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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 275 400
Rank change year-on-year -244 +125 -203
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 210 508 622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 1.15% 0.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.02% 11.91% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 172 223 457
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% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £70,313 £71,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.57% - +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 4,181 4,265 9,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 9.65% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 2,870 6,648
10th Percentile £32,525 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
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 18 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 18 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 -210 190 £59,500 -0.83% 53
UK excluding London -237 120 £52,000 -9.57% 48
Work from Home -149 82 £53,500 -10.83% 36
London -20 74 £67,500 +3.85% 10
South East -26 40 £51,000 -15.00% 7
South West -48 30 £47,500 -24.00% 3
Midlands -114 18 £50,000 -20.00% 13
North of England -150 18 £65,000 +17.12% 15
West Midlands -54 17 £50,000 -25.93% 9
Yorkshire -45 9 £59,250 -8.71% 4
Wales -24 8 £46,500 -24.70% 1
East of England -39 6 £62,500 +17.92% 4
North West -98 6 £55,500 +0.91% 8
North East -39 3 £65,000 +18.18% 3
East Midlands -82 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 20 (9.52%) Confluence
2 3 (1.43%) JBoss
3 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.43%) Azure
2 53 (25.24%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (19.05%) AWS
4 15 (7.14%) BrowserStack
5 14 (6.67%) GitHub
6 7 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.33%) Tricentis Tosca
7 6 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.38%) Apigee
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.90%) GCP
9 4 (1.90%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.90%) SaaS
9 4 (1.90%) Serverless
10 3 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.43%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.86%) HTTP
2 2 (0.95%) DNS
2 2 (0.95%) DSL
3 1 (0.48%) Broadband
3 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.33%) DB2
4 6 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.90%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.90%) Redis
5 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.43%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.43%) Tableau
7 2 (0.95%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.95%) MySQL
8 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.48%) MS Access
8 1 (0.48%) Power BI
8 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.48%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 76 (36.19%) Cypress.io
2 55 (26.19%) JIRA
3 52 (24.76%) Postman
4 48 (22.86%) Jenkins
5 34 (16.19%) WebDriver
6 30 (14.29%) Git
7 29 (13.81%) JMeter
8 23 (10.95%) GitLab
8 23 (10.95%) REST Assured
8 23 (10.95%) SoapUI
9 22 (10.48%) Cucumber
10 18 (8.57%) SpecFlow
10 18 (8.57%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (6.19%) SonarQube
12 12 (5.71%) JUnit
13 11 (5.24%) Bitbucket
13 11 (5.24%) Gatling
13 11 (5.24%) TestRail
14 10 (4.76%) Robot Framework
15 9 (4.29%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.48%) Finance
3 26 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.81%) Advertising
5 8 (3.81%) Banking
5 8 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.38%) Retail
7 3 (1.43%) Aviation
7 3 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.95%) Electronics
8 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.95%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Back Office
9 1 (0.48%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (27.14%) Lead
2 38 (18.10%) Test Engineer
3 31 (14.76%) Senior
4 30 (14.29%) QA Engineer
5 28 (13.33%) Test Leader
6 26 (12.38%) Tester
7 20 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
8 19 (9.05%) Analyst
8 19 (9.05%) QA Leader
9 18 (8.57%) Developer
10 16 (7.62%) Automation Tester
11 14 (6.67%) Test Analyst
12 10 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.29%) Senior Test Engineer
14 8 (3.81%) Automation Test Lead
14 8 (3.81%) Java Developer
14 8 (3.81%) Web Engineer
15 7 (3.33%) Senior QA Engineer
15 7 (3.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (46.67%) Playwright
2 40 (19.05%) .NET
2 40 (19.05%) HTML
3 21 (10.00%) SOAP
4 20 (9.52%) REST
5 17 (8.10%) React
6 14 (6.67%) CSS
6 14 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (5.71%) Node.js
7 12 (5.71%) RESTful
8 11 (5.24%) Gherkin
9 10 (4.76%) Spring Boot
9 10 (4.76%) XML
10 8 (3.81%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.81%) Puppeteer
10 8 (3.81%) Web Services
11 7 (3.33%) JSON
11 7 (3.33%) Kafka
11 7 (3.33%) pytest
11 7 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.19%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.43%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.43%) NHS
6 3 (1.43%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.95%) FMCG
7 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.48%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.62%) Linux
2 8 (3.81%) Windows
3 7 (3.33%) Unix
4 4 (1.90%) CentOS
4 4 (1.90%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (74.29%) Test Automation
2 115 (54.76%) Agile
3 102 (48.57%) CI/CD
4 84 (40.00%) DevOps
5 64 (30.48%) Software Testing
6 54 (25.71%) API Testing
7 53 (25.24%) Test Strategy
8 52 (24.76%) Scrum
9 43 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
11 41 (19.52%) Mentoring
12 39 (18.57%) Test Management
13 38 (18.10%) BDD
14 37 (17.62%) Manual Testing
15 35 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (16.19%) SDLC
16 34 (16.19%) User Acceptance Testing
17 33 (15.71%) Regression Testing
18 32 (15.24%) Test Scripting
19 30 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 97 (46.19%) Java
2 60 (28.57%) C#
2 60 (28.57%) SQL
3 52 (24.76%) Python
4 40 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.81%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.29%) Bash
7 5 (2.38%) Groovy
8 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.95%) Bicep
10 2 (0.95%) C++
10 2 (0.95%) PHP
10 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.95%) RPG
10 2 (0.95%) 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 47 (22.38%) Degree
2 44 (20.95%) ISTQB
3 23 (10.95%) Security Cleared
4 19 (9.05%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 17 (8.10%) SC Cleared
6 15 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.33%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.38%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.95%) ISEB
13 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (48.57%) QA
2 41 (19.52%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.43%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.95%) WCAG
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) Firmware
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.62%) Terraform
3 12 (5.71%) Grafana
4 9 (4.29%) Ansible
4 9 (4.29%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.33%) Kibana
6 6 (2.86%) logstash
7 4 (1.90%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.43%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.95%) MIIS
9 2 (0.95%) Packer
10 1 (0.48%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (5.71%) Microsoft
1 12 (5.71%) Oracle
2 10 (4.76%) Google
3 8 (3.81%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.33%) Splunk
5 6 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.90%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.90%) Veracode
6 4 (1.90%) VMware
7 3 (1.43%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.43%) Coverity
7 3 (1.43%) HP
7 3 (1.43%) IBM
8 2 (0.95%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) YouTube
9 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.48%) Concur
9 1 (0.48%) eFront
9 1 (0.48%) New Relic