Selenium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 299 408
Rank change year-on-year -276 +109 -228
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 187 486 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.99% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.32% 11.65% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 145 200 388
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - -0.80% -3.39%
75th Percentile £73,140 £70,313 £72,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Selenium falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,332 4,170 8,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 8.50% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,908 2,638 5,846
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Selenium job vacancy trend in the UK

Selenium
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -269 160 £59,500 +3.48% 39
UK excluding London -271 118 £55,000 -4.35% 30
Work from Home -216 59 £57,500 - 20
London -33 57 £70,000 +21.74% 16
South West -47 28 £55,000 -8.33% 2
South East -38 24 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Midlands -100 22 £50,000 -24.53% 4
West Midlands -49 21 £50,000 -25.93% 3
North of England -166 16 £61,250 +9.38% 8
Wales -43 14 £47,500 -16.67% 1
East of England -30 12 £55,000 +3.77% 3
North West -107 7 £57,500 - 5
Yorkshire -39 6 £59,038 +1.97% 1
North East -55 3 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Scotland -38 2 £48,500 -3.00% 1
East Midlands -59 1 - - 1

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (10.16%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) JBoss
3 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.53%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 74 (39.57%) Azure
2 59 (31.55%) AWS
3 50 (26.74%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.63%) GitHub
5 15 (8.02%) Serverless
6 13 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (6.95%) BrowserStack
7 11 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.35%) GCP
9 9 (4.81%) Tricentis Tosca
10 6 (3.21%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.21%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.14%) BlazeMeter
11 4 (2.14%) SaaS
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.60%) Apigee
12 3 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.60%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.21%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.35%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.81%) Redis
3 8 (4.28%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.28%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.21%) InfluxDB
4 6 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.67%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.67%) MySQL
5 5 (2.67%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.60%) Tableau
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.53%) Db2
7 1 (0.53%) Power BI
7 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.53%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 73 (39.04%) Cypress.io
2 49 (26.20%) Jenkins
3 45 (24.06%) JIRA
4 42 (22.46%) Git
4 42 (22.46%) Postman
5 31 (16.58%) GitLab
5 31 (16.58%) JMeter
6 27 (14.44%) REST Assured
7 24 (12.83%) Cucumber
8 18 (9.63%) JUnit
9 16 (8.56%) Zephyr
10 15 (8.02%) SpecFlow
11 14 (7.49%) Gatling
11 14 (7.49%) TestRail
12 9 (4.81%) SonarQube
12 9 (4.81%) WebDriver
13 8 (4.28%) Robot Framework
14 7 (3.74%) Appium
14 7 (3.74%) LoadRunner
14 7 (3.74%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.18%) Finance
3 27 (14.44%) Public Sector
4 25 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.21%) Advertising
7 6 (3.21%) Aviation
8 5 (2.67%) Retail
9 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.53%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 42 (22.46%) Lead
2 40 (21.39%) Senior
3 33 (17.65%) Test Engineer
4 29 (15.51%) QA Engineer
5 23 (12.30%) Test Leader
6 20 (10.70%) QA Leader
7 19 (10.16%) Test Automation Engineer
8 18 (9.63%) Tester
9 17 (9.09%) Analyst
10 15 (8.02%) Developer
11 12 (6.42%) Test Analyst
12 11 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (5.88%) Java Engineer
12 11 (5.88%) Senior Developer
13 10 (5.35%) Automation Tester
13 10 (5.35%) QA Automation Engineer
14 8 (4.28%) Automation Test Analyst
14 8 (4.28%) Senior Test Engineer
14 8 (4.28%) Web Engineer
15 7 (3.74%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (56.68%) Playwright
2 22 (11.76%) .NET
2 22 (11.76%) HTML
3 20 (10.70%) Spring Boot
4 19 (10.16%) React
5 17 (9.09%) REST
6 16 (8.56%) Spring
7 15 (8.02%) CSS
7 15 (8.02%) Node.js
8 13 (6.95%) Kafka
9 10 (5.35%) Jest
9 10 (5.35%) JSON
9 10 (5.35%) XML
10 9 (4.81%) RESTful
11 8 (4.28%) Puppeteer
11 8 (4.28%) pytest
12 7 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (3.74%) Gherkin
12 7 (3.74%) Ruby on Rails
13 6 (3.21%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.90%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.63%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (5.35%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.21%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.60%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.60%) NHS
7 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.07%) FMCG
8 2 (1.07%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.53%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.53%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.95%) Linux
2 12 (6.42%) Windows
3 6 (3.21%) CentOS
4 5 (2.67%) Unix
5 4 (2.14%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.60%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (79.14%) Test Automation
2 116 (62.03%) CI/CD
3 105 (56.15%) Agile
4 87 (46.52%) DevOps
5 58 (31.02%) Software Testing
6 55 (29.41%) Test Strategy
7 51 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (24.60%) Manual Testing
9 43 (22.99%) Mentoring
10 41 (21.93%) User Acceptance Testing
11 39 (20.86%) Regression Testing
11 39 (20.86%) SDLC
12 38 (20.32%) AI
12 38 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (19.25%) API Testing
14 35 (18.72%) BDD
15 32 (17.11%) Scrum
16 26 (13.90%) Non-Functional Testing
16 26 (13.90%) Test Management
17 25 (13.37%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (41.18%) Java
2 51 (27.27%) Python
3 36 (19.25%) C#
4 34 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 33 (17.65%) SQL
6 23 (12.30%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.81%) Bash
8 7 (3.74%) Ruby
9 6 (3.21%) Groovy
9 6 (3.21%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.21%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.67%) Scala
11 3 (1.60%) PHP
12 2 (1.07%) Bicep
12 2 (1.07%) C++
12 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.53%) JCL
13 1 (0.53%) Perl
13 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (18.18%) ISTQB
2 27 (14.44%) Security Cleared
3 26 (13.90%) Degree
4 20 (10.70%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 6 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.60%) ISEB
9 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (52.41%) QA
2 45 (24.06%) Accessibility
3 14 (7.49%) WCAG
4 5 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.14%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.60%) GDPR
7 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (19.25%) Docker
2 6 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 29 (15.51%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.63%) Terraform
3 11 (5.88%) Grafana
4 9 (4.81%) Kibana
5 8 (4.28%) Ansible
5 8 (4.28%) logstash
6 7 (3.74%) HP Fortify
7 6 (3.21%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.60%) HP ALM
9 2 (1.07%) MIIS
10 1 (0.53%) Control-M
10 1 (0.53%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.53%) Packer
10 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (5.88%) Oracle
1 11 (5.88%) Splunk
2 9 (4.81%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.28%) Google
4 6 (3.21%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.21%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.21%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.21%) VMware
5 4 (2.14%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.14%) Pega
5 4 (2.14%) SAP
5 4 (2.14%) Veracode
5 4 (2.14%) YouTube
6 3 (1.60%) HP
6 3 (1.60%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.53%) eFront
7 1 (0.53%) FXall
7 1 (0.53%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.53%) Moogsoft
7 1 (0.53%) Tradeweb