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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 302 408
Rank change year-on-year -258 +106 -221
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 194 482 542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.98% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.45% 11.54% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 148 197 362
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - -0.80% -3.39%
75th Percentile £72,660 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 £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 4,361 4,176 7,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.34% 8.51% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,923 2,646 5,309
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -253 168 £57,500 -1.96% 49
UK excluding London -262 124 £55,000 -4.35% 36
Work from Home -221 63 £56,750 +3.18% 30
London -40 59 £70,000 +21.74% 20
South West -49 28 £55,000 - 3
South East -26 26 £56,250 -8.16% 6
Midlands -98 26 £50,000 -24.53% 8
West Midlands -56 25 £50,000 -25.93% 7
North of England -158 16 £61,250 +9.38% 12
Wales -45 14 £47,500 -16.67%
East of England -32 12 £55,000 +3.77% 4
North West -116 7 £57,500 - 7
Yorkshire -39 6 £59,038 -1.27% 3
North East -49 3 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Scotland -37 2 £48,500 -3.00% 1
East Midlands -69 1 - - 1

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 21 (10.82%) Confluence
2 4 (2.06%) JBoss
3 2 (1.03%) Apache
3 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Moqups
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (41.24%) Azure
2 68 (35.05%) AWS
3 50 (25.77%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.79%) GitHub
5 15 (7.73%) Serverless
6 13 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (6.70%) BrowserStack
7 11 (5.67%) GCP
7 11 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.64%) Tricentis Tosca
9 7 (3.61%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.61%) SaaS
10 6 (3.09%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.06%) BlazeMeter
12 3 (1.55%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (1.55%) Apigee
12 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.55%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.55%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.09%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.52%) DSL
2 1 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.67%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.15%) Redis
3 8 (4.12%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.12%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.09%) InfluxDB
4 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.09%) MySQL
4 6 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.58%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.55%) Tableau
8 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.52%) Db2
8 1 (0.52%) Power BI
8 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.52%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 71 (36.60%) Cypress.io
2 53 (27.32%) Jenkins
3 50 (25.77%) Git
4 47 (24.23%) JIRA
4 47 (24.23%) Postman
5 34 (17.53%) GitLab
6 33 (17.01%) JMeter
7 28 (14.43%) Cucumber
7 28 (14.43%) REST Assured
8 21 (10.82%) JUnit
9 17 (8.76%) Zephyr
10 16 (8.25%) Gatling
11 15 (7.73%) SpecFlow
12 14 (7.22%) TestRail
13 10 (5.15%) WebDriver
14 9 (4.64%) Robot Framework
14 9 (4.64%) SonarQube
15 8 (4.12%) SoapUI
16 7 (3.61%) LoadRunner
16 7 (3.61%) Maven
General
1 38 (19.59%) Finance
1 38 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.95%) Public Sector
3 25 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.09%) Advertising
6 6 (3.09%) Aviation
6 6 (3.09%) Retail
7 4 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.03%) Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Front Office
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.52%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 43 (22.16%) Senior
2 40 (20.62%) Lead
3 33 (17.01%) Test Engineer
4 28 (14.43%) QA Engineer
5 22 (11.34%) Test Leader
6 19 (9.79%) QA Leader
6 19 (9.79%) Test Automation Engineer
7 18 (9.28%) Tester
8 17 (8.76%) Analyst
8 17 (8.76%) Developer
9 12 (6.19%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (6.19%) Java Engineer
9 12 (6.19%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.19%) Test Analyst
10 10 (5.15%) Automation Tester
11 9 (4.64%) QA Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Automation Test Analyst
12 8 (4.12%) Senior Test Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Web Engineer
13 7 (3.61%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (55.67%) Playwright
2 24 (12.37%) .NET
2 24 (12.37%) HTML
3 21 (10.82%) Spring Boot
4 20 (10.31%) React
4 20 (10.31%) REST
5 17 (8.76%) CSS
5 17 (8.76%) Spring
6 15 (7.73%) Node.js
7 14 (7.22%) Kafka
8 12 (6.19%) JSON
8 12 (6.19%) XML
9 10 (5.15%) Jest
9 10 (5.15%) RESTful
10 8 (4.12%) Puppeteer
10 8 (4.12%) pytest
11 7 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (3.61%) Gherkin
11 7 (3.61%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (3.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.43%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.28%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.67%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.09%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.55%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.55%) NHS
8 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.03%) FMCG
9 2 (1.03%) IoT
9 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.52%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.22%) Linux
2 12 (6.19%) Windows
3 6 (3.09%) CentOS
4 5 (2.58%) Unix
5 4 (2.06%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.55%) AIX
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (78.35%) Test Automation
2 119 (61.34%) CI/CD
3 114 (58.76%) Agile
4 90 (46.39%) DevOps
5 59 (30.41%) Software Testing
6 55 (28.35%) Test Strategy
7 51 (26.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (23.71%) Manual Testing
8 46 (23.71%) Mentoring
9 43 (22.16%) User Acceptance Testing
10 40 (20.62%) AI
10 40 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (19.59%) API Testing
11 38 (19.59%) BDD
12 37 (19.07%) Regression Testing
12 37 (19.07%) SDLC
13 34 (17.53%) Scrum
14 28 (14.43%) Non-Functional Testing
15 27 (13.92%) Test Management
16 24 (12.37%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (41.75%) Java
2 51 (26.29%) Python
3 39 (20.10%) C#
4 35 (18.04%) JavaScript
4 35 (18.04%) SQL
5 22 (11.34%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.15%) Bash
7 7 (3.61%) Ruby
8 6 (3.09%) Groovy
8 6 (3.09%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.09%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.58%) Scala
10 4 (2.06%) PHP
11 2 (1.03%) Bicep
11 2 (1.03%) C++
11 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.52%) JCL
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (18.04%) ISTQB
2 31 (15.98%) Security Cleared
3 27 (13.92%) Degree
4 23 (11.86%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 6 (3.09%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.06%) ISEB
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (50.52%) QA
2 46 (23.71%) Accessibility
3 16 (8.25%) WCAG
4 5 (2.58%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.06%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.55%) GDPR
7 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (22.16%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (19.07%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.34%) Terraform
3 11 (5.67%) Grafana
4 9 (4.64%) Ansible
4 9 (4.64%) Kibana
5 8 (4.12%) logstash
6 7 (3.61%) HP Fortify
7 6 (3.09%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.55%) HP ALM
9 2 (1.03%) MIIS
10 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.52%) Control-M
10 1 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.52%) Nagios
10 1 (0.52%) Packer
10 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.52%) Puppet
10 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (6.19%) Splunk
2 11 (5.67%) Oracle
3 9 (4.64%) Google
3 9 (4.64%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.61%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.61%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.09%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.09%) VMware
6 5 (2.58%) Pega
6 5 (2.58%) SAP
7 4 (2.06%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.06%) Veracode
7 4 (2.06%) YouTube
8 3 (1.55%) HP
8 3 (1.55%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.52%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.52%) New Relic
9 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.52%) Tradeweb