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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 304 403
Rank change year-on-year -321 +99 -149
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 184 455 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.92% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.89% 12.10% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 127 163 245
10th Percentile £39,204 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,374 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £78,500 £86,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% 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 4,725 3,761 6,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.00% 7.62% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,890 2,209 3,520
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,574
25th Percentile £47,313 £47,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -306 156 £57,500 - 222
UK excluding London -315 121 £55,000 -4.35% 135
Work from Home -246 56 £50,000 -9.09% 121
London -61 51 £70,000 +11.55% 97
South West -57 30 £50,000 -4.76% 9
South East -78 21 £55,000 -4.35% 34
Midlands -111 19 £46,250 -26.00% 24
East of England -56 18 £55,000 +3.77% 4
West Midlands -68 18 £46,250 -22.27% 22
North of England -173 17 £70,000 +27.27% 37
Wales -65 13 £47,500 -16.67% 5
North West -118 13 £70,000 +12.90% 11
Yorkshire -46 4 £42,500 -20.56% 12
Scotland -38 3 £48,500 -3.00% 10
East Midlands -75 1 - - 2

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 23 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.63%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.63%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) JBoss
3 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.80%) Moqups
2 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.59%) AWS
1 71 (38.59%) Azure
2 40 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (13.04%) GitHub
4 19 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (9.78%) SaaS
6 14 (7.61%) Serverless
7 11 (5.98%) GCP
8 10 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.43%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.89%) BrowserStack
10 8 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (3.80%) Figma
11 7 (3.80%) Tricentis Tosca
12 4 (2.17%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.63%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.72%) DNS
1 5 (2.72%) HTTP
1 5 (2.72%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.63%) 4G
2 3 (1.63%) 5G
2 3 (1.63%) SSH
3 2 (1.09%) BGP
3 2 (1.09%) DHCP
3 2 (1.09%) OSPF
3 2 (1.09%) VLAN
3 2 (1.09%) VPN
4 1 (0.54%) Broadband
4 1 (0.54%) DSL
4 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.43%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.89%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.89%) Redis
3 8 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.80%) MySQL
5 6 (3.26%) InfluxDB
6 5 (2.72%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.63%) ZAP BI
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 82 (44.57%) Cypress.io
2 59 (32.07%) Postman
3 54 (29.35%) Jenkins
4 53 (28.80%) Git
5 49 (26.63%) JIRA
6 39 (21.20%) GitLab
7 37 (20.11%) REST Assured
8 31 (16.85%) Cucumber
8 31 (16.85%) JMeter
9 26 (14.13%) JUnit
10 20 (10.87%) Gatling
11 16 (8.70%) Zephyr
12 12 (6.52%) Robot Framework
13 10 (5.43%) TestRail
14 9 (4.89%) NUnit
15 8 (4.35%) Newman
15 8 (4.35%) SonarQube
15 8 (4.35%) SpecFlow
15 8 (4.35%) TestNG
16 7 (3.80%) SoapUI
General
1 39 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (17.93%) Finance
3 25 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.80%) Banking
5 6 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.72%) Aviation
6 5 (2.72%) Retail
7 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.63%) Military
8 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.09%) Advertising
9 2 (1.09%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Front Office
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.54%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 46 (25.00%) Senior
2 40 (21.74%) QA Engineer
3 34 (18.48%) Test Engineer
4 23 (12.50%) Lead
5 21 (11.41%) Test Automation Engineer
6 18 (9.78%) Analyst
7 17 (9.24%) Developer
8 16 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
8 16 (8.70%) Test Analyst
9 13 (7.07%) Junior
10 12 (6.52%) QA Automation Engineer
10 12 (6.52%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.52%) Test Leader
10 12 (6.52%) Tester
11 11 (5.98%) Automation Test Analyst
11 11 (5.98%) Senior QA Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Quality Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Senior Test Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (58.70%) Playwright
2 48 (26.09%) REST
3 25 (13.59%) React
4 22 (11.96%) Terraform
5 20 (10.87%) RESTful
6 18 (9.78%) .NET
7 17 (9.24%) JSON
8 16 (8.70%) Spring
9 15 (8.15%) CSS
9 15 (8.15%) HTML
10 14 (7.61%) Spring Boot
11 13 (7.07%) Jest
11 13 (7.07%) Kafka
11 13 (7.07%) Node.js
11 13 (7.07%) pytest
12 12 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (4.35%) XML
14 7 (3.80%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (3.80%) SOAP
14 7 (3.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.76%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.78%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.15%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.26%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.26%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.17%) IoT
8 3 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.09%) NHS
10 1 (0.54%) Derivative
10 1 (0.54%) Equities
10 1 (0.54%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.41%) Linux
2 13 (7.07%) Windows
3 6 (3.26%) CentOS
4 5 (2.72%) Unix
5 3 (1.63%) AIX
5 3 (1.63%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.54%) Android
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (86.96%) Test Automation
2 131 (71.20%) CI/CD
3 114 (61.96%) Agile
4 80 (43.48%) DevOps
5 60 (32.61%) Software Testing
6 53 (28.80%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (26.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (26.09%) Mentoring
9 47 (25.54%) End-to-End Testing
10 46 (25.00%) Regression Testing
11 44 (23.91%) Manual Testing
12 43 (23.37%) Test Strategy
13 38 (20.65%) User Acceptance Testing
14 37 (20.11%) AI
15 36 (19.57%) Scrum
15 36 (19.57%) SDLC
16 34 (18.48%) API Testing
17 31 (16.85%) BDD
18 27 (14.67%) Validation
19 26 (14.13%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 71 (38.59%) Java
2 53 (28.80%) Python
3 39 (21.20%) JavaScript
4 33 (17.93%) SQL
5 29 (15.76%) C#
6 12 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.43%) Bash
8 8 (4.35%) Ruby
9 7 (3.80%) Go
10 6 (3.26%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.72%) Scala
12 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.09%) C++
13 2 (1.09%) Groovy
13 2 (1.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.30%) ISTQB
3 25 (13.59%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.24%) Degree
5 16 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 6 (3.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.72%) ISEB
7 5 (2.72%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.63%) OCP
8 3 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (58.15%) QA
2 37 (20.11%) Accessibility
3 22 (11.96%) WCAG
4 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.17%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.63%) NIST
6 2 (1.09%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (21.74%) Docker
2 6 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (20.11%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.78%) Grafana
3 9 (4.89%) Ansible
4 7 (3.80%) Kibana
4 7 (3.80%) logstash
4 7 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.26%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.63%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.54%) Control-M
7 1 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.54%) Nagios
7 1 (0.54%) Packer
7 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.98%) Microsoft
1 11 (5.98%) Splunk
2 10 (5.43%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.89%) SAP
4 7 (3.80%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.80%) Pega
5 6 (3.26%) Google
5 6 (3.26%) VMware
6 5 (2.72%) Oracle
7 4 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.17%) YouTube
8 3 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.63%) IBM
8 3 (1.63%) OneLogin
8 3 (1.63%) Veracode
9 2 (1.09%) Informatica
10 1 (0.54%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.54%) NCR
10 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.54%) Tradeweb