Hybrid/Remote WebDriver Job Trends

Selenium WebDriver
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring WebDriver skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 390 454
Rank change year-on-year -68 +64 +30
Permanent jobs citing WebDriver 4 24 25
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.016% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.25% 1.68% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2 24 17
10th Percentile £44,125 £32,750 £39,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £41,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% - -20.83%
75th Percentile £70,938 £62,500 £63,112
90th Percentile £76,375 £63,750 £65,750
UK median annual salary £49,945 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.15% - -36.67%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

WebDriver 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 1,600 1,427 2,360
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.42% 8.63% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,012 830 1,296
10th Percentile £39,221 £40,000 £38,985
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

WebDriver job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

WebDriver
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

WebDriver
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WebDriver over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

WebDriver salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

WebDriver
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Appium
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) HP UFT
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center