WebDriver Jobs

Selenium WebDriver
UK

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 691 774 718
Rank change year-on-year +83 -56 +38
Permanent jobs citing WebDriver 18 138 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.30% 1.45% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 18 61 131
10th Percentile £38,875 £32,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% -7.69% +14.04%
75th Percentile £70,938 £72,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

WebDriver 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 5,999 9,508 13,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.83% 9.21% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,533 6,588 8,414
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WebDriver in the UK

WebDriver
Top 10 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 30 May 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 +104 17 £52,500 -16.00% 15
UK excluding London +101 10 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Work from Home +108 9 £42,500 -29.17% 12
London +84 7 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Midlands - 6 £42,500 -
West Midlands - 6 £42,500 -
North of England +45 2 £90,000 +84.62% 5
North West +4 2 £90,000 +111.76% 4
South West +103 1 £52,500 +61.54% 1
East of England +47 1 £75,000 +57.89% 4

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) BrowserStack
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (100.00%) Selenium
2 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (27.78%) Appium
4 4 (22.22%) JMeter
4 4 (22.22%) Postman
4 4 (22.22%) REST Assured
5 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
5 3 (16.67%) JUnit
5 3 (16.67%) SpecFlow
6 2 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
6 2 (11.11%) Git
6 2 (11.11%) LoadRunner
6 2 (11.11%) NeoLoad
6 2 (11.11%) NUnit
7 1 (5.56%) JIRA
7 1 (5.56%) Maven
7 1 (5.56%) TestComplete
7 1 (5.56%) TestNG
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Law
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Software Tester
1 6 (33.33%) Tester
2 4 (22.22%) Automation Tester
2 4 (22.22%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer in Test
4 2 (11.11%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.56%) QA Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Tester
5 1 (5.56%) QA Manual Tester
5 1 (5.56%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Selenium Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Software QA Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) Playwright
2 4 (22.22%) .NET
3 3 (16.67%) Kafka
3 3 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) JSON
4 2 (11.11%) NumPy
4 2 (11.11%) Pandas
5 1 (5.56%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 12 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 11 (61.11%) Test Scripting
4 9 (50.00%) Agile
4 9 (50.00%) API Testing
5 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
7 6 (33.33%) DevOps
8 5 (27.78%) Manual Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Performance Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Regression Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Test Management
9 4 (22.22%) B2B
9 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
9 4 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
9 4 (22.22%) Functional Testing
9 4 (22.22%) SDET
9 4 (22.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 7 (38.89%) Python
5 5 (27.78%) SQL
6 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (88.89%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Google
1 1 (5.56%) Mercator
1 1 (5.56%) UiPath