 604
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.60% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.28% 6.26% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 185 232 501
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,625 £84,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,350 £57,965 £56,318
% change year-on-year -2.79% +2.92% +2.40%

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 3,583 6,089 6,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.44% 9.62% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,328 3,513 5,279
10th Percentile £29,000 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.38% +6.82%

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 5 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 5 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 -6 206 £60,000 -4.00% 77
UK excluding London -43 135 £56,350 -2.79% 73
Work from Home +59 94 £53,500 -7.70% 42
London +58 75 £67,500 -0.74% 18
South East -27 64 £50,000 -33.33% 36
Midlands +35 26 £60,750 +4.81% 4
North of England +4 18 £60,000 +33.33% 22
West Midlands +31 16 £60,000 +4.35% 3
South West +22 14 £45,000 -10.00% 3
East Midlands -1 10 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North West +22 9 £62,000 +37.78% 12
Wales +13 7 £41,000 -15.46% 3
Yorkshire -17 7 £55,500 +38.75% 9
East of England +26 4 £60,000 +60.00% 6
North East +8 2 £55,200 -4.77% 1
Scotland -7 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 14 (6.22%) Confluence
2 7 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.11%) Appian
3 5 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.33%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (30.22%) Azure
2 62 (27.56%) AWS
3 54 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (8.89%) GitHub
5 15 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.67%) SaaS
6 13 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (4.89%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.56%) BrowserStack
8 8 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.56%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.11%) Serverless
10 6 (2.67%) MinIO
11 5 (2.22%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.78%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.78%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.89%) DNS
2 2 (0.89%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.33%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.56%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.44%) DB2
5 5 (2.22%) Airbyte
6 4 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.33%) Mixpanel
7 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.89%) Big Data
8 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.89%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.89%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.89%) Tableau
9 1 (0.44%) MS Access
9 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 66 (29.33%) Postman
2 62 (27.56%) Jenkins
3 60 (26.67%) JIRA
4 49 (21.78%) Cucumber
5 44 (19.56%) Git
6 43 (19.11%) WebDriver
7 42 (18.67%) Cypress.io
8 31 (13.78%) SoapUI
9 30 (13.33%) JMeter
10 25 (11.11%) GitLab
11 23 (10.22%) Robot Framework
12 22 (9.78%) JUnit
13 20 (8.89%) Snyk
14 19 (8.44%) Appium
14 19 (8.44%) REST Assured
14 19 (8.44%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (6.22%) Bitbucket
15 14 (6.22%) LoadRunner
16 13 (5.78%) SpecFlow
16 13 (5.78%) TestRail
General
1 73 (32.44%) Social Skills
2 68 (30.22%) Finance
3 50 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.56%) Banking
5 16 (7.11%) Law
6 15 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.11%) Marketing
8 7 (3.11%) Retail
9 6 (2.67%) Legal
10 4 (1.78%) Back Office
10 4 (1.78%) Electronics
11 3 (1.33%) Advertising
11 3 (1.33%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Games
13 1 (0.44%) iGaming
13 1 (0.44%) International Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (26.67%) Lead
2 50 (22.22%) Senior
3 38 (16.89%) Test Engineer
4 30 (13.33%) Test Automation Engineer
5 29 (12.89%) Analyst
5 29 (12.89%) Developer
6 28 (12.44%) Test Analyst
7 27 (12.00%) QA Engineer
8 26 (11.56%) Tester
9 21 (9.33%) QA Automation Engineer
9 21 (9.33%) QA Leader
10 20 (8.89%) Automation Engineer
10 20 (8.89%) Test Leader
11 16 (7.11%) Automation Tester
12 13 (5.78%) Software Developer
13 12 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (5.33%) Senior Developer
13 12 (5.33%) Senior Test Analyst
14 11 (4.89%) Java Developer
14 11 (4.89%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (26.22%) Playwright
2 41 (18.22%) HTML
3 36 (16.00%) .NET
4 30 (13.33%) SOAP
5 27 (12.00%) REST
6 23 (10.22%) pytest
7 22 (9.78%) CSS
8 21 (9.33%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (8.89%) React
10 19 (8.44%) RESTful
11 15 (6.67%) Kafka
11 15 (6.67%) Node.js
12 14 (6.22%) Gherkin
13 12 (5.33%) Spring
14 10 (4.44%) Spring Boot
15 8 (3.56%) Django
15 8 (3.56%) Flask
16 7 (3.11%) Middleware
17 6 (2.67%) Apache NiFi
18 5 (2.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.44%) Product Ownership
2 23 (10.22%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.56%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.00%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.56%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.78%) Derivative
8 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.78%) Equities
8 4 (1.78%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.33%) W3C
10 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.89%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.78%) Linux
2 15 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (84.00%) Test Automation
2 133 (59.11%) Agile
3 117 (52.00%) CI/CD
4 95 (42.22%) DevOps
5 73 (32.44%) Software Testing
6 68 (30.22%) API Testing
7 67 (29.78%) Scrum
8 64 (28.44%) Test Management
9 61 (27.11%) Mentoring
10 58 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (23.56%) BDD
11 53 (23.56%) Test Scripting
11 53 (23.56%) Test Strategy
12 46 (20.44%) Non-Functional Testing
13 44 (19.56%) SDLC
14 42 (18.67%) Microservices
15 40 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (15.56%) Manual Testing
17 31 (13.78%) Performance Testing
18 30 (13.33%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (47.56%) Java
2 79 (35.11%) SQL
3 71 (31.56%) C#
4 67 (29.78%) Python
5 48 (21.33%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.89%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.56%) Delphi
7 8 (3.56%) Go
7 8 (3.56%) PHP
8 5 (2.22%) Groovy
9 2 (0.89%) Bash
9 2 (0.89%) RPG
9 2 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (23.56%) ISTQB
2 46 (20.44%) Degree
3 39 (17.33%) Security Cleared
4 22 (9.78%) SC Cleared
5 21 (9.33%) DV Cleared
6 20 (8.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 12 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.33%) ISEB
7 12 (5.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (43.11%) QA
2 24 (10.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.78%) WCAG
5 3 (1.33%) SEPA
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 32 (14.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (12.44%) Terraform
2 27 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 20 (8.89%) Ansible
4 11 (4.89%) Grafana
5 4 (1.78%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.33%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.89%) Control-M
7 2 (0.89%) Nessus
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
8 1 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (8.89%) Black Duck
2 19 (8.44%) Coverity
3 14 (6.22%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.78%) Oracle
5 7 (3.11%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.11%) UiPath
6 6 (2.67%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (2.67%) VMware
7 5 (2.22%) Adobe
7 5 (2.22%) Blue Prism
7 5 (2.22%) IBM
7 5 (2.22%) SAP
8 4 (1.78%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.33%) HP
9 3 (1.33%) Siebel
9 3 (1.33%) Splunk
9 3 (1.33%) Tealium
10 2 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.89%) Databricks
10 2 (0.89%) Workday