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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 293 413
Rank change year-on-year -283 +120 -232
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 185 489 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 1.00% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.24% 11.59% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 144 201 415
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,625 £71,250 £75,500
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 4,359 4,218 9,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.46% 8.66% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,884 2,677 6,251
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,875 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,198 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 9 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 9 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 -246 156 £57,500 -4.17% 78
UK excluding London -271 114 £55,000 -4.35% 68
Work from Home -213 62 £56,750 -1.30% 33
London -40 53 £70,000 +21.74% 28
South West -51 28 £55,000 -18.52% 7
South East -48 25 £55,000 -8.33% 19
Midlands -99 20 £50,000 -25.93% 11
West Midlands -53 19 £50,000 -25.93% 7
North of England -153 17 £57,500 +2.68% 18
Wales -41 12 £49,750 -12.72%
East of England -37 10 £55,000 +3.77% 6
North West -112 8 £57,500 - 10
Yorkshire -42 6 £59,038 +1.97% 3
North East -46 3 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Scotland -43 2 £48,500 -3.00% 2
East Midlands -70 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 17 (9.19%) Confluence
2 3 (1.62%) JBoss
3 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.38%) Azure
2 58 (31.35%) AWS
3 50 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (10.81%) GitHub
5 17 (9.19%) BrowserStack
6 15 (8.11%) Serverless
7 13 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.86%) GCP
10 8 (4.32%) Tricentis Tosca
11 7 (3.78%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.24%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.24%) SaaS
13 4 (2.16%) BlazeMeter
14 3 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.62%) AWS Control Tower
14 3 (1.62%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (1.62%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.62%) Sauce Labs
14 3 (1.62%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.24%) HTTP
2 3 (1.62%) DSL
3 1 (0.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.32%) DynamoDB
1 8 (4.32%) NoSQL
1 8 (4.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.78%) InfluxDB
2 7 (3.78%) Redis
3 6 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.16%) MySQL
5 4 (2.16%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.62%) Tableau
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) Db2
7 1 (0.54%) Power BI
7 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.54%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 76 (41.08%) Cypress.io
2 49 (26.49%) Jenkins
3 43 (23.24%) Git
4 42 (22.70%) Postman
5 41 (22.16%) JIRA
6 33 (17.84%) JMeter
7 31 (16.76%) GitLab
8 30 (16.22%) REST Assured
9 23 (12.43%) Cucumber
10 18 (9.73%) JUnit
11 17 (9.19%) SpecFlow
12 15 (8.11%) TestRail
13 14 (7.57%) Zephyr
14 13 (7.03%) Gatling
15 12 (6.49%) WebDriver
16 9 (4.86%) Robot Framework
16 9 (4.86%) SonarQube
17 8 (4.32%) Appium
17 8 (4.32%) SoapUI
18 7 (3.78%) LoadRunner
General
1 35 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.76%) Finance
3 25 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 21 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.24%) Advertising
8 4 (2.16%) Aviation
8 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.62%) Retail
10 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.54%) Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.54%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 43 (23.24%) Lead
2 39 (21.08%) Senior
3 36 (19.46%) Test Engineer
4 32 (17.30%) QA Engineer
5 23 (12.43%) Test Leader
6 20 (10.81%) QA Leader
7 19 (10.27%) Test Automation Engineer
8 17 (9.19%) Tester
9 16 (8.65%) Analyst
10 15 (8.11%) Developer
11 11 (5.95%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.95%) Automation Tester
11 11 (5.95%) QA Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.95%) Test Analyst
12 10 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (5.41%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
13 9 (4.86%) Java Engineer
14 8 (4.32%) Web Engineer
15 7 (3.78%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (56.22%) Playwright
2 22 (11.89%) HTML
3 20 (10.81%) .NET
4 19 (10.27%) REST
5 18 (9.73%) React
5 18 (9.73%) Spring Boot
6 17 (9.19%) Node.js
7 14 (7.57%) CSS
7 14 (7.57%) Spring
8 11 (5.95%) XML
9 10 (5.41%) Jest
9 10 (5.41%) Kafka
10 9 (4.86%) JSON
10 9 (4.86%) pytest
10 9 (4.86%) RESTful
11 8 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.32%) Puppeteer
12 7 (3.78%) Gherkin
12 7 (3.78%) Ruby on Rails
13 6 (3.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.59%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.86%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.24%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.62%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.62%) NHS
7 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.08%) FMCG
8 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.54%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.54%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.11%) Linux
2 10 (5.41%) Windows
3 8 (4.32%) Unix
4 7 (3.78%) CentOS
5 4 (2.16%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.62%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (78.38%) Test Automation
2 112 (60.54%) CI/CD
3 106 (57.30%) Agile
4 84 (45.41%) DevOps
5 58 (31.35%) Test Strategy
6 56 (30.27%) Software Testing
7 49 (26.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (22.70%) Manual Testing
9 40 (21.62%) Regression Testing
10 39 (21.08%) Mentoring
11 37 (20.00%) SDLC
12 36 (19.46%) User Acceptance Testing
13 35 (18.92%) API Testing
13 35 (18.92%) BDD
14 34 (18.38%) Scrum
15 33 (17.84%) AI
15 33 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (14.59%) Non-Functional Testing
16 27 (14.59%) QA Automation
16 27 (14.59%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (43.24%) Java
2 54 (29.19%) Python
3 37 (20.00%) C#
4 36 (19.46%) JavaScript
5 33 (17.84%) SQL
6 26 (14.05%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.41%) Bash
8 7 (3.78%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.78%) Ruby
9 6 (3.24%) Groovy
9 6 (3.24%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.70%) Scala
11 2 (1.08%) Bicep
11 2 (1.08%) C++
11 2 (1.08%) PHP
11 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.54%) JCL
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (17.84%) ISTQB
2 32 (17.30%) Security Cleared
3 28 (15.14%) Degree
4 24 (12.97%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (3.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 6 (3.24%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.08%) ISEB
10 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (53.51%) QA
2 49 (26.49%) Accessibility
3 13 (7.03%) WCAG
4 5 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.16%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.62%) GDPR
7 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (21.08%) Docker
2 7 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (14.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.27%) Terraform
3 12 (6.49%) Grafana
4 10 (5.41%) Ansible
4 10 (5.41%) Kibana
5 9 (4.86%) logstash
6 7 (3.78%) HP Fortify
6 7 (3.78%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.62%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.62%) Packer
8 2 (1.08%) MIIS
9 1 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (7.57%) Oracle
2 11 (5.95%) Splunk
3 8 (4.32%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.78%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.78%) Google
4 7 (3.78%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.78%) VMware
5 6 (3.24%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.16%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.16%) Veracode
7 3 (1.62%) HP
7 3 (1.62%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.62%) YouTube
8 2 (1.08%) Pega
8 2 (1.08%) SAP
9 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.54%) eFront
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce