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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 289 422
Rank change year-on-year -338 +133 -160
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 184 462 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.93% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.92% 12.09% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 129 168 250
10th Percentile £39,212 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,748 £47,500 £46,063
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 £75,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £77,500 £86,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £56,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.44% -2.17% +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 4,692 3,820 6,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.99% 7.69% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,892 2,205 3,562
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £37,574
25th Percentile £47,248 £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 £76,813
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,600 £93,975
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 8 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 8 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 -297 156 £57,500 - 226
UK excluding London -298 118 £53,750 -4.44% 132
Work from Home -249 58 £50,000 -9.09% 121
London -70 54 £70,000 +12.90% 102
South West -57 28 £50,000 -4.76% 8
South East -78 21 £55,000 -4.35% 32
Midlands -105 19 £45,000 -27.42% 20
East of England -45 18 £55,000 +3.77% 7
West Midlands -60 18 £45,000 -21.74% 18
North of England -175 16 £70,000 +27.27% 38
Wales -67 13 £47,500 -16.67% 4
North West -120 12 £70,000 +20.17% 10
Yorkshire -36 4 £42,500 -20.56% 9
Scotland -49 3 £48,500 -3.00% 13
East Midlands -77 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%) Azure
2 70 (38.04%) AWS
3 40 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (13.04%) GitHub
5 19 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (9.78%) SaaS
7 14 (7.61%) Serverless
8 11 (5.98%) GCP
9 10 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (4.89%) BrowserStack
10 9 (4.89%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (3.80%) Figma
12 7 (3.80%) Tricentis Tosca
13 4 (2.17%) ChatGPT
14 3 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.63%) GitHub Copilot
14 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 5 (2.72%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.72%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.17%) 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 79 (42.93%) Cypress.io
2 57 (30.98%) Postman
3 53 (28.80%) Jenkins
4 51 (27.72%) Git
5 49 (26.63%) JIRA
6 38 (20.65%) GitLab
7 36 (19.57%) REST Assured
8 31 (16.85%) Cucumber
8 31 (16.85%) JMeter
9 26 (14.13%) JUnit
10 20 (10.87%) Gatling
11 17 (9.24%) Zephyr
12 11 (5.98%) Robot Framework
13 10 (5.43%) SpecFlow
13 10 (5.43%) TestRail
14 9 (4.89%) NUnit
15 8 (4.35%) Newman
15 8 (4.35%) SonarQube
15 8 (4.35%) TestNG
16 7 (3.80%) Mocha
General
1 38 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.93%) Finance
3 31 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.59%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.80%) Banking
7 6 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.72%) Aviation
8 5 (2.72%) Retail
9 4 (2.17%) Advertising
9 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Military
10 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) Law
12 1 (0.54%) Front Office
12 1 (0.54%) Marketing
12 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.54%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 47 (25.54%) Senior
2 41 (22.28%) QA Engineer
3 32 (17.39%) Test Engineer
4 23 (12.50%) Lead
5 20 (10.87%) Test Automation Engineer
6 19 (10.33%) Analyst
7 17 (9.24%) Automation Engineer
7 17 (9.24%) Developer
8 15 (8.15%) Test Analyst
9 13 (7.07%) Junior
9 13 (7.07%) 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
1 105 (57.07%) Playwright
2 47 (25.54%) REST
3 25 (13.59%) React
4 21 (11.41%) Terraform
5 20 (10.87%) RESTful
6 19 (10.33%) .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
12 12 (6.52%) pytest
13 11 (5.98%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (4.35%) XML
15 7 (3.80%) Ruby on Rails
15 7 (3.80%) SOAP
16 6 (3.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.67%) 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%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.63%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.09%) NHS
10 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.87%) Linux
2 12 (6.52%) Windows
3 5 (2.72%) CentOS
3 5 (2.72%) Unix
4 3 (1.63%) AIX
4 3 (1.63%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (86.96%) Test Automation
2 130 (70.65%) CI/CD
3 116 (63.04%) Agile
4 82 (44.57%) DevOps
5 57 (30.98%) Software Testing
6 53 (28.80%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (26.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (25.54%) Mentoring
9 46 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
10 45 (24.46%) Manual Testing
11 44 (23.91%) Regression Testing
11 44 (23.91%) Test Strategy
12 39 (21.20%) User Acceptance Testing
13 37 (20.11%) AI
14 36 (19.57%) Scrum
14 36 (19.57%) SDLC
15 34 (18.48%) API Testing
16 32 (17.39%) BDD
17 27 (14.67%) Validation
18 25 (13.59%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 71 (38.59%) Java
2 52 (28.26%) Python
3 38 (20.65%) JavaScript
4 32 (17.39%) C#
4 32 (17.39%) SQL
5 12 (6.52%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.89%) Bash
7 8 (4.35%) Ruby
8 7 (3.80%) Go
9 5 (2.72%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.72%) Scala
10 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.09%) C++
11 2 (1.09%) Groovy
11 2 (1.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (24.46%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.39%) ISTQB
3 24 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.24%) Degree
5 15 (8.15%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (3.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 5 (2.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.72%) ISEB
8 5 (2.72%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.63%) OCP
10 3 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (59.24%) 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
6 2 (1.09%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (21.20%) Docker
2 5 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.24%) Grafana
3 8 (4.35%) Ansible
4 7 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.26%) Kibana
5 6 (3.26%) logstash
6 5 (2.72%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.63%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.54%) Control-M
8 1 (0.54%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.54%) Nagios
8 1 (0.54%) Packer
8 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.54%) Puppet
8 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.98%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.43%) Splunk
3 9 (4.89%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.89%) SAP
4 7 (3.80%) Pega
5 6 (3.26%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.26%) Google
5 6 (3.26%) Oracle
6 5 (2.72%) VMware
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