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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 386 362
Rank change year-on-year -79 -24 -159
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 240 255 654
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.62% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.82% 5.95% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 208 205 480
10th Percentile £41,175 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,313 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £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 4,121 4,287 9,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.08% 10.48% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 3,018 6,772
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,433 £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 £76,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,225 £100,751 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.30% +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 5 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 5 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 -42 227 £57,500 -11.54% 79
UK excluding London -86 143 £52,500 -12.50% 67
Work from Home +2 92 £52,500 -12.50% 32
London -19 83 £67,500 +3.85% 28
South East -24 61 £50,000 -16.67% 18
South West -23 30 £47,500 -26.92% 4
North of England -60 22 £56,000 +1.82% 17
Midlands -58 21 £57,600 -11.38% 10
West Midlands -25 17 £55,200 -18.22% 6
Yorkshire -55 10 £53,500 -10.83% 6
North West -30 8 £55,500 -7.50% 10
Wales -24 6 £53,600 +10.52% 3
North East -21 4 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East Midlands -53 4 £60,000 - 4
East of England -22 3 £62,500 +47.06% 10

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 18 (7.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.25%) JBoss
3 2 (0.83%) Apache
3 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.42%) Appian
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.83%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.00%) Azure
2 61 (25.42%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (21.25%) AWS
4 22 (9.17%) GitHub
5 17 (7.08%) BrowserStack
6 11 (4.58%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.33%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.50%) SaaS
11 5 (2.08%) Apigee
11 5 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.67%) Serverless
13 3 (1.25%) GCP
13 3 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.58%) DNS
2 6 (2.50%) HTTP
3 2 (0.83%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.00%) DB2
5 4 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.67%) Tableau
6 3 (1.25%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.25%) Redis
7 2 (0.83%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.42%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) MS Access
8 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.42%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 67 (27.92%) Cypress.io
2 59 (24.58%) Postman
3 57 (23.75%) JIRA
4 55 (22.92%) Jenkins
5 43 (17.92%) Git
6 40 (16.67%) Cucumber
7 37 (15.42%) WebDriver
8 32 (13.33%) GitLab
9 31 (12.92%) SoapUI
10 28 (11.67%) JMeter
11 21 (8.75%) REST Assured
11 21 (8.75%) SpecFlow
12 20 (8.33%) JUnit
12 20 (8.33%) Robot Framework
13 19 (7.92%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (5.83%) Snyk
14 14 (5.83%) TeamCity
15 12 (5.00%) Appium
16 11 (4.58%) SonarQube
16 11 (4.58%) TestRail
General
1 81 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 56 (23.33%) Finance
3 39 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.08%) Banking
5 14 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.08%) Law
7 5 (2.08%) Retail
8 4 (1.67%) Advertising
8 4 (1.67%) Back Office
9 3 (1.25%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Electronics
10 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (28.33%) Lead
2 37 (15.42%) Test Engineer
3 36 (15.00%) Senior
4 32 (13.33%) Test Leader
5 31 (12.92%) Developer
6 30 (12.50%) QA Engineer
7 28 (11.67%) Tester
8 26 (10.83%) QA Leader
9 23 (9.58%) Analyst
10 22 (9.17%) Test Automation Engineer
11 20 (8.33%) Test Analyst
12 14 (5.83%) Automation Tester
13 13 (5.42%) Java Developer
13 13 (5.42%) QA Automation Engineer
14 11 (4.58%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (4.58%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.58%) Software Developer
15 9 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
16 8 (3.33%) QA Analyst
16 8 (3.33%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (38.33%) Playwright
2 50 (20.83%) .NET
3 47 (19.58%) HTML
4 28 (11.67%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (11.67%) SOAP
5 24 (10.00%) React
6 23 (9.58%) REST
7 21 (8.75%) CSS
8 20 (8.33%) pytest
9 18 (7.50%) Gherkin
10 17 (7.08%) Node.js
10 17 (7.08%) Spring Boot
11 16 (6.67%) RESTful
11 16 (6.67%) Spring
12 13 (5.42%) XML
13 9 (3.75%) Web Services
14 8 (3.33%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.33%) Django
14 8 (3.33%) Flask
15 7 (2.92%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.08%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.67%) Derivative
6 4 (1.67%) Equities
6 4 (1.67%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.42%) Linux
2 18 (7.50%) Windows
3 5 (2.08%) Unix
4 3 (1.25%) CentOS
5 2 (0.83%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (77.50%) Test Automation
2 121 (50.42%) Agile
3 114 (47.50%) CI/CD
4 98 (40.83%) DevOps
5 74 (30.83%) Software Testing
6 60 (25.00%) Scrum
7 59 (24.58%) API Testing
8 58 (24.17%) Test Management
9 52 (21.67%) BDD
9 52 (21.67%) Mentoring
9 52 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (20.00%) Test Strategy
11 44 (18.33%) Non-Functional Testing
11 44 (18.33%) Test Scripting
12 40 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (15.00%) Manual Testing
14 34 (14.17%) SDLC
15 33 (13.75%) Regression Testing
16 31 (12.92%) Microservices
17 28 (11.67%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (47.50%) Java
2 80 (33.33%) SQL
3 68 (28.33%) C#
4 63 (26.25%) Python
5 51 (21.25%) JavaScript
6 33 (13.75%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.17%) Bash
8 8 (3.33%) Delphi
9 7 (2.92%) PHP
10 5 (2.08%) Go
11 3 (1.25%) Groovy
11 3 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.25%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.25%) RPG
12 2 (0.83%) Bicep
12 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.42%) Perl
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (21.25%) Degree
2 49 (20.42%) ISTQB
3 35 (14.58%) Security Cleared
4 21 (8.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 19 (7.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 18 (7.50%) SC Cleared
7 17 (7.08%) DV Cleared
8 12 (5.00%) ISEB
9 8 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.08%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (41.67%) QA
2 34 (14.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.83%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (18.33%) Docker
2 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (14.17%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.08%) Terraform
3 19 (7.92%) Ansible
4 18 (7.50%) Grafana
5 8 (3.33%) HP Fortify
6 5 (2.08%) HP ALM
6 5 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.25%) Kibana
7 3 (1.25%) logstash
7 3 (1.25%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.83%) MIIS
8 2 (0.83%) Nessus
8 2 (0.83%) Packer
9 1 (0.42%) Argo
9 1 (0.42%) Control-M
Vendors
1 20 (8.33%) Oracle
2 14 (5.83%) Black Duck
2 14 (5.83%) Coverity
3 10 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.75%) Google
5 6 (2.50%) Splunk
6 5 (2.08%) HP
6 5 (2.08%) IBM
6 5 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.67%) VMware
8 3 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.25%) SAP
8 3 (1.25%) Siebel
9 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.83%) Veracode
10 1 (0.42%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.42%) eFront
10 1 (0.42%) New Relic
10 1 (0.42%) UiPath