Selenium Job Trends in London

Selenium
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 324 326
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -129
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 81 80 177
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.40% 0.63% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.75% 5.71% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 67 59 134
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £45,725
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £81,615
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.36% +16.59%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £105,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% -1.64% -1.21%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,409 1,402 2,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.96% 11.00% 10.80%
Number of salaries quoted 870 970 1,863
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Selenium job vacancy trend in London

Selenium
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in London

Selenium
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Central London -1 7 £65,000 -17.72% 7
South London +22 3 £52,600 -4.36%
West London -28 2 £32,500 -56.67%
Selenium
England

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 12 (14.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (7.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.23%) SAP CX
2 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) Azure
2 13 (16.05%) AWS
2 13 (16.05%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (8.64%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (7.41%) GitHub
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.47%) BrowserStack
5 2 (2.47%) Figma
6 1 (1.23%) Apigee
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.23%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (1.23%) GCP
6 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.23%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.23%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.11%) DB2
4 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.94%) Redis
4 4 (4.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.47%) Tableau
6 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.23%) MS Access
6 1 (1.23%) Power BI
6 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (30.86%) JIRA
2 19 (23.46%) Cypress.io
3 15 (18.52%) Postman
4 13 (16.05%) Cucumber
4 13 (16.05%) Jenkins
5 11 (13.58%) Bitbucket
6 10 (12.35%) SpecFlow
6 10 (12.35%) WebDriver
7 9 (11.11%) TeamCity
8 7 (8.64%) Git
9 5 (6.17%) JUnit
9 5 (6.17%) REST Assured
9 5 (6.17%) SoapUI
10 3 (3.70%) JMeter
10 3 (3.70%) TestNG
11 2 (2.47%) GitLab
11 2 (2.47%) LoadRunner
11 2 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (2.47%) TestRail
11 2 (2.47%) webpack
General
1 35 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.86%) Finance
3 11 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.58%) Banking
4 7 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.17%) Advertising
5 5 (6.17%) Retail
6 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.47%) Back Office
7 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) QA Engineer
2 12 (14.81%) Lead
2 12 (14.81%) Tester
3 11 (13.58%) Developer
4 10 (12.35%) Test Leader
5 9 (11.11%) Senior
6 7 (8.64%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.64%) Test Manager
7 6 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Java Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) QA Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Automation Test Lead
8 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Senior QA Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Agile Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Agile Java Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Automation Tester
9 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.04%) Playwright
2 18 (22.22%) React
3 17 (20.99%) HTML
4 12 (14.81%) .NET
4 12 (14.81%) REST
5 11 (13.58%) CSS
6 10 (12.35%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (12.35%) RESTful
7 9 (11.11%) Gherkin
8 7 (8.64%) Node.js
9 6 (7.41%) Kafka
9 6 (7.41%) SailPoint
10 5 (6.17%) JSON
10 5 (6.17%) Spring
10 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
10 5 (6.17%) XML
11 4 (4.94%) DOM
11 4 (4.94%) Puppeteer
12 3 (3.70%) pytest
12 3 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (9.88%) Onboarding
3 7 (8.64%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) Housing Association
4 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.47%) Derivative
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Equities
5 2 (2.47%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.47%) FMCG
5 2 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Windows
3 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (79.01%) Test Automation
2 37 (45.68%) Agile
3 34 (41.98%) CI/CD
4 25 (30.86%) DevOps
5 24 (29.63%) BDD
5 24 (29.63%) Test Strategy
6 21 (25.93%) Scrum
7 19 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (20.99%) QA Automation
9 16 (19.75%) API Testing
10 13 (16.05%) Software Testing
10 13 (16.05%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (14.81%) End-to-End Testing
11 12 (14.81%) Functional Testing
11 12 (14.81%) Mentoring
12 11 (13.58%) Integration Testing
12 11 (13.58%) Microservices
12 11 (13.58%) Non-Functional Testing
12 11 (13.58%) Software Engineering
12 11 (13.58%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 46 (56.79%) Java
2 27 (33.33%) SQL
3 24 (29.63%) C#
4 23 (28.40%) JavaScript
5 20 (24.69%) Python
6 16 (19.75%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.47%) RPG
8 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.23%) C++
8 1 (1.23%) Delphi
8 1 (1.23%) Go
8 1 (1.23%) Perl
8 1 (1.23%) PHP
8 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) ISTQB
2 9 (11.11%) Degree
3 8 (9.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.70%) ISEB
4 3 (3.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (51.85%) QA
2 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (16.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (16.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.47%) Grafana
2 2 (2.47%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.41%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.94%) Google
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle
5 2 (2.47%) IBM
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.47%) SAP
5 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.23%) Concur
6 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.23%) eFront
6 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft