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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 400 291
Rank change year-on-year -28 -109 -73
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 232 343 548
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.62% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.39% 6.05% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 198 217 462
10th Percentile £39,960 £37,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,254
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.62% +3.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £79,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +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 3,631 5,666 6,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 10.26% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,383 3,295 5,088
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £78,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% -7.56% +8.18%

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 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 1 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 +6 223 £57,500 -11.54% 212
UK excluding London -41 141 £51,000 -15.00% 159
Work from Home +68 106 £52,500 -12.50% 76
London +37 83 £67,500 -8.78% 67
South East -20 79 £50,000 -32.20% 50
Midlands +1 21 £60,000 - 19
South West +13 17 £46,250 -7.50% 19
North of England -8 15 £55,200 +22.67% 45
West Midlands +10 14 £57,500 -0.40% 10
Yorkshire -17 7 £55,500 +53.14% 22
East Midlands -19 7 £60,000 - 8
North West +8 6 £58,250 +29.44% 20
Wales +8 5 £48,100 -0.82% 2
East of England +20 3 £60,000 +60.00% 20
North East +7 2 £55,200 -4.77% 3
Scotland -8 1 - - 5

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 19 (8.19%) Confluence
2 7 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.59%) Appian
4 5 (2.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.74%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.29%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (29.74%) Azure
2 58 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (23.71%) AWS
4 24 (10.34%) GitHub
5 18 (7.76%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (4.74%) SaaS
8 8 (3.45%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.45%) BrowserStack
8 8 (3.45%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.59%) MinIO
10 5 (2.16%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.72%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.72%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.72%) Serverless
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.29%) Datadog
12 3 (1.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.17%) DNS
2 2 (0.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) SSH
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.60%) DB2
5 5 (2.16%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.29%) Mixpanel
6 3 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.86%) Big Data
7 2 (0.86%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.86%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 78 (33.62%) JIRA
2 77 (33.19%) Postman
3 58 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 57 (24.57%) WebDriver
5 46 (19.83%) Cucumber
6 45 (19.40%) Cypress.io
7 44 (18.97%) Git
8 42 (18.10%) SoapUI
9 32 (13.79%) Team Foundation Server
10 26 (11.21%) JMeter
11 24 (10.34%) Robot Framework
12 23 (9.91%) GitLab
13 22 (9.48%) JUnit
14 21 (9.05%) Snyk
15 18 (7.76%) REST Assured
16 16 (6.90%) Bitbucket
17 15 (6.47%) Appium
18 14 (6.03%) LoadRunner
18 14 (6.03%) SpecFlow
19 13 (5.60%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (37.07%) Social Skills
2 71 (30.60%) Finance
3 48 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.19%) Banking
5 16 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.60%) Law
7 11 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.88%) Retail
9 5 (2.16%) Electronics
10 4 (1.72%) Advertising
10 4 (1.72%) Back Office
10 4 (1.72%) Legal
10 4 (1.72%) Marketing
11 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) iGaming
12 1 (0.43%) International Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (27.59%) Lead
2 47 (20.26%) Senior
3 36 (15.52%) Test Engineer
4 33 (14.22%) Developer
5 32 (13.79%) Analyst
6 31 (13.36%) Test Analyst
7 29 (12.50%) Tester
8 27 (11.64%) Test Leader
9 25 (10.78%) Test Automation Engineer
10 21 (9.05%) QA Engineer
11 17 (7.33%) Automation Engineer
11 17 (7.33%) QA Leader
12 16 (6.90%) Automation Tester
12 16 (6.90%) QA Automation Engineer
13 14 (6.03%) Software Developer
14 12 (5.17%) Automation Test Lead
14 12 (5.17%) Java Developer
14 12 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (5.17%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.17%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (23.71%) HTML
2 54 (23.28%) Playwright
3 51 (21.98%) .NET
4 41 (17.67%) SOAP
5 26 (11.21%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (10.34%) REST
7 23 (9.91%) CSS
7 23 (9.91%) React
8 21 (9.05%) RESTful
9 20 (8.62%) pytest
10 16 (6.90%) Gherkin
11 15 (6.47%) Kafka
11 15 (6.47%) Node.js
12 13 (5.60%) Spring
13 11 (4.74%) Spring Boot
14 8 (3.45%) Django
14 8 (3.45%) Flask
15 7 (3.02%) Middleware
15 7 (3.02%) Swagger
16 6 (2.59%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 25 (10.78%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (6.47%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (6.03%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.45%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (3.02%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.72%) Derivative
7 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.72%) Equities
7 4 (1.72%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.29%) W3C
9 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.86%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.34%) Linux
2 16 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (79.74%) Test Automation
2 139 (59.91%) Agile
3 111 (47.84%) CI/CD
4 97 (41.81%) DevOps
5 86 (37.07%) Software Testing
6 76 (32.76%) Test Management
7 75 (32.33%) API Testing
7 75 (32.33%) Scrum
8 67 (28.88%) Mentoring
9 60 (25.86%) Non-Functional Testing
10 59 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (25.43%) Test Scripting
11 52 (22.41%) BDD
12 48 (20.69%) Test Strategy
13 40 (17.24%) Microservices
14 38 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (15.09%) SDLC
16 34 (14.66%) Manual Testing
17 32 (13.79%) Cross-Browser Testing
18 27 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 124 (53.45%) Java
2 96 (41.38%) SQL
3 86 (37.07%) C#
4 63 (27.16%) Python
5 49 (21.12%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.62%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.45%) Delphi
8 7 (3.02%) Go
8 7 (3.02%) PHP
9 4 (1.72%) Bash
10 3 (1.29%) RPG
11 2 (0.86%) Groovy
11 2 (0.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 63 (27.16%) ISTQB
2 60 (25.86%) Degree
3 41 (17.67%) Security Cleared
4 33 (14.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 23 (9.91%) SC Cleared
6 22 (9.48%) DV Cleared
7 13 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (5.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (4.74%) ISEB
9 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (40.95%) QA
2 27 (11.64%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.72%) WCAG
4 3 (1.29%) SEPA
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (15.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Firmware
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (12.93%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.50%) Terraform
3 21 (9.05%) Ansible
4 13 (5.60%) Grafana
5 5 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.72%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.29%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.86%) Control-M
8 2 (0.86%) Nessus
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (9.05%) Black Duck
2 20 (8.62%) Coverity
3 16 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.47%) Oracle
5 9 (3.88%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.02%) UiPath
7 6 (2.59%) BiZZdesign
7 6 (2.59%) IBM
7 6 (2.59%) VMware
8 5 (2.16%) Adobe
8 5 (2.16%) Blue Prism
8 5 (2.16%) Splunk
9 4 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.72%) SAP
10 3 (1.29%) Google
10 3 (1.29%) HP
10 3 (1.29%) Siebel
10 3 (1.29%) Tealium
11 2 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.43%) Concur