Selenium Jobs

Selenium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Selenium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Selenium over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 390 211
Rank change year-on-year -47 -179 -19
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 262 653 1,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.66% 1.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.77% 6.83% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 218 469 1,029
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -2.42% +3.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,900 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.17% +9.09% +4.76%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,498 9,566 15,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 9.73% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 6,755 9,183
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 17 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 30 April 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 -33 223 £60,000 -4.00% 212
UK excluding London -14 163 £59,900 -0.17% 147
Work from Home +33 93 £60,000 -7.69% 143
London +5 80 £65,000 -21.90% 79
South East -21 47 £60,000 -2.44% 25
Midlands +72 42 £62,500 +25.00% 21
North of England +53 31 £56,000 +6.67% 39
West Midlands +62 28 £67,500 +37.76% 9
North West +24 16 £55,000 +15.79% 22
South West +76 15 £65,000 +7.44% 19
East Midlands +49 14 £60,000 - 12
Yorkshire +50 12 £70,000 +30.84% 12
Scotland +61 11 £55,000 +52.78% 5
Northern Ireland - 8 £55,000 - 2
East of England +58 6 £53,000 -7.83% 24
Wales +20 5 £61,750 +37.22% 14
North East +50 3 £55,000 +2.33% 6

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 11 (4.20%) Confluence
2 9 (3.44%) Tomcat
3 8 (3.05%) nginx
4 4 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) Jetty
Applications
1 5 (1.91%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Elite 3E
1 3 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
2 1 (0.38%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (29.77%) Azure
2 43 (16.41%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (15.65%) AWS
4 26 (9.92%) SaaS
5 23 (8.78%) GitHub
6 16 (6.11%) GCP
7 15 (5.73%) Serverless
8 12 (4.58%) Azure Functions
9 10 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (3.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (3.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.67%) Power Automate
12 7 (2.67%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.53%) Figma
14 4 (1.53%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) SAN
2 1 (0.38%) VoIP
2 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.63%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.73%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.20%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.67%) MySQL
6 6 (2.29%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.91%) Big Data
8 4 (1.53%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.53%) Power BI
9 3 (1.15%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.15%) Redis
9 3 (1.15%) Tableau
10 2 (0.76%) Endeca
11 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (27.48%) Postman
2 69 (26.34%) Git
3 64 (24.43%) JIRA
4 55 (20.99%) Cypress.io
5 51 (19.47%) Jenkins
6 42 (16.03%) JMeter
7 40 (15.27%) JUnit
8 32 (12.21%) Cucumber
9 30 (11.45%) TestNG
10 29 (11.07%) Appium
11 24 (9.16%) SoapUI
11 24 (9.16%) SpecFlow
12 21 (8.02%) SonarQube
13 17 (6.49%) WebDriver
14 15 (5.73%) Maven
14 15 (5.73%) REST Assured
15 12 (4.58%) LoadRunner
16 11 (4.20%) Bitbucket
16 11 (4.20%) NUnit
16 11 (4.20%) TestRail
General
1 67 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.70%) Finance
3 39 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.96%) Banking
5 13 (4.96%) Law
6 12 (4.58%) Legal
7 9 (3.44%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.44%) Retail
8 8 (3.05%) Cantonese Language
8 8 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.05%) Mandarin Language
9 6 (2.29%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.91%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.91%) Marketing
11 4 (1.53%) Billing
11 4 (1.53%) Front Office
11 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Games
12 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (24.43%) Lead
2 60 (22.90%) Senior
3 48 (18.32%) QA Engineer
3 48 (18.32%) Test Engineer
4 31 (11.83%) Tester
5 30 (11.45%) Automation Engineer
6 28 (10.69%) Analyst
7 24 (9.16%) Test Automation Engineer
8 23 (8.78%) Developer
9 21 (8.02%) Test Analyst
10 20 (7.63%) Automation Tester
11 18 (6.87%) QA Leader
11 18 (6.87%) Validation Engineer
12 15 (5.73%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.58%) QA Automation Engineer
14 12 (4.58%) Software Engineer
15 11 (4.20%) Java Engineer
15 11 (4.20%) QA Test Engineer
16 10 (3.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.27%) Playwright
2 34 (12.98%) .NET
3 26 (9.92%) CSS
3 26 (9.92%) HTML
3 26 (9.92%) REST
4 24 (9.16%) React
5 23 (8.78%) JSON
6 22 (8.40%) Jest
7 19 (7.25%) pytest
7 19 (7.25%) XML
8 18 (6.87%) Swagger
9 17 (6.49%) Kafka
10 16 (6.11%) AngularJS
10 16 (6.11%) RESTful
11 14 (5.34%) SOAP
11 14 (5.34%) Web Services
12 13 (4.96%) .NET Framework
13 12 (4.58%) Gherkin
13 12 (4.58%) Spring Boot
14 10 (3.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.02%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.87%) Operational Technology
2 18 (6.87%) SCADA
3 16 (6.11%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.44%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.05%) Life Science
6 6 (2.29%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.53%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.15%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.76%) NHS
10 2 (0.76%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.58%) Linux
2 10 (3.82%) Windows
3 4 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Fedora
5 1 (0.38%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (81.68%) Test Automation
2 133 (50.76%) Agile
3 104 (39.69%) CI/CD
4 86 (32.82%) Software Testing
5 70 (26.72%) DevOps
5 70 (26.72%) Manual Testing
6 65 (24.81%) Test Scripting
7 62 (23.66%) Test Strategy
8 54 (20.61%) Mentoring
9 50 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (19.08%) SDLC
10 45 (17.18%) API Testing
11 40 (15.27%) Performance Testing
12 37 (14.12%) Security Testing
13 35 (13.36%) Regression Testing
14 34 (12.98%) Scrum
14 34 (12.98%) Validation
15 33 (12.60%) Computer Science
16 32 (12.21%) Code Quality
17 29 (11.07%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (34.73%) JavaScript
2 82 (31.30%) C#
3 80 (30.53%) SQL
4 79 (30.15%) Java
5 75 (28.63%) Python
6 47 (17.94%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.73%) PHP
8 8 (3.05%) Go
9 7 (2.67%) Scala
10 6 (2.29%) Groovy
11 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.76%) Ruby
11 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (27.86%) ISTQB
2 56 (21.37%) Degree
3 15 (5.73%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.96%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (3.05%) ISEB
6 8 (3.05%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.15%) CISSP
8 3 (1.15%) OCP
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (48.09%) QA
2 17 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.67%) GDPR
4 6 (2.29%) WCAG
5 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.38%) Basel III
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 54 (20.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) Firmware
2 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.02%) Terraform
3 14 (5.34%) Ansible
4 8 (3.05%) Kustomize
4 8 (3.05%) Packer
5 5 (1.91%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.15%) Argo
7 3 (1.15%) Control-M
7 3 (1.15%) Grafana
7 3 (1.15%) Istio
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.38%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.38%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.05%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.29%) Oracle
4 5 (1.91%) Databricks
5 3 (1.15%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.15%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.15%) IBM
6 2 (0.76%) CyberSource
6 2 (0.76%) HP
6 2 (0.76%) VMware
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) Brocade
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco
7 1 (0.38%) EMC
7 1 (0.38%) Google
7 1 (0.38%) Mercator
7 1 (0.38%) New Relic
7 1 (0.38%) Reuters
7 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.38%) Siebel