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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 274 406
Rank change year-on-year -257 +132 -203
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 207 477 617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 1.12% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.88% 11.90% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 169 196 452
10th Percentile £39,212 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £85,420
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,900 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.35% +4.17% +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 4,238 4,007 9,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.57% 9.40% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,776 2,608 6,644
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,875 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £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 23 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 23 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 -224 187 £59,500 -0.83% 67
UK excluding London -234 119 £52,500 -12.35% 60
Work from Home -172 80 £55,395 -7.68% 42
London -22 72 £67,500 +3.85% 17
South East -19 41 £51,000 -15.00% 10
South West -44 28 £51,250 -24.07% 6
Midlands -109 18 £50,000 -25.93% 10
North of England -164 18 £65,000 +16.07% 16
West Midlands -67 17 £50,000 -25.93% 7
Yorkshire -46 9 £59,250 -0.92% 4
Wales -29 8 £46,500 -24.70% 1
East of England -31 6 £62,500 +17.92% 5
North West -106 6 £55,500 +0.91% 7
North East -43 3 £65,000 +18.18% 5
East Midlands -79 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 19 (9.18%) Confluence
2 3 (1.45%) JBoss
3 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.37%) Azure
2 55 (26.57%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (18.84%) AWS
4 15 (7.25%) BrowserStack
4 15 (7.25%) GitHub
5 7 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.38%) Tricentis Tosca
6 6 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.42%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.42%) Apigee
8 4 (1.93%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (1.93%) GCP
8 4 (1.93%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.93%) SaaS
8 4 (1.93%) Serverless
9 3 (1.45%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (1.45%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.90%) HTTP
2 2 (0.97%) DNS
2 2 (0.97%) DSL
3 1 (0.48%) Broadband
3 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.76%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.90%) DB2
3 6 (2.90%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.93%) InfluxDB
4 4 (1.93%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.93%) Redis
4 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.45%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.45%) Tableau
6 2 (0.97%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.97%) MySQL
7 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.48%) MS Access
7 1 (0.48%) Power BI
7 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.48%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 75 (36.23%) Cypress.io
2 56 (27.05%) JIRA
3 53 (25.60%) Postman
4 47 (22.71%) Jenkins
5 34 (16.43%) WebDriver
6 30 (14.49%) Git
7 29 (14.01%) JMeter
8 24 (11.59%) GitLab
8 24 (11.59%) REST Assured
9 23 (11.11%) SoapUI
10 21 (10.14%) Cucumber
11 18 (8.70%) SpecFlow
11 18 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (6.28%) SonarQube
13 12 (5.80%) JUnit
14 10 (4.83%) Bitbucket
14 10 (4.83%) Gatling
14 10 (4.83%) Robot Framework
14 10 (4.83%) TestRail
15 9 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 55 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.81%) Finance
3 24 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.86%) Advertising
5 8 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.90%) Banking
7 5 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.42%) Retail
8 3 (1.45%) Aviation
8 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.97%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.97%) Electronics
9 2 (0.97%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (27.54%) Lead
2 37 (17.87%) Test Engineer
3 31 (14.98%) Senior
4 29 (14.01%) QA Engineer
5 28 (13.53%) Test Leader
6 27 (13.04%) Tester
7 19 (9.18%) QA Leader
7 19 (9.18%) Test Automation Engineer
8 18 (8.70%) Analyst
9 17 (8.21%) Automation Tester
9 17 (8.21%) Developer
10 14 (6.76%) Test Analyst
11 10 (4.83%) QA Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.35%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (3.86%) Automation Test Lead
13 8 (3.86%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.38%) Java Developer
14 7 (3.38%) Test Manager
15 6 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (46.86%) Playwright
2 39 (18.84%) .NET
2 39 (18.84%) HTML
3 21 (10.14%) SOAP
4 19 (9.18%) REST
5 16 (7.73%) React
6 13 (6.28%) CSS
6 13 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (5.31%) Node.js
7 11 (5.31%) RESTful
8 10 (4.83%) Gherkin
8 10 (4.83%) Spring Boot
8 10 (4.83%) XML
9 8 (3.86%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.86%) Puppeteer
9 8 (3.86%) Web Services
10 7 (3.38%) JSON
10 7 (3.38%) Kafka
10 7 (3.38%) pytest
10 7 (3.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.14%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.86%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.45%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.45%) NHS
6 3 (1.45%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.97%) FMCG
7 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.97%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.48%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.25%) Linux
2 7 (3.38%) Unix
2 7 (3.38%) Windows
3 4 (1.93%) CentOS
3 4 (1.93%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (73.91%) Test Automation
2 115 (55.56%) Agile
3 100 (48.31%) CI/CD
4 85 (41.06%) DevOps
5 64 (30.92%) Software Testing
6 53 (25.60%) API Testing
6 53 (25.60%) Scrum
6 53 (25.60%) Test Strategy
7 45 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (20.29%) Mentoring
9 41 (19.81%) Non-Functional Testing
10 38 (18.36%) Test Management
11 37 (17.87%) BDD
11 37 (17.87%) Manual Testing
12 35 (16.91%) User Acceptance Testing
13 34 (16.43%) SDLC
14 33 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (15.94%) Regression Testing
14 33 (15.94%) Test Scripting
15 29 (14.01%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 94 (45.41%) Java
2 58 (28.02%) C#
2 58 (28.02%) SQL
3 49 (23.67%) Python
4 37 (17.87%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.53%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.35%) Bash
7 5 (2.42%) Groovy
8 4 (1.93%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.45%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.97%) Bicep
10 2 (0.97%) C++
10 2 (0.97%) PHP
10 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.97%) RPG
10 2 (0.97%) Scala
11 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.48%) JCL
11 1 (0.48%) Perl
11 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (22.22%) Degree
2 43 (20.77%) ISTQB
3 24 (11.59%) Security Cleared
4 19 (9.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 18 (8.70%) SC Cleared
6 13 (6.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.90%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.42%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.45%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (48.79%) QA
2 42 (20.29%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.97%) WCAG
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (16.43%) Docker
2 5 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) Firmware
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.73%) Terraform
3 12 (5.80%) Grafana
4 9 (4.35%) Ansible
4 9 (4.35%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.38%) Kibana
6 6 (2.90%) logstash
7 4 (1.93%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.45%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.45%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.97%) MIIS
9 2 (0.97%) Packer
10 1 (0.48%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (5.80%) Microsoft
1 12 (5.80%) Oracle
2 10 (4.83%) Google
3 7 (3.38%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.38%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.38%) Splunk
4 4 (1.93%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.93%) Veracode
4 4 (1.93%) VMware
5 3 (1.45%) Black Duck
5 3 (1.45%) Coverity
5 3 (1.45%) HP
5 3 (1.45%) IBM
6 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.97%) YouTube
7 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.48%) Concur
7 1 (0.48%) eFront
7 1 (0.48%) New Relic