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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 285 414
Rank change year-on-year -262 +129 -224
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 195 487 612
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 1.10% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.65% 11.69% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 156 198 424
10th Percentile £39,221 £41,250 £37,150
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% -0.17% -
75th Percentile £69,169 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,875 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 4,198 4,167 9,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.57% 9.42% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,770 2,653 6,488
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,750
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -227 173 £59,500 -0.83% 31
UK excluding London -266 112 £52,500 -8.70% 30
Work from Home -178 74 £56,000 -2.61% 24
London -51 67 £67,500 +7.14% 7
South East -19 36 £51,000 -15.00% 5
South West -39 26 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Midlands -91 19 £50,000 -25.93% 3
West Midlands -54 18 £50,000 -25.93% 2
North of England -154 16 £61,250 +10.36% 10
Wales -33 8 £49,750 -33.67%
North West -102 7 £56,000 +1.82% 8
East of England -30 6 £62,500 +17.92% 1
Yorkshire -51 6 £59,038 +1.97% 2
North East -45 3 £65,000 +18.18%
Scotland -46 1 £48,500 -7.62% 5
East Midlands -66 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 (9.74%) Confluence
2 3 (1.54%) JBoss
3 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.85%) Azure
2 52 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (22.56%) AWS
4 19 (9.74%) GitHub
5 16 (8.21%) BrowserStack
6 9 (4.62%) Serverless
7 7 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.59%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.59%) Tricentis Tosca
8 6 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.08%) GCP
9 5 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.56%) SaaS
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.05%) Apigee
10 4 (2.05%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.54%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (1.54%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.54%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) HTTP
2 3 (1.54%) DSL
3 1 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.59%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.08%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.08%) Redis
5 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.05%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.05%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.05%) MySQL
6 4 (2.05%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.54%) Db2
7 3 (1.54%) Tableau
8 2 (1.03%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.51%) Power BI
9 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.51%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 76 (38.97%) Cypress.io
2 55 (28.21%) JIRA
3 54 (27.69%) Postman
4 42 (21.54%) Jenkins
5 35 (17.95%) Git
6 28 (14.36%) JMeter
7 27 (13.85%) GitLab
8 26 (13.33%) REST Assured
9 25 (12.82%) WebDriver
10 22 (11.28%) Cucumber
11 18 (9.23%) SoapUI
12 17 (8.72%) JUnit
13 16 (8.21%) SpecFlow
14 14 (7.18%) Team Foundation Server
15 13 (6.67%) Gatling
16 10 (5.13%) SonarQube
16 10 (5.13%) TestRail
17 9 (4.62%) TestNG
17 9 (4.62%) Zephyr
18 8 (4.10%) Maven
General
1 50 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.51%) Finance
3 21 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.08%) Advertising
6 6 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.54%) Aviation
7 3 (1.54%) Banking
7 3 (1.54%) Retail
8 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.51%) Law
9 1 (0.51%) Marketing
9 1 (0.51%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 47 (24.10%) Lead
2 34 (17.44%) Senior
3 32 (16.41%) Test Engineer
4 29 (14.87%) QA Engineer
5 26 (13.33%) Test Leader
6 25 (12.82%) Tester
7 19 (9.74%) QA Leader
8 15 (7.69%) Analyst
8 15 (7.69%) Automation Tester
8 15 (7.69%) Developer
9 14 (7.18%) Test Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.64%) Test Analyst
11 10 (5.13%) QA Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Java Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (3.59%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (50.77%) Playwright
2 34 (17.44%) HTML
3 33 (16.92%) .NET
4 19 (9.74%) REST
5 16 (8.21%) React
5 16 (8.21%) SOAP
6 15 (7.69%) Node.js
7 14 (7.18%) CSS
8 13 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 10 (5.13%) XML
10 9 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (4.62%) Spring
11 8 (4.10%) Puppeteer
11 8 (4.10%) RESTful
12 7 (3.59%) Jest
12 7 (3.59%) JSON
12 7 (3.59%) Kafka
13 6 (3.08%) AngularJS
13 6 (3.08%) pytest
13 6 (3.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.54%) Housing Association
5 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.54%) NHS
5 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.03%) FMCG
6 2 (1.03%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.15%) Linux
2 8 (4.10%) Unix
3 6 (3.08%) Windows
4 4 (2.05%) CentOS
4 4 (2.05%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.51%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (74.36%) Test Automation
2 109 (55.90%) Agile
3 97 (49.74%) CI/CD
4 80 (41.03%) DevOps
5 60 (30.77%) Software Testing
6 57 (29.23%) Test Strategy
7 49 (25.13%) API Testing
8 46 (23.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (22.05%) Scrum
10 39 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 39 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 37 (18.97%) Non-Functional Testing
12 36 (18.46%) Manual Testing
13 35 (17.95%) Regression Testing
14 32 (16.41%) BDD
14 32 (16.41%) SDLC
14 32 (16.41%) Test Management
15 31 (15.90%) Test Scripting
16 29 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (13.85%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 91 (46.67%) Java
2 52 (26.67%) C#
3 49 (25.13%) Python
3 49 (25.13%) SQL
4 36 (18.46%) JavaScript
5 27 (13.85%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.62%) Bash
7 6 (3.08%) Groovy
8 4 (2.05%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.05%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.54%) Ruby
9 3 (1.54%) Scala
10 2 (1.03%) Bicep
10 2 (1.03%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) PHP
10 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.51%) JCL
11 1 (0.51%) Perl
11 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (21.54%) ISTQB
2 40 (20.51%) Degree
3 25 (12.82%) Security Cleared
4 21 (10.77%) SC Cleared
5 16 (8.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 15 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.08%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.51%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (51.79%) QA
2 48 (24.62%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.59%) WCAG
4 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.05%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.03%) GDPR
6 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (18.97%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.67%) Terraform
3 11 (5.64%) Grafana
4 7 (3.59%) Ansible
4 7 (3.59%) HP Fortify
4 7 (3.59%) Kibana
5 6 (3.08%) logstash
6 4 (2.05%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.54%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.54%) Packer
8 2 (1.03%) MIIS
8 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (7.18%) Oracle
2 10 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.62%) Google
4 8 (4.10%) Splunk
5 7 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.08%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.05%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.05%) Veracode
7 4 (2.05%) VMware
8 3 (1.54%) HP
9 2 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.03%) YouTube
10 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.51%) eFront
10 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.51%) OneLogin