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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 292 414
Rank change year-on-year -282 +122 -229
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 176 488 609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 1.03% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.12% 11.71% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 137 199 410
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £77,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 4,273 4,166 9,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.42% 8.82% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,824 2,634 6,362
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,850 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -250 149 £59,500 -0.83% 68
UK excluding London -270 105 £55,000 -4.35% 54
Work from Home -204 58 £57,500 - 32
London -47 53 £70,000 +16.67% 23
South West -59 27 £55,000 -18.52% 8
South East -35 24 £57,500 -4.17% 15
Midlands -94 19 £50,000 -25.93% 8
West Midlands -52 18 £50,000 -25.93% 4
North of England -150 17 £57,500 +2.68% 14
Wales -35 10 £49,750 -12.72% 2
North West -112 8 £57,500 - 8
East of England -36 6 £62,500 +17.92% 3
Yorkshire -41 6 £59,038 +1.97% 2
North East -50 3 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Scotland -38 2 £48,500 -3.00% 2
East Midlands -57 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 15 (8.52%) Confluence
2 3 (1.70%) JBoss
3 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.20%) Azure
2 54 (30.68%) AWS
3 48 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (10.80%) GitHub
5 17 (9.66%) BrowserStack
6 13 (7.39%) Serverless
7 11 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.11%) GCP
8 9 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
10 6 (3.41%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.41%) SaaS
11 5 (2.84%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.27%) BlazeMeter
13 3 (1.70%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (1.70%) Apigee
13 3 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.70%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (1.70%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.70%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) HTTP
2 3 (1.70%) DSL
3 1 (0.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 8 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.98%) DynamoDB
2 7 (3.98%) Redis
3 6 (3.41%) InfluxDB
3 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.27%) MySQL
5 4 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.70%) Tableau
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.57%) Db2
7 1 (0.57%) Power BI
7 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.57%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 71 (40.34%) Cypress.io
2 45 (25.57%) Jenkins
3 41 (23.30%) Postman
4 40 (22.73%) Git
5 39 (22.16%) JIRA
6 32 (18.18%) JMeter
7 29 (16.48%) REST Assured
8 28 (15.91%) GitLab
9 22 (12.50%) Cucumber
10 16 (9.09%) JUnit
10 16 (9.09%) SpecFlow
11 13 (7.39%) Gatling
11 13 (7.39%) TestRail
11 13 (7.39%) WebDriver
12 12 (6.82%) Zephyr
13 9 (5.11%) SonarQube
14 8 (4.55%) Appium
14 8 (4.55%) Robot Framework
14 8 (4.55%) SoapUI
15 7 (3.98%) LoadRunner
General
1 35 (19.89%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.18%) Finance
3 22 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.41%) Advertising
8 3 (1.70%) Aviation
8 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.14%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.57%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 41 (23.30%) Lead
2 35 (19.89%) Senior
3 34 (19.32%) Test Engineer
4 30 (17.05%) QA Engineer
5 20 (11.36%) Test Leader
6 19 (10.80%) QA Leader
7 18 (10.23%) Tester
8 17 (9.66%) Test Automation Engineer
9 14 (7.95%) Developer
10 12 (6.82%) Analyst
11 11 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Automation Tester
11 11 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Java Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.11%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.98%) Senior QA Engineer
14 7 (3.98%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (55.68%) Playwright
2 22 (12.50%) HTML
3 20 (11.36%) .NET
4 18 (10.23%) REST
5 16 (9.09%) React
5 16 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 15 (8.52%) Node.js
7 13 (7.39%) CSS
8 12 (6.82%) Spring
9 10 (5.68%) Kafka
9 10 (5.68%) XML
10 8 (4.55%) Jest
10 8 (4.55%) Puppeteer
10 8 (4.55%) pytest
10 8 (4.55%) RESTful
11 7 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (3.98%) JSON
12 6 (3.41%) Gherkin
12 6 (3.41%) SailPoint
12 6 (3.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.20%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.95%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.27%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.70%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.70%) NHS
7 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.14%) FMCG
8 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.57%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.95%) Linux
2 8 (4.55%) Unix
2 8 (4.55%) Windows
3 6 (3.41%) CentOS
4 4 (2.27%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (77.27%) Test Automation
2 104 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 100 (56.82%) Agile
4 79 (44.89%) DevOps
5 57 (32.39%) Test Strategy
6 52 (29.55%) Software Testing
7 45 (25.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.02%) Manual Testing
8 37 (21.02%) Regression Testing
9 36 (20.45%) API Testing
10 35 (19.89%) Mentoring
11 34 (19.32%) SDLC
11 34 (19.32%) User Acceptance Testing
12 33 (18.75%) AI
13 32 (18.18%) Scrum
14 31 (17.61%) BDD
15 28 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (15.34%) Non-Functional Testing
17 26 (14.77%) QA Automation
18 25 (14.20%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 77 (43.75%) Java
2 50 (28.41%) Python
3 36 (20.45%) C#
4 35 (19.89%) JavaScript
5 33 (18.75%) SQL
6 26 (14.77%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.11%) Bash
8 6 (3.41%) Groovy
8 6 (3.41%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.84%) Ruby
9 5 (2.84%) Scala
10 2 (1.14%) Bicep
10 2 (1.14%) C++
10 2 (1.14%) PHP
10 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.57%) JCL
11 1 (0.57%) Perl
11 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (18.18%) ISTQB
2 30 (17.05%) Security Cleared
3 27 (15.34%) Degree
4 23 (13.07%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.41%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.70%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (53.41%) QA
2 49 (27.84%) Accessibility
3 11 (6.25%) WCAG
4 5 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.27%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.70%) GDPR
7 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (21.02%) Docker
2 6 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 24 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.66%) Terraform
3 11 (6.25%) Grafana
4 9 (5.11%) Ansible
4 9 (5.11%) Kibana
5 8 (4.55%) logstash
6 7 (3.98%) HP Fortify
7 6 (3.41%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.70%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.70%) Packer
9 2 (1.14%) MIIS
10 1 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (7.39%) Oracle
2 10 (5.68%) Splunk
3 8 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.98%) Google
5 6 (3.41%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.41%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.41%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.41%) VMware
6 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.27%) Veracode
7 3 (1.70%) HP
7 3 (1.70%) YouTube
8 2 (1.14%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.57%) eFront
9 1 (0.57%) Pega
9 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.57%) SAP