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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 301 420
Rank change year-on-year -309 +119 -161
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 200 468 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.94% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.33% 12.31% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 143 175 260
10th Percentile £39,627 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - -0.80% -3.39%
75th Percentile £73,140 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £77,500 £92,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.02% +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 4,617 3,801 6,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 7.65% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,977 2,279 3,964
10th Percentile £35,400 £37,350 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,539 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,435 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% +4.43% -5.98%

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 11 September 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 11 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 -271 172 £59,500 +3.48% 77
UK excluding London -288 127 £53,750 -4.02% 62
Work from Home -238 62 £55,000 - 38
London -56 61 £75,000 +30.43% 36
South West -67 27 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Midlands -104 26 £47,500 -24.00% 9
West Midlands -46 25 £47,500 -20.17% 5
South East -56 24 £55,000 -4.35% 17
North of England -153 18 £65,000 +18.18% 10
East of England -46 15 £55,000 +3.77% 4
Wales -58 15 £47,500 -16.67%
North West -126 10 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Yorkshire -50 6 £57,500 +2.68% 3
Scotland -42 2 £48,500 +4.86% 8
North East -59 2 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East Midlands -77 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 24 (12.00%) Confluence
2 3 (1.50%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) JBoss
3 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Moqups
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 81 (40.50%) AWS
1 81 (40.50%) Azure
2 45 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.50%) GitHub
4 18 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (7.00%) GCP
5 14 (7.00%) SaaS
5 14 (7.00%) Serverless
6 13 (6.50%) BrowserStack
7 11 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.50%) Tricentis Tosca
10 8 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.50%) Figma
12 4 (2.00%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.00%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (2.00%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.50%) HTTP
2 4 (2.00%) DNS
2 4 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.50%) 4G
3 3 (1.50%) 5G
3 3 (1.50%) SSH
4 1 (0.50%) BGP
4 1 (0.50%) Broadband
4 1 (0.50%) DHCP
4 1 (0.50%) DSL
4 1 (0.50%) OSPF
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
4 1 (0.50%) VLAN
4 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.00%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.50%) Redis
3 10 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.50%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.50%) MySQL
5 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.00%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.00%) InfluxDB
7 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.50%) Tableau
8 3 (1.50%) ZAP BI
9 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.50%) Db2
10 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 75 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 61 (30.50%) Jenkins
3 59 (29.50%) Git
4 58 (29.00%) Postman
5 52 (26.00%) JIRA
6 43 (21.50%) GitLab
7 37 (18.50%) JMeter
8 32 (16.00%) Cucumber
8 32 (16.00%) REST Assured
9 26 (13.00%) JUnit
10 23 (11.50%) Gatling
11 19 (9.50%) Zephyr
12 13 (6.50%) TestRail
13 11 (5.50%) NUnit
13 11 (5.50%) SonarQube
14 10 (5.00%) Robot Framework
14 10 (5.00%) SpecFlow
15 9 (4.50%) SoapUI
16 8 (4.00%) Newman
17 7 (3.50%) Mocha
General
1 46 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.00%) Finance
3 30 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.50%) Aviation
6 7 (3.50%) Banking
6 7 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.50%) Retail
7 5 (2.50%) Advertising
8 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Military
8 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.00%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.50%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 55 (27.50%) Senior
2 35 (17.50%) Test Engineer
3 31 (15.50%) Lead
3 31 (15.50%) QA Engineer
4 21 (10.50%) Test Automation Engineer
5 20 (10.00%) Developer
6 17 (8.50%) Analyst
7 16 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.00%) Test Leader
7 16 (8.00%) Tester
8 13 (6.50%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Java Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Test Analyst
9 11 (5.50%) Junior
9 11 (5.50%) Senior QA Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Automation Test Analyst
11 9 (4.50%) Automation Tester
11 9 (4.50%) QA Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) QA Leader
11 9 (4.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (54.50%) Playwright
2 36 (18.00%) REST
3 29 (14.50%) React
4 25 (12.50%) Terraform
5 23 (11.50%) .NET
5 23 (11.50%) HTML
6 22 (11.00%) RESTful
7 19 (9.50%) CSS
7 19 (9.50%) Spring
7 19 (9.50%) Spring Boot
8 18 (9.00%) Kafka
9 16 (8.00%) JSON
9 16 (8.00%) Node.js
10 14 (7.00%) pytest
11 13 (6.50%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (6.50%) Jest
12 8 (4.00%) XML
13 7 (3.50%) ADO
13 7 (3.50%) Ruby on Rails
13 7 (3.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.00%) Product Ownership
2 23 (11.50%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.50%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.00%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.00%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.00%) IoT
8 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.00%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.50%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.50%) NHS
10 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.00%) FMCG
10 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.00%) Linux
2 13 (6.50%) Windows
3 6 (3.00%) CentOS
4 5 (2.50%) Unix
5 4 (2.00%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.50%) AIX
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (82.50%) Test Automation
2 135 (67.50%) CI/CD
3 127 (63.50%) Agile
4 91 (45.50%) DevOps
5 65 (32.50%) Software Testing
6 58 (29.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (28.00%) Mentoring
8 51 (25.50%) Test Strategy
9 49 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (24.00%) Manual Testing
11 40 (20.00%) AI
11 40 (20.00%) SDLC
12 39 (19.50%) User Acceptance Testing
13 38 (19.00%) Scrum
14 37 (18.50%) End-to-End Testing
15 36 (18.00%) API Testing
15 36 (18.00%) Regression Testing
16 34 (17.00%) BDD
17 31 (15.50%) Validation
18 29 (14.50%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (41.00%) Java
2 60 (30.00%) Python
3 40 (20.00%) C#
4 38 (19.00%) SQL
5 37 (18.50%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.50%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.50%) Bash
8 7 (3.50%) Go
8 7 (3.50%) Ruby
9 6 (3.00%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.50%) Scala
11 4 (2.00%) Groovy
11 4 (2.00%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.00%) PHP
11 4 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (1.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 41 (20.50%) Security Cleared
2 37 (18.50%) ISTQB
3 28 (14.00%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.50%) Degree
5 11 (5.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 6 (3.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.00%) ISEB
7 6 (3.00%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.50%) OCP
8 3 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (51.50%) QA
2 44 (22.00%) Accessibility
3 23 (11.50%) WCAG
4 4 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.00%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.50%) GDPR
5 3 (1.50%) NIST
5 3 (1.50%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (24.50%) Docker
2 6 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.00%) Grafana
3 9 (4.50%) Ansible
3 9 (4.50%) Kibana
4 8 (4.00%) logstash
5 7 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.00%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.50%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.00%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.00%) MIIS
9 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.50%) Control-M
9 1 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.50%) Nagios
9 1 (0.50%) Packer
9 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.50%) Puppet
9 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.50%) Splunk
2 10 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.50%) Google
3 9 (4.50%) Oracle
4 8 (4.00%) SAP
5 7 (3.50%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.50%) Pega
6 6 (3.00%) VMware
7 5 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.00%) Veracode
8 4 (2.00%) YouTube
9 3 (1.50%) OneLogin
10 2 (1.00%) HP
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
11 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.50%) Informatica
11 1 (0.50%) NCR
11 1 (0.50%) Tradeweb