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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 653 740
Rank change year-on-year -1 +87 +138
Permanent jobs citing Appium 18 50 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.10% 0.096%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.47% 0.95% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16 26 53
10th Percentile £50,625 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% -22.22%
75th Percentile £62,250 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £79,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.14% +5.00% -9.09%

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 3,858 5,241 7,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.80% 10.51% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,488 3,028 6,413
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +3.75% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -

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 12 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Appium in the UK

Appium
Top 7 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 12 February 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
England +5 16 £60,750 -13.21% 14
London +14 10 £57,500 -23.33% 3
UK excluding London +17 6 £61,500 +17.14% 14
South East +8 4 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Work from Home +18 3 £45,000 -28.00% 11
North East -3 2 £60,000 -
North of England -5 2 £60,000 -27.27% 3

Appium
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 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) Sentry
5 1 (5.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Selenium
2 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 4 (22.22%) SpecFlow
3 3 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) JMeter
3 3 (16.67%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (16.67%) REST Assured
4 2 (11.11%) Git
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (11.11%) JUnit
4 2 (11.11%) Postman
4 2 (11.11%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.56%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (5.56%) NeoLoad
5 1 (5.56%) Ranorex
5 1 (5.56%) TestNG
5 1 (5.56%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (5.56%) XCUITest
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Health Technology
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) International Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) QA Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Test Automation Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Test Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Test Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Playwright
2 3 (16.67%) pytest
3 2 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) Web Services
4 1 (5.56%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Test Automation
2 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) Performance Testing
4 5 (27.78%) SDLC
4 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
5 4 (22.22%) BDD
5 4 (22.22%) Fintech
5 4 (22.22%) QA Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 3 (16.67%) API Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Batch Processing
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) Observability
6 3 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
6 3 (16.67%) Test Management
7 2 (11.11%) Cross-Browser Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) TypeScript
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Splunk