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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 383 378
Rank change year-on-year -97 -5 -179
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 242 263 648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.80% 6.19% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 207 213 476
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,636 £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 £71,250 £76,840 £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 4,173 4,251 9,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.01% 10.39% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 3,023 6,766
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £75,900 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 10 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 10 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 -68 229 £57,500 -11.54% 79
UK excluding London -109 141 £52,500 -12.50% 67
Work from Home +13 94 £52,500 -12.50% 32
London -9 87 £67,500 +3.85% 28
South East -27 57 £50,000 -16.67% 18
South West -31 31 £47,500 -26.92% 4
Midlands -68 23 £55,200 -13.41% 10
North of England -81 21 £58,750 +5.86% 17
West Midlands -24 19 £55,000 -18.52% 6
Yorkshire -60 9 £59,250 +2.33% 6
North West -39 8 £55,500 +0.91% 10
Wales -27 6 £53,600 +10.52% 3
North East -29 4 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East Midlands -63 4 £60,000 - 4
East of England -37 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 20 (8.26%) Confluence
2 3 (1.24%) JBoss
3 2 (0.83%) Apache
3 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Appian
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (3.72%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.83%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (29.75%) Azure
2 60 (24.79%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (21.07%) AWS
4 22 (9.09%) GitHub
5 18 (7.44%) BrowserStack
6 11 (4.55%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.31%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.48%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.48%) SaaS
11 5 (2.07%) Apigee
11 5 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.65%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.65%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.65%) Serverless
13 3 (1.24%) Siteimprove
13 3 (1.24%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.31%) DNS
2 6 (2.48%) HTTP
3 2 (0.83%) DSL
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.57%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.55%) DB2
5 4 (1.65%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.65%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.65%) Redis
6 3 (1.24%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.24%) Tableau
7 2 (0.83%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.41%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.41%) MS Access
8 1 (0.41%) Power BI
8 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.41%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 68 (28.10%) Cypress.io
2 58 (23.97%) JIRA
3 57 (23.55%) Postman
4 56 (23.14%) Jenkins
5 42 (17.36%) Git
6 40 (16.53%) Cucumber
7 36 (14.88%) WebDriver
8 32 (13.22%) GitLab
9 29 (11.98%) SoapUI
10 28 (11.57%) JMeter
11 23 (9.50%) SpecFlow
12 22 (9.09%) REST Assured
13 21 (8.68%) JUnit
14 18 (7.44%) Team Foundation Server
15 17 (7.02%) Robot Framework
16 13 (5.37%) TeamCity
17 12 (4.96%) Bitbucket
17 12 (4.96%) TestRail
18 11 (4.55%) Appium
18 11 (4.55%) Snyk
General
1 81 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.49%) Finance
3 38 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.61%) Banking
5 14 (5.79%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.48%) Advertising
8 5 (2.07%) Law
8 5 (2.07%) Retail
9 4 (1.65%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.65%) Back Office
10 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Aviation
11 2 (0.83%) Electronics
11 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (28.10%) Lead
2 38 (15.70%) Senior
3 35 (14.46%) Test Engineer
4 33 (13.64%) QA Engineer
4 33 (13.64%) Test Leader
5 30 (12.40%) Developer
6 29 (11.98%) Tester
7 27 (11.16%) QA Leader
8 25 (10.33%) Analyst
9 20 (8.26%) Test Analyst
9 20 (8.26%) Test Automation Engineer
10 16 (6.61%) Automation Tester
11 14 (5.79%) QA Automation Engineer
12 12 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (4.96%) Java Developer
13 11 (4.55%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.55%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.72%) QA Analyst
14 9 (3.72%) Senior Software Developer
15 8 (3.31%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (39.26%) Playwright
2 51 (21.07%) .NET
3 45 (18.60%) HTML
4 27 (11.16%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (10.74%) SOAP
6 24 (9.92%) React
7 23 (9.50%) REST
8 20 (8.26%) CSS
9 18 (7.44%) Gherkin
9 18 (7.44%) pytest
9 18 (7.44%) Spring Boot
10 17 (7.02%) Spring
11 16 (6.61%) Node.js
12 15 (6.20%) RESTful
13 13 (5.37%) XML
14 9 (3.72%) Web Services
15 8 (3.31%) AngularJS
15 8 (3.31%) Django
15 8 (3.31%) Flask
16 7 (2.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.92%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.96%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.65%) Derivative
7 4 (1.65%) Equities
7 4 (1.65%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.83%) FMCG
9 2 (0.83%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.09%) Linux
2 15 (6.20%) Windows
3 6 (2.48%) Unix
4 3 (1.24%) CentOS
5 2 (0.83%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (78.10%) Test Automation
2 122 (50.41%) Agile
3 118 (48.76%) CI/CD
4 99 (40.91%) DevOps
5 76 (31.40%) Software Testing
6 61 (25.21%) API Testing
7 59 (24.38%) Scrum
8 55 (22.73%) Test Management
9 53 (21.90%) BDD
10 52 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (21.07%) Test Strategy
12 50 (20.66%) Mentoring
13 44 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
14 43 (17.77%) Test Scripting
15 41 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (16.12%) Manual Testing
17 36 (14.88%) Regression Testing
17 36 (14.88%) SDLC
18 31 (12.81%) Microservices
18 31 (12.81%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (47.93%) Java
2 78 (32.23%) SQL
3 72 (29.75%) C#
4 61 (25.21%) Python
5 49 (20.25%) JavaScript
6 34 (14.05%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.13%) Bash
8 8 (3.31%) Delphi
9 6 (2.48%) PHP
10 4 (1.65%) Go
10 4 (1.65%) Groovy
11 3 (1.24%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.24%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.24%) RPG
12 2 (0.83%) Bicep
12 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.41%) Perl
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (21.49%) Degree
2 51 (21.07%) ISTQB
3 33 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 21 (8.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 20 (8.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 19 (7.85%) SC Cleared
7 14 (5.79%) DV Cleared
8 12 (4.96%) ISEB
9 8 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (44.21%) QA
2 36 (14.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.24%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.83%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.83%) WCAG
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (18.60%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (14.05%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.74%) Terraform
3 19 (7.85%) Grafana
4 16 (6.61%) Ansible
5 7 (2.89%) HP Fortify
6 6 (2.48%) HP ALM
7 5 (2.07%) Kibana
7 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.65%) logstash
9 3 (1.24%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.83%) MIIS
10 2 (0.83%) Nessus
10 2 (0.83%) Packer
11 1 (0.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 20 (8.26%) Oracle
2 11 (4.55%) Black Duck
2 11 (4.55%) Coverity
3 10 (4.13%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.13%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.72%) Google
5 6 (2.48%) HP
5 6 (2.48%) Splunk
6 5 (2.07%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.65%) IBM
7 4 (1.65%) VMware
8 3 (1.24%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.24%) SAP
8 3 (1.24%) Siebel
9 2 (0.83%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.83%) Veracode
10 1 (0.41%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.41%) Concur
10 1 (0.41%) UiPath