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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 294 427
Rank change year-on-year -299 +133 -172
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 206 470 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.94% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.50% 11.93% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 149 179 283
10th Percentile £40,844 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £77,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -

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 4,581 3,940 6,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.17% 7.88% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,967 2,418 4,275
10th Percentile £35,150 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,743 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,300 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.58%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -269 179 £61,000 +6.09% 197
UK excluding London -279 132 £55,000 -1.79% 125
London -49 63 £75,000 +30.43% 121
Work from Home -228 62 £55,000 - 115
Midlands -101 30 £47,500 -24.00% 18
West Midlands -35 29 £47,500 -24.00% 14
South West -63 29 £50,000 -9.09% 21
South East -50 25 £55,000 -4.35% 27
North of England -160 17 £65,000 +17.12% 23
Wales -55 15 £47,500 -16.67% 1
East of England -39 14 £55,000 +3.77% 7
North West -121 9 £65,000 +18.18% 11
Yorkshire -44 5 £65,000 +16.07% 6
North East -62 3 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Scotland -53 2 £48,500 -7.62% 12
East Midlands -66 1 - - 4

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 25 (12.14%) Confluence
2 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.97%) Apache
3 2 (0.97%) JBoss
3 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.49%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Moqups
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 85 (41.26%) Azure
2 80 (38.83%) AWS
3 50 (24.27%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (12.14%) GitHub
5 18 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (6.80%) GCP
6 14 (6.80%) SaaS
7 13 (6.31%) BrowserStack
7 13 (6.31%) Serverless
8 11 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.34%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.37%) Tricentis Tosca
10 8 (3.88%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.43%) Figma
12 4 (1.94%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.94%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (1.94%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.46%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.46%) HTTP
2 2 (0.97%) DNS
2 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) 4G
3 1 (0.49%) 5G
3 1 (0.49%) BGP
3 1 (0.49%) Broadband
3 1 (0.49%) DHCP
3 1 (0.49%) DSL
3 1 (0.49%) OSPF
3 1 (0.49%) SSH
3 1 (0.49%) SSL
3 1 (0.49%) VLAN
3 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.83%) NoSQL
2 11 (5.34%) Redis
3 9 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.40%) InfluxDB
5 7 (3.40%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.40%) MySQL
5 7 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.91%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.94%) ZAP BI
8 3 (1.46%) Tableau
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.49%) Db2
Development Applications
1 79 (38.35%) Cypress.io
2 63 (30.58%) Jenkins
3 60 (29.13%) Postman
4 58 (28.16%) Git
5 53 (25.73%) JIRA
6 45 (21.84%) GitLab
7 39 (18.93%) JMeter
8 35 (16.99%) REST Assured
9 32 (15.53%) Cucumber
10 26 (12.62%) JUnit
11 25 (12.14%) Gatling
12 20 (9.71%) Zephyr
13 15 (7.28%) TestRail
14 12 (5.83%) NUnit
14 12 (5.83%) SonarQube
15 11 (5.34%) Robot Framework
16 10 (4.85%) SoapUI
16 10 (4.85%) SpecFlow
17 9 (4.37%) LoadRunner
18 8 (3.88%) Newman
General
1 48 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.99%) Finance
3 31 (15.05%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.40%) Aviation
7 7 (3.40%) Retail
8 6 (2.91%) Banking
9 5 (2.43%) Advertising
10 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Military
10 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.97%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Front Office
12 1 (0.49%) Marketing
12 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 55 (26.70%) Senior
2 38 (18.45%) Test Engineer
3 35 (16.99%) Lead
4 32 (15.53%) QA Engineer
5 23 (11.17%) Test Automation Engineer
6 18 (8.74%) Developer
6 18 (8.74%) Tester
7 17 (8.25%) Analyst
7 17 (8.25%) Test Leader
8 14 (6.80%) Java Engineer
8 14 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.31%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (6.31%) QA Leader
10 12 (5.83%) Test Analyst
