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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 291 420
Rank change year-on-year -283 +129 -236
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 180 483 607
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 1.04% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.19% 11.73% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 140 195 409
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £69,169 £71,250 £78,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% 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 4,297 4,118 9,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.46% 8.87% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,841 2,594 6,353
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
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 30 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 30 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 -258 153 £58,500 -0.26% 37
UK excluding London -264 108 £55,000 -4.35% 38
Work from Home -207 60 £57,500 +4.55% 17
London -48 54 £66,250 +15.22% 10
South West -54 28 £55,000 -18.52% 2
South East -32 26 £52,500 -12.50% 11
Midlands -108 19 £50,000 -25.93% 5
West Midlands -55 18 £50,000 -25.93% 3
North of England -172 17 £57,500 +3.60% 11
Wales -43 10 £49,750 -12.72% 1
North West -105 8 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Yorkshire -39 6 £59,038 +1.97% 2
East of England -43 6 £62,500 +17.92% 3
North East -50 3 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Scotland -38 2 £48,500 -3.00% 3
East Midlands -71 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 16 (8.89%) Confluence
2 3 (1.67%) JBoss
3 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.89%) Azure
2 53 (29.44%) AWS
3 51 (28.33%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (11.67%) GitHub
5 17 (9.44%) BrowserStack
6 13 (7.22%) Serverless
7 11 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.00%) GCP
8 9 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.44%) Tricentis Tosca
10 6 (3.33%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.33%) SaaS
11 5 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.78%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.22%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.67%) Sauce Labs
13 3 (1.67%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.33%) HTTP
2 3 (1.67%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.89%) DynamoDB
2 7 (3.89%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.33%) InfluxDB
3 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.33%) Redis
4 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.22%) MySQL
5 4 (2.22%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.67%) Tableau
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.56%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.56%) Db2
7 1 (0.56%) Power BI
7 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.56%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 74 (41.11%) Cypress.io
2 45 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 43 (23.89%) Postman
4 42 (23.33%) JIRA
5 40 (22.22%) Git
6 32 (17.78%) JMeter
7 29 (16.11%) GitLab
7 29 (16.11%) REST Assured
8 22 (12.22%) Cucumber
9 17 (9.44%) JUnit
9 17 (9.44%) SpecFlow
10 14 (7.78%) WebDriver
11 13 (7.22%) Gatling
11 13 (7.22%) TestRail
12 11 (6.11%) Zephyr
13 10 (5.56%) SonarQube
14 9 (5.00%) SoapUI
15 8 (4.44%) Appium
15 8 (4.44%) Robot Framework
16 7 (3.89%) TestNG
General
1 38 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.33%) Finance
3 22 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.33%) Advertising
8 3 (1.67%) Aviation
8 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.11%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.11%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.56%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 43 (23.89%) Lead
2 35 (19.44%) Test Engineer
3 34 (18.89%) Senior
4 29 (16.11%) QA Engineer
5 22 (12.22%) Test Leader
6 20 (11.11%) Tester
7 19 (10.56%) QA Leader
8 17 (9.44%) Test Automation Engineer
9 14 (7.78%) Developer
10 12 (6.67%) Automation Tester
11 11 (6.11%) Analyst
12 10 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) Senior Developer
13 9 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
14 8 (4.44%) Java Engineer
14 8 (4.44%) Web Engineer
15 6 (3.33%) Java Developer
15 6 (3.33%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (53.89%) Playwright
2 23 (12.78%) HTML
3 22 (12.22%) .NET
4 19 (10.56%) REST
5 16 (8.89%) Spring Boot
6 15 (8.33%) Node.js
6 15 (8.33%) React
7 13 (7.22%) CSS
8 12 (6.67%) Spring
9 10 (5.56%) XML
10 9 (5.00%) Kafka
11 8 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.44%) Jest
11 8 (4.44%) Puppeteer
11 8 (4.44%) pytest
11 8 (4.44%) RESTful
12 7 (3.89%) JSON
12 7 (3.89%) SOAP
12 7 (3.89%) Swagger
13 6 (3.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.78%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.22%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.22%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.67%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.67%) NHS
7 3 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.11%) FMCG
9 1 (0.56%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.56%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.78%) Linux
2 8 (4.44%) Unix
2 8 (4.44%) Windows
3 6 (3.33%) CentOS
4 4 (2.22%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (77.22%) Test Automation
2 103 (57.22%) CI/CD
3 102 (56.67%) Agile
4 81 (45.00%) DevOps
5 60 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 54 (30.00%) Software Testing
7 47 (26.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (21.11%) API Testing
8 38 (21.11%) Manual Testing
8 38 (21.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 37 (20.56%) Regression Testing
10 35 (19.44%) SDLC
11 34 (18.89%) Mentoring
12 33 (18.33%) AI
12 33 (18.33%) Scrum
13 31 (17.22%) BDD
14 29 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (15.56%) Non-Functional Testing
16 27 (15.00%) QA Automation
17 26 (14.44%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 79 (43.89%) Java
2 52 (28.89%) Python
3 38 (21.11%) C#
4 36 (20.00%) SQL
5 35 (19.44%) JavaScript
6 25 (13.89%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.56%) Bash
8 6 (3.33%) Groovy
8 6 (3.33%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.78%) Ruby
9 5 (2.78%) Scala
10 2 (1.11%) Bicep
10 2 (1.11%) C++
10 2 (1.11%) PHP
10 2 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.56%) JCL
11 1 (0.56%) Perl
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (19.44%) ISTQB
2 30 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 29 (16.11%) Degree
4 23 (12.78%) SC Cleared
5 15 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (4.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 7 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.33%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (53.89%) QA
2 50 (27.78%) Accessibility
3 11 (6.11%) WCAG
4 5 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.22%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.11%) GDPR
6 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (21.11%) Docker
2 6 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 24 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.89%) Terraform
3 12 (6.67%) Grafana
4 9 (5.00%) Ansible
4 9 (5.00%) Kibana
5 8 (4.44%) logstash
6 7 (3.89%) HP Fortify
7 6 (3.33%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.67%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.67%) Packer
9 2 (1.11%) MIIS
10 1 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.78%) Oracle
2 11 (6.11%) Splunk
3 8 (4.44%) Google
3 8 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.33%) VMware
5 4 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.22%) Veracode
6 3 (1.67%) HP
6 3 (1.67%) YouTube
7 2 (1.11%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.56%) eFront
8 1 (0.56%) Pega
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) SAP