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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 292 397
Rank change year-on-year -301 +105 -202
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 201 482 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.97% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.41% 11.69% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 149 194 327
10th Percentile £40,844 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - -0.80% -3.39%
75th Percentile £73,140 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 4,553 4,124 7,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 8.31% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,993 2,590 4,624
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £63,075 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +5.13% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 5 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 5 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 -246 174 £59,500 +3.48% 88
UK excluding London -270 129 £55,000 -4.35% 59
Work from Home -216 67 £55,395 +0.72% 60
London -61 61 £72,500 +16.00% 42
South West -46 30 £55,000 +4.76% 9
South East -37 27 £55,000 -8.33% 11
Midlands -95 27 £50,000 -23.08% 13
West Midlands -51 26 £50,000 -24.53% 9
North of England -155 16 £61,250 +9.38% 11
Wales -40 15 £47,500 -16.67% 1
East of England -45 12 £55,000 +3.77% 3
North West -110 7 £57,500 +4.55% 6
Yorkshire -40 6 £59,038 +0.66% 3
North East -56 3 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Scotland -42 2 £48,500 -3.00% 3
East Midlands -66 1 - - 4

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 22 (10.95%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) JBoss
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Moqups
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 85 (42.29%) Azure
2 76 (37.81%) AWS
3 51 (25.37%) 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
8 12 (5.97%) GCP
9 11 (5.47%) SaaS
10 10 (4.98%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.48%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.99%) BlazeMeter
14 3 (1.49%) Amazon ECR
14 3 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.49%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
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 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.99%) ZAP BI
8 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.49%) Tableau
9 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.50%) Db2
9 1 (0.50%) Power BI
9 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 70 (34.83%) Cypress.io
2 57 (28.36%) Jenkins
3 54 (26.87%) Postman
4 53 (26.37%) Git
5 50 (24.88%) JIRA
6 38 (18.91%) GitLab
7 32 (15.92%) JMeter
8 30 (14.93%) Cucumber
9 29 (14.43%) REST Assured
10 25 (12.44%) JUnit
11 18 (8.96%) Gatling
11 18 (8.96%) Zephyr
12 15 (7.46%) SpecFlow
13 14 (6.97%) TestRail
14 12 (5.97%) NUnit
14 12 (5.97%) SonarQube
15 10 (4.98%) WebDriver
16 9 (4.48%) Robot Framework
17 8 (3.98%) Appium
17 8 (3.98%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.90%) Finance
3 30 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.48%) Aviation
7 6 (2.99%) Retail
8 5 (2.49%) Advertising
9 4 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Military
11 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Law
11 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
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 51 (25.37%) Senior
2 37 (18.41%) Lead
3 33 (16.42%) Test Engineer
4 28 (13.93%) QA Engineer
5 21 (10.45%) Developer
6 20 (9.95%) Test Automation Engineer
6 20 (9.95%) Test Leader
7 19 (9.45%) Tester
8 18 (8.96%) Analyst
9 17 (8.46%) QA Leader
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.47%) Test Analyst
11 12 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) Automation Tester
13 9 (4.48%) Automation Test Analyst
13 9 (4.48%) QA Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Quality Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Senior Test Engineer
14 8 (3.98%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (51.24%) Playwright
2 31 (15.42%) .NET
3 24 (11.94%) React
3 24 (11.94%) REST
4 21 (10.45%) HTML
4 21 (10.45%) Spring Boot
5 18 (8.96%) Node.js
6 17 (8.46%) CSS
6 17 (8.46%) Spring
7 16 (7.96%) JSON
7 16 (7.96%) RESTful
8 15 (7.46%) Kafka
9 13 (6.47%) Jest
10 12 (5.97%) XML
11 11 (5.47%) pytest
12 10 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (3.98%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.98%) Gherkin
14 7 (3.48%) Ruby on Rails
15 6 (2.99%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.42%) 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 4 (1.99%) IoT
8 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.49%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.49%) NHS
9 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.00%) FMCG
11 1 (0.50%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.97%) Linux
2 13 (6.47%) Windows
3 6 (2.99%) CentOS
4 5 (2.49%) Unix
5 4 (1.99%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.49%) AIX
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (79.60%) Test Automation
2 127 (63.18%) Agile
3 126 (62.69%) CI/CD
4 96 (47.76%) DevOps
5 64 (31.84%) Software Testing
6 56 (27.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (27.86%) Test Strategy
7 51 (25.37%) Mentoring
8 50 (24.88%) Manual Testing
9 44 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (20.90%) User Acceptance Testing
11 40 (19.90%) AI
12 39 (19.40%) API Testing
12 39 (19.40%) BDD
12 39 (19.40%) SDLC
13 36 (17.91%) Regression Testing
14 35 (17.41%) Scrum
15 29 (14.43%) End-to-End Testing
16 28 (13.93%) Non-Functional Testing
17 27 (13.43%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (42.79%) Java
2 56 (27.86%) Python
3 45 (22.39%) C#
4 35 (17.41%) SQL
5 32 (15.92%) JavaScript
6 19 (9.45%) 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++
13 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.50%) JCL
14 1 (0.50%) Perl
14 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (17.41%) ISTQB
1 35 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.93%) Degree
3 27 (13.43%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 6 (2.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 6 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.99%) ISEB
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.49%) OCP
7 3 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (48.76%) QA
2 45 (22.39%) Accessibility
3 19 (9.45%) WCAG
4 4 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.99%) GDPR
4 4 (1.99%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.49%) NIST
6 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 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%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.43%) Terraform
3 15 (7.46%) 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%) Oracle
1 12 (5.97%) Splunk
2 10 (4.98%) Red Hat
3 7 (3.48%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.48%) Google
4 6 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.99%) VMware
5 5 (2.49%) Pega
5 5 (2.49%) SAP
6 4 (1.99%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.99%) Veracode
6 4 (1.99%) YouTube
7 3 (1.49%) HP
7 3 (1.49%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.50%) New Relic
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce