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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 300 419
Rank change year-on-year -313 +119 -163
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 197 464 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.94% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.21% 12.35% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 137 170 254
10th Percentile £39,221 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,875 £49,063 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - -0.80% -3.39%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £73,938
90th Percentile £87,750 £77,500 £86,775
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -

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 4,675 3,757 6,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.02% 7.62% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,934 2,236 3,877
10th Percentile £37,075 £36,250 £38,750
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 £77,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -4.76%

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 20 September 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 20 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 -297 168 £57,500 - 194
UK excluding London -309 127 £52,500 -6.25% 112
London -71 59 £75,000 +25.00% 107
Work from Home -246 59 £51,250 -6.82% 84
South West -61 27 £48,375 -12.05% 16
Midlands -105 26 £46,250 -26.00% 14
West Midlands -61 24 £46,250 -22.27% 11
South East -63 23 £55,000 -4.35% 22
North of England -186 17 £65,000 +18.18% 30
East of England -50 16 £55,000 +3.77% 2
Wales -58 15 £47,500 -16.67% 1
North West -125 11 £70,000 +27.27% 15
Yorkshire -43 5 £42,500 -24.11% 9
Scotland -35 3 £48,500 -3.00% 16
East Midlands -79 2 - - 3
North East -65 1 £65,000 +18.18% 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 25 (12.69%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.52%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.02%) Apache
3 2 (1.02%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Moqups
2 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 82 (41.62%) Azure
2 79 (40.10%) AWS
3 46 (23.35%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (12.69%) GitHub
5 19 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (7.61%) SaaS
6 15 (7.61%) Serverless
7 13 (6.60%) GCP
8 12 (6.09%) BrowserStack
9 11 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.08%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.57%) Tricentis Tosca
12 8 (4.06%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (3.05%) Figma
14 4 (2.03%) Amazon S3
14 4 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.03%) BlazeMeter
14 4 (2.03%) ChatGPT
15 3 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.54%) DNS
1 5 (2.54%) HTTP
1 5 (2.54%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.52%) 4G
2 3 (1.52%) 5G
2 3 (1.52%) SSH
3 2 (1.02%) BGP
3 2 (1.02%) DHCP
3 2 (1.02%) OSPF
3 2 (1.02%) VLAN
3 2 (1.02%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) Broadband
4 1 (0.51%) DSL
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.60%) NoSQL
2 12 (6.09%) Redis
3 11 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.06%) MySQL
5 8 (4.06%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.05%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.05%) InfluxDB
7 4 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.52%) ZAP BI
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (1.02%) Tableau
10 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.51%) Db2
10 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (37.56%) Cypress.io
2 58 (29.44%) Jenkins
2 58 (29.44%) Postman
3 56 (28.43%) Git
4 52 (26.40%) JIRA
5 41 (20.81%) GitLab
6 35 (17.77%) JMeter
7 33 (16.75%) Cucumber
8 30 (15.23%) REST Assured
9 27 (13.71%) JUnit
10 21 (10.66%) Gatling
11 19 (9.64%) Zephyr
12 13 (6.60%) TestRail
13 12 (6.09%) Robot Framework
14 11 (5.58%) SonarQube
15 10 (5.08%) NUnit
15 10 (5.08%) SpecFlow
16 8 (4.06%) Newman
16 8 (4.06%) SoapUI
16 8 (4.06%) TestNG
General
1 46 (23.35%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.26%) Finance
3 32 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.71%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.06%) Banking
5 8 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.55%) Aviation
6 7 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Retail
8 5 (2.54%) Advertising
9 4 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Military
10 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.02%) Law
12 1 (0.51%) Front Office
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.51%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 50 (25.38%) Senior
2 32 (16.24%) QA Engineer
