Selenium
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 210 198
Rank change year-on-year -178 -12 -38
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 653 1,912 3,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 1.83% 2.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.84% 12.55% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 470 1,036 1,838
10th Percentile £37,950 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £89,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Selenium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Selenium.

Salary trend for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -182 530 £62,500 +0.81% 123
UK excluding London -183 451 £60,000 +9.09% 90
Work from Home -125 263 £65,000 +8.33% 67
South East -25 194 £61,500 +11.82% 32
London -132 182 £83,230 +18.90% 44
Scotland -78 79 £39,250 -41.97% 10
North of England -154 62 £52,500 -4.55% 16
South West -78 54 £60,500 +27.37% 9
Yorkshire -45 32 £53,500 +18.89% 7
Midlands -114 31 £50,000 -7.41% 10
Wales +12 25 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North West -70 25 £47,500 -20.83% 8
West Midlands -45 17 £49,000 -9.26% 5
East Midlands -77 14 £60,000 +29.73% 5
East of England -33 6 £57,500 - 9
North East -42 5 £53,750 -14.00% 1

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (3.52%) Confluence
2 19 (2.91%) Apache
3 5 (0.77%) IIS
3 5 (0.77%) nginx
4 3 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.15%) Drupal
5 1 (0.15%) JBoss
5 1 (0.15%) PrestaShop
5 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.15%) Magento
1 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (26.80%) AWS
2 169 (25.88%) Azure
3 94 (14.40%) SaaS
4 69 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (6.74%) GCP
6 28 (4.29%) GitHub
7 17 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (2.30%) BrowserStack
8 15 (2.30%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.23%) Slack
11 7 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.07%) Pulumi
12 6 (0.92%) BlazeMeter
12 6 (0.92%) Serverless
13 5 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.77%) Sauce Labs
14 4 (0.61%) Datadog
14 4 (0.61%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (0.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.38%) Network Security
2 7 (1.07%) Internet
3 2 (0.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) DHCP
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) Multicast
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
4 1 (0.15%) VLAN
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.13%) NoSQL
2 37 (5.67%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.98%) Relational Database
4 23 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.30%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.53%) Redis
8 9 (1.38%) MySQL
9 8 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.46%) Big Data
11 3 (0.46%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.15%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 196 (30.02%) Cypress.io
2 181 (27.72%) Cucumber
3 166 (25.42%) Jenkins
4 165 (25.27%) Git
5 143 (21.90%) WebDriver
6 130 (19.91%) Postman
7 119 (18.22%) JUnit
8 98 (15.01%) JIRA
9 70 (10.72%) JMeter
10 69 (10.57%) Jasmine
11 66 (10.11%) Protractor
12 60 (9.19%) Karma Test Runner
13 49 (7.50%) SoapUI
14 45 (6.89%) SpecFlow
15 39 (5.97%) Visual Studio
16 38 (5.82%) REST Assured
16 38 (5.82%) TeamCity
16 38 (5.82%) TestNG
17 31 (4.75%) Appium
18 27 (4.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 164 (25.11%) Finance
2 107 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 90 (13.78%) Banking
4 81 (12.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 80 (12.25%) Law
6 69 (10.57%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (3.06%) Aerospace
10 14 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.84%) Games
11 12 (1.84%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.53%) Marketing
12 10 (1.53%) Retail
12 10 (1.53%) Turkish Language
13 8 (1.23%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.07%) Automotive
14 7 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.77%) Legal
15 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 161 (24.66%) Lead
2 123 (18.84%) Developer
3 103 (15.77%) Senior
4 95 (14.55%) Tester
5 88 (13.48%) Software Engineer
6 66 (10.11%) Automation Tester
6 66 (10.11%) Java Engineer
7 65 (9.95%) Java Software Engineer
8 50 (7.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 48 (7.35%) Test Engineer
10 46 (7.04%) Analyst
11 44 (6.74%) QA Engineer
12 34 (5.21%) Test Analyst
13 32 (4.90%) QA Leader
14 31 (4.75%) Senior Developer
