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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 313 315
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -109
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 83 85 187
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.43% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.89% 5.81% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 70 61 145
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £45,800
25th Percentile £55,313 £50,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £83,230
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -21.90% +18.90%
75th Percentile £82,813 £80,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% -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 1,410 1,464 2,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.24% 11.33% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 875 1,002 1,874
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
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 £100,000 £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 21 April 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 April 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 -9 7 £65,000 -17.72% 8
South London +21 3 £52,600 -4.36%
West London -25 2 £32,500 -56.67% 1
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 (14.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (9.64%) MS Visio
2 7 (8.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.41%) SAP CX
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.69%) Azure
2 13 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (13.25%) AWS
4 5 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.02%) GitHub
4 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.82%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.41%) Figma
7 1 (1.20%) Apigee
7 1 (1.20%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.20%) GCP
7 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.20%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.20%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.05%) DB2
4 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.82%) Redis
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.41%) Tableau
7 1 (1.20%) MS Access
7 1 (1.20%) Power BI
7 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (30.12%) JIRA
2 17 (20.48%) Cucumber
3 16 (19.28%) Cypress.io
3 16 (19.28%) Jenkins
4 13 (15.66%) Postman
5 11 (13.25%) Bitbucket
5 11 (13.25%) SpecFlow
6 10 (12.05%) TeamCity
6 10 (12.05%) WebDriver
7 8 (9.64%) Git
8 6 (7.23%) JUnit
8 6 (7.23%) SoapUI
9 5 (6.02%) JMeter
9 5 (6.02%) REST Assured
10 3 (3.61%) GitLab
10 3 (3.61%) LoadRunner
10 3 (3.61%) TestNG
11 2 (2.41%) Storybook
11 2 (2.41%) TestRail
11 2 (2.41%) webpack
General
1 35 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.12%) Finance
3 14 (16.87%) Banking
4 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.02%) Advertising
6 5 (6.02%) Retail
7 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.61%) Back Office
9 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.07%) QA Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Lead
3 12 (14.46%) Developer
3 12 (14.46%) Tester
4 11 (13.25%) Test Leader
5 8 (9.64%) Java Developer
5 8 (9.64%) Senior
6 6 (7.23%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Java Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) QA Automation Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Test Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Agile Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Agile Java Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Automation Test Lead
7 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Test Manager
8 4 (4.82%) Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Automation Tester
8 4 (4.82%) Senior QA Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (36.14%) Playwright
2 19 (22.89%) HTML
2 19 (22.89%) React
3 13 (15.66%) CSS
4 12 (14.46%) .NET
5 11 (13.25%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (13.25%) REST
6 10 (12.05%) Gherkin
6 10 (12.05%) RESTful
7 8 (9.64%) Node.js
8 6 (7.23%) SailPoint
8 6 (7.23%) XML
9 5 (6.02%) JSON
9 5 (6.02%) Kafka
9 5 (6.02%) Spring
9 5 (6.02%) Spring Boot
10 4 (4.82%) DOM
10 4 (4.82%) Puppeteer
11 3 (3.61%) Middleware
11 3 (3.61%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (9.64%) Onboarding
3 7 (8.43%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) Derivative
5 3 (3.61%) Equities
5 3 (3.61%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.61%) Housing Association
6 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.41%) FMCG
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (81.93%) Test Automation
2 36 (43.37%) Agile
3 35 (42.17%) CI/CD
4 27 (32.53%) BDD
5 25 (30.12%) DevOps
6 22 (26.51%) Scrum
6 22 (26.51%) Test Strategy
7 20 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (20.48%) QA Automation
9 16 (19.28%) API Testing
10 15 (18.07%) Software Testing
11 14 (16.87%) Functional Testing
12 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
12 13 (15.66%) Non-Functional Testing
13 12 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (14.46%) Software Engineering
13 12 (14.46%) User Experience
14 11 (13.25%) Integration Testing
14 11 (13.25%) Manual Testing
14 11 (13.25%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (57.83%) Java
2 30 (36.14%) SQL
3 26 (31.33%) JavaScript
4 25 (30.12%) C#
5 20 (24.10%) Python
6 18 (21.69%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.61%) RPG
8 1 (1.20%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.20%) Delphi
8 1 (1.20%) Go
8 1 (1.20%) Perl
8 1 (1.20%) PHP
8 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.20%) Scala
8 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (24.10%) ISTQB
2 9 (10.84%) Degree
2 9 (10.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 5 (6.02%) ISEB
4 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (50.60%) QA
2 4 (4.82%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (16.87%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (16.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) Grafana
2 2 (2.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (8.43%) Atlassian
2 4 (4.82%) Google
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) IBM
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle
3 3 (3.61%) SAP
4 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.20%) Concur
5 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.20%) eFront
5 1 (1.20%) HP
5 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.20%) Siebel