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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 302 409
Rank change year-on-year -285 +107 -155
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 200 481 476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.96% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.37% 12.02% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 144 188 309
10th Percentile £39,830 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.02% +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 4,003 7,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.26% 8.02% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,963 2,474 4,489
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 20 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 20 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 -264 173 £57,500 - 74
UK excluding London -282 128 £53,750 -4.02% 54
Work from Home -226 65 £55,000 - 33
London -58 61 £70,000 +21.74% 33
Midlands -85 29 £47,500 -26.92% 12
West Midlands -43 28 £47,500 -24.00% 12
South West -61 27 £50,000 -9.09% 5
South East -43 26 £55,000 -6.38% 15
North of England -155 17 £65,000 +17.12% 11
Wales -51 15 £47,500 -16.67%
East of England -40 12 £55,000 +3.77% 5
North West -119 8 £61,250 +11.36% 7
Yorkshire -37 6 £50,000 -10.71% 2
North East -62 3 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Scotland -54 2 £48,500 -3.00% 2
East Midlands -71 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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 3 (1.50%) JBoss
2 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Moqups
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 85 (42.50%) Azure
2 78 (39.00%) AWS
3 49 (24.50%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.50%) GitHub
5 14 (7.00%) BrowserStack
5 14 (7.00%) GCP
5 14 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (7.00%) Serverless
6 13 (6.50%) SaaS
7 12 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.00%) OpenShift
8 10 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
9 5 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.50%) Figma
10 4 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.00%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (1.50%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.50%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
2 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.50%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.00%) Redis
3 8 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.50%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.00%) InfluxDB
5 6 (3.00%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.00%) MySQL
5 6 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.00%) ZAP BI
7 3 (1.50%) Tableau
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.50%) Db2
Development Applications
1 71 (35.50%) Cypress.io
2 58 (29.00%) Jenkins
3 57 (28.50%) Postman
4 55 (27.50%) Git
5 51 (25.50%) JIRA
6 39 (19.50%) GitLab
7 34 (17.00%) JMeter
8 32 (16.00%) Cucumber
9 28 (14.00%) REST Assured
10 27 (13.50%) JUnit
11 21 (10.50%) Gatling
12 19 (9.50%) Zephyr
13 14 (7.00%) TestRail
14 13 (6.50%) SonarQube
14 13 (6.50%) SpecFlow
15 12 (6.00%) NUnit
16 9 (4.50%) LoadRunner
16 9 (4.50%) Robot Framework
16 9 (4.50%) SoapUI
17 8 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 46 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.50%) Finance
3 31 (15.50%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Aviation
7 7 (3.50%) Retail
8 5 (2.50%) Advertising
9 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Military
9 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.00%) Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Front Office
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.50%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 53 (26.50%) Senior
2 34 (17.00%) Lead
2 34 (17.00%) Test Engineer
3 29 (14.50%) QA Engineer
4 20 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 20 (10.00%) Tester
5 19 (9.50%) Developer
6 18 (9.00%) Test Leader
7 17 (8.50%) Analyst
8 14 (7.00%) Java Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) QA Leader
9 13 (6.50%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.00%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Test Analyst
11 11 (5.50%) Junior
12 10 (5.00%) Automation Tester
12 10 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
13 9 (4.50%) Automation Test Analyst
13 9 (4.50%) QA Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.50%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (51.50%) Playwright
2 28 (14.00%) React
3 26 (13.00%) .NET
3 26 (13.00%) REST
3 26 (13.00%) Terraform
4 21 (10.50%) HTML
5 20 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 19 (9.50%) Spring
7 18 (9.00%) RESTful
8 17 (8.50%) CSS
8 17 (8.50%) JSON
8 17 (8.50%) Node.js
9 15 (7.50%) Kafka
10 14 (7.00%) Jest
11 11 (5.50%) pytest
12 10 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (5.00%) XML
13 7 (3.50%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.50%) Gherkin
13 7 (3.50%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.50%) Product Ownership
2 21 (10.50%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.50%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.50%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.00%) Mainframe
7 6 (3.00%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.00%) IoT
10 3 (1.50%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.50%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.50%) NHS
10 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.00%) FMCG
12 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.50%) Linux
2 13 (6.50%) Windows
3 6 (3.00%) CentOS
4 5 (2.50%) Kali Linux
5 4 (2.00%) Unix
6 3 (1.50%) AIX
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (79.50%) Test Automation
2 128 (64.00%) Agile
3 127 (63.50%) CI/CD
4 92 (46.00%) DevOps
5 67 (33.50%) Software Testing
6 58 (29.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (28.00%) Test Strategy
8 53 (26.50%) Mentoring
9 49 (24.50%) Manual Testing
10 44 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (20.00%) AI
11 40 (20.00%) SDLC
11 40 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
12 39 (19.50%) API Testing
13 38 (19.00%) BDD
14 35 (17.50%) Scrum
15 34 (17.00%) Regression Testing
16 32 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
17 28 (14.00%) Validation
18 27 (13.50%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 86 (43.00%) Java
2 56 (28.00%) Python
3 44 (22.00%) C#
4 34 (17.00%) JavaScript
5 33 (16.50%) SQL
6 17 (8.50%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.50%) Bash
8 7 (3.50%) Ruby
9 6 (3.00%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.50%) Groovy
10 5 (2.50%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.50%) Scala
11 4 (2.00%) PHP
12 3 (1.50%) Go
13 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 2 (1.00%) C++
14 1 (0.50%) JCL
14 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (17.50%) ISTQB
1 35 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.50%) Degree
3 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 6 (3.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 6 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.50%) ISEB
7 3 (1.50%) OCP
7 3 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (48.50%) QA
2 46 (23.00%) Accessibility
3 23 (11.50%) WCAG
4 4 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.00%) GDPR
4 4 (2.00%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.50%) NIST
5 3 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (23.50%) Docker
2 6 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.00%) Grafana
3 9 (4.50%) Ansible
3 9 (4.50%) Kibana
4 8 (4.00%) logstash
5 7 (3.50%) HP Fortify
6 6 (3.00%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.50%) HP ALM
9 2 (1.00%) MIIS
10 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.50%) Control-M
10 1 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.50%) Nagios
10 1 (0.50%) Packer
10 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.50%) Puppet
10 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (6.00%) Splunk
2 11 (5.50%) Oracle
3 10 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.50%) Google
5 7 (3.50%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.50%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.00%) Pega
6 6 (3.00%) SAP
6 6 (3.00%) VMware
7 5 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.50%) Veracode
8 4 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.00%) YouTube
9 3 (1.50%) HP
9 3 (1.50%) OneLogin
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
11 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.50%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.50%) NCR
11 1 (0.50%) Tradeweb