WebDriver Job Trends in London

Selenium WebDriver
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring WebDriver skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 435 411
Rank change year-on-year +80 -24 +132
Permanent jobs citing WebDriver 14 5 42
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.10% 0.032% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.16% 0.27% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 29
10th Percentile £31,250 - £59,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £82,125 - £110,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -36.67% +15.38%

All Development Application Skills
London

WebDriver 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 1,209 1,833 2,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.77% 11.70% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 819 1,065 1,902
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £116,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WebDriver relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

WebDriver job vacancy trend in London

WebDriver
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebDriver.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebDriver

WebDriver
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WebDriver in London

WebDriver
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebDriver within the London region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
West London - 2 £32,500 - 1
Central London - 1 £105,000 -
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Adobe Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Datadog
4 2 (14.29%) BrowserStack
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Mixpanel
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Selenium
2 6 (42.86%) Cypress.io
3 5 (35.71%) Git
3 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 5 (35.71%) JIRA
3 5 (35.71%) Postman
4 3 (21.43%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (21.43%) Charles Proxy
4 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
4 3 (21.43%) Fiddler
4 3 (21.43%) JMeter
4 3 (21.43%) Maven
4 3 (21.43%) TestNG
4 3 (21.43%) Zephyr
5 2 (14.29%) Appium
5 2 (14.29%) Gatling
5 2 (14.29%) GitLab
5 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
5 2 (14.29%) SpecFlow
5 2 (14.29%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 9 (64.29%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Law
3 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
5 3 (21.43%) Electronics
6 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Finance
6 2 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Automation Test Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer in Test
2 4 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Leader
3 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) Senior IT Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Playwright
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Thrift
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (28.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (21.43%) W3C
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
1 12 (85.71%) Test Strategy
2 10 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 9 (64.29%) Agile
3 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (50.00%) Test Management
5 6 (42.86%) API Testing
5 6 (42.86%) Test Scripting
6 5 (35.71%) AI
6 5 (35.71%) BDD
6 5 (35.71%) Functional Testing
6 5 (35.71%) SDET
7 4 (28.57%) Community of Practice
7 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (28.57%) DevOps
7 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) QA
2 4 (28.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Adobe
1 3 (21.43%) Tealium