Selenium WebDriver
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WebDriver skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WebDriver 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 748 686 784
Rank change year-on-year -62 +98 -248
Permanent jobs citing WebDriver 148 294 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.55% 1.93% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 68 137 298
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,300 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,813 £48,750 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +0.88%
75th Percentile £72,500 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

WebDriver 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%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebDriver 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
UK excluding London +4 112 £47,500 -9.52% 16
England -46 81 £60,000 -7.69% 18
Scotland -2 64 £35,000 -20.45% 5
London +50 38 £82,500 +3.13% 6
South East +37 30 £47,500 -13.64% 3
Work from Home +31 21 £60,000 -7.69% 12
North of England +21 9 £42,500 -12.82% 2
South West -7 8 £40,000 -21.95%
North West +10 7 £42,500 - 2
Yorkshire +68 2 £57,500 -10.16%
East of England -13 1 £47,500 - 5

WebDriver
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 17 (11.49%) Apache
2 5 (3.38%) IIS
3 2 (1.35%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 62 (41.89%) AWS
2 22 (14.86%) Azure
3 13 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.03%) SaaS
5 2 (1.35%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.35%) GCP
5 2 (1.35%) GitHub
5 2 (1.35%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.14%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.35%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.35%) MySQL
4 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 143 (96.62%) Selenium
2 84 (56.76%) JUnit
3 77 (52.03%) Cypress.io
4 60 (40.54%) Jasmine
4 60 (40.54%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (40.54%) Protractor
5 27 (18.24%) Cucumber
6 24 (16.22%) REST Assured
7 18 (12.16%) TestNG
8 17 (11.49%) Visual Studio
9 14 (9.46%) JMeter
10 13 (8.78%) Git
11 12 (8.11%) Jenkins
12 11 (7.43%) NUnit
13 9 (6.08%) JIRA
14 8 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (5.41%) TeamCity
15 7 (4.73%) Postman
16 6 (4.05%) SoapUI
16 6 (4.05%) SpecFlow
General
1 83 (56.08%) Finance
2 67 (45.27%) Banking
3 65 (43.92%) Investment Banking
4 62 (41.89%) Law
5 60 (40.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (9.46%) Social Skills
7 8 (5.41%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.05%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.38%) Legal
10 4 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.35%) Electronics
12 2 (1.35%) Marketing
12 2 (1.35%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (45.95%) Software Engineer
2 60 (40.54%) Java Engineer
2 60 (40.54%) Java Software Engineer
3 34 (22.97%) Lead
4 24 (16.22%) Tester
5 22 (14.86%) Lead Java Engineer
5 22 (14.86%) Lead Software Engineer
6 20 (13.51%) Automation Tester
7 13 (8.78%) Developer
8 9 (6.08%) Senior
8 9 (6.08%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Analyst
9 7 (4.73%) Developer in Test
10 6 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Full Stack .NET Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Full Stack Developer
12 4 (2.70%) Automation Test Analyst
12 4 (2.70%) Test Analyst
12 4 (2.70%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (54.73%) JSON
2 75 (50.68%) React
3 65 (43.92%) AngularJS
3 65 (43.92%) CSS
3 65 (43.92%) HTML
4 62 (41.89%) Jest
4 62 (41.89%) Node.js
4 62 (41.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 60 (40.54%) Hibernate
5 60 (40.54%) J2EE
5 60 (40.54%) JMS
5 60 (40.54%) jQuery
5 60 (40.54%) Spring
6 28 (18.92%) REST
7 24 (16.22%) .NET
8 16 (10.81%) Apache Commons
8 16 (10.81%) Guava
8 16 (10.81%) Java Concurrency
8 16 (10.81%) WireMock
8 16 (10.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (40.54%) Data Structures
2 21 (14.19%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.05%) Hackathon
3 6 (4.05%) Social Media
4 5 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.35%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.35%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.35%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Linux
1 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (87.84%) Agile
2 91 (61.49%) BDD
3 82 (55.41%) CI/CD
4 73 (49.32%) TDD
5 71 (47.97%) Software Engineering
6 70 (47.30%) Test Automation
7 66 (44.59%) SDLC
8 63 (42.57%) Artificial Intelligence
9 60 (40.54%) Machine Learning
9 60 (40.54%) Multithreading
9 60 (40.54%) Operational Stability
9 60 (40.54%) Web Development
10 43 (29.05%) Community of Practice
11 39 (26.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (25.00%) Software Testing
13 35 (23.65%) SDET
14 33 (22.30%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (18.24%) Scrum
16 24 (16.22%) Manual Testing
17 23 (15.54%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 119 (80.41%) Java
2 85 (57.43%) JavaScript
3 62 (41.89%) TypeScript
4 30 (20.27%) C#
5 29 (19.59%) SQL
6 10 (6.76%) Python
7 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.38%) XAML
8 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (9.46%) SC Cleared
1 14 (9.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.08%) ISTQB
3 6 (4.05%) Degree
4 5 (3.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.59%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (12.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Firmware
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (4.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.35%) Google
2 2 (1.35%) SAP
2 2 (1.35%) Xamarin
3 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.68%) VMware