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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 295 417
Rank change year-on-year -270 +122 -235
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 184 487 598
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.99% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.27% 11.59% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 143 202 404
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,820 £71,250 £76,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 4,309 4,201 8,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 8.55% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,874 2,659 6,084
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,459 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 15 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 15 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 -260 155 £59,500 -0.83% 68
UK excluding London -263 116 £55,000 -4.35% 61
Work from Home -214 59 £57,500 - 51
London -57 53 £70,000 +21.74% 25
South West -54 29 £55,000 -18.52% 6
South East -36 24 £57,500 -4.17% 18
Midlands -100 20 £50,000 -25.93% 7
West Midlands -56 19 £50,000 -25.93% 5
North of England -153 16 £61,250 +9.38% 17
Wales -44 13 £47,500 -16.67% 3
East of England -39 12 £55,000 +3.77% 5
North West -113 7 £57,500 - 9
Yorkshire -38 6 £59,038 +1.97% 4
North East -59 3 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Scotland -36 2 £48,500 -3.00% 4
East Midlands -69 1 - - 2

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 17 (9.24%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) JBoss
3 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 72 (39.13%) Azure
2 57 (30.98%) AWS
3 50 (27.17%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (10.33%) GitHub
5 15 (8.15%) BrowserStack
5 15 (8.15%) Serverless
6 13 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.89%) GCP
8 9 (4.89%) Tricentis Tosca
9 7 (3.80%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.26%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.72%) SaaS
12 4 (2.17%) BlazeMeter
13 3 (1.63%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.63%) Apigee
13 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.63%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.63%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.26%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) DSL
3 1 (0.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.89%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 8 (4.35%) Redis
2 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.80%) InfluxDB
4 6 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.72%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.72%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.17%) MySQL
6 4 (2.17%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.63%) Tableau
8 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.54%) Db2
8 1 (0.54%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.54%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 76 (41.30%) Cypress.io
2 49 (26.63%) Jenkins
3 42 (22.83%) JIRA
4 41 (22.28%) Git
5 39 (21.20%) Postman
6 31 (16.85%) GitLab
6 31 (16.85%) JMeter
7 27 (14.67%) REST Assured
8 22 (11.96%) Cucumber
9 18 (9.78%) JUnit
10 15 (8.15%) SpecFlow
10 15 (8.15%) TestRail
10 15 (8.15%) Zephyr
11 13 (7.07%) Gatling
12 9 (4.89%) Robot Framework
12 9 (4.89%) SonarQube
12 9 (4.89%) WebDriver
13 8 (4.35%) Appium
14 7 (3.80%) LoadRunner
14 7 (3.80%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.39%) Finance
3 26 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 23 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.26%) Advertising
8 5 (2.72%) Aviation
9 4 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Retail
10 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.09%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.54%) Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.54%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 44 (23.91%) Lead
2 36 (19.57%) Senior
3 35 (19.02%) Test Engineer
4 31 (16.85%) QA Engineer
5 24 (13.04%) Test Leader
6 21 (11.41%) QA Leader
7 20 (10.87%) Test Automation Engineer
8 17 (9.24%) Tester
9 15 (8.15%) Analyst
9 15 (8.15%) Developer
10 11 (5.98%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) QA Automation Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Automation Tester
11 10 (5.43%) Java Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Senior Developer
11 10 (5.43%) Test Analyst
12 9 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.80%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (58.15%) Playwright
2 21 (11.41%) HTML
3 20 (10.87%) .NET
4 19 (10.33%) React
4 19 (10.33%) Spring Boot
5 17 (9.24%) REST
6 16 (8.70%) Node.js
7 15 (8.15%) Spring
8 14 (7.61%) CSS
9 11 (5.98%) Kafka
10 10 (5.43%) Jest
10 10 (5.43%) XML
11 9 (4.89%) JSON
11 9 (4.89%) pytest
11 9 (4.89%) RESTful
12 8 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (4.35%) Puppeteer
13 7 (3.80%) Gherkin
13 7 (3.80%) Ruby on Rails
14 6 (3.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.67%) Product Ownership
2 17 (9.24%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.26%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.63%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.63%) NHS
8 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.09%) FMCG
9 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.54%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.54%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.61%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Windows
3 7 (3.80%) CentOS
4 6 (3.26%) Unix
5 4 (2.17%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.63%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (79.35%) Test Automation
2 115 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 104 (56.52%) Agile
4 84 (45.65%) DevOps
5 57 (30.98%) Software Testing
5 57 (30.98%) Test Strategy
6 50 (27.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (24.46%) Manual Testing
8 40 (21.74%) Mentoring
8 40 (21.74%) Regression Testing
9 39 (21.20%) SDLC
9 39 (21.20%) User Acceptance Testing
10 36 (19.57%) AI
11 34 (18.48%) API Testing
11 34 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (17.93%) BDD
13 31 (16.85%) Scrum
14 26 (14.13%) Non-Functional Testing
14 26 (14.13%) QA Automation
14 26 (14.13%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (41.30%) Java
2 51 (27.72%) Python
3 35 (19.02%) JavaScript
4 34 (18.48%) C#
5 32 (17.39%) SQL
6 25 (13.59%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.43%) Bash
8 7 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.80%) Ruby
9 6 (3.26%) Groovy
9 6 (3.26%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.72%) Scala
11 2 (1.09%) Bicep
11 2 (1.09%) C++
11 2 (1.09%) PHP
11 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.54%) JCL
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (17.39%) ISTQB
2 30 (16.30%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.59%) Degree
4 22 (11.96%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (3.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 6 (3.26%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.09%) ISEB
10 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (53.80%) QA
2 46 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 13 (7.07%) WCAG
4 5 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.17%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.63%) GDPR
7 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (20.11%) Docker
2 7 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 27 (14.67%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.33%) Terraform
3 12 (6.52%) Grafana
4 10 (5.43%) Kibana
5 9 (4.89%) Ansible
5 9 (4.89%) logstash
6 7 (3.80%) HP Fortify
6 7 (3.80%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.63%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.09%) MIIS
8 2 (1.09%) Packer
9 1 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (7.07%) Oracle
2 11 (5.98%) Splunk
3 9 (4.89%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.80%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.80%) Google
4 7 (3.80%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.80%) VMware
5 6 (3.26%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.17%) Veracode
6 4 (2.17%) YouTube
7 3 (1.63%) HP
7 3 (1.63%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.63%) Pega
7 3 (1.63%) SAP
8 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.54%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.54%) eFront
8 1 (0.54%) Salesforce