Selenium: market
Selenium is the historical standard for browser automation and UI tests: WebDriver, Grid for parallel runs and support for all major languages. We track 1 147 open positions listing Selenium, 1 092 of them fresh. Playwright and Cypress push it out of new projects, but the huge volume of existing test suites keeps demand for Selenium automation engineers. Most of the demand comes from QA, Fullstack and DevOps roles. It most often appears next to Java, Playwright and Python. 39% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Selenium demand.
The Selenium market currently has 1,147 open roles, 1,092 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,040/mo. Observed candidate pool — 345.
39% of Selenium postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 72 of 1147 jobs; remote share from 862 with a stated format; 1092 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Selenium postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 121
New sources connected: 17 Aug +16 · 24 Aug +12 · 31 Aug +4 · 7 Sept +7 · 14 Sept +5 · 21 Sept +26 · 28 Sept +6 · 5 Oct +11 · 12 Oct +8
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Selenium salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Selenium postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Selenium postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 1,147 |
| Observed supply | 345 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $2,092, one in ten over $12,916. Half the market falls between $3,953 and $8,405. Sample: 72.
The range histogram for Selenium postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 249 |
| US | 171 |
| IN | 136 |
| RU | 56 |
| GB | 36 |
| DE | 30 |
| CA | 19 |
| PE | 16 |
| TH | 15 |
| VN | 14 |
The top country for Selenium demand is Poland (249 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Selenium most often appears next to Java, Playwright and Python. Playwright among the neighbours — many postings expect both tools or a migration.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| QA | 817 |
| Fullstack | 53 |
| DevOps | 49 |
| Backend | 35 |
| PM | 23 |
| Data | 17 |
| Frontend | 15 |
| Analyst | 9 |
| Architect | 6 |
| AI Engineer | 5 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 331 |
| middle | 131 |
| lead | 58 |
| junior | 42 |
| principal | 16 |
Senior-and-above is about 70% of 578 graded Selenium postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 609 employers. The largest accounts for 2.7%, the top ten for 15.0%; the remaining 85.0% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.7% |
| top-3 | 6.9% |
| top-10 | 15.0% |
| long tail | 85.0% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 80 sources; the largest accounts for 16.0% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Selenium postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- IT Analyst I (QA) · BR
- Software QA Engineer/Intern (AI-Powered) · UZ
- QA Automation Engineer · PL
- QA Automation Engineer (Cypress / Selenium) · PL
- QA Engineer · PL
- Senior Release QA Analyst · US
- SDET Engineer (Onsite In Fremont, CA) Direct Face to Face interview next week · US
- LATAM Senior QA Automation Engineer · CR
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Selenium market — short answers from the same data slice.
Is Selenium outdated?
No, but new projects more often pick Playwright. The slice tracks 1 147 open Selenium positions: existing suites need maintenance, and migration experience to Playwright is valued.
Which language should Selenium tests be written in?
Most often Java (with TestNG or JUnit) and Python (with pytest); C# and JavaScript also appear. The language usually matches the main codebase.
What else is asked of an automation engineer?
Page Object, waits and flaky-test handling, API tests (Postman, REST Assured), CI runs, reporting (Allure), SQL basics.