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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 310 335
Rank change year-on-year -27 +25 -146
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 74 78 167
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.63% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.19% 5.73% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 60 61 121
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £45,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £59,750 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -0.83% -3.20%

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 1,426 1,362 2,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.91% 11.05% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 867 942 1,841
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £61,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% +5.83% -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 19 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 19 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 -17.72% 4
West London -18 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 11 (14.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (5.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.97%) Azure
2 12 (16.22%) AWS
3 11 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.46%) Power Platform
5 6 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (8.11%) GitHub
6 2 (2.70%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.70%) Figma
7 1 (1.35%) Apigee
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.35%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.35%) GCP
7 1 (1.35%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.35%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.46%) DB2
2 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.41%) Redis
4 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.70%) Tableau
5 1 (1.35%) MS Access
5 1 (1.35%) Power BI
5 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (29.73%) JIRA
2 18 (24.32%) Cypress.io
3 12 (16.22%) Postman
4 10 (13.51%) Bitbucket
4 10 (13.51%) SpecFlow
4 10 (13.51%) WebDriver
5 9 (12.16%) Jenkins
6 8 (10.81%) Cucumber
7 7 (9.46%) TeamCity
8 6 (8.11%) Git
9 4 (5.41%) JUnit
9 4 (5.41%) REST Assured
10 3 (4.05%) SoapUI
10 3 (4.05%) TestNG
11 2 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (2.70%) JMeter
11 2 (2.70%) Storybook
11 2 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (2.70%) Vite
11 2 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 31 (41.89%) Social Skills
2 22 (29.73%) Finance
3 10 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.81%) Banking
5 7 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.76%) Advertising
6 5 (6.76%) Retail
7 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.35%) Back Office
8 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) QA Engineer
2 12 (16.22%) Tester
3 11 (14.86%) Lead
4 8 (10.81%) Developer
4 8 (10.81%) Senior
4 8 (10.81%) Test Leader
5 7 (9.46%) Test Manager
6 6 (8.11%) Java Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Automation Test Lead
7 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.76%) QA Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Senior QA Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Automation Tester
8 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Web Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Consultant
9 3 (4.05%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (39.19%) Playwright
2 16 (21.62%) React
3 14 (18.92%) HTML
4 11 (14.86%) .NET
5 10 (13.51%) REST
6 8 (10.81%) CSS
6 8 (10.81%) RESTful
7 7 (9.46%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (9.46%) Gherkin
8 6 (8.11%) Kafka
8 6 (8.11%) SailPoint
9 5 (6.76%) JSON
9 5 (6.76%) Node.js
9 5 (6.76%) XML
10 4 (5.41%) DOM
10 4 (5.41%) Puppeteer
10 4 (5.41%) Spring
10 4 (5.41%) Spring Boot
11 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
11 3 (4.05%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (10.81%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.05%) Housing Association
4 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.70%) FMCG
6 1 (1.35%) Derivative
6 1 (1.35%) Equities
6 1 (1.35%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (75.68%) Test Automation
2 35 (47.30%) Agile
3 30 (40.54%) CI/CD
4 23 (31.08%) Test Strategy
5 21 (28.38%) DevOps
6 20 (27.03%) BDD
7 18 (24.32%) Scrum
8 17 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (21.62%) QA Automation
10 14 (18.92%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (17.57%) API Testing
12 12 (16.22%) Software Testing
13 11 (14.86%) End-to-End Testing
13 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (13.51%) Functional Testing
14 10 (13.51%) Mentoring
15 9 (12.16%) AI
15 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (12.16%) Non-Functional Testing
15 9 (12.16%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 42 (56.76%) Java
2 25 (33.78%) C#
3 21 (28.38%) JavaScript
3 21 (28.38%) SQL
4 17 (22.97%) Python
5 15 (20.27%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.70%) C++
6 2 (2.70%) RPG
7 1 (1.35%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.35%) Perl
7 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) ISTQB
2 9 (12.16%) Degree
3 7 (9.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.70%) ISEB
5 2 (2.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (51.35%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.35%) Grafana
2 1 (1.35%) Kibana
2 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.41%) Atlassian
2 4 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (2.70%) IBM
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle
3 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.35%) Concur
4 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.35%) eFront
4 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.35%) SAP