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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 298 428
Rank change year-on-year -312 +130 -172
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 198 462 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.94% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.21% 12.40% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 138 168 248
10th Percentile £39,221 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,969 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - -0.80% -3.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £73,813
90th Percentile £87,375 £77,500 £86,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -

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 4,708 3,726 6,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.61% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,936 2,207 3,721
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.60% +0.91% -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -285 169 £58,500 +1.74% 185
UK excluding London -303 126 £52,500 -6.25% 131
London -68 60 £72,500 +20.83% 72
Work from Home -256 58 £50,000 -9.09% 93
South West -65 28 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Midlands -113 25 £45,000 -28.00% 15
West Midlands -53 23 £45,000 -20.00% 13
South East -66 22 £55,000 -4.35% 26
East of England -53 17 £55,000 +3.77% 6
North of England -171 17 £70,000 +27.27% 37
Wales -68 14 £47,500 -16.67% 4
North West -131 12 £70,000 +27.27% 15
Yorkshire -43 5 £42,500 -24.11% 10
Scotland -37 3 £48,500 -3.00% 13
East Midlands -78 2 - - 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 25 (12.63%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.52%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.01%) Apache
3 2 (1.01%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.03%) Moqups
2 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 80 (40.40%) Azure
2 79 (39.90%) AWS
3 44 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (12.63%) GitHub
5 19 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (7.58%) SaaS
6 15 (7.58%) Serverless
7 13 (6.57%) BrowserStack
7 13 (6.57%) GCP
8 11 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.05%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
11 8 (4.04%) Anthropic Claude
12 6 (3.03%) Figma
13 4 (2.02%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.02%) BlazeMeter
13 4 (2.02%) ChatGPT
14 3 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.53%) DNS
1 5 (2.53%) HTTP
1 5 (2.53%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.52%) 4G
2 3 (1.52%) 5G
2 3 (1.52%) SSH
3 2 (1.01%) BGP
3 2 (1.01%) DHCP
3 2 (1.01%) OSPF
3 2 (1.01%) VLAN
3 2 (1.01%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) Broadband
4 1 (0.51%) DSL
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.57%) NoSQL
2 12 (6.06%) Redis
3 11 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.04%) MySQL
6 7 (3.54%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.03%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.03%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.52%) ZAP BI
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.01%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (1.01%) Tableau
11 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.51%) Db2
11 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (39.39%) Cypress.io
2 59 (29.80%) Jenkins
2 59 (29.80%) Postman
3 56 (28.28%) Git
4 52 (26.26%) JIRA
5 41 (20.71%) GitLab
6 35 (17.68%) REST Assured
7 34 (17.17%) Cucumber
7 34 (17.17%) JMeter
8 28 (14.14%) JUnit
9 21 (10.61%) Gatling
10 19 (9.60%) Zephyr
11 13 (6.57%) TestRail
12 12 (6.06%) Robot Framework
13 11 (5.56%) SonarQube
14 9 (4.55%) NUnit
14 9 (4.55%) SpecFlow
14 9 (4.55%) TestNG
15 8 (4.04%) Newman
15 8 (4.04%) SoapUI
General
1 47 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.17%) Finance
3 32 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.13%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.04%) Banking
5 8 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.54%) Aviation
6 7 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.03%) Retail
8 5 (2.53%) Advertising
9 4 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Military
10 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.01%) Law
12 1 (0.51%) Front Office
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.51%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 49 (24.75%) Senior
2 36 (18.18%) QA Engineer
3 33 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 31 (15.66%) Lead
5 22 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
6 19 (9.60%) Analyst
7 18 (9.09%) Developer
8 17 (8.59%) Test Leader
9 16 (8.08%) Tester
10 14 (7.07%) Test Analyst
11 13 (6.57%) Java Engineer
11 13 (6.57%) Senior Developer
12 12 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (6.06%) Junior
13 11 (5.56%) Automation Test Analyst
14 10 (5.05%) Senior QA Engineer
14 10 (5.05%) Software Engineer
15 9 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
16 8 (4.04%) QA Leader
16 8 (4.04%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (55.05%) Playwright
2 42 (21.21%) REST
3 29 (14.65%) React
4 23 (11.62%) Terraform
5 21 (10.61%) RESTful
6 20 (10.10%) .NET
7 19 (9.60%) Spring
8 18 (9.09%) Spring Boot
9 17 (8.59%) CSS
9 17 (8.59%) HTML
9 17 (8.59%) JSON
9 17 (8.59%) Kafka
10 16 (8.08%) Node.js
11 14 (7.07%) Jest
11 14 (7.07%) pytest
12 13 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (4.55%) XML
14 7 (3.54%) ADO
14 7 (3.54%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (3.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.65%) Product Ownership
2 22 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.59%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.03%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.02%) IoT
8 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.52%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.52%) NHS
9 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.61%) Linux
2 13 (6.57%) Windows
3 6 (3.03%) CentOS
3 6 (3.03%) Unix
4 4 (2.02%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.52%) AIX
6 1 (0.51%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (84.85%) Test Automation
2 137 (69.19%) CI/CD
3 125 (63.13%) Agile
4 89 (44.95%) DevOps
5 64 (32.32%) Software Testing
6 55 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (26.77%) Mentoring
7 53 (26.77%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (25.25%) Test Strategy
9 47 (23.74%) Manual Testing
10 44 (22.22%) Regression Testing
11 43 (21.72%) End-to-End Testing
12 40 (20.20%) SDLC
13 39 (19.70%) User Acceptance Testing
14 38 (19.19%) Scrum
15 37 (18.69%) AI
16 36 (18.18%) API Testing
17 33 (16.67%) BDD
17 33 (16.67%) Validation
18 28 (14.14%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (40.40%) Java
2 56 (28.28%) Python
3 38 (19.19%) JavaScript
3 38 (19.19%) SQL
4 34 (17.17%) C#
5 15 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.56%) Bash
7 8 (4.04%) Ruby
8 7 (3.54%) Go
9 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.53%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.53%) Scala
11 4 (2.02%) Groovy
11 4 (2.02%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.52%) PHP
13 2 (1.01%) C++
Qualifications
1 46 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.17%) ISTQB
3 28 (14.14%) SC Cleared
4 23 (11.62%) Degree
5 11 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (3.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 6 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.03%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.53%) ISEB
10 3 (1.52%) OCP
10 3 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (55.56%) QA
2 40 (20.20%) Accessibility
3 24 (12.12%) WCAG
4 4 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.02%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.52%) NIST
5 3 (1.52%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.01%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (23.23%) Docker
2 6 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (20.20%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.10%) Grafana
3 9 (4.55%) Ansible
3 9 (4.55%) Kibana
4 8 (4.04%) logstash
5 7 (3.54%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.03%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.53%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.01%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.51%) Control-M
9 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.51%) Nagios
9 1 (0.51%) Packer
9 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.51%) Puppet
9 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.56%) Splunk
2 10 (5.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.05%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.55%) Oracle
3 9 (4.55%) SAP
4 8 (4.04%) Google
5 7 (3.54%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.54%) Pega
6 6 (3.03%) VMware
7 4 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.02%) Veracode
7 4 (2.02%) YouTube
8 3 (1.52%) IBM
8 3 (1.52%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.01%) HP
9 2 (1.01%) Informatica
10 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.51%) NCR
10 1 (0.51%) Tradeweb