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 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 312 349 234
Rank change year-on-year +37 -115 -43
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 83 76 221
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.61% 0.48% 1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.92% 4.10% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 68 43 196
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% -1.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £88,125 £83,125 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £113,125
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

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 1,199 1,853 2,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.74% 11.73% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 812 1,082 1,892
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,875 £116,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 1 January 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 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
Central London +40 5 £93,750 +25.00% 5
South London +28 2 £55,200 -18.22%
West London +1 1 £32,500 -13.33% 1
East London - 1 £75,000 - 3
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 16 (19.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (13.25%) MS Visio
2 9 (10.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) SAP CX
2 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.92%) Azure
2 22 (26.51%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (16.87%) AWS
4 10 (12.05%) Power Platform
5 8 (9.64%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (8.43%) BrowserStack
7 5 (6.02%) GitHub
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.82%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.61%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (3.61%) Azure App Service
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.61%) Datadog
9 3 (3.61%) GCP
9 3 (3.61%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.61%) Serverless
10 2 (2.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.87%) SQL Server
3 13 (15.66%) DB2
4 7 (8.43%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.61%) Mixpanel
5 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.41%) Big Data
6 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.20%) MS Access
7 1 (1.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (44.58%) JIRA
2 31 (37.35%) Jenkins
3 26 (31.33%) Cucumber
4 21 (25.30%) Postman
5 20 (24.10%) Cypress.io
6 15 (18.07%) JMeter
7 14 (16.87%) WebDriver
8 13 (15.66%) Bitbucket
8 13 (15.66%) TeamCity
9 12 (14.46%) Git
10 8 (9.64%) Appium
10 8 (9.64%) LoadRunner
11 7 (8.43%) GitLab
11 7 (8.43%) REST Assured
12 6 (7.23%) JUnit
12 6 (7.23%) SpecFlow
12 6 (7.23%) Visual Studio
13 5 (6.02%) SoapUI
13 5 (6.02%) TestRail
14 4 (4.82%) Gatling
General
1 32 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 31 (37.35%) Finance
3 17 (20.48%) Banking
4 16 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.84%) Retail
6 7 (8.43%) Law
7 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.61%) Back Office
8 3 (3.61%) Electronics
9 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Advertising
10 1 (1.20%) Games
10 1 (1.20%) iGaming
10 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Developer
2 21 (25.30%) Lead
3 17 (20.48%) Test Leader
4 12 (14.46%) Java Developer
4 12 (14.46%) Senior
4 12 (14.46%) Test Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Agile Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Agile Java Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Automation Test Lead
6 7 (8.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Tester
7 6 (7.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Automation Tester
8 5 (6.02%) Quality Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Developer in Test
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.71%) Playwright
2 21 (25.30%) HTML
3 20 (24.10%) CSS
3 20 (24.10%) React
4 17 (20.48%) RESTful
5 14 (16.87%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (16.87%) Node.js
6 12 (14.46%) REST
7 11 (13.25%) Gherkin
8 8 (9.64%) .NET
9 6 (7.23%) Kafka
9 6 (7.23%) pytest
10 5 (6.02%) GraphQL
10 5 (6.02%) Swagger
11 4 (4.82%) Middleware
11 4 (4.82%) XML
12 3 (3.61%) FIX Protocol
12 3 (3.61%) JSON
12 3 (3.61%) SOAP
12 3 (3.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (10.84%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.23%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (3.61%) Derivative
6 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.61%) Equities
6 3 (3.61%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.61%) W3C
7 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (91.57%) Test Automation
2 46 (55.42%) Agile
3 43 (51.81%) CI/CD
4 30 (36.14%) DevOps
5 28 (33.73%) BDD
5 28 (33.73%) Test Strategy
6 23 (27.71%) Microservices
6 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (24.10%) Scrum
8 19 (22.89%) Non-Functional Testing
8 19 (22.89%) Software Testing
9 18 (21.69%) API Testing
10 17 (20.48%) Functional Testing
10 17 (20.48%) SDLC
11 16 (19.28%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (19.28%) Front End Development
11 16 (19.28%) Test Management
12 14 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (16.87%) Integration Testing
13 13 (15.66%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 46 (55.42%) Java
2 36 (43.37%) SQL
3 26 (31.33%) JavaScript
4 21 (25.30%) C#
5 20 (24.10%) Python
6 13 (15.66%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.61%) RPG
8 2 (2.41%) Scala
9 1 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.20%) Delphi
9 1 (1.20%) Go
9 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) ISTQB
2 11 (13.25%) Degree
3 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.84%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.23%) ISEB
5 4 (4.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (48.19%) QA
2 15 (18.07%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.61%) SEPA
4 3 (3.61%) WCAG
5 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (22.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.84%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.82%) Oracle
3 4 (4.82%) SAP
4 3 (3.61%) Adobe
4 3 (3.61%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.61%) HP
4 3 (3.61%) IBM
4 3 (3.61%) Siebel
4 3 (3.61%) Splunk
4 3 (3.61%) Tealium
5 2 (2.41%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.20%) Concur
6 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.20%) OpenText
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.20%) UiPath