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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 292 416
Rank change year-on-year -297 +124 -157
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 198 477 458
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.95% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.32% 12.00% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 143 184 297
10th Percentile £39,627 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 4,585 3,976 7,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.23% 7.96% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,970 2,450 4,470
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,813 £48,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.17%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -268 171 £59,500 +3.48% 75
UK excluding London -294 127 £55,000 - 56
Work from Home -241 64 £55,000 - 36
London -42 60 £70,000 +21.74% 37
Midlands -89 29 £47,500 -26.92% 9
West Midlands -45 28 £47,500 -24.00% 9
South West -62 27 £50,000 -9.09% 12
South East -35 26 £55,000 -4.35% 18
North of England -163 16 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Wales -47 15 £47,500 -16.67%
East of England -41 12 £55,000 +3.77% 4
North West -113 8 £61,250 +11.36% 4
Yorkshire -49 5 £65,000 +16.07% 2
North East -59 3 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Scotland -45 2 £48,500 -3.00% 2
East Midlands -72 1 - -

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 24 (12.12%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) Apache
3 2 (1.01%) JBoss
3 2 (1.01%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.01%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Moqups
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (43.43%) Azure
2 77 (38.89%) AWS
3 50 (25.25%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.61%) GitHub
5 14 (7.07%) GCP
5 14 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (6.57%) BrowserStack
6 13 (6.57%) SaaS
6 13 (6.57%) Serverless
7 11 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.05%) OpenShift
8 10 (5.05%) Tricentis Tosca
9 5 (2.53%) Figma
10 4 (2.02%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.02%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.02%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (1.52%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) DSL
2 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.05%) Redis
3 8 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.03%) InfluxDB
4 6 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.03%) MySQL
4 6 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.02%) ZAP BI
6 3 (1.52%) Tableau
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.51%) Db2
Development Applications
1 71 (35.86%) Cypress.io
2 56 (28.28%) Jenkins
2 56 (28.28%) Postman
3 55 (27.78%) Git
4 51 (25.76%) JIRA
5 37 (18.69%) GitLab
6 34 (17.17%) JMeter
7 31 (15.66%) Cucumber
8 28 (14.14%) REST Assured
9 26 (13.13%) JUnit
10 21 (10.61%) Gatling
11 19 (9.60%) Zephyr
12 14 (7.07%) TestRail
13 12 (6.06%) NUnit
13 12 (6.06%) SonarQube
13 12 (6.06%) SpecFlow
14 9 (4.55%) LoadRunner
14 9 (4.55%) Robot Framework
14 9 (4.55%) SoapUI
15 7 (3.54%) Mocha
General
1 46 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.18%) Finance
3 31 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 28 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.54%) Aviation
7 7 (3.54%) Retail
8 5 (2.53%) Advertising
9 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.52%) Military
9 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.01%) Banking
10 2 (1.01%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Front Office
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.51%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 53 (26.77%) Senior
2 34 (17.17%) Lead
2 34 (17.17%) Test Engineer
3 27 (13.64%) QA Engineer
4 20 (10.10%) Test Automation Engineer
4 20 (10.10%) Tester
5 18 (9.09%) Developer
5 18 (9.09%) Test Leader
6 17 (8.59%) Analyst
7 14 (7.07%) Java Engineer
8 13 (6.57%) QA Leader
8 13 (6.57%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (6.06%) Test Analyst
10 11 (5.56%) Junior
11 10 (5.05%) Automation Tester
11 10 (5.05%) Senior Test Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (52.02%) Playwright
2 29 (14.65%) React
3 26 (13.13%) .NET
3 26 (13.13%) REST
4 25 (12.63%) Terraform
5 20 (10.10%) HTML
6 19 (9.60%) RESTful
6 19 (9.60%) Spring
6 19 (9.60%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.08%) CSS
7 16 (8.08%) JSON
7 16 (8.08%) Node.js
8 15 (7.58%) Kafka
9 13 (6.57%) Jest
10 11 (5.56%) pytest
11 10 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (4.04%) XML
13 7 (3.54%) Ruby on Rails
14 6 (3.03%) HTML5
14 6 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.66%) Product Ownership
2 22 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.59%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.03%) Mainframe
7 6 (3.03%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.53%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.02%) IoT
10 3 (1.52%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.52%) NHS
10 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.01%) FMCG
12 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.58%) Linux
2 13 (6.57%) Windows
3 6 (3.03%) CentOS
4 5 (2.53%) Kali Linux
5 4 (2.02%) Unix
6 3 (1.52%) AIX
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (80.30%) Test Automation
2 127 (64.14%) CI/CD
3 126 (63.64%) Agile
4 92 (46.46%) DevOps
5 65 (32.83%) Software Testing
6 58 (29.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (28.28%) Test Strategy
8 52 (26.26%) Mentoring
9 48 (24.24%) Manual Testing
10 44 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (20.71%) SDLC
12 40 (20.20%) User Acceptance Testing
13 39 (19.70%) AI
13 39 (19.70%) API Testing
14 36 (18.18%) BDD
15 35 (17.68%) Scrum
16 33 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
16 33 (16.67%) Regression Testing
17 28 (14.14%) Validation
18 27 (13.64%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (42.42%) Java
2 56 (28.28%) Python
3 44 (22.22%) C#
4 33 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 32 (16.16%) SQL
6 17 (8.59%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.04%) Bash
8 7 (3.54%) Ruby
9 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.53%) Scala
11 4 (2.02%) Groovy
11 4 (2.02%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.02%) PHP
12 3 (1.52%) Go
13 2 (1.01%) Bicep
13 2 (1.01%) C++
14 1 (0.51%) JCL
14 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.17%) ISTQB
3 28 (14.14%) Degree
4 27 (13.64%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 6 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.53%) ISEB
8 3 (1.52%) OCP
8 3 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
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 96 (48.48%) QA
2 47 (23.74%) Accessibility
3 23 (11.62%) WCAG
4 4 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.02%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.52%) GDPR
5 3 (1.52%) NIST
6 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (23.23%) Docker
2 6 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.09%) Grafana
3 9 (4.55%) Ansible
3 9 (4.55%) Kibana
4 8 (4.04%) logstash
5 6 (3.03%) HP Fortify
5 6 (3.03%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.52%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.01%) MIIS
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%) 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 12 (6.06%) Splunk
2 11 (5.56%) Oracle
3 10 (5.05%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.55%) Google
5 8 (4.04%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.54%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.03%) Pega
7 6 (3.03%) SAP
7 6 (3.03%) VMware
8 5 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.53%) Veracode
9 4 (2.02%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.02%) YouTube
10 3 (1.52%) HP
10 3 (1.52%) OneLogin
11 2 (1.01%) IBM
12 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.51%) NCR
12 1 (0.51%) Salesforce