11 11 (5.34%) Junior
11 11 (5.34%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (4.85%) Automation Tester
12 10 (4.85%) Senior QA Engineer
13 9 (4.37%) Automation Test Analyst
13 9 (4.37%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (54.85%) Playwright
2 34 (16.50%) REST
3 29 (14.08%) React
4 26 (12.62%) Terraform
5 23 (11.17%) .NET
6 21 (10.19%) HTML
7 20 (9.71%) RESTful
8 19 (9.22%) Spring
8 19 (9.22%) Spring Boot
9 17 (8.25%) CSS
10 16 (7.77%) JSON
10 16 (7.77%) Kafka
10 16 (7.77%) Node.js
11 13 (6.31%) Jest
11 13 (6.31%) pytest
12 12 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (3.88%) XML
14 7 (3.40%) ADO
14 7 (3.40%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (3.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.05%) Product Ownership
2 23 (11.17%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.25%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (6.31%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.91%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.94%) IoT
8 4 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.46%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.46%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.46%) NHS
10 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.97%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.97%) FMCG
11 1 (0.49%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.49%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.71%) Linux
2 14 (6.80%) Windows
3 7 (3.40%) CentOS
4 5 (2.43%) Kali Linux
4 5 (2.43%) Unix
5 3 (1.46%) AIX
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (82.52%) Test Automation
2 137 (66.50%) CI/CD
3 127 (61.65%) Agile
4 94 (45.63%) DevOps
5 67 (32.52%) Software Testing
6 58 (28.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (27.18%) Mentoring
8 54 (26.21%) Test Strategy
9 49 (23.79%) Manual Testing
10 48 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (19.90%) AI
11 41 (19.90%) SDLC
12 40 (19.42%) User Acceptance Testing
13 39 (18.93%) API Testing
14 37 (17.96%) Scrum
15 36 (17.48%) BDD
15 36 (17.48%) End-to-End Testing
15 36 (17.48%) Regression Testing
16 32 (15.53%) Performance Testing
17 29 (14.08%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (41.75%) Java
2 59 (28.64%) Python
3 42 (20.39%) C#
4 36 (17.48%) JavaScript
5 35 (16.99%) SQL
6 16 (7.77%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.85%) Bash
8 7 (3.40%) Go
8 7 (3.40%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.40%) Ruby
9 5 (2.43%) Scala
10 4 (1.94%) Groovy
10 4 (1.94%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.94%) PHP
11 2 (0.97%) Bicep
11 2 (0.97%) C++
11 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.49%) JCL
Qualifications
1 40 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.48%) ISTQB
3 27 (13.11%) Degree
3 27 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (3.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.91%) ISEB
6 6 (2.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 6 (2.91%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.46%) OCP
7 3 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (50.97%) QA
2 46 (22.33%) Accessibility
3 23 (11.17%) WCAG
4 4 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.94%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.94%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.46%) GDPR
5 3 (1.46%) NIST
6 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (23.30%) Docker
2 7 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (20.87%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.71%) Grafana
3 10 (4.85%) Ansible
3 10 (4.85%) Kibana
4 9 (4.37%) logstash
5 7 (3.40%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.91%) HP Fortify
7 5 (2.43%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.46%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.97%) MIIS
10 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.49%) Control-M
10 1 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.49%) Nagios
10 1 (0.49%) Packer
10 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.49%) Puppet
10 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.31%) Splunk
2 11 (5.34%) Red Hat
3 10 (4.85%) Oracle
4 9 (4.37%) Google
4 9 (4.37%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.88%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.40%) Pega
6 7 (3.40%) SAP
6 7 (3.40%) VMware
7 5 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.43%) Veracode
8 4 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.94%) YouTube
9 3 (1.46%) HP
9 3 (1.46%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.97%) IBM
11 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.49%) NCR
11 1 (0.49%) Salesforce