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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 386 386
Rank change year-on-year -108 0 -185
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 238 263 651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.63% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.70% 6.12% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 202 213 478
10th Percentile £41,318 £41,250 £37,850
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 4,177 4,298 9,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.87% 10.36% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,755 3,017 6,817
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £76,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -76 225 £57,500 -10.16% 78
UK excluding London -93 137 £52,500 -12.50% 68
Work from Home -1 94 £53,500 -10.83% 37
London -1 87 £67,500 +3.85% 29
South East -39 52 £50,000 -16.67% 19
South West -42 31 £47,500 -26.92% 7
Midlands -59 23 £55,200 -13.41% 7
North of England -70 21 £58,750 +6.82% 13
West Midlands -21 19 £55,000 -18.52% 4
Yorkshire -57 9 £59,250 -0.92% 2
North West -36 8 £55,500 +0.91% 8
Wales -26 6 £53,600 +10.52% 2
East of England -27 4 £62,500 +47.06% 11
North East -32 4 £65,000 +18.18% 3
East Midlands -61 4 £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 (8.40%) Confluence
2 3 (1.26%) JBoss
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (3.78%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.84%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (29.41%) Azure
2 57 (23.95%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (20.59%) AWS
4 22 (9.24%) GitHub
5 18 (7.56%) BrowserStack
6 12 (5.04%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.94%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.52%) SaaS
10 5 (2.10%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.10%) Apigee
10 5 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.68%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.68%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.68%) Serverless
12 3 (1.26%) Siteimprove
12 3 (1.26%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.94%) DNS
1 7 (2.94%) HTTP
2 2 (0.84%) DSL
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.62%) DB2
5 4 (1.68%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.68%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.68%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.68%) Redis
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.26%) Tableau
7 2 (0.84%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.84%) MySQL
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) MS Access
8 1 (0.42%) Power BI
8 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.42%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 71 (29.83%) Cypress.io
2 58 (24.37%) JIRA
3 57 (23.95%) Postman
4 56 (23.53%) Jenkins
5 40 (16.81%) Git
6 37 (15.55%) Cucumber
7 36 (15.13%) WebDriver
8 33 (13.87%) GitLab
9 28 (11.76%) JMeter
9 28 (11.76%) SoapUI
10 23 (9.66%) REST Assured
11 22 (9.24%) SpecFlow
12 21 (8.82%) JUnit
13 18 (7.56%) Team Foundation Server
14 15 (6.30%) Robot Framework
15 13 (5.46%) TeamCity
15 13 (5.46%) TestRail
16 12 (5.04%) Bitbucket
17 11 (4.62%) SonarQube
17 11 (4.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.59%) Finance
3 37 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.72%) Banking
5 13 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.94%) Advertising
8 5 (2.10%) Law
8 5 (2.10%) Retail
9 4 (1.68%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.68%) Back Office
10 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Aviation
11 2 (0.84%) Electronics
11 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (27.73%) Lead
2 38 (15.97%) Senior
3 34 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 33 (13.87%) Test Leader
5 31 (13.03%) QA Engineer
6 30 (12.61%) Developer
7 29 (12.18%) Tester
8 26 (10.92%) QA Leader
9 24 (10.08%) Analyst
10 20 (8.40%) Test Automation Engineer
11 19 (7.98%) Test Analyst
12 16 (6.72%) Automation Tester
13 13 (5.46%) QA Automation Engineer
14 12 (5.04%) Java Developer
15 11 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (4.62%) Senior Developer
15 11 (4.62%) Software Developer
16 9 (3.78%) QA Analyst
16 9 (3.78%) Senior Software Developer
17 8 (3.36%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (41.60%) Playwright
2 50 (21.01%) .NET
3 46 (19.33%) HTML
4 28 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (10.50%) SOAP
6 24 (10.08%) React
6 24 (10.08%) REST
7 20 (8.40%) CSS
8 18 (7.56%) pytest
8 18 (7.56%) Spring Boot
9 17 (7.14%) Gherkin
9 17 (7.14%) Spring
10 16 (6.72%) Node.js
11 15 (6.30%) RESTful
12 13 (5.46%) XML
13 9 (3.78%) Web Services
14 8 (3.36%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.36%) Django
14 8 (3.36%) Flask
14 8 (3.36%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.08%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.68%) Derivative
7 4 (1.68%) Equities
7 4 (1.68%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.26%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.84%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.24%) Linux
2 15 (6.30%) Windows
3 6 (2.52%) Unix
4 4 (1.68%) CentOS
5 2 (0.84%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (77.31%) Test Automation
2 120 (50.42%) Agile
3 117 (49.16%) CI/CD
4 96 (40.34%) DevOps
5 76 (31.93%) Software Testing
6 61 (25.63%) API Testing
7 57 (23.95%) Scrum
8 53 (22.27%) Test Management
9 51 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (21.43%) Test Strategy
10 50 (21.01%) BDD
11 49 (20.59%) Mentoring
12 45 (18.91%) Non-Functional Testing
13 41 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (17.23%) Test Scripting
14 39 (16.39%) Manual Testing
15 36 (15.13%) Regression Testing
15 36 (15.13%) SDLC
16 30 (12.61%) QA Automation
17 29 (12.18%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 114 (47.90%) Java
2 75 (31.51%) SQL
3 72 (30.25%) C#
4 61 (25.63%) Python
5 50 (21.01%) JavaScript
6 34 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.62%) Bash
8 8 (3.36%) Delphi
9 5 (2.10%) PHP
10 4 (1.68%) Groovy
10 4 (1.68%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.26%) Go
11 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.26%) RPG
12 2 (0.84%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.42%) JCL
13 1 (0.42%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (21.43%) Degree
2 50 (21.01%) ISTQB
3 31 (13.03%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 20 (8.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 18 (7.56%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.62%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.62%) ISEB
7 8 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (44.96%) QA
2 36 (15.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.26%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.84%) WCAG
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (19.75%) Docker
2 5 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 36 (15.13%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.08%) Terraform
3 20 (8.40%) Grafana
4 14 (5.88%) Ansible
5 7 (2.94%) HP Fortify
6 6 (2.52%) HP ALM
6 6 (2.52%) Kibana
7 5 (2.10%) logstash
7 5 (2.10%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.68%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.84%) MIIS
9 2 (0.84%) Nessus
9 2 (0.84%) Packer
10 1 (0.42%) Argo
Vendors
1 20 (8.40%) Oracle
2 11 (4.62%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.20%) Google
3 10 (4.20%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.36%) Black Duck
4 8 (3.36%) Coverity
5 7 (2.94%) Splunk
6 6 (2.52%) HP
7 5 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.68%) IBM
8 4 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.68%) VMware
9 3 (1.26%) SAP
9 3 (1.26%) Siebel
10 2 (0.84%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.84%) Veracode
11 1 (0.42%) Concur
11 1 (0.42%) eFront
11 1 (0.42%) New Relic