Selenium: mercado
Selenium is the historical standard for browser automation and UI tests: WebDriver, Grid for parallel runs and support for all major languages. We track 1 190 open positions listing Selenium, 1 062 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.
El mercado de Selenium tiene ahora 1190 puestos abiertos, 1062 de ellos observados recientemente. Median salary $5978/mo. Observed candidate pool — 358.
39% of Selenium postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 81 of 1190 jobs; remote share from 891 with a stated format; 1062 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Selenium postings appeared each week since Aug 10, 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: 133
New sources connected: Aug 17 +16 · Aug 24 +12 · Aug 31 +4 · Sep 7 +7 · Sep 14 +5 · Sep 21 +26 · Sep 28 +6 · Oct 5 +11 · Oct 12 +8 · Oct 19 +12
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.
Demanda y oferta observada
| Demanda abierta | 1190 |
| Oferta observada | 358 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Distribución de salarios
Uno de cada diez gana menos de $3500, uno de cada diez más de $13.179. La mitad del mercado está entre $4000 y $9375. Muestra: 81.
The range histogram for Selenium postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Geografía de la demanda
| país | empleos |
|---|---|
| PL | 260 |
| US | 186 |
| IN | 134 |
| RU | 47 |
| GB | 35 |
| DE | 29 |
| CA | 17 |
| PE | 16 |
| HK | 14 |
| VN | 14 |
The top country for Selenium demand is Poland (260 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Se usa junto con
Selenium most often appears next to Java, Playwright and Python. Playwright among the neighbours — many postings expect both tools or a migration.
Roles que la usan
| rol | empleos |
|---|---|
| QA | 860 |
| Fullstack | 56 |
| DevOps | 50 |
| Backend | 39 |
| Data | 14 |
| Architect | 11 |
| PM | 10 |
| Analyst | 10 |
| Frontend | 10 |
| Product | 8 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demanda por nivel
| nivel | empleos |
|---|---|
| senior | 352 |
| middle | 135 |
| lead | 63 |
| junior | 56 |
| principal | 20 |
Senior-and-above is about 69% of 626 graded Selenium postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Empleadores
La demanda se reparte entre 639 empleadores. El mayor concentra el 2.7%, los diez primeros el 14.8%; el 85.2% restante es cola larga.
| proporción | valor |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.7% |
| top-3 | 6.7% |
| top-10 | 14.8% |
| cola larga | 85.2% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Dónde ve Zorky este mercado
Observado en 82 fuentes; la mayor concentra el 16.1%: este mercado no depende de un solo canal.
Selenium postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Vacantes recientes
- Senior Software Engineer in Test I · IN
- QA-инженер · KZ
- Quality Assurance Engineer Co-op Student (4-month contract) · CA
- Programista/ka RPA · PL
- RPA Developer / Automation Developer · PL
- Junior Java Developer - Leading Financial Institution · HK
- QA Inżynier (Java & Selenium | API Testing) (K /M) · PL
- Programista RPA · PL
Mercados adyacentes
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
Cómo se mide
- Vacante
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Candidato observado
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Candidato emparejable
- not counted yet
- Ventana
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
Sobre los datos
- Algunos desgloses están ocultos: su cobertura de datos aún no es suficiente.
- Las estadísticas se muestran solo donde la muestra supera un control de calidad.
- Que falte un bloque no significa que el valor sea cero.
Desgloses ocultos actualmente: 7.
Datos a 2026-10-27
Preguntas frecuentes
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 1 190 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.