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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 422 281
Rank change year-on-year -14 -141 -65
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 229 364 610
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.54% 1.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.17% 6.11% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 181 212 501
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,732 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +4.97% -

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 3,709 5,958 6,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.99% 8.87% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,365 3,332 5,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,574 £42,255
25th Percentile £42,780 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +0.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 20 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 17 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 20 November 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 +9 207 £60,000 -4.00% 155
UK excluding London -50 136 £57,500 -0.40% 117
Work from Home +48 89 £55,000 -4.73% 80
London +33 75 £67,500 - 67
South East -30 60 £50,000 -29.58% 41
Midlands +64 26 £61,500 +6.96% 11
North of England +2 20 £57,500 +27.78% 24
South West +33 16 £47,500 -7.32% 12
West Midlands +44 15 £60,750 +5.65% 7
North West +17 12 £62,000 +37.78% 16
East Midlands +26 11 £62,500 +4.17% 4
East of England +22 6 £65,750 +87.86% 4
Yorkshire -13 6 £54,250 +44.67% 6
Wales +13 4 £47,100 - 13
Scotland -19 3 £50,000 +8.70% 5
North East +7 2 £55,200 -4.77% 2
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 (6.11%) Confluence
2 9 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.93%) Appian
3 5 (2.18%) Apache
4 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.49%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.31%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.87%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 76 (33.19%) AWS
2 70 (30.57%) Azure
3 55 (24.02%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.48%) GitHub
5 17 (7.42%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.99%) Amazon S3
7 15 (6.55%) SaaS
8 13 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (4.80%) Serverless
10 9 (3.93%) BrowserStack
11 8 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.49%) MinIO
11 8 (3.49%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.06%) Amazon Bedrock
12 7 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.06%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.37%) DNS
2 3 (1.31%) Internet
3 2 (0.87%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (8.73%) Relational Database
3 19 (8.30%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.06%) DB2
5 6 (2.62%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.62%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.18%) Airbyte
7 4 (1.75%) Big Data
7 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.31%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.87%) MySQL
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.87%) Tableau
10 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 70 (30.57%) Postman
2 65 (28.38%) Jenkins
3 60 (26.20%) JIRA
4 51 (22.27%) Cucumber
5 46 (20.09%) Cypress.io
6 41 (17.90%) Git
7 37 (16.16%) WebDriver
8 29 (12.66%) JMeter
8 29 (12.66%) SoapUI
9 26 (11.35%) GitLab
10 23 (10.04%) JUnit
11 22 (9.61%) Robot Framework
12 20 (8.73%) Appium
12 20 (8.73%) REST Assured
12 20 (8.73%) Snyk
13 16 (6.99%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (5.68%) LoadRunner
15 12 (5.24%) TestRail
16 11 (4.80%) TeamCity
17 10 (4.37%) Gatling
General
1 78 (34.06%) Finance
2 74 (32.31%) Social Skills
3 54 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.66%) Law
5 23 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (8.30%) Banking
7 15 (6.55%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.80%) Marketing
9 8 (3.49%) Legal
10 6 (2.62%) Retail
11 4 (1.75%) Back Office
12 3 (1.31%) Electronics
12 3 (1.31%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Games
14 1 (0.44%) International Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (24.02%) Lead
2 48 (20.96%) Senior
3 35 (15.28%) Test Engineer
4 30 (13.10%) Analyst
4 30 (13.10%) Test Automation Engineer
5 28 (12.23%) Developer
5 28 (12.23%) QA Engineer
6 27 (11.79%) Test Analyst
7 24 (10.48%) Automation Engineer
7 24 (10.48%) QA Leader
7 24 (10.48%) Tester
8 23 (10.04%) QA Automation Engineer
9 17 (7.42%) Test Leader
10 15 (6.55%) Automation Tester
10 15 (6.55%) Software Developer
10 15 (6.55%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.24%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (5.24%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.24%) Senior Test Analyst
12 11 (4.80%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (27.95%) Playwright
2 42 (18.34%) HTML
3 33 (14.41%) .NET
4 30 (13.10%) REST
5 29 (12.66%) SOAP
6 28 (12.23%) pytest
7 25 (10.92%) CSS
8 21 (9.17%) Kafka
8 21 (9.17%) React
9 17 (7.42%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (6.99%) RESTful
10 16 (6.99%) Spring
11 14 (6.11%) Node.js
11 14 (6.11%) Spring Boot
12 10 (4.37%) Gherkin
13 8 (3.49%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (3.49%) Django
13 8 (3.49%) Flask
13 8 (3.49%) JSON
14 6 (2.62%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.35%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.61%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (8.30%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.37%) Low-Code
5 9 (3.93%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.75%) Derivative
8 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Equities
8 4 (1.75%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.31%) W3C
9 3 (1.31%) Wiki
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.61%) Linux
2 14 (6.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (85.15%) Test Automation
2 138 (60.26%) Agile
3 123 (53.71%) CI/CD
4 95 (41.48%) DevOps
5 74 (32.31%) API Testing
6 70 (30.57%) Software Testing
7 59 (25.76%) Test Management
8 58 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (24.89%) Mentoring
10 56 (24.45%) Scrum
11 55 (24.02%) Test Scripting
12 53 (23.14%) Test Strategy
13 48 (20.96%) SDLC
14 47 (20.52%) BDD
15 44 (19.21%) Microservices
16 40 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (17.47%) Non-Functional Testing
17 36 (15.72%) Manual Testing
17 36 (15.72%) Software Engineering
18 33 (14.41%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (46.29%) Java
2 76 (33.19%) SQL
3 74 (32.31%) Python
4 66 (28.82%) C#
5 48 (20.96%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.61%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.93%) Go
7 9 (3.93%) PHP
8 8 (3.49%) Delphi
9 6 (2.62%) Groovy
10 2 (0.87%) Bash
10 2 (0.87%) Scala
11 1 (0.44%) C
11 1 (0.44%) C++
11 1 (0.44%) RPG
Qualifications
1 55 (24.02%) ISTQB
2 38 (16.59%) Degree
3 37 (16.16%) Security Cleared
4 21 (9.17%) DV Cleared
5 20 (8.73%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 15 (6.55%) ISEB
8 12 (5.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 11 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.18%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (44.54%) QA
2 24 (10.48%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.75%) WCAG
5 3 (1.31%) SEPA
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 37 (16.16%) Docker
2 3 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.23%) Terraform
3 20 (8.73%) Ansible
4 10 (4.37%) Grafana
5 3 (1.31%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.87%) Control-M
6 2 (0.87%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.87%) Nessus
6 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (8.73%) Black Duck
2 17 (7.42%) Coverity
3 15 (6.55%) Oracle
4 13 (5.68%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.93%) Databricks
5 9 (3.93%) UiPath
6 8 (3.49%) BiZZdesign
6 8 (3.49%) VMware
7 5 (2.18%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.18%) Blue Prism
8 4 (1.75%) Adobe
8 4 (1.75%) SAP
9 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.31%) HP
9 3 (1.31%) IBM
9 3 (1.31%) Siebel
9 3 (1.31%) Splunk
9 3 (1.31%) Tealium
10 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.87%) Workday