Hybrid/Remote Selenium Job Trends

Selenium
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 153 357
Rank change year-on-year -243 +204 -121
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 59 341 141
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.25% 2.11% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.90% 23.29% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 44 89 94
10th Percentile £29,900 £41,250 £41,550
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £61,018 £64,750 £66,096
90th Percentile £62,250 £68,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,965
% change year-on-year - -0.80% -3.39%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Selenium falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,513 1,464 2,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.31% 9.04% 10.54%
Number of salaries quoted 992 896 1,479
10th Percentile £38,984 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £87,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Selenium and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Selenium job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Selenium
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Selenium over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Selenium salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Moqups
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (52.54%) Azure
2 27 (45.76%) AWS
3 13 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (18.64%) SaaS
5 6 (10.17%) GitHub
6 5 (8.47%) BrowserStack
6 5 (8.47%) Figma
6 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.78%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.08%) GCP
8 3 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (5.08%) Serverless
9 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.69%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (1.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) ZAP BI
3 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (40.68%) Cypress.io
2 21 (35.59%) Postman
3 20 (33.90%) Git
4 9 (15.25%) Cucumber
4 9 (15.25%) JIRA
4 9 (15.25%) JUnit
5 8 (13.56%) GitLab
6 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
6 7 (11.86%) SpecFlow
7 6 (10.17%) Gatling
8 5 (8.47%) JMeter
9 3 (5.08%) NUnit
9 3 (5.08%) Snyk
10 2 (3.39%) MSTest
10 2 (3.39%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.69%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (1.69%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Finance
3 3 (5.08%) Advertising
3 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.39%) Aviation
4 2 (3.39%) Law
4 2 (3.39%) Military
5 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Senior
2 11 (18.64%) Junior
3 10 (16.95%) Lead
3 10 (16.95%) QA Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Analyst
5 8 (13.56%) Developer
5 8 (13.56%) Test Analyst
5 8 (13.56%) Test Leader
6 7 (11.86%) Automation Test Analyst
7 6 (10.17%) Quality Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Test Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Junior Analyst
8 5 (8.47%) Junior Product Manager
8 5 (8.47%) Junior Test Analyst
8 5 (8.47%) Product Manager
8 5 (8.47%) QA Automation Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) QA Leader
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (44.07%) Playwright
2 10 (16.95%) .NET
2 10 (16.95%) REST
3 8 (13.56%) Terraform
4 6 (10.17%) RESTful
5 4 (6.78%) Blazor
6 3 (5.08%) Gherkin
6 3 (5.08%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.08%) JPA
6 3 (5.08%) Kafka
6 3 (5.08%) Node.js
6 3 (5.08%) OpenAPI
6 3 (5.08%) Spring
6 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.08%) Spring MVC
6 3 (5.08%) Swagger
7 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.39%) pytest
7 2 (3.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.78%) IoT
3 3 (5.08%) Housing Association
3 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (83.05%) Test Automation
2 36 (61.02%) CI/CD
3 31 (52.54%) Agile
4 26 (44.07%) DevOps
5 20 (33.90%) User Acceptance Testing
6 19 (32.20%) Manual Testing
6 19 (32.20%) Mentoring
6 19 (32.20%) Test Strategy
7 17 (28.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (28.81%) Software Testing
8 15 (25.42%) AI
9 12 (20.34%) Non-Functional Testing
9 12 (20.34%) SDLC
10 10 (16.95%) API Testing
10 10 (16.95%) End-to-End Testing
10 10 (16.95%) OWASP
10 10 (16.95%) Regression Testing
11 9 (15.25%) Code Quality
11 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (13.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.29%) Java
2 20 (33.90%) C#
3 10 (16.95%) Python
4 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.78%) SQL
5 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.08%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.08%) Scala
7 2 (3.39%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
8 1 (1.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.25%) ISTQB
4 7 (11.86%) Degree
5 4 (6.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (5.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (3.39%) OCP
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (61.02%) QA
2 13 (22.03%) Accessibility
3 8 (13.56%) WCAG
4 2 (3.39%) NIST
5 1 (1.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (32.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (27.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Grafana
2 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.69%) Ansible
3 1 (1.69%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.69%) MIIS
3 1 (1.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.08%) Dynatrace
2 3 (5.08%) Splunk
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle
3 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow