Appium Job Trends

Appium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Appium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 671 667
Rank change year-on-year +46 -4 +210
Permanent jobs citing Appium 22 43 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.078% 0.089%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.60% 0.76% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 18 19 42
10th Percentile £53,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +36.36% -18.16%
75th Percentile £66,188 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,875 £81,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% -4.55%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Appium 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,643 5,693 6,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 10.30% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,399 3,322 5,126
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% -5.98% +6.36%

Appium
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Appium job vacancy trend in the UK

Appium
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Appium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Appium

Appium
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Appium over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Appium in the UK

Appium
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Appium within the UK over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
England +48 21 £61,500 -18.00% 63
London +46 11 £61,500 -18.00% 6
UK excluding London +45 10 £60,000 -14.29% 64
Work from Home +62 6 £60,000 -20.00% 66
South East +25 4 £65,000 -7.14% 18
North of England +23 4 £60,000 -27.27% 10
North East +6 2 £60,000 -
North West +26 1 - - 5
Midlands +22 1 - - 13
South West +16 1 £47,500 - 6
East Midlands -15 1 - - 7
Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 - 5

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) BrowserStack
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) Selenium
2 7 (31.82%) Cucumber
2 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (27.27%) Cypress.io
3 6 (27.27%) REST Assured
4 5 (22.73%) JMeter
4 5 (22.73%) SpecFlow
5 4 (18.18%) Katalon Studio
5 4 (18.18%) Postman
6 3 (13.64%) Artifactory
6 3 (13.64%) JIRA
6 3 (13.64%) JUnit
6 3 (13.64%) WebDriver
7 2 (9.09%) Gatling
7 2 (9.09%) Git
7 2 (9.09%) GitLab
7 2 (9.09%) HP UFT
7 2 (9.09%) Ranorex
7 2 (9.09%) TestNG
7 2 (9.09%) Xcode
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Advertising
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.55%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Test Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Test Automation Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) QA Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) QA Automation Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Lead
6 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Mobile Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Test Automation Specialist
7 2 (9.09%) Test Leader
7 2 (9.09%) Test Specialist
8 1 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) QA Leader
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Playwright
2 4 (18.18%) REST
3 3 (13.64%) pytest
4 2 (9.09%) Web Services
4 2 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) React Native
5 1 (4.55%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) SOAP
5 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Apple iOS
2 2 (9.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Test Automation
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) API Testing
4 6 (27.27%) BDD
4 6 (27.27%) Performance Testing
4 6 (27.27%) Test Strategy
5 5 (22.73%) Fintech
5 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
5 5 (22.73%) SDLC
6 4 (18.18%) QA Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 4 (18.18%) TDD
6 4 (18.18%) Test Management
6 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Functional Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.64%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 5 (22.73%) Java
4 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Swift
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) Groovy
6 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (54.55%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Splunk