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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 317 332
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -132
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 80 80 176
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.40% 0.63% 0.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.70% 5.70% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 66 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 £108,750 £105,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.83% -1.20%

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 1,403 1,403 2,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.97% 11.06% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 863 971 1,864
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 3 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 3 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 -3 7 £65,000 -17.72% 8
South London +21 3 £52,600 -4.36%
West London -30 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 (15.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (7.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.25%) SAP CX
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.50%) Azure
2 13 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (15.00%) AWS
4 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (7.50%) GitHub
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.50%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.50%) Figma
7 1 (1.25%) Apigee
7 1 (1.25%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.25%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.25%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.25%) DB2
4 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.00%) Redis
4 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.50%) Tableau
6 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.25%) MS Access
6 1 (1.25%) Power BI
6 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (31.25%) JIRA
2 19 (23.75%) Cypress.io
3 14 (17.50%) Postman
4 13 (16.25%) Cucumber
4 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
5 11 (13.75%) Bitbucket
6 10 (12.50%) SpecFlow
6 10 (12.50%) WebDriver
7 9 (11.25%) TeamCity
8 7 (8.75%) Git
9 5 (6.25%) JUnit
9 5 (6.25%) SoapUI
10 4 (5.00%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.75%) JMeter
11 3 (3.75%) TestNG
12 2 (2.50%) GitLab
12 2 (2.50%) LoadRunner
12 2 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (2.50%) TestRail
12 2 (2.50%) webpack
General
1 34 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.25%) Finance
3 11 (13.75%) Banking
4 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.25%) Advertising
6 5 (6.25%) Retail
7 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.50%) Back Office
8 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.75%) QA Engineer
2 12 (15.00%) Lead
2 12 (15.00%) Tester
3 11 (13.75%) Developer
4 10 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 8 (10.00%) Senior
6 7 (8.75%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Test Manager
7 6 (7.50%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Java Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) QA Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Automation Test Lead
8 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Test Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Agile Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Agile Java Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Automation Tester
9 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior QA Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.50%) Playwright
2 18 (22.50%) React
3 17 (21.25%) HTML
4 11 (13.75%) .NET
4 11 (13.75%) CSS
4 11 (13.75%) REST
5 10 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (11.25%) Gherkin
6 9 (11.25%) RESTful
7 7 (8.75%) Node.js
8 6 (7.50%) SailPoint
9 5 (6.25%) JSON
9 5 (6.25%) Kafka
9 5 (6.25%) Spring
9 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
9 5 (6.25%) XML
10 4 (5.00%) DOM
10 4 (5.00%) Puppeteer
11 3 (3.75%) pytest
11 3 (3.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.75%) Housing Association
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.50%) Derivative
5 2 (2.50%) Equities
5 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.50%) FMCG
5 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (78.75%) Test Automation
2 36 (45.00%) Agile
3 33 (41.25%) CI/CD
4 25 (31.25%) DevOps
5 24 (30.00%) BDD
6 23 (28.75%) Test Strategy
7 20 (25.00%) Scrum
8 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (21.25%) QA Automation
10 15 (18.75%) API Testing
11 13 (16.25%) Software Testing
11 13 (16.25%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
12 12 (15.00%) Functional Testing
12 12 (15.00%) Mentoring
13 11 (13.75%) Non-Functional Testing
13 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
13 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (13.75%) User Experience
14 10 (12.50%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (57.50%) Java
2 26 (32.50%) SQL
3 24 (30.00%) C#
4 23 (28.75%) JavaScript
5 20 (25.00%) Python
6 16 (20.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.50%) RPG
8 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.25%) C++
8 1 (1.25%) Delphi
8 1 (1.25%) Go
8 1 (1.25%) Perl
8 1 (1.25%) PHP
8 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 8 (10.00%) Degree
2 8 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.75%) ISEB
3 3 (3.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (51.25%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Grafana
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (7.50%) Atlassian
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle
4 2 (2.50%) IBM
4 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.50%) SAP
4 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.25%) Concur
5 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.25%) eFront
5 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft