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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 285 387
Rank change year-on-year -225 +102 -182
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 218 477 641
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 1.09% 0.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.23% 11.04% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 179 223 472
10th Percentile £40,700 £41,250 £38,075
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% - -2.83%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%

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 4,171 4,319 9,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 9.89% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,731 2,956 6,759
10th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,977 £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 £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% +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 7 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 7 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 -185 204 £60,000 - 58
UK excluding London -228 125 £52,500 -8.70% 53
Work from Home -152 86 £53,500 -10.83% 31
London -12 81 £67,500 +3.85% 18
South East -34 41 £51,000 -15.00% 9
South West -39 31 £47,500 -20.83% 9
Midlands -100 21 £50,000 -20.00% 9
North of England -138 20 £61,500 +11.82% 10
West Midlands -52 19 £50,000 -25.93% 6
Yorkshire -58 9 £59,250 -8.71% 4
North West -94 8 £55,500 +0.91% 5
Wales -24 7 £52,000 -15.79% 4
East of England -33 5 £62,500 +17.92% 7
North East -29 3 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East Midlands -81 2 £60,000 - 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 20 (9.17%) Confluence
2 3 (1.38%) JBoss
3 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.46%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (29.82%) Azure
2 51 (23.39%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (19.27%) AWS
4 16 (7.34%) GitHub
5 14 (6.42%) BrowserStack
6 7 (3.21%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.75%) OpenShift
7 6 (2.75%) SaaS
7 6 (2.75%) Tricentis Tosca
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.29%) Apigee
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.83%) GCP
9 4 (1.83%) Serverless
10 3 (1.38%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.75%) HTTP
2 2 (0.92%) DNS
2 2 (0.92%) DSL
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.59%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.13%) DB2
5 6 (2.75%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.83%) InfluxDB
6 4 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.83%) Redis
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.38%) Tableau
8 2 (0.92%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.92%) MySQL
9 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.46%) MS Access
9 1 (0.46%) Power BI
9 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.46%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 75 (34.40%) Cypress.io
2 58 (26.61%) Postman
3 57 (26.15%) JIRA
4 49 (22.48%) Jenkins
5 35 (16.06%) WebDriver
6 30 (13.76%) Git
7 29 (13.30%) Cucumber
7 29 (13.30%) JMeter
8 27 (12.39%) GitLab
8 27 (12.39%) SoapUI
9 23 (10.55%) REST Assured
10 18 (8.26%) SpecFlow
10 18 (8.26%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (5.96%) Bitbucket
11 13 (5.96%) JUnit
11 13 (5.96%) SonarQube
12 12 (5.50%) TestRail
13 11 (5.05%) TeamCity
14 10 (4.59%) Robot Framework
15 9 (4.13%) Gatling
General
1 65 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.10%) Finance
3 26 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.05%) Banking
4 11 (5.05%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.67%) Advertising
5 8 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.29%) Retail
7 3 (1.38%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.38%) Aviation
7 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Back Office
8 2 (0.92%) Electronics
8 2 (0.92%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.92%) Law
8 2 (0.92%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (27.06%) Lead
2 34 (15.60%) QA Engineer
3 33 (15.14%) Test Engineer
4 31 (14.22%) Senior
5 29 (13.30%) Test Leader
5 29 (13.30%) Tester
6 22 (10.09%) QA Leader
7 20 (9.17%) Analyst
7 20 (9.17%) Developer
7 20 (9.17%) Test Automation Engineer
8 17 (7.80%) Automation Tester
9 15 (6.88%) Test Analyst
10 14 (6.42%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (6.42%) QA Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Java Developer
12 9 (4.13%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (3.67%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.21%) Automation Test Lead
14 7 (3.21%) QA Analyst
14 7 (3.21%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (44.04%) Playwright
2 43 (19.72%) HTML
3 42 (19.27%) .NET
4 24 (11.01%) SOAP
5 23 (10.55%) REST
6 21 (9.63%) React
7 19 (8.72%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (7.80%) CSS
9 14 (6.42%) Node.js
9 14 (6.42%) RESTful
10 13 (5.96%) Gherkin
11 12 (5.50%) pytest
11 12 (5.50%) Spring Boot
12 10 (4.59%) XML
13 9 (4.13%) AngularJS
13 9 (4.13%) Spring
14 8 (3.67%) Puppeteer
14 8 (3.67%) Web Services
15 7 (3.21%) Kafka
16 6 (2.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.55%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.88%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.05%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.38%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.92%) Derivative
7 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.92%) Equities
7 2 (0.92%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.92%) FMCG
7 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.80%) Linux
2 9 (4.13%) Windows
3 7 (3.21%) Unix
4 4 (1.83%) CentOS
4 4 (1.83%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (74.31%) Test Automation
2 116 (53.21%) Agile
3 104 (47.71%) CI/CD
4 84 (38.53%) DevOps
5 67 (30.73%) Software Testing
6 58 (26.61%) API Testing
7 53 (24.31%) Scrum
8 50 (22.94%) Test Strategy
9 43 (19.72%) Mentoring
9 43 (19.72%) Non-Functional Testing
10 42 (19.27%) Test Management
11 41 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (18.35%) BDD
13 38 (17.43%) SDLC
14 37 (16.97%) Manual Testing
15 35 (16.06%) Regression Testing
16 34 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (15.14%) Test Scripting
18 31 (14.22%) User Acceptance Testing
19 30 (13.76%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (47.71%) Java
2 67 (30.73%) SQL
3 63 (28.90%) C#
4 57 (26.15%) Python
5 44 (20.18%) JavaScript
6 30 (13.76%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.59%) Bash
8 5 (2.29%) Groovy
8 5 (2.29%) PHP
9 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.38%) Go
10 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.92%) Bicep
11 2 (0.92%) C++
11 2 (0.92%) Delphi
11 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.92%) RPG
12 1 (0.46%) JCL
12 1 (0.46%) Perl
12 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (21.56%) Degree
2 45 (20.64%) ISTQB
3 23 (10.55%) Security Cleared
4 20 (9.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 16 (7.34%) SC Cleared
6 15 (6.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.21%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.29%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (48.62%) QA
2 35 (16.06%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.38%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.92%) GDPR
5 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.92%) WCAG
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (17.43%) Docker
2 5 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) Firmware
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 27 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.26%) Terraform
3 15 (6.88%) Grafana
4 9 (4.13%) Ansible
4 9 (4.13%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.21%) Kibana
6 6 (2.75%) logstash
7 4 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.83%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.38%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.92%) MIIS
9 2 (0.92%) Packer
10 1 (0.46%) Argo
10 1 (0.46%) Nessus
Vendors
1 14 (6.42%) Oracle
2 11 (5.05%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.59%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.59%) Google
4 7 (3.21%) Splunk
5 6 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.83%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.83%) Veracode
6 4 (1.83%) VMware
7 3 (1.38%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.38%) Coverity
7 3 (1.38%) HP
7 3 (1.38%) IBM
8 2 (0.92%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.92%) SAP
9 1 (0.46%) Concur
9 1 (0.46%) eFront
9 1 (0.46%) New Relic
9 1 (0.46%) Pega