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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 395 385
Rank change year-on-year -100 -10 -178
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 228 263 648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.63% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.47% 6.20% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 194 218 478
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.23% -0.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,438 £91,934
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 4,171 4,243 9,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.75% 10.12% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,768 3,012 6,741
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,350 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -74 214 £58,500 -4.49% 74
UK excluding London -107 133 £52,500 -12.50% 65
Work from Home +8 92 £55,200 -8.00% 35
London 0 82 £67,500 +3.85% 29
South East -46 46 £51,000 -15.00% 16
South West -38 31 £47,500 -26.92% 6
Midlands -64 24 £55,200 -13.41% 7
North of England -63 21 £58,750 +5.86% 14
West Midlands -32 20 £52,500 -22.22% 3
Yorkshire -64 9 £59,250 -8.71% 2
North West -34 8 £55,500 +0.91% 9
Wales -18 7 £55,200 -10.61% 2
East of England -26 4 £62,500 +47.06% 10
North East -41 4 £65,000 +18.18% 3
East Midlands -57 4 £60,000 - 4

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 19 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (1.32%) JBoss
3 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.51%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.88%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (28.95%) Azure
2 52 (22.81%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (21.05%) AWS
4 22 (9.65%) GitHub
5 15 (6.58%) BrowserStack
6 12 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (2.63%) SaaS
9 5 (2.19%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.19%) Apigee
9 5 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.19%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.75%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.75%) GCP
10 4 (1.75%) Serverless
10 4 (1.75%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.07%) HTTP
2 4 (1.75%) DNS
3 2 (0.88%) DSL
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.84%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.39%) DB2
5 4 (1.75%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.75%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.75%) Redis
6 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.32%) Tableau
7 2 (0.88%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.88%) MySQL
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.44%) MS Access
8 1 (0.44%) Power BI
8 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 70 (30.70%) Cypress.io
2 56 (24.56%) Postman
3 54 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 54 (23.68%) JIRA
4 37 (16.23%) Cucumber
4 37 (16.23%) Git
5 34 (14.91%) WebDriver
6 33 (14.47%) GitLab
7 30 (13.16%) JMeter
8 28 (12.28%) SoapUI
9 22 (9.65%) REST Assured
10 20 (8.77%) JUnit
10 20 (8.77%) SpecFlow
11 18 (7.89%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (5.26%) Bitbucket
12 12 (5.26%) SonarQube
12 12 (5.26%) TeamCity
12 12 (5.26%) TestRail
13 11 (4.82%) Robot Framework
14 10 (4.39%) Appium
General
1 73 (32.02%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.05%) Finance
3 29 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.58%) Banking
5 10 (4.39%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.51%) Advertising
6 8 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.19%) Retail
8 4 (1.75%) Back Office
9 3 (1.32%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.32%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Aviation
10 2 (0.88%) Electronics
10 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (26.75%) Lead
2 37 (16.23%) Senior
3 33 (14.47%) Test Engineer
4 32 (14.04%) QA Engineer
5 30 (13.16%) Test Leader
6 29 (12.72%) Tester
7 27 (11.84%) Developer
8 25 (10.96%) QA Leader
9 23 (10.09%) Analyst
10 20 (8.77%) Test Automation Engineer
11 18 (7.89%) Test Analyst
12 17 (7.46%) Automation Tester
13 14 (6.14%) QA Automation Engineer
14 13 (5.70%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (4.82%) Java Developer
16 10 (4.39%) Senior Developer
17 9 (3.95%) QA Analyst
17 9 (3.95%) Senior Test Engineer
17 9 (3.95%) Software Developer
18 8 (3.51%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (42.54%) Playwright
2 48 (21.05%) .NET
3 45 (19.74%) HTML
4 26 (11.40%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (10.53%) SOAP
6 23 (10.09%) React
6 23 (10.09%) REST
7 19 (8.33%) CSS
8 18 (7.89%) pytest
8 18 (7.89%) Spring Boot
9 16 (7.02%) Gherkin
10 15 (6.58%) Node.js
10 15 (6.58%) Spring
11 14 (6.14%) RESTful
12 11 (4.82%) XML
13 8 (3.51%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.51%) Django
13 8 (3.51%) Flask
13 8 (3.51%) Puppeteer
13 8 (3.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.65%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.75%) Derivative
7 4 (1.75%) Equities
7 4 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.32%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.88%) FMCG
9 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.77%) Linux
2 12 (5.26%) Windows
3 7 (3.07%) Unix
4 4 (1.75%) CentOS
5 3 (1.32%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (76.32%) Test Automation
2 113 (49.56%) Agile
2 113 (49.56%) CI/CD
3 92 (40.35%) DevOps
4 71 (31.14%) Software Testing
5 58 (25.44%) API Testing
6 54 (23.68%) Scrum
7 50 (21.93%) Mentoring
8 48 (21.05%) BDD
8 48 (21.05%) Test Strategy
9 46 (20.18%) Test Management
10 45 (19.74%) Non-Functional Testing
11 44 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (16.67%) Manual Testing
14 36 (15.79%) Regression Testing
14 36 (15.79%) SDLC
15 34 (14.91%) Test Scripting
16 31 (13.60%) QA Automation
17 30 (13.16%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 112 (49.12%) Java
2 73 (32.02%) SQL
3 68 (29.82%) C#
4 62 (27.19%) Python
5 48 (21.05%) JavaScript
6 34 (14.91%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.39%) Bash
8 8 (3.51%) Delphi
9 5 (2.19%) Groovy
9 5 (2.19%) PHP
10 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.32%) Go
11 3 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.32%) RPG
12 2 (0.88%) Bicep
12 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.44%) JCL
13 1 (0.44%) Perl
13 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (21.49%) Degree
2 47 (20.61%) ISTQB
3 24 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 19 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 15 (6.58%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.51%) ISEB
8 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.07%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.63%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (46.49%) QA
2 34 (14.91%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.88%) GDPR
5 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.88%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (19.74%) Docker
2 5 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.77%) Grafana
2 20 (8.77%) Terraform
3 11 (4.82%) Ansible
4 8 (3.51%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.07%) Kibana
6 6 (2.63%) logstash
7 4 (1.75%) HP ALM
7 4 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.75%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.88%) MIIS
8 2 (0.88%) Packer
9 1 (0.44%) Argo
9 1 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (8.77%) Oracle
2 11 (4.82%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.39%) Google
4 9 (3.95%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.07%) Splunk
6 5 (2.19%) Black Duck
6 5 (2.19%) Coverity
6 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.75%) HP
7 4 (1.75%) IBM
7 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.75%) VMware
8 3 (1.32%) SAP
8 3 (1.32%) Veracode
9 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.44%) Adobe
10 1 (0.44%) Concur
10 1 (0.44%) Pega
10 1 (0.44%) Siebel