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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 294 411
Rank change year-on-year -319 +117 -151
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 192 458 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.93% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.06% 12.26% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 133 165 248
10th Percentile £39,221 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,748 £50,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,232
Median % change year-on-year - -1.26% -2.95%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £89,250 £77,500 £86,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.02% -2.61% +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 4,730 3,736 6,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.02% 7.61% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,926 2,185 3,644
10th Percentile £37,125 £35,850 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,600 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.56%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -294 163 £57,500 - 174
UK excluding London -308 123 £53,750 -4.02% 123
Work from Home -246 59 £50,000 -13.04% 96
London -65 57 £70,000 +12.90% 71
South West -68 29 £50,000 -9.09% 14
South East -68 22 £55,000 -4.35% 21
Midlands -112 21 £45,000 -28.00% 21
West Midlands -62 19 £45,000 -20.00% 15
East of England -45 18 £55,000 +3.77% 7
North of England -184 16 £70,000 +25.00% 28
Wales -62 14 £47,500 -16.67% 4
North West -124 12 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Yorkshire -38 4 £42,500 -24.11% 8
Scotland -36 3 £48,500 -3.00% 12
East Midlands -87 2 - - 6

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 26 (13.54%) Confluence
2 3 (1.56%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.56%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.56%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) JBoss
3 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Moqups
2 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.63%) AWS
1 78 (40.63%) Azure
2 44 (22.92%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (12.50%) GitHub
4 19 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (8.33%) SaaS
6 14 (7.29%) Serverless
7 13 (6.77%) BrowserStack
7 13 (6.77%) GCP
8 10 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.21%) OpenShift
9 8 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
10 7 (3.65%) Figma
11 4 (2.08%) BlazeMeter
11 4 (2.08%) ChatGPT
12 3 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) DNS
1 5 (2.60%) HTTP
1 5 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.56%) 4G
2 3 (1.56%) 5G
2 3 (1.56%) SSH
3 2 (1.04%) BGP
3 2 (1.04%) DHCP
3 2 (1.04%) OSPF
3 2 (1.04%) VLAN
3 2 (1.04%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) Broadband
4 1 (0.52%) DSL
4 1 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 11 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.73%) Redis
3 9 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.17%) MySQL
5 7 (3.65%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.13%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.56%) ZAP BI
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.52%) Db2
11 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 77 (40.10%) Cypress.io
2 59 (30.73%) Postman
3 57 (29.69%) Jenkins
4 56 (29.17%) Git
5 53 (27.60%) JIRA
6 39 (20.31%) GitLab
7 34 (17.71%) JMeter
7 34 (17.71%) REST Assured
8 32 (16.67%) Cucumber
9 27 (14.06%) JUnit
10 20 (10.42%) Gatling
11 19 (9.90%) Zephyr
12 13 (6.77%) TestRail
13 12 (6.25%) Robot Framework
14 9 (4.69%) NUnit
14 9 (4.69%) SonarQube
14 9 (4.69%) SpecFlow
15 8 (4.17%) Newman
15 8 (4.17%) SoapUI
15 8 (4.17%) TestNG
General
1 46 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.23%) Finance
3 32 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.54%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.17%) Banking
7 7 (3.65%) Aviation
7 7 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.60%) Advertising
8 5 (2.60%) Retail
9 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.56%) Military
10 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.04%) Law
12 1 (0.52%) Front Office
12 1 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.52%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 49 (25.52%) Senior
2 35 (18.23%) QA Engineer
3 34 (17.71%) Test Engineer
4 28 (14.58%) Lead
5 22 (11.46%) Test Automation Engineer
6 20 (10.42%) Analyst
7 18 (9.38%) Developer
8 16 (8.33%) Test Leader
9 15 (7.81%) Test Analyst
10 14 (7.29%) Tester
11 13 (6.77%) Junior
11 13 (6.77%) Senior Developer
12 12 (6.25%) Java Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) Automation Test Analyst
14 10 (5.21%) Senior QA Engineer
14 10 (5.21%) Software Engineer
15 9 (4.69%) Quality Engineer
15 9 (4.69%) Senior Test Engineer
16 8 (4.17%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (55.73%) Playwright
2 43 (22.40%) REST
3 28 (14.58%) React
4 22 (11.46%) Terraform
5 21 (10.94%) RESTful
6 20 (10.42%) .NET
7 18 (9.38%) Spring
8 17 (8.85%) CSS
8 17 (8.85%) HTML
8 17 (8.85%) JSON
9 16 (8.33%) Kafka
9 16 (8.33%) Spring Boot
10 15 (7.81%) Node.js
11 14 (7.29%) pytest
12 13 (6.77%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (6.77%) Jest
13 8 (4.17%) XML
14 7 (3.65%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (3.65%) SOAP
14 7 (3.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.58%) Product Ownership
2 21 (10.94%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.13%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.08%) IoT
7 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.56%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.04%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.04%) NHS
10 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.94%) Linux
2 13 (6.77%) Windows
3 6 (3.13%) CentOS
3 6 (3.13%) Unix
4 3 (1.56%) AIX
4 3 (1.56%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (86.98%) Test Automation
2 134 (69.79%) CI/CD
3 124 (64.58%) Agile
4 88 (45.83%) DevOps
5 63 (32.81%) Software Testing
6 54 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (26.04%) Mentoring
9 48 (25.00%) Manual Testing
10 47 (24.48%) Test Strategy
11 44 (22.92%) Regression Testing
12 43 (22.40%) End-to-End Testing
13 39 (20.31%) SDLC
13 39 (20.31%) User Acceptance Testing
14 38 (19.79%) Scrum
15 37 (19.27%) AI
15 37 (19.27%) API Testing
16 32 (16.67%) BDD
17 30 (15.63%) Validation
18 27 (14.06%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (39.58%) Java
2 53 (27.60%) Python
3 37 (19.27%) JavaScript
4 35 (18.23%) SQL
5 34 (17.71%) C#
6 13 (6.77%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.21%) Bash
8 8 (4.17%) Ruby
9 7 (3.65%) Go
10 6 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.60%) Scala
12 4 (2.08%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.56%) Groovy
13 3 (1.56%) PHP
14 2 (1.04%) C++
Qualifications
1 44 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.23%) ISTQB
3 26 (13.54%) SC Cleared
4 21 (10.94%) Degree
5 11 (5.73%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (3.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 6 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.60%) ISEB
9 5 (2.60%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.56%) OCP
10 3 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (57.29%) QA
2 40 (20.83%) Accessibility
3 24 (12.50%) WCAG
4 4 (2.08%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.56%) NIST
5 3 (1.56%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.04%) GDPR
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (23.44%) Docker
2 6 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.90%) Grafana
3 9 (4.69%) Ansible
3 9 (4.69%) Kibana
4 8 (4.17%) logstash
5 7 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.13%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.56%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.04%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.52%) Control-M
9 1 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.52%) Nagios
9 1 (0.52%) Packer
9 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.52%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.73%) Microsoft
1 11 (5.73%) Splunk
2 10 (5.21%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.69%) Oracle
3 9 (4.69%) SAP
4 7 (3.65%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.65%) Google
4 7 (3.65%) Pega
5 6 (3.13%) VMware
6 4 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.08%) YouTube
7 3 (1.56%) IBM
7 3 (1.56%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.56%) Veracode
8 2 (1.04%) HP
8 2 (1.04%) Informatica
9 1 (0.52%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.52%) NCR
9 1 (0.52%) Tradeweb