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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 280 409
Rank change year-on-year -273 +129 -216
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 196 483 607
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 1.10% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.66% 11.74% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 157 197 427
10th Percentile £40,138 £41,250 £37,300
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £83,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 4,204 4,113 9,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 9.36% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,772 2,650 6,527
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,130 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,750
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 6 June 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 6 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 -230 175 £59,500 -0.83% 55
UK excluding London -251 112 £52,500 -8.70% 44
Work from Home -182 73 £56,750 -1.30% 38
London -18 68 £67,500 +5.47% 16
South East -25 36 £52,500 -12.50% 5
South West -49 26 £55,000 -18.52% 6
Midlands -94 19 £50,000 -25.93% 9
West Midlands -65 18 £50,000 -25.93% 7
North of England -146 16 £61,250 +10.36% 12
Wales -35 8 £49,750 -33.67%
East of England -39 7 £62,500 +17.92% 1
North West -103 7 £56,000 +1.82% 9
Yorkshire -47 6 £59,038 +1.97% 3
North East -43 3 £65,000 +18.18%
East Midlands -70 1 - - 2

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 (10.20%) Confluence
2 3 (1.53%) JBoss
3 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.67%) Azure
2 53 (27.04%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (22.45%) AWS
4 19 (9.69%) GitHub
5 16 (8.16%) BrowserStack
6 9 (4.59%) Serverless
7 7 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
8 6 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.55%) GCP
9 5 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.55%) SaaS
10 4 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.04%) Apigee
10 4 (2.04%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.53%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (1.53%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (1.53%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.53%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) HTTP
2 3 (1.53%) DSL
3 1 (0.51%) Broadband
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.06%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.06%) Redis
5 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.04%) Db2
6 4 (2.04%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.04%) MySQL
7 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.53%) Tableau
8 2 (1.02%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.51%) Power BI
9 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.51%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 76 (38.78%) Cypress.io
2 55 (28.06%) JIRA
3 54 (27.55%) Postman
4 44 (22.45%) Jenkins
5 34 (17.35%) Git
6 28 (14.29%) GitLab
6 28 (14.29%) JMeter
7 26 (13.27%) REST Assured
8 25 (12.76%) WebDriver
9 22 (11.22%) Cucumber
10 18 (9.18%) SoapUI
11 17 (8.67%) JUnit
12 16 (8.16%) SpecFlow
13 13 (6.63%) Gatling
13 13 (6.63%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (5.10%) SonarQube
14 10 (5.10%) TestRail
15 9 (4.59%) TestNG
16 8 (4.08%) Maven
16 8 (4.08%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.41%) Finance
3 21 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.57%) Advertising
7 6 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Banking
8 4 (2.04%) Retail
9 3 (1.53%) Aviation
10 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.51%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 49 (25.00%) Lead
2 34 (17.35%) Senior
3 32 (16.33%) Test Engineer
4 29 (14.80%) QA Engineer
5 26 (13.27%) Test Leader
6 24 (12.24%) Tester
7 19 (9.69%) QA Leader
8 16 (8.16%) Developer
9 15 (7.65%) Analyst
9 15 (7.65%) Automation Tester
9 15 (7.65%) Test Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.61%) Test Analyst
11 10 (5.10%) QA Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (4.08%) Java Engineer
13 8 (4.08%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (3.57%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (50.00%) Playwright
2 35 (17.86%) HTML
3 33 (16.84%) .NET
4 19 (9.69%) REST
5 17 (8.67%) React
6 16 (8.16%) SOAP
7 15 (7.65%) CSS
7 15 (7.65%) Node.js
8 13 (6.63%) Spring Boot
9 10 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (5.10%) XML
10 9 (4.59%) RESTful
10 9 (4.59%) Spring
11 8 (4.08%) Puppeteer
12 7 (3.57%) Gherkin
12 7 (3.57%) Jest
12 7 (3.57%) JSON
12 7 (3.57%) Kafka
13 6 (3.06%) pytest
13 6 (3.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.53%) Housing Association
5 3 (1.53%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.53%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.53%) NHS
5 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.53%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.02%) FMCG
6 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.14%) Linux
2 8 (4.08%) Unix
3 6 (3.06%) Windows
4 4 (2.04%) CentOS
4 4 (2.04%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.51%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (74.49%) Test Automation
2 110 (56.12%) Agile
3 99 (50.51%) CI/CD
4 81 (41.33%) DevOps
5 59 (30.10%) Software Testing
6 56 (28.57%) Test Strategy
7 49 (25.00%) API Testing
8 44 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (22.45%) Scrum
9 39 (19.90%) Mentoring
10 38 (19.39%) User Acceptance Testing
11 37 (18.88%) Non-Functional Testing
12 36 (18.37%) Manual Testing
13 34 (17.35%) Regression Testing
14 33 (16.84%) BDD
14 33 (16.84%) Test Management
15 32 (16.33%) SDLC
16 30 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (14.80%) Test Scripting
18 27 (13.78%) AI
Programming Languages
1 91 (46.43%) Java
2 51 (26.02%) C#
3 50 (25.51%) Python
3 50 (25.51%) SQL
4 36 (18.37%) JavaScript
5 27 (13.78%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.59%) Bash
7 6 (3.06%) Groovy
8 4 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.53%) Ruby
9 3 (1.53%) Scala
10 2 (1.02%) Bicep
10 2 (1.02%) C++
10 2 (1.02%) PHP
10 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.51%) Perl
11 1 (0.51%) RPG
11 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (20.41%) ISTQB
2 39 (19.90%) Degree
3 26 (13.27%) Security Cleared
4 21 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 16 (8.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 13 (6.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.06%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.51%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (51.02%) QA
2 48 (24.49%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.57%) WCAG
4 5 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.04%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.02%) GDPR
6 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (18.88%) Docker
2 4 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 24 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.14%) Terraform
3 11 (5.61%) Grafana
4 8 (4.08%) Ansible
5 7 (3.57%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.57%) Kibana
6 6 (3.06%) logstash
7 4 (2.04%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.53%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.53%) Packer
9 2 (1.02%) MIIS
9 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (6.63%) Oracle
2 9 (4.59%) Google
2 9 (4.59%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.08%) Splunk
4 7 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.06%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.04%) Veracode
6 4 (2.04%) VMware
7 3 (1.53%) HP
8 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.02%) YouTube
9 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.51%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.51%) Coverity
9 1 (0.51%) eFront
9 1 (0.51%) IBM
9 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.51%) OneLogin