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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 329 353
Rank change year-on-year -27 +24 -150
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 56 71 152
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.88% 5.17% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 46 59 97
10th Percentile £48,125 £42,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £46,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -20.69% +3.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £85,000 £109,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £58,650 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% -2.25% -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 1,442 1,374 2,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.59% 11.25% 10.32%
Number of salaries quoted 865 884 1,693
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 £115,000 £118,450 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 29 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 29 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 -12 6 £65,000 -13.33%
South London +15 1 £50,000 -9.09%
West London -18 1 £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 4 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
2 11 (19.64%) AWS
3 9 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (14.29%) GitHub
5 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.57%) BrowserStack
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.79%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.79%) Figma
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) SaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (1.79%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 4 (7.14%) Redis
2 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.57%) Tableau
4 1 (1.79%) Db2
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 14 (25.00%) JIRA
2 11 (19.64%) Postman
3 10 (17.86%) SpecFlow
4 7 (12.50%) WebDriver
5 6 (10.71%) REST Assured
6 5 (8.93%) Git
7 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
7 4 (7.14%) JUnit
8 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
8 3 (5.36%) TestNG
9 2 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.57%) GitLab
9 2 (3.57%) JMeter
9 2 (3.57%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.79%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.79%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.79%) Maven
10 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 8 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.93%) Advertising
4 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 12 (21.43%) Tester
3 6 (10.71%) Java Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Senior
3 6 (10.71%) Test Manager
4 5 (8.93%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Automation Tester
4 5 (8.93%) Lead
4 5 (8.93%) QA Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Senior QA Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Web Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Test Leader
7 2 (3.57%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Leader
8 1 (1.79%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (1.79%) Lead Consultant
8 1 (1.79%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (44.64%) Playwright
2 10 (17.86%) React
3 9 (16.07%) .NET
3 9 (16.07%) REST
4 8 (14.29%) HTML
5 6 (10.71%) Kafka
5 6 (10.71%) SailPoint
6 5 (8.93%) JSON
6 5 (8.93%) XML
7 4 (7.14%) DOM
7 4 (7.14%) Puppeteer
7 4 (7.14%) Spring
7 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
8 3 (5.36%) CSS
9 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.57%) Flask
9 2 (3.57%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.57%) RESTful
10 1 (1.79%) pytest
10 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.36%) Housing Association
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) FMCG
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
1 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 27 (48.21%) Agile
3 21 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 20 (35.71%) Test Strategy
5 18 (32.14%) DevOps
6 17 (30.36%) QA Automation
7 14 (25.00%) BDD
7 14 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (23.21%) Scrum
9 12 (21.43%) API Testing
9 12 (21.43%) Software Testing
10 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (19.64%) Regression Testing
11 10 (17.86%) AI
11 10 (17.86%) Manual Testing
11 10 (17.86%) Mentoring
12 9 (16.07%) End-to-End Testing
13 8 (14.29%) Observability
14 7 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (55.36%) Java
2 22 (39.29%) C#
3 15 (26.79%) Python
4 14 (25.00%) SQL
5 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
6 9 (16.07%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.57%) C++
8 1 (1.79%) Perl
8 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 8 (14.29%) Degree
3 6 (10.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) ISEB
6 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (57.14%) QA
2 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Grafana
2 1 (1.79%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
3 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.79%) eFront
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce