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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 307 403
Rank change year-on-year -324 +96 -139
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 182 461 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.93% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.87% 12.00% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 125 167 253
10th Percentile £39,195 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,125 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £77,500 £86,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.49% -1.30% +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 4,702 3,842 6,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.98% 7.74% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,889 2,228 3,618
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,375
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,075 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -292 154 £57,500 - 231
UK excluding London -326 116 £52,500 -7.49% 138
Work from Home -258 57 £50,000 -9.09% 111
London -77 54 £70,000 +12.00% 105
South West -60 28 £50,000 -4.76% 12
South East -74 21 £55,000 -4.35% 36
Midlands -115 19 £45,000 -27.42% 22
West Midlands -56 18 £45,000 -21.74% 18
East of England -49 17 £55,000 +3.77% 8
North of England -164 15 £67,500 +20.54% 37
Wales -57 13 £47,500 -16.67% 4
North West -130 11 £70,000 +20.17% 11
Yorkshire -48 4 £42,500 -24.11% 10
Scotland -47 3 £48,500 -3.00% 9
East Midlands -85 1 - - 4

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 24 (13.19%) Confluence
2 3 (1.65%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.65%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.65%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) JBoss
3 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Moqups
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 74 (40.66%) AWS
2 72 (39.56%) Azure
3 40 (21.98%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (13.19%) GitHub
5 19 (10.44%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (8.79%) SaaS
7 14 (7.69%) Serverless
8 12 (6.59%) GCP
9 10 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.49%) BrowserStack
10 9 (4.95%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (3.85%) Figma
12 7 (3.85%) Tricentis Tosca
13 4 (2.20%) ChatGPT
14 3 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.65%) BlazeMeter
14 3 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.65%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (1.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.75%) DNS
1 5 (2.75%) HTTP
1 5 (2.75%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.65%) 4G
2 3 (1.65%) 5G
2 3 (1.65%) SSH
3 2 (1.10%) BGP
3 2 (1.10%) DHCP
3 2 (1.10%) OSPF
3 2 (1.10%) VLAN
3 2 (1.10%) VPN
4 1 (0.55%) Broadband
4 1 (0.55%) DSL
4 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.04%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.49%) Redis
3 9 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.95%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.40%) MySQL
5 5 (2.75%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.75%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.65%) ZAP BI
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 75 (41.21%) Cypress.io
2 57 (31.32%) Postman
3 55 (30.22%) Jenkins
4 54 (29.67%) Git
5 49 (26.92%) JIRA
6 38 (20.88%) GitLab
7 33 (18.13%) REST Assured
8 32 (17.58%) JMeter
9 31 (17.03%) Cucumber
10 27 (14.84%) JUnit
11 20 (10.99%) Gatling
12 17 (9.34%) Zephyr
13 11 (6.04%) Robot Framework
14 10 (5.49%) TestRail
15 9 (4.95%) NUnit
15 9 (4.95%) SonarQube
16 8 (4.40%) Newman
16 8 (4.40%) SpecFlow
16 8 (4.40%) TestNG
17 7 (3.85%) Mocha
General
1 42 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.13%) Finance
3 32 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.74%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.85%) Banking
7 6 (3.30%) Aviation
7 6 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.75%) Retail
9 4 (2.20%) Advertising
9 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Military
10 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.10%) Law
12 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.55%) Front Office
12 1 (0.55%) Marketing
12 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.55%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 47 (25.82%) Senior
2 35 (19.23%) QA Engineer
3 32 (17.58%) Test Engineer
4 25 (13.74%) Lead
5 20 (10.99%) Test Automation Engineer
6 19 (10.44%) Analyst
7 18 (9.89%) Developer
8 15 (8.24%) Test Analyst
9 14 (7.69%) Tester
10 13 (7.14%) Junior
10 13 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 13 (7.14%) Test Leader
11 11 (6.04%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (6.04%) Automation Test Analyst
12 10 (5.49%) Java Engineer
12 10 (5.49%) Senior QA Engineer
13 9 (4.95%) Quality Engineer
13 9 (4.95%) Senior Test Engineer
13 9 (4.95%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.40%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (56.04%) Playwright
2 43 (23.63%) REST
3 26 (14.29%) React
4 21 (11.54%) Terraform
5 20 (10.99%) RESTful
6 18 (9.89%) .NET
7 17 (9.34%) JSON
7 17 (9.34%) Spring
8 16 (8.79%) CSS
8 16 (8.79%) HTML
9 15 (8.24%) Kafka
9 15 (8.24%) Spring Boot
10 13 (7.14%) Jest
10 13 (7.14%) Node.js
11 12 (6.59%) pytest
12 11 (6.04%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (4.40%) XML
14 7 (3.85%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (3.85%) SOAP
14 7 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.44%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.24%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.30%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.30%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.20%) IoT
8 3 (1.65%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.10%) NHS
10 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.99%) Linux
2 12 (6.59%) Windows
3 6 (3.30%) Unix
4 5 (2.75%) CentOS
5 3 (1.65%) AIX
5 3 (1.65%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (86.26%) Test Automation
2 128 (70.33%) CI/CD
3 119 (65.38%) Agile
4 83 (45.60%) DevOps
5 58 (31.87%) Software Testing
6 51 (28.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (28.02%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (25.82%) Mentoring
8 46 (25.27%) Manual Testing
9 43 (23.63%) Test Strategy
10 42 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
11 41 (22.53%) Regression Testing
12 38 (20.88%) User Acceptance Testing
13 37 (20.33%) AI
13 37 (20.33%) SDLC
14 36 (19.78%) Scrum
15 35 (19.23%) API Testing
16 30 (16.48%) BDD
17 27 (14.84%) Validation
18 24 (13.19%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 73 (40.11%) Java
2 52 (28.57%) Python
3 36 (19.78%) JavaScript
4 34 (18.68%) SQL
5 31 (17.03%) C#
6 11 (6.04%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.95%) Bash
8 8 (4.40%) Ruby
9 7 (3.85%) Go
10 5 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.75%) Scala
11 4 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.20%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.65%) Groovy
12 3 (1.65%) PHP
13 2 (1.10%) C++
Qualifications
1 42 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.13%) ISTQB
3 25 (13.74%) SC Cleared
4 18 (9.89%) Degree
5 11 (6.04%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (3.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 5 (2.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.75%) ISEB
8 5 (2.75%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.65%) OCP
10 3 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (57.14%) QA
2 37 (20.33%) Accessibility
3 23 (12.64%) WCAG
4 4 (2.20%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.65%) NIST
6 2 (1.10%) GDPR
6 2 (1.10%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (23.08%) Docker
2 5 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (20.88%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.89%) Grafana
3 8 (4.40%) Ansible
3 8 (4.40%) Kibana
4 7 (3.85%) logstash
4 7 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.75%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.65%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.55%) Control-M
7 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.55%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.55%) Nagios
7 1 (0.55%) Packer
7 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.55%) Puppet
7 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (6.04%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.49%) Splunk
3 9 (4.95%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.95%) SAP
4 7 (3.85%) Google
4 7 (3.85%) Pega
5 6 (3.30%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.30%) Oracle
6 5 (2.75%) VMware
7 4 (2.20%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.20%) YouTube
8 3 (1.65%) IBM
8 3 (1.65%) OneLogin
8 3 (1.65%) Veracode
9 2 (1.10%) Informatica
10 1 (0.55%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.55%) NCR
10 1 (0.55%) Tradeweb