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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 305 353
Rank change year-on-year -24 +48 -150
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 71 74 158
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.34% 0.62% 0.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.93% 5.64% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59 58 112
10th Percentile £50,750 £42,500 £46,375
25th Percentile £55,625 £48,188 £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 £76,875 £100,625
90th Percentile £107,500 £87,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% - -1.64%

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 1,439 1,313 2,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.90% 11.04% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 870 888 1,816
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,313 £56,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £92,188 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,608 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.76% +8.33% -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 26 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 26 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 -8 7 £65,000 -13.33% 3
West London -18 2 £32,500 -56.67%
South London +11 1 £50,000 -9.09%
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 10 (14.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.94%) Azure
2 12 (16.90%) AWS
3 11 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.86%) GitHub
4 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
5 6 (8.45%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.82%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.82%) Figma
7 1 (1.41%) Apigee
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.41%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.41%) GCP
7 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.41%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.41%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.45%) DB2
2 6 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.63%) Redis
4 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.82%) Tableau
5 1 (1.41%) MS Access
5 1 (1.41%) Power BI
5 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (30.99%) JIRA
2 18 (25.35%) Cypress.io
3 13 (18.31%) Postman
4 10 (14.08%) SpecFlow
5 9 (12.68%) Bitbucket
5 9 (12.68%) WebDriver
6 8 (11.27%) Jenkins
7 7 (9.86%) Cucumber
8 6 (8.45%) Git
8 6 (8.45%) TeamCity
9 5 (7.04%) REST Assured
10 4 (5.63%) JUnit
11 3 (4.23%) SoapUI
11 3 (4.23%) TestNG
12 2 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (2.82%) JMeter
12 2 (2.82%) Storybook
12 2 (2.82%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (2.82%) Vite
12 2 (2.82%) webpack
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.17%) Finance
3 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.45%) Banking
6 5 (7.04%) Advertising
6 5 (7.04%) Retail
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) QA Engineer
2 13 (18.31%) Tester
3 10 (14.08%) Lead
4 7 (9.86%) Developer
4 7 (9.86%) Senior
4 7 (9.86%) Test Leader
4 7 (9.86%) Test Manager
5 6 (8.45%) Java Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Automation Tester
6 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.04%) QA Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Automation Test Lead
7 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Senior QA Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Web Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Consultant
8 3 (4.23%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (40.85%) Playwright
2 15 (21.13%) React
3 13 (18.31%) HTML
4 10 (14.08%) .NET
5 9 (12.68%) REST
6 7 (9.86%) CSS
6 7 (9.86%) RESTful
7 6 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (8.45%) Gherkin
7 6 (8.45%) Kafka
7 6 (8.45%) SailPoint
8 5 (7.04%) JSON
8 5 (7.04%) XML
9 4 (5.63%) DOM
9 4 (5.63%) Node.js
9 4 (5.63%) Puppeteer
9 4 (5.63%) Spring
9 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
10 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.82%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Greenfield Project
1 8 (11.27%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.23%) Housing Association
3 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.82%) FMCG
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Linux
1 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (74.65%) Test Automation
2 35 (49.30%) Agile
3 29 (40.85%) CI/CD
4 22 (30.99%) Test Strategy
5 21 (29.58%) DevOps
6 19 (26.76%) BDD
7 18 (25.35%) Scrum
8 16 (22.54%) QA Automation
9 15 (21.13%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (16.90%) API Testing
11 12 (16.90%) Software Testing
12 11 (15.49%) Mentoring
13 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (14.08%) Manual Testing
13 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (12.68%) AI
14 9 (12.68%) Functional Testing
14 9 (12.68%) Integration Testing
14 9 (12.68%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.93%) Java
2 24 (33.80%) C#
3 20 (28.17%) JavaScript
3 20 (28.17%) SQL
4 15 (21.13%) Python
5 14 (19.72%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.82%) C++
6 2 (2.82%) RPG
7 1 (1.41%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.41%) Perl
7 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) ISTQB
2 9 (12.68%) Degree
3 6 (8.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) ISEB
6 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (52.11%) QA
2 5 (7.04%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (12.68%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.41%) Grafana
2 1 (1.41%) Kibana
2 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.63%) Google
3 3 (4.23%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.82%) IBM
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle
4 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.41%) Concur
5 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.41%) eFront
5 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.41%) SAP