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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 387 384
Rank change year-on-year -96 -3 -184
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 234 265 647
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.64% 0.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.60% 6.21% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 198 215 477
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,800
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% +2.46%
75th Percentile £70,938 £73,125 £92,500
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 4,181 4,267 9,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.82% 10.25% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,749 3,015 6,811
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 £82,125 £78,138
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £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 18 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 18 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 -72 221 £57,500 -6.12% 68
UK excluding London -90 135 £52,500 -12.50% 61
Work from Home +5 92 £55,200 -8.00% 33
London +4 85 £67,500 +3.85% 25
South East -38 49 £51,000 -15.00% 18
South West -32 31 £47,500 -26.92% 4
Midlands -52 24 £55,200 -13.41% 8
North of England -71 21 £58,750 +6.82% 11
West Midlands -30 20 £52,500 -22.22% 5
Yorkshire -71 9 £59,250 -0.92% 1
North West -31 8 £55,500 +0.91% 8
Wales -24 6 £53,600 +10.52% 2
North East -30 4 £65,000 +18.18% 2
East of England -31 4 £62,500 +47.06% 9
East Midlands -58 4 £60,000 - 3

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 20 (8.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.28%) JBoss
3 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.85%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (29.49%) Azure
2 56 (23.93%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (20.51%) AWS
4 22 (9.40%) GitHub
5 17 (7.26%) BrowserStack
6 12 (5.13%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.56%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.56%) SaaS
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.14%) Apigee
9 5 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.71%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.71%) Serverless
10 4 (1.71%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.28%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.99%) HTTP
2 6 (2.56%) DNS
3 2 (0.85%) DSL
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.27%) DB2
5 4 (1.71%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.71%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.71%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.71%) Redis
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.28%) Tableau
7 2 (0.85%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.85%) MySQL
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.43%) MS Access
8 1 (0.43%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.43%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 70 (29.91%) Cypress.io
2 58 (24.79%) Postman
3 57 (24.36%) JIRA
4 56 (23.93%) Jenkins
5 39 (16.67%) Git
6 37 (15.81%) Cucumber
7 34 (14.53%) GitLab
7 34 (14.53%) WebDriver
8 29 (12.39%) JMeter
9 28 (11.97%) SoapUI
10 24 (10.26%) REST Assured
11 21 (8.97%) JUnit
11 21 (8.97%) SpecFlow
12 18 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (5.98%) Robot Framework
14 13 (5.56%) TestRail
15 12 (5.13%) Bitbucket
15 12 (5.13%) SonarQube
15 12 (5.13%) TeamCity
16 10 (4.27%) Appium
General
1 76 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.51%) Finance
3 33 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.41%) Banking
5 11 (4.70%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.42%) Advertising
6 8 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.14%) Retail
8 4 (1.71%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.71%) Back Office
9 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Law
10 2 (0.85%) Aviation
10 2 (0.85%) Electronics
10 2 (0.85%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (27.78%) Lead
2 37 (15.81%) Senior
3 34 (14.53%) Test Engineer
4 32 (13.68%) QA Engineer
4 32 (13.68%) Test Leader
5 29 (12.39%) Tester
6 27 (11.54%) Developer
7 26 (11.11%) QA Leader
8 23 (9.83%) Analyst
9 20 (8.55%) Test Automation Engineer
10 18 (7.69%) Test Analyst
11 16 (6.84%) Automation Tester
12 14 (5.98%) QA Automation Engineer
13 13 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (4.70%) Java Developer
15 10 (4.27%) Senior Developer
16 9 (3.85%) QA Analyst
16 9 (3.85%) Software Developer
17 8 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
17 8 (3.42%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (41.88%) Playwright
2 49 (20.94%) .NET
3 45 (19.23%) HTML
4 27 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (10.68%) SOAP
6 24 (10.26%) REST
7 23 (9.83%) React
8 19 (8.12%) CSS
9 18 (7.69%) pytest
9 18 (7.69%) Spring Boot
10 17 (7.26%) Spring
11 16 (6.84%) Gherkin
12 15 (6.41%) Node.js
13 14 (5.98%) RESTful
14 12 (5.13%) XML
15 9 (3.85%) Web Services
16 8 (3.42%) AngularJS
16 8 (3.42%) Django
16 8 (3.42%) Flask
16 8 (3.42%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.84%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.71%) Derivative
7 4 (1.71%) Equities
7 4 (1.71%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.28%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.85%) FMCG
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.40%) Linux
2 14 (5.98%) Windows
3 6 (2.56%) Unix
4 4 (1.71%) CentOS
5 3 (1.28%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 117 (50.00%) Agile
3 116 (49.57%) CI/CD
4 96 (41.03%) DevOps
5 73 (31.20%) Software Testing
6 61 (26.07%) API Testing
7 56 (23.93%) Scrum
8 51 (21.79%) Test Management
9 50 (21.37%) Mentoring
10 49 (20.94%) BDD
10 49 (20.94%) Test Strategy
11 47 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (19.23%) Non-Functional Testing
13 40 (17.09%) Manual Testing
14 39 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (16.24%) Test Scripting
16 36 (15.38%) Regression Testing
16 36 (15.38%) SDLC
17 31 (13.25%) QA Automation
18 29 (12.39%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 112 (47.86%) Java
2 74 (31.62%) SQL
3 69 (29.49%) C#
4 62 (26.50%) Python
5 49 (20.94%) JavaScript
6 34 (14.53%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.70%) Bash
8 8 (3.42%) Delphi
9 5 (2.14%) PHP
10 4 (1.71%) Groovy
10 4 (1.71%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.28%) Go
11 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.28%) RPG
12 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.43%) Perl
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (20.94%) Degree
1 49 (20.94%) ISTQB
2 28 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 20 (8.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 16 (6.84%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.85%) ISEB
7 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.56%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (45.73%) QA
2 34 (14.53%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.71%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.28%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.85%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (19.66%) Docker
2 5 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 35 (14.96%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.83%) Terraform
3 21 (8.97%) Grafana
4 13 (5.56%) Ansible
5 8 (3.42%) HP Fortify
6 6 (2.56%) Kibana
7 5 (2.14%) HP ALM
7 5 (2.14%) logstash
7 5 (2.14%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.71%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.85%) MIIS
9 2 (0.85%) Nessus
9 2 (0.85%) Packer
10 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 20 (8.55%) Oracle
2 11 (4.70%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.27%) Google
4 9 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.99%) Black Duck
5 7 (2.99%) Coverity
5 7 (2.99%) Splunk
6 5 (2.14%) HP
6 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.71%) IBM
7 4 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.71%) VMware
8 3 (1.28%) SAP
8 3 (1.28%) Veracode
9 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.85%) Siebel
10 1 (0.43%) Adobe
10 1 (0.43%) OpenText
10 1 (0.43%) Pega