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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 288 412
Rank change year-on-year -243 +124 -216
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 199 483 608
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 1.10% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.67% 11.66% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 161 200 436
10th Percentile £39,221 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 4,257 4,141 9,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.57% 9.47% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,813 2,689 6,578
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.03% -9.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -208 181 £59,500 -0.83% 51
UK excluding London -243 114 £52,500 -8.70% 41
Work from Home -166 78 £55,698 -5.20% 25
London -31 70 £67,500 +7.14% 14
South East -8 39 £51,750 -13.75% 8
South West -46 27 £55,000 -18.52% 5
Midlands -109 19 £50,000 -25.93% 11
West Midlands -63 18 £50,000 -25.93% 8
North of England -158 16 £61,250 +10.36% 9
East of England -40 7 £62,500 +17.92% 3
North West -108 7 £56,000 +1.82% 5
Wales -34 6 £52,000 -30.67%
Yorkshire -49 6 £59,038 +1.97% 4
North East -48 3 £65,000 +18.18%
East Midlands -72 1 - - 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 18 (9.05%) Confluence
2 3 (1.51%) JBoss
3 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.17%) Azure
2 54 (27.14%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (20.10%) AWS
4 16 (8.04%) GitHub
5 15 (7.54%) BrowserStack
6 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.52%) Tricentis Tosca
7 6 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.51%) GCP
9 4 (2.01%) Apigee
9 4 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.01%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.01%) SaaS
9 4 (2.01%) Serverless
10 3 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.51%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.51%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.51%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (1.51%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) HTTP
2 2 (1.01%) DNS
2 2 (1.01%) DSL
3 1 (0.50%) Broadband
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.51%) DB2
3 5 (2.51%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.51%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.51%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.01%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.01%) Redis
5 3 (1.51%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.51%) Tableau
6 2 (1.01%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.01%) MySQL
7 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.50%) MS Access
7 1 (0.50%) Power BI
7 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.50%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 74 (37.19%) Cypress.io
2 55 (27.64%) Postman
3 54 (27.14%) JIRA
4 43 (21.61%) Jenkins
5 33 (16.58%) Git
6 29 (14.57%) WebDriver
7 27 (13.57%) JMeter
8 25 (12.56%) GitLab
9 24 (12.06%) REST Assured
10 22 (11.06%) Cucumber
11 21 (10.55%) SoapUI
12 17 (8.54%) SpecFlow
13 16 (8.04%) Team Foundation Server
14 15 (7.54%) JUnit
15 12 (6.03%) Gatling
16 10 (5.03%) SonarQube
17 9 (4.52%) Robot Framework
17 9 (4.52%) TestNG
17 9 (4.52%) TestRail
18 8 (4.02%) Maven
General
1 55 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.61%) Finance
3 20 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.52%) Advertising
7 5 (2.51%) Banking
7 5 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.01%) Retail
9 3 (1.51%) Aviation
10 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.01%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Electronics
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (25.63%) Lead
2 33 (16.58%) Senior
3 32 (16.08%) Test Engineer
4 29 (14.57%) QA Engineer
5 26 (13.07%) Test Leader
5 26 (13.07%) Tester
6 19 (9.55%) QA Leader
7 17 (8.54%) Analyst
7 17 (8.54%) Automation Tester
8 16 (8.04%) Developer
9 15 (7.54%) Test Automation Engineer
10 13 (6.53%) Test Analyst
11 10 (5.03%) QA Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.52%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.52%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (4.02%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.52%) Java Developer
14 7 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (3.52%) Test Manager
15 6 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (48.24%) Playwright
2 36 (18.09%) .NET
2 36 (18.09%) HTML
3 19 (9.55%) SOAP
4 18 (9.05%) REST
5 16 (8.04%) React
6 13 (6.53%) CSS
7 11 (5.53%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (5.03%) Node.js
8 10 (5.03%) RESTful
8 10 (5.03%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.03%) XML
9 8 (4.02%) Gherkin
9 8 (4.02%) Puppeteer
10 7 (3.52%) JSON
10 7 (3.52%) Kafka
10 7 (3.52%) Spring
11 6 (3.02%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.02%) SailPoint
11 6 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.05%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.51%) Housing Association
4 3 (1.51%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.51%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.51%) NHS
4 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.51%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.01%) FMCG
5 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.01%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.04%) Linux
2 7 (3.52%) Unix
2 7 (3.52%) Windows
3 4 (2.01%) CentOS
3 4 (2.01%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (74.87%) Test Automation
2 111 (55.78%) Agile
3 98 (49.25%) CI/CD
4 80 (40.20%) DevOps
5 61 (30.65%) Software Testing
6 54 (27.14%) Test Strategy
7 51 (25.63%) API Testing
8 49 (24.62%) Scrum
9 45 (22.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (21.11%) Mentoring
11 40 (20.10%) Non-Functional Testing
12 38 (19.10%) User Acceptance Testing
13 37 (18.59%) Manual Testing
14 36 (18.09%) Test Management
15 34 (17.09%) Regression Testing
16 33 (16.58%) BDD
17 32 (16.08%) SDLC
17 32 (16.08%) Test Scripting
18 29 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
19 27 (13.57%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 89 (44.72%) Java
2 55 (27.64%) C#
3 54 (27.14%) SQL
4 47 (23.62%) Python
5 35 (17.59%) JavaScript
6 26 (13.07%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.52%) Bash
8 6 (3.02%) Groovy
9 4 (2.01%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.51%) Scala
11 2 (1.01%) Bicep
11 2 (1.01%) C++
11 2 (1.01%) PHP
11 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.50%) JCL
12 1 (0.50%) Perl
12 1 (0.50%) RPG
12 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (20.60%) Degree
1 41 (20.60%) ISTQB
2 26 (13.07%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.05%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 13 (6.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.51%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (50.25%) QA
2 44 (22.11%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.01%) Software Quality Assurance
4 4 (2.01%) WCAG
5 2 (1.01%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (17.09%) Docker
2 5 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (11.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.54%) Terraform
3 11 (5.53%) Grafana
4 9 (4.52%) Ansible
5 7 (3.52%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.52%) Kibana
6 6 (3.02%) logstash
7 4 (2.01%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.51%) HP ALM
9 2 (1.01%) MIIS
9 2 (1.01%) Packer
9 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (6.03%) Oracle
2 10 (5.03%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.52%) Google
4 8 (4.02%) Splunk
5 7 (3.52%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.52%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.01%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.01%) Veracode
6 4 (2.01%) VMware
7 3 (1.51%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.51%) Coverity
7 3 (1.51%) HP
8 2 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.01%) YouTube
9 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.50%) Concur
9 1 (0.50%) eFront
9 1 (0.50%) IBM
9 1 (0.50%) SAP