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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 320 358
Rank change year-on-year -53 +38 -157
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 57 70 156
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.57% 0.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.94% 5.10% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 47 58 101
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -23.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £85,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -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 1,446 1,373 2,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.65% 11.26% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 867 884 1,721
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.19% -10.07%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -11 6 £65,000 -13.33%
West London -14 2 £32,500 -56.67%
South London +17 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 4 (7.02%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.32%) Azure
2 11 (19.30%) AWS
3 9 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (14.04%) GitHub
5 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.51%) BrowserStack
7 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.75%) Figma
8 1 (1.75%) GCP
8 1 (1.75%) SaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (1.75%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
1 4 (7.02%) Redis
2 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.51%) Tableau
4 1 (1.75%) Db2
4 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.75%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) JIRA
2 14 (24.56%) Cypress.io
3 12 (21.05%) Postman
4 10 (17.54%) SpecFlow
5 8 (14.04%) WebDriver
6 6 (10.53%) REST Assured
7 5 (8.77%) Git
8 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket
8 4 (7.02%) JUnit
9 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
9 3 (5.26%) SoapUI
9 3 (5.26%) TestNG
10 2 (3.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
10 2 (3.51%) GitLab
10 2 (3.51%) JMeter
10 2 (3.51%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.75%) TestRail
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.32%) Finance
3 8 (14.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.77%) Advertising
4 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) QA Engineer
2 13 (22.81%) Tester
3 6 (10.53%) Java Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Senior
3 6 (10.53%) Test Manager
4 5 (8.77%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Automation Tester
4 5 (8.77%) Lead
4 5 (8.77%) QA Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior QA Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Web Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Consultant
6 3 (5.26%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Test Leader
7 2 (3.51%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.51%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Technical Leader
8 1 (1.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (1.75%) Lead Consultant
8 1 (1.75%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (43.86%) Playwright
2 10 (17.54%) .NET
2 10 (17.54%) React
3 9 (15.79%) HTML
3 9 (15.79%) REST
4 6 (10.53%) Kafka
4 6 (10.53%) SailPoint
5 5 (8.77%) JSON
5 5 (8.77%) XML
6 4 (7.02%) DOM
6 4 (7.02%) Puppeteer
6 4 (7.02%) Spring
6 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.26%) CSS
8 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.51%) Flask
8 2 (3.51%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.51%) RESTful
8 2 (3.51%) SOAP
9 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.26%) Housing Association
4 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.51%) FMCG
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Linux
1 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) Test Automation
2 28 (49.12%) Agile
3 21 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 20 (35.09%) Test Strategy
5 18 (31.58%) DevOps
6 17 (29.82%) QA Automation
7 14 (24.56%) BDD
7 14 (24.56%) Scrum
7 14 (24.56%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (22.81%) API Testing
8 13 (22.81%) Software Testing
9 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (19.30%) Mentoring
9 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (19.30%) Regression Testing
10 10 (17.54%) AI
10 10 (17.54%) Manual Testing
11 9 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
12 8 (14.04%) Observability
13 7 (12.28%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (56.14%) Java
2 23 (40.35%) C#
3 15 (26.32%) Python
3 15 (26.32%) SQL
4 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.51%) C++
7 1 (1.75%) Perl
7 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) ISTQB
2 9 (15.79%) Degree
3 6 (10.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) ISEB
6 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (56.14%) QA
2 5 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) Grafana
2 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Google
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle
3 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.75%) eFront
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce