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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 388 366
Rank change year-on-year -78 -22 -163
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 239 262 649
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.76% 6.12% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 204 213 475
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,150
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,313 £77,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 4,148 4,282 9,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.00% 10.47% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,749 3,034 6,773
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,150 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,410 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,438 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.20% +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 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Top 15 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 9 April 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 -55 226 £57,500 -11.54% 79
UK excluding London -92 140 £52,500 -12.50% 67
Work from Home +17 92 £52,500 -12.50% 32
London -11 85 £67,500 +3.85% 28
South East -29 57 £50,000 -16.67% 18
South West -17 31 £47,500 -26.92% 4
Midlands -57 22 £55,200 -15.08% 10
North of England -86 21 £58,750 +5.86% 17
West Midlands -28 18 £55,100 -18.37% 6
Yorkshire -66 9 £59,250 +2.33% 6
North West -39 8 £55,500 +0.91% 10
Wales -25 6 £53,600 +10.52% 3
North East -31 4 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East Midlands -63 4 £60,000 - 4
East of England -25 3 £62,500 +47.06% 10

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 (7.95%) Confluence
2 3 (1.26%) JBoss
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.42%) Appian
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.84%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (29.71%) Azure
2 59 (24.69%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (21.34%) AWS
4 22 (9.21%) GitHub
5 18 (7.53%) BrowserStack
6 11 (4.60%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.35%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.51%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.51%) SaaS
11 5 (2.09%) Apigee
11 5 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.67%) Serverless
13 3 (1.26%) Sauce Labs
13 3 (1.26%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.35%) DNS
2 6 (2.51%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.30%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.60%) DB2
5 4 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.67%) Redis
6 3 (1.26%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.26%) Tableau
7 2 (0.84%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.84%) MySQL
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.42%) MS Access
8 1 (0.42%) Power BI
8 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 68 (28.45%) Cypress.io
2 57 (23.85%) JIRA
2 57 (23.85%) Postman
3 56 (23.43%) Jenkins
4 42 (17.57%) Git
5 40 (16.74%) Cucumber
6 36 (15.06%) WebDriver
7 32 (13.39%) GitLab
8 29 (12.13%) SoapUI
9 28 (11.72%) JMeter
10 22 (9.21%) REST Assured
10 22 (9.21%) SpecFlow
11 21 (8.79%) JUnit
12 18 (7.53%) Team Foundation Server
13 17 (7.11%) Robot Framework
14 13 (5.44%) TeamCity
15 12 (5.02%) Bitbucket
16 11 (4.60%) Appium
16 11 (4.60%) Snyk
16 11 (4.60%) SonarQube
General
1 81 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.76%) Finance
3 38 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.69%) Banking
5 14 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.09%) Advertising
7 5 (2.09%) Law
7 5 (2.09%) Retail
8 4 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.67%) Back Office
9 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Aviation
10 2 (0.84%) Electronics
10 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Marketing
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (28.45%) Lead
2 37 (15.48%) Senior
3 35 (14.64%) Test Engineer
4 33 (13.81%) Test Leader
5 32 (13.39%) QA Engineer
6 30 (12.55%) Developer
7 29 (12.13%) Tester
8 27 (11.30%) QA Leader
9 23 (9.62%) Analyst
10 20 (8.37%) Test Analyst
10 20 (8.37%) Test Automation Engineer
11 16 (6.69%) Automation Tester
12 13 (5.44%) QA Automation Engineer
13 12 (5.02%) Java Developer
14 11 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (4.60%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.60%) Software Developer
15 9 (3.77%) Senior Software Developer
16 8 (3.35%) QA Analyst
16 8 (3.35%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (39.75%) Playwright
2 50 (20.92%) .NET
3 45 (18.83%) HTML
4 27 (11.30%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (10.88%) SOAP
6 24 (10.04%) React
7 23 (9.62%) REST
8 20 (8.37%) CSS
9 18 (7.53%) Gherkin
9 18 (7.53%) pytest
9 18 (7.53%) Spring Boot
10 17 (7.11%) Spring
11 16 (6.69%) Node.js
12 15 (6.28%) RESTful
13 13 (5.44%) XML
14 9 (3.77%) Web Services
15 8 (3.35%) AngularJS
15 8 (3.35%) Django
15 8 (3.35%) Flask
16 7 (2.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.04%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.11%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.02%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.67%) Derivative
7 4 (1.67%) Equities
7 4 (1.67%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.26%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.21%) Linux
2 15 (6.28%) Windows
3 6 (2.51%) Unix
4 3 (1.26%) CentOS
5 2 (0.84%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (77.82%) Test Automation
2 119 (49.79%) Agile
3 116 (48.54%) CI/CD
4 97 (40.59%) DevOps
5 75 (31.38%) Software Testing
6 61 (25.52%) API Testing
7 58 (24.27%) Scrum
8 54 (22.59%) Test Management
9 53 (22.18%) BDD
10 52 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (20.92%) Mentoring
11 50 (20.92%) Test Strategy
12 44 (18.41%) Non-Functional Testing
13 43 (17.99%) Test Scripting
14 41 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (15.90%) Manual Testing
16 36 (15.06%) Regression Testing
17 35 (14.64%) SDLC
18 31 (12.97%) Microservices
19 29 (12.13%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 115 (48.12%) Java
2 78 (32.64%) SQL
3 70 (29.29%) C#
4 61 (25.52%) Python
5 49 (20.50%) JavaScript
6 34 (14.23%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.18%) Bash
8 8 (3.35%) Delphi
9 6 (2.51%) PHP
10 4 (1.67%) Go
10 4 (1.67%) Groovy
11 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.26%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.26%) RPG
12 2 (0.84%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.84%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.42%) Perl
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (21.34%) Degree
2 50 (20.92%) ISTQB
3 33 (13.81%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 20 (8.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 19 (7.95%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.86%) DV Cleared
7 12 (5.02%) ISEB
8 8 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.09%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (43.51%) QA
2 35 (14.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.84%) WCAG
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (18.83%) Docker
2 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (14.23%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.88%) Terraform
3 19 (7.95%) Grafana
4 16 (6.69%) Ansible
5 7 (2.93%) HP Fortify
6 5 (2.09%) HP ALM
6 5 (2.09%) Kibana
6 5 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.67%) logstash
8 3 (1.26%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.84%) MIIS
9 2 (0.84%) Nessus
9 2 (0.84%) Packer
10 1 (0.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (7.95%) Oracle
2 11 (4.60%) Black Duck
2 11 (4.60%) Coverity
3 10 (4.18%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.18%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.77%) Google
5 6 (2.51%) Splunk
6 5 (2.09%) HP
6 5 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.67%) IBM
7 4 (1.67%) VMware
8 3 (1.26%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.26%) SAP
8 3 (1.26%) Siebel
9 2 (0.84%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.84%) Veracode
10 1 (0.42%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.42%) Concur
10 1 (0.42%) UiPath