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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 343 256
Rank change year-on-year +45 -87 -59
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 86 78 229
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 0.53% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.55% 4.49% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 73 46 189
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,125 £45,400
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -13.44% +14.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,125 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +7.44%

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 1,312 1,738 2,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.30% 11.75% 11.51%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1,015 2,055
10th Percentile £41,250 £49,140 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +29 7 £76,750 -0.32% 4
South London +37 2 £55,200 -
West London -9 2 £32,500 -56.67% 2
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 14 (16.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (12.79%) MS Visio
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) SAP CX
2 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.93%) Azure
2 17 (19.77%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (10.47%) AWS
4 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.98%) BrowserStack
5 6 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.65%) GitHub
7 2 (2.33%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (2.33%) Figma
7 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.33%) SaaS
8 1 (1.16%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.16%) Serverless
8 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.77%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.28%) SQL Server
3 13 (15.12%) DB2
4 7 (8.14%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.49%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.16%) Big Data
6 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.16%) Mixpanel
6 1 (1.16%) MS Access
6 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.16%) Power BI
6 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (38.37%) JIRA
2 27 (31.40%) Jenkins
3 23 (26.74%) Cucumber
4 17 (19.77%) Cypress.io
5 16 (18.60%) Postman
6 13 (15.12%) Bitbucket
6 13 (15.12%) TeamCity
6 13 (15.12%) WebDriver
7 10 (11.63%) Git
7 10 (11.63%) JMeter
8 8 (9.30%) SpecFlow
9 7 (8.14%) LoadRunner
9 7 (8.14%) REST Assured
10 6 (6.98%) JUnit
10 6 (6.98%) SoapUI
11 5 (5.81%) Appium
12 4 (4.65%) GitLab
12 4 (4.65%) TestRail
12 4 (4.65%) Visual Studio
13 3 (3.49%) NUnit
General
1 34 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 31 (36.05%) Finance
3 17 (19.77%) Banking
4 16 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.81%) Retail
7 4 (4.65%) Law
8 3 (3.49%) Back Office
9 2 (2.33%) Advertising
9 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Electronics
10 1 (1.16%) Games
10 1 (1.16%) iGaming
10 1 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (23.26%) Developer
2 17 (19.77%) Lead
3 14 (16.28%) Test Leader
4 12 (13.95%) Java Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Test Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Senior
6 9 (10.47%) QA Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Agile Developer
7 7 (8.14%) Agile Java Developer
7 7 (8.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.14%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Tester
8 6 (6.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (5.81%) Test Manager
10 4 (4.65%) Analyst
10 4 (4.65%) Automation Tester
10 4 (4.65%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (36.05%) Playwright
2 23 (26.74%) HTML
3 19 (22.09%) React
4 18 (20.93%) CSS
5 14 (16.28%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (16.28%) REST
5 14 (16.28%) RESTful
6 12 (13.95%) Node.js
7 11 (12.79%) .NET
7 11 (12.79%) Gherkin
8 8 (9.30%) XML
9 6 (6.98%) JSON
10 5 (5.81%) Kafka
10 5 (5.81%) pytest
11 4 (4.65%) Middleware
11 4 (4.65%) Puppeteer
11 4 (4.65%) SOAP
12 3 (3.49%) DOM
12 3 (3.49%) GraphQL
12 3 (3.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (10.47%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.49%) Derivative
3 3 (3.49%) Equities
3 3 (3.49%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.16%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.47%) Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (89.53%) Test Automation
2 45 (52.33%) Agile
3 42 (48.84%) CI/CD
4 29 (33.72%) BDD
5 26 (30.23%) DevOps
6 23 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (25.58%) Software Testing
7 22 (25.58%) Test Strategy
8 21 (24.42%) Microservices
8 21 (24.42%) Non-Functional Testing
8 21 (24.42%) Scrum
9 17 (19.77%) API Testing
9 17 (19.77%) Functional Testing
10 15 (17.44%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (17.44%) Test Management
11 14 (16.28%) Front End Development
11 14 (16.28%) User Experience
12 13 (15.12%) Design Patterns
12 13 (15.12%) Dynamic Code Analysis
12 13 (15.12%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.81%) Java
2 39 (45.35%) SQL
3 29 (33.72%) JavaScript
4 24 (27.91%) C#
5 23 (26.74%) Python
6 14 (16.28%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.49%) RPG
8 2 (2.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.16%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.16%) Delphi
9 1 (1.16%) Go
9 1 (1.16%) Perl
9 1 (1.16%) PHP
9 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) ISTQB
2 10 (11.63%) Degree
3 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.98%) ISEB
5 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (3.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (48.84%) QA
2 13 (15.12%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.49%) SEPA
4 1 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (23.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.65%) Terraform
3 3 (3.49%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Atlassian
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle
4 4 (4.65%) SAP
5 3 (3.49%) Google
5 3 (3.49%) HP
5 3 (3.49%) IBM
5 3 (3.49%) Siebel
6 2 (2.33%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.16%) Adobe
7 1 (1.16%) Concur
7 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.16%) eFront
7 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.16%) OpenText
7 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.16%) Tealium