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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 297 406
Rank change year-on-year -298 +109 -169
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 201 477 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.96% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.40% 11.83% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 148 186 311
10th Percentile £40,641 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,625 £68,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -2.27%

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 4,569 4,033 7,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.30% 8.08% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,968 2,503 4,550
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -240 174 £59,500 +3.48% 84
UK excluding London -274 130 £55,000 -4.35% 57
Work from Home -222 66 £55,000 - 43
London -56 60 £70,000 +21.74% 40
South West -48 29 £50,000 -4.76% 7
Midlands -86 28 £50,000 -23.08% 14
West Midlands -42 27 £50,000 -24.53% 11
South East -39 26 £55,000 -8.33% 13
North of England -162 18 £65,000 +16.07% 10
Wales -50 15 £47,500 -16.67%
East of England -39 12 £55,000 +3.77% 2
North West -110 9 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Yorkshire -41 6 £59,038 +4.03% 3
North East -63 3 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Scotland -48 2 £48,500 -3.00% 5
East Midlands -69 1 - - 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 23 (11.44%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) JBoss
2 4 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Moqups
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (42.79%) Azure
2 77 (38.31%) AWS
3 50 (24.88%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.45%) GitHub
5 15 (7.46%) Serverless
6 14 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (6.47%) BrowserStack
7 13 (6.47%) GCP
7 13 (6.47%) SaaS
8 10 (4.98%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.48%) Tricentis Tosca
10 6 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.99%) BlazeMeter
11 4 (1.99%) Figma
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.49%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
2 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.47%) NoSQL
2 10 (4.98%) Redis
3 8 (3.98%) DynamoDB
3 8 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.99%) InfluxDB
5 6 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.99%) MySQL
5 6 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.99%) ZAP BI
7 3 (1.49%) Tableau
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.50%) Db2
9 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 71 (35.32%) Cypress.io
2 57 (28.36%) Jenkins
3 54 (26.87%) Git
3 54 (26.87%) Postman
4 50 (24.88%) JIRA
5 38 (18.91%) GitLab
6 32 (15.92%) JMeter
7 31 (15.42%) Cucumber
8 27 (13.43%) JUnit
8 27 (13.43%) REST Assured
9 19 (9.45%) Gatling
10 18 (8.96%) Zephyr
11 14 (6.97%) TestRail
12 13 (6.47%) SonarQube
12 13 (6.47%) SpecFlow
13 12 (5.97%) NUnit
14 9 (4.48%) Robot Framework
15 8 (3.98%) LoadRunner
15 8 (3.98%) Maven
15 8 (3.98%) SoapUI
General
1 45 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.40%) Finance
3 30 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.48%) Aviation
7 7 (3.48%) Retail
8 5 (2.49%) Advertising
9 4 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Military
10 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Front Office
12 1 (0.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.50%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 52 (25.87%) Senior
2 37 (18.41%) Lead
3 34 (16.92%) Test Engineer
4 28 (13.93%) QA Engineer
5 20 (9.95%) Developer
5 20 (9.95%) Test Automation Engineer
6 19 (9.45%) Test Leader
6 19 (9.45%) Tester
7 18 (8.96%) Analyst
8 16 (7.96%) QA Leader
9 14 (6.97%) Java Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.47%) Test Analyst
11 12 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) Automation Tester
12 10 (4.98%) Senior Test Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Junior
13 9 (4.48%) QA Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Quality Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (50.75%) Playwright
2 27 (13.43%) .NET
2 27 (13.43%) React
3 24 (11.94%) REST
4 21 (10.45%) HTML
4 21 (10.45%) Spring Boot
5 19 (9.45%) Spring
6 18 (8.96%) Node.js
6 18 (8.96%) RESTful
7 17 (8.46%) CSS
8 15 (7.46%) Jest
8 15 (7.46%) JSON
8 15 (7.46%) Kafka
9 11 (5.47%) pytest
10 10 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (4.98%) XML
11 8 (3.98%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.98%) Gherkin
12 7 (3.48%) Ruby on Rails
13 6 (2.99%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.92%) Product Ownership
2 21 (10.45%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.46%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (6.97%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.99%) Mainframe
8 5 (2.49%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.99%) IoT
9 4 (1.99%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.49%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.49%) NHS
11 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.00%) FMCG
11 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.50%) Augmented Reality
12 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.97%) Linux
2 13 (6.47%) Windows
3 6 (2.99%) CentOS
4 4 (1.99%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.99%) Unix
5 3 (1.49%) AIX
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (79.10%) Test Automation
2 127 (63.18%) Agile
3 126 (62.69%) CI/CD
4 94 (46.77%) DevOps
5 63 (31.34%) Software Testing
6 57 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (27.86%) Test Strategy
8 52 (25.87%) Mentoring
9 51 (25.37%) Manual Testing
10 43 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (19.90%) User Acceptance Testing
12 39 (19.40%) AI
12 39 (19.40%) API Testing
12 39 (19.40%) SDLC
13 38 (18.91%) BDD
14 34 (16.92%) Regression Testing
14 34 (16.92%) Scrum
15 31 (15.42%) End-to-End Testing
16 27 (13.43%) Non-Functional Testing
17 26 (12.94%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 85 (42.29%) Java
2 55 (27.36%) Python
3 43 (21.39%) C#
4 35 (17.41%) JavaScript
5 32 (15.92%) SQL
6 18 (8.96%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.98%) Bash
8 7 (3.48%) Ruby
9 6 (2.99%) Groovy
9 6 (2.99%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.99%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.49%) Scala
11 4 (1.99%) PHP
12 3 (1.49%) Go
13 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 2 (1.00%) C++
14 1 (0.50%) JCL
14 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.92%) ISTQB
3 28 (13.93%) Degree
4 27 (13.43%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (2.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 5 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.49%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.99%) ISEB
9 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.49%) OCP
9 3 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (47.26%) QA
2 46 (22.89%) Accessibility
3 22 (10.95%) WCAG
4 4 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.99%) GDPR
4 4 (1.99%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.49%) NIST
5 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (23.88%) Docker
2 6 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.43%) Terraform
3 16 (7.96%) Grafana
4 9 (4.48%) Ansible
4 9 (4.48%) Kibana
5 8 (3.98%) logstash
6 7 (3.48%) HP Fortify
7 6 (2.99%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.99%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.49%) HP ALM
10 2 (1.00%) MIIS
11 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.50%) Control-M
11 1 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.50%) Nagios
11 1 (0.50%) Packer
11 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.50%) Puppet
11 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (5.97%) Splunk
2 11 (5.47%) Oracle
3 10 (4.98%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.98%) Google
5 7 (3.48%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.99%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.99%) VMware
7 5 (2.49%) Pega
7 5 (2.49%) SAP
8 4 (1.99%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.99%) Veracode
8 4 (1.99%) YouTube
9 3 (1.49%) HP
9 3 (1.49%) OneLogin
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
11 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.50%) NCR
11 1 (0.50%) Salesforce