14 31 (4.75%) Test Leader
15 30 (4.59%) Java Developer
16 25 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
17 22 (3.37%) Lead Java Engineer
18 21 (3.22%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (25.42%) React
2 118 (18.07%) Jest
3 110 (16.85%) HTML
3 110 (16.85%) REST
4 109 (16.69%) CSS
5 102 (15.62%) Spring
6 91 (13.94%) JSON
7 86 (13.17%) .NET
8 84 (12.86%) AngularJS
9 67 (10.26%) jQuery
10 65 (9.95%) Node.js
11 63 (9.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 60 (9.19%) Hibernate
12 60 (9.19%) J2EE
12 60 (9.19%) JMS
13 42 (6.43%) HTML5
13 42 (6.43%) Web Services
14 40 (6.13%) RESTful
15 37 (5.67%) Playwright
16 35 (5.36%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.19%) Data Structures
2 22 (3.37%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.22%) Algorithms
4 16 (2.45%) Mobile App
5 13 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.23%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.07%) Client/Server
10 6 (0.92%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.92%) Hackathon
10 6 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.92%) Social Media
11 5 (0.77%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.77%) Replication
12 4 (0.61%) IoT
13 3 (0.46%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.14%) Windows
2 10 (1.53%) Android
3 6 (0.92%) Linux
4 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (59.88%) Test Automation
2 387 (59.26%) Agile
3 227 (34.76%) CI/CD
4 192 (29.40%) BDD
5 154 (23.58%) Software Testing
6 148 (22.66%) DevOps
7 137 (20.98%) Software Engineering
8 136 (20.83%) API Testing
9 126 (19.30%) Artificial Intelligence
10 118 (18.07%) SDET
11 117 (17.92%) TDD
12 103 (15.77%) Continuous Integration
13 102 (15.62%) Test Strategy
14 99 (15.16%) Scrum
15 98 (15.01%) Test Scripting
16 90 (13.78%) SDLC
17 84 (12.86%) Machine Learning
18 80 (12.25%) Web Development
19 78 (11.94%) Mentoring
20 73 (11.18%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 292 (44.72%) Java
2 251 (38.44%) JavaScript
3 187 (28.64%) C#
4 155 (23.74%) TypeScript
5 150 (22.97%) SQL
6 62 (9.49%) Python
7 38 (5.82%) PHP
8 13 (1.99%) C++
8 13 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.68%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.23%) Bicep
11 7 (1.07%) Bash
12 6 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.77%) Go
13 5 (0.77%) XAML
14 4 (0.61%) Ruby
15 3 (0.46%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.46%) VBScript
16 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 113 (17.30%) Degree
2 69 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 53 (8.12%) ISTQB
4 40 (6.13%) SC Cleared
5 29 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.37%) ISEB
7 18 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.46%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.31%) HND
11 1 (0.15%) CCNA
11 1 (0.15%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.15%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (38.13%) QA
2 38 (5.82%) WCAG
3 19 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.68%) GDPR
5 8 (1.23%) PSD2
6 2 (0.31%) PMO
7 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 147 (22.51%) Docker
2 6 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.77%) Firmware
4 4 (0.61%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.46%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 130 (19.91%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.44%) Terraform
3 20 (3.06%) Ansible
4 10 (1.53%) Puppet
5 9 (1.38%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.07%) MIIS
7 6 (0.92%) Kibana
8 5 (0.77%) Argo
8 5 (0.77%) Control-M
8 5 (0.77%) Nagios
9 4 (0.61%) Consul
10 3 (0.46%) logstash
10 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.15%) Iperf
11 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.15%) Nmap
11 1 (0.15%) Packer
11 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (6.74%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.44%) Google
3 28 (4.29%) Oracle
4 10 (1.53%) Databricks
5 9 (1.38%) Splunk
6 8 (1.23%) Duck Creek
7 6 (0.92%) New Relic
7 6 (0.92%) VMware
8 4 (0.61%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.61%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.61%) IBM
9 3 (0.46%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.46%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.31%) SAP
10 2 (0.31%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.15%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.15%) HP
11 1 (0.15%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.15%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.15%) Veracode