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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 299 425
Rank change year-on-year -324 +126 -174
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 195 465 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.94% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.12% 12.43% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 135 171 254
10th Percentile £39,221 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,374 £49,375 £45,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,232
Median % change year-on-year - -1.26% -2.95%
75th Percentile £74,375 £67,500 £73,938
90th Percentile £88,500 £77,500 £86,775
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 4,729 3,741 6,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.56% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,939 2,214 3,771
10th Percentile £37,200 £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 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%

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 26 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 26 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 -282 166 £57,500 - 217
UK excluding London -328 124 £52,500 -6.25% 143
London -66 59 £70,000 +13.82% 96
Work from Home -256 59 £50,000 -11.11% 111
South West -64 28 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Midlands -107 23 £45,000 -28.00% 17
South East -57 22 £55,000 -4.35% 30
West Midlands -53 21 £45,000 -20.00% 15
East of England -43 18 £55,000 +3.77% 10
North of England -171 16 £70,000 +25.00% 36
Wales -55 14 £47,500 -16.67% 4
North West -126 12 £70,000 +27.27% 11
Yorkshire -48 4 £42,500 -24.11% 13
Scotland -39 3 £48,500 -3.00% 11
East Midlands -74 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 26 (13.33%) Confluence
2 3 (1.54%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.54%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.54%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.03%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Moqups
2 3 (1.54%) 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 (41.03%) Azure
2 78 (40.00%) AWS
3 45 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (12.82%) GitHub
5 19 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (8.21%) SaaS
7 14 (7.18%) Serverless
8 13 (6.67%) BrowserStack
8 13 (6.67%) GCP
9 10 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.13%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.62%) Tricentis Tosca
11 8 (4.10%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (3.59%) Figma
13 4 (2.05%) BlazeMeter
13 4 (2.05%) ChatGPT
14 3 (1.54%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) DNS
1 5 (2.56%) HTTP
1 5 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.54%) 4G
2 3 (1.54%) 5G
2 3 (1.54%) SSH
3 2 (1.03%) BGP
3 2 (1.03%) DHCP
3 2 (1.03%) OSPF
3 2 (1.03%) VLAN
3 2 (1.03%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) Broadband
4 1 (0.51%) DSL
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.15%) NoSQL
2 11 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.64%) Redis
3 9 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.62%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.10%) MySQL
5 7 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.08%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.56%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.54%) ZAP BI
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.03%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (1.03%) Tableau
11 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.51%) Db2
11 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 60 (30.77%) Postman
3 58 (29.74%) Jenkins
4 56 (28.72%) Git
5 53 (27.18%) JIRA
6 40 (20.51%) GitLab
7 35 (17.95%) REST Assured
8 34 (17.44%) JMeter
9 33 (16.92%) Cucumber
10 27 (13.85%) JUnit
11 21 (10.77%) Gatling
12 19 (9.74%) Zephyr
13 13 (6.67%) TestRail
14 12 (6.15%) Robot Framework
15 10 (5.13%) SonarQube
16 9 (4.62%) NUnit
16 9 (4.62%) SpecFlow
17 8 (4.10%) Newman
17 8 (4.10%) SoapUI
17 8 (4.10%) TestNG
General
1 46 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.95%) Finance
3 32 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.10%) Banking
7 7 (3.59%) Aviation
7 7 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.08%) Retail
9 5 (2.56%) Advertising
10 4 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Military
11 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.03%) Law
13 1 (0.51%) Front Office
13 1 (0.51%) Marketing
13 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.51%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 49 (25.13%) Senior
2 35 (17.95%) QA Engineer
3 33 (16.92%) Test Engineer
4 28 (14.36%) Lead
5 22 (11.28%) Test Automation Engineer
6 20 (10.26%) Analyst
7 18 (9.23%) Developer
8 16 (8.21%) Test Leader
9 15 (7.69%) Test Analyst
9 15 (7.69%) Tester
10 13 (6.67%) Junior
10 13 (6.67%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.15%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (6.15%) Java Engineer
12 11 (5.64%) Automation Test Analyst
13 10 (5.13%) Senior QA Engineer
13 10 (5.13%) Software Engineer
14 9 (4.62%) Quality Engineer
15 8 (4.10%) Automation Tester
15 8 (4.10%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (54.87%) Playwright
2 43 (22.05%) REST
3 28 (14.36%) React
4 22 (11.28%) Terraform
5 21 (10.77%) RESTful
6 20 (10.26%) .NET
7 18 (9.23%) Spring
8 17 (8.72%) CSS
8 17 (8.72%) HTML
8 17 (8.72%) JSON
9 16 (8.21%) Kafka
9 16 (8.21%) Spring Boot
10 15 (7.69%) Node.js
11 14 (7.18%) pytest
12 13 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (6.67%) Jest
13 8 (4.10%) XML
14 7 (3.59%) ADO
14 7 (3.59%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (3.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.36%) Product Ownership
2 21 (10.77%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.72%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.08%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.08%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.05%) IoT
7 4 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.54%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.54%) NHS
8 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.77%) Linux
2 13 (6.67%) Windows
3 6 (3.08%) CentOS
3 6 (3.08%) Unix
4 4 (2.05%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.54%) AIX
6 1 (0.51%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (85.64%) Test Automation
2 135 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 125 (64.10%) Agile
4 89 (45.64%) DevOps
5 64 (32.82%) Software Testing
6 55 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (26.15%) Mentoring
9 48 (24.62%) Test Strategy
10 47 (24.10%) Manual Testing
11 44 (22.56%) Regression Testing
12 43 (22.05%) End-to-End Testing
13 40 (20.51%) SDLC
14 39 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
15 38 (19.49%) Scrum
16 37 (18.97%) AI
16 37 (18.97%) API Testing
17 32 (16.41%) BDD
17 32 (16.41%) Validation
18 27 (13.85%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (40.00%) Java
2 56 (28.72%) Python
3 37 (18.97%) JavaScript
3 37 (18.97%) SQL
4 34 (17.44%) C#
5 13 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.13%) Bash
7 8 (4.10%) Ruby
8 7 (3.59%) Go
9 6 (3.08%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.56%) Scala
11 4 (2.05%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.54%) Groovy
12 3 (1.54%) PHP
13 2 (1.03%) C++
Qualifications
1 44 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.95%) ISTQB
3 26 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 23 (11.79%) Degree
5 11 (5.64%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (3.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.08%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.56%) ISEB
10 3 (1.54%) OCP
10 3 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (56.41%) QA
2 40 (20.51%) Accessibility
3 24 (12.31%) WCAG
4 4 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.05%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.54%) NIST
5 3 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.03%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (23.08%) Docker
2 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.26%) Grafana
3 9 (4.62%) Ansible
3 9 (4.62%) Kibana
4 8 (4.10%) logstash
5 7 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.08%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.05%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.03%) 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 (5.64%) Microsoft
1 11 (5.64%) Splunk
2 10 (5.13%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.62%) Oracle
3 9 (4.62%) SAP
4 8 (4.10%) Google
5 7 (3.59%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.59%) Pega
6 6 (3.08%) VMware
7 4 (2.05%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.05%) Veracode
7 4 (2.05%) YouTube
8 3 (1.54%) IBM
8 3 (1.54%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.03%) HP
9 2 (1.03%) Informatica
10 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.51%) NCR
10 1 (0.51%) Tradeweb