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 1 054 open positions listing Selenium, 981 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. 41% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Selenium demand.
The Selenium market currently has 1,054 open roles, 981 of them freshly observed. Median salary $4,375/mo. Observed candidate pool — 344.
41% of Selenium postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 60 of 1054 jobs; remote share from 768 with a stated format; 981 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 1,054 |
| Observed supply | 344 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $1,625, one in ten over $12,916. Half the market falls between $3,750 and $7,670. Sample: 60.
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 | 228 |
| US | 155 |
| IN | 120 |
| RU | 51 |
| GB | 33 |
| DE | 29 |
| CA | 19 |
| TH | 13 |
| VN | 12 |
| UA | 12 |
The top country for Selenium demand is Poland (228 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 | 750 |
| Fullstack | 51 |
| DevOps | 46 |
| Backend | 31 |
| PM | 21 |
| Data | 18 |
| Frontend | 16 |
| Analyst | 8 |
| Platform Engineer | 5 |
| Architect | 5 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 301 |
| middle | 107 |
| lead | 48 |
| junior | 35 |
| principal | 17 |
Senior-and-above is about 72% of 508 graded Selenium postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 550 employers. The largest accounts for 3.0%, the top ten for 15.5%; the remaining 84.5% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 3.0% |
| top-3 | 7.4% |
| top-10 | 15.5% |
| long tail | 84.5% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 76 sources; the largest accounts for 15.4% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Selenium postings arrive mostly from job boards & aggregators and ATS & career sites.
Recent openings
- Associate Director, Solutions Delivery (Test Management) · HK
- Тестировщик · RU
- QA Analyst ( Manual / Auto ) | Up to 30K, IT Solutions · HK
- Младший Python-разработчик · RU
- (Contractor) QA Automation (Selenium/Java)
- QA Engineer (m/w/d) Embedded Systems & Test Automation · DE
- Senior QA Automation Engineer · PE
- QA Engineer (APM) · PL
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 2026-10-20
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 1 054 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.