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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 469 498
Rank change year-on-year +69 +29 +125
Permanent jobs citing WebDriver 21 26 24
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.11% 0.098%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.42% 1.06% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 21 19 20
10th Percentile - £40,250 £37,450
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,750 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -14.29% +11.36%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,431 £83,125
90th Percentile £63,750 £64,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -32.14% +27.27%

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 1,478 2,461 3,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.07% 10.50% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 902 1,475 3,141
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,965 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -10.82% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

WebDriver
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WebDriver as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WebDriver trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WebDriver
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing WebDriver

WebDriver
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WebDriver over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

WebDriver salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WebDriver
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Big Data
1 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 21 (100.00%) Selenium
2 13 (61.90%) JIRA
2 13 (61.90%) Postman
2 13 (61.90%) SoapUI
2 13 (61.90%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.52%) JMeter
4 2 (9.52%) JUnit
5 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 5 (23.81%) Law
5 3 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Analyst
1 9 (42.86%) Senior
1 9 (42.86%) Test Analyst
2 8 (38.10%) Senior Analyst
2 8 (38.10%) Senior Test Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Developer in Test
3 5 (23.81%) Lead
3 5 (23.81%) Software Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) .NET
1 13 (61.90%) HTML
1 13 (61.90%) SOAP
2 6 (28.57%) Playwright
3 2 (9.52%) Apache Thrift
3 2 (9.52%) JSON
3 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 2 (9.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (28.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Software Testing
2 19 (90.48%) Agile
2 19 (90.48%) Test Scripting
3 14 (66.67%) API Testing
4 13 (61.90%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 13 (61.90%) Mentoring
4 13 (61.90%) Non-Functional Testing
4 13 (61.90%) Scrum
4 13 (61.90%) Test Management
5 7 (33.33%) SDET
5 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 7 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
7 5 (23.81%) Community of Practice
7 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
7 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (23.81%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (90.48%) C#
3 13 (61.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) Degree
2 13 (61.90%) ISTQB
2 13 (61.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 5 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 6 (28.57%) Accessibility