2 32 (16.24%) Test Engineer
3 31 (15.74%) Lead
4 22 (11.17%) Test Automation Engineer
5 19 (9.64%) Analyst
5 19 (9.64%) Developer
6 17 (8.63%) Test Leader
6 17 (8.63%) Tester
7 14 (7.11%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.11%) Test Analyst
8 13 (6.60%) Java Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Junior
10 11 (5.58%) Automation Test Analyst
11 10 (5.08%) Senior QA Engineer
11 10 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.57%) Automation Tester
12 9 (4.57%) Quality Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (53.81%) Playwright
2 38 (19.29%) REST
3 29 (14.72%) React
4 24 (12.18%) Terraform
5 22 (11.17%) RESTful
6 21 (10.66%) .NET
7 19 (9.64%) HTML
7 19 (9.64%) Spring
8 18 (9.14%) Spring Boot
9 17 (8.63%) CSS
9 17 (8.63%) JSON
9 17 (8.63%) Kafka
10 16 (8.12%) Node.js
11 14 (7.11%) Jest
11 14 (7.11%) pytest
12 13 (6.60%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (4.57%) XML
14 7 (3.55%) ADO
14 7 (3.55%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (3.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.72%) Product Ownership
2 22 (11.17%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.63%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.05%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.05%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.03%) IoT
8 4 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.52%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.52%) NHS
9 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.66%) Linux
2 13 (6.60%) Windows
3 6 (3.05%) CentOS
3 6 (3.05%) Unix
4 4 (2.03%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.52%) AIX
6 1 (0.51%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (83.76%) Test Automation
2 132 (67.01%) CI/CD
3 125 (63.45%) Agile
4 90 (45.69%) DevOps
5 64 (32.49%) Software Testing
6 56 (28.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 54 (27.41%) Mentoring
8 50 (25.38%) Test Strategy
9 49 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (23.35%) Manual Testing
11 40 (20.30%) Regression Testing
11 40 (20.30%) SDLC
12 39 (19.80%) AI
12 39 (19.80%) End-to-End Testing
12 39 (19.80%) User Acceptance Testing
13 37 (18.78%) Scrum
14 36 (18.27%) API Testing
15 33 (16.75%) Validation
16 32 (16.24%) BDD
17 28 (14.21%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (40.10%) Java
2 59 (29.95%) Python
3 39 (19.80%) JavaScript
3 39 (19.80%) SQL
4 36 (18.27%) C#
5 15 (7.61%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.58%) Bash
7 7 (3.55%) Go
7 7 (3.55%) Ruby
8 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.54%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.54%) Scala
10 4 (2.03%) Groovy
10 4 (2.03%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.52%) PHP
12 2 (1.02%) C++
13 1 (0.51%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 42 (21.32%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.77%) ISTQB
3 28 (14.21%) SC Cleared
4 23 (11.68%) Degree
5 9 (4.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 6 (3.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.05%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.54%) ISEB
9 3 (1.52%) OCP
9 3 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (53.81%) QA
2 40 (20.30%) Accessibility
3 24 (12.18%) WCAG
4 4 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.03%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.52%) NIST
5 3 (1.52%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.02%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (24.37%) Docker
2 6 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (20.81%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.15%) Grafana
3 9 (4.57%) Ansible
3 9 (4.57%) Kibana
4 8 (4.06%) logstash
5 7 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.05%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.54%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.02%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.51%) Control-M
9 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.51%) MIIS
9 1 (0.51%) Nagios
9 1 (0.51%) Packer
9 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.51%) Puppet
9 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.58%) Microsoft
1 11 (5.58%) Splunk
2 10 (5.08%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.57%) Oracle
3 9 (4.57%) SAP
4 8 (4.06%) Google
5 7 (3.55%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.55%) Pega
6 6 (3.05%) VMware
7 4 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.03%) Veracode
7 4 (2.03%) YouTube
8 3 (1.52%) IBM
8 3 (1.52%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.02%) HP
9 2 (1.02%) Informatica
10 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.51%) NCR
10 1 (0.51%) Salesforce