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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 283 419
Rank change year-on-year -283 +136 -228
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 187 484 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 1.08% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.40% 11.76% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 148 195 414
10th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £36,475
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -1.64%
75th Percentile £69,042 £71,250 £80,000
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 4,249 4,116 9,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.51% 9.15% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,815 2,606 6,491
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,001 £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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -237 164 £59,500 -0.83% 28
UK excluding London -265 110 £55,000 -4.35% 26
Work from Home -185 66 £57,500 - 11
London -27 60 £66,250 +5.58% 8
South East -29 30 £52,500 -12.50% 7
South West -52 29 £51,250 -24.07% 1
Midlands -93 19 £50,000 -25.93% 5
West Midlands -55 18 £50,000 -25.93% 4
North of England -148 17 £57,500 +4.55% 9
Wales -46 8 £49,750 -12.72%
North West -102 8 £56,750 +3.18% 4
East of England -37 6 £62,500 +17.92%
Yorkshire -44 6 £59,038 +1.97% 2
North East -49 3 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Scotland -52 1 £48,500 -7.62% 3
East Midlands -68 1 - - 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 16 (8.56%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) JBoss
3 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (37.97%) Azure
2 55 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (25.67%) AWS
4 21 (11.23%) GitHub
5 16 (8.56%) BrowserStack
6 10 (5.35%) Serverless
7 8 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.74%) GCP
8 7 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.74%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.74%) Tricentis Tosca
9 6 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.67%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.67%) SaaS
11 4 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.60%) Apigee
12 3 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.60%) IaaS
12 3 (1.60%) PaaS
12 3 (1.60%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.21%) HTTP
2 3 (1.60%) DSL
3 1 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.35%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.74%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.21%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.21%) Redis
4 5 (2.67%) InfluxDB
4 5 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.14%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.14%) MySQL
5 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.60%) Tableau
7 2 (1.07%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.53%) Db2
8 1 (0.53%) Power BI
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 78 (41.71%) Cypress.io
2 49 (26.20%) Postman
3 46 (24.60%) JIRA
4 43 (22.99%) Jenkins
5 37 (19.79%) Git
6 31 (16.58%) JMeter
7 28 (14.97%) GitLab
7 28 (14.97%) REST Assured
8 20 (10.70%) Cucumber
9 18 (9.63%) WebDriver
10 17 (9.09%) JUnit
11 16 (8.56%) SpecFlow
12 14 (7.49%) Gatling
13 12 (6.42%) SoapUI
14 11 (5.88%) TestRail
15 10 (5.35%) SonarQube
16 9 (4.81%) TestNG
16 9 (4.81%) Zephyr
17 8 (4.28%) Maven
17 8 (4.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.25%) Finance
3 19 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.16%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.21%) Advertising
5 6 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Aviation
6 3 (1.60%) Retail
7 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.07%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Banking
8 1 (0.53%) Marketing
8 1 (0.53%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 43 (22.99%) Lead
2 34 (18.18%) Senior
2 34 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 28 (14.97%) QA Engineer
4 24 (12.83%) Tester
5 23 (12.30%) Test Leader
6 19 (10.16%) QA Leader
7 16 (8.56%) Test Automation Engineer
8 15 (8.02%) Automation Tester
9 13 (6.95%) Developer
10 12 (6.42%) Analyst
11 10 (5.35%) QA Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.81%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.81%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Java Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.74%) Senior Developer
14 7 (3.74%) Test Analyst
14 7 (3.74%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (52.94%) Playwright
2 27 (14.44%) .NET
3 26 (13.90%) HTML
4 19 (10.16%) REST
5 14 (7.49%) React
5 14 (7.49%) Spring Boot
6 13 (6.95%) Node.js
7 12 (6.42%) CSS
8 10 (5.35%) SOAP
8 10 (5.35%) Spring
8 10 (5.35%) XML
9 8 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (4.28%) Kafka
9 8 (4.28%) Puppeteer
10 7 (3.74%) Jest
10 7 (3.74%) JSON
10 7 (3.74%) pytest
10 7 (3.74%) RESTful
10 7 (3.74%) Swagger
11 6 (3.21%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.23%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.60%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.60%) NHS
6 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.07%) FMCG
7 2 (1.07%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.07%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.95%) Linux
2 8 (4.28%) Unix
3 7 (3.74%) Windows
4 5 (2.67%) CentOS
5 4 (2.14%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (75.94%) Test Automation
2 104 (55.61%) Agile
3 100 (53.48%) CI/CD
4 84 (44.92%) DevOps
5 60 (32.09%) Test Strategy
6 57 (30.48%) Software Testing
7 46 (24.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (23.53%) API Testing
9 40 (21.39%) User Acceptance Testing
10 37 (19.79%) Manual Testing
10 37 (19.79%) Regression Testing
11 36 (19.25%) Mentoring
12 35 (18.72%) Scrum
12 35 (18.72%) SDLC
13 30 (16.04%) AI
13 30 (16.04%) Non-Functional Testing
14 29 (15.51%) BDD
15 27 (14.44%) Performance Testing
15 27 (14.44%) QA Automation
15 27 (14.44%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (44.39%) Java
2 52 (27.81%) Python
3 44 (23.53%) C#
4 41 (21.93%) SQL
5 34 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 26 (13.90%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.35%) Bash
8 6 (3.21%) Groovy
9 5 (2.67%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.67%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.14%) Scala
11 3 (1.60%) Ruby
12 2 (1.07%) Bicep
12 2 (1.07%) C++
12 2 (1.07%) PHP
12 2 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.53%) JCL
13 1 (0.53%) Perl
13 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (20.86%) ISTQB
2 33 (17.65%) Degree
3 28 (14.97%) Security Cleared
4 22 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 15 (8.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 11 (5.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.21%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.53%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (53.48%) QA
2 49 (26.20%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.81%) WCAG
4 5 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.14%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.07%) GDPR
6 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (19.79%) Docker
2 5 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.49%) Terraform
3 12 (6.42%) Grafana
4 8 (4.28%) Ansible
4 8 (4.28%) Kibana
5 7 (3.74%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.74%) logstash
6 5 (2.67%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.60%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.60%) Packer
8 2 (1.07%) MIIS
8 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.53%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (7.49%) Oracle
2 10 (5.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.35%) Splunk
3 9 (4.81%) Google
4 7 (3.74%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.67%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.67%) VMware
6 4 (2.14%) Veracode
7 3 (1.60%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.60%) HP
8 2 (1.07%) YouTube
9 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.53%) eFront
9 1 (0.53%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce