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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 273 391
Rank change year-on-year -230 +118 -188
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 211 506 627
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 1.17% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.05% 11.94% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 173 222 460
10th Percentile £39,377 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £58,650 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -2.25% -0.83%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,875 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,250 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.13% - +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 4,177 4,239 9,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.61% 9.76% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,735 2,848 6,678
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 May 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 14 May 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 -201 193 £59,750 -0.42% 52
UK excluding London -249 121 £52,250 -9.13% 46
Work from Home -175 83 £54,448 -9.25% 30
London -17 75 £67,500 +3.85% 13
South East -27 40 £51,000 -15.00% 9
South West -33 30 £47,500 -17.39% 3
Midlands -115 19 £50,000 -20.00% 11
West Midlands -56 18 £50,000 -25.93% 7
North of England -137 18 £65,000 +17.12% 15
Yorkshire -66 9 £59,250 -8.71% 4
Wales -25 8 £46,500 -24.70% 1
East of England -37 6 £62,500 +17.92% 2
North West -98 6 £55,500 +0.91% 8
North East -38 3 £65,000 +18.18% 3
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 20 (9.48%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) JBoss
3 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.47%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (30.81%) Azure
2 52 (24.64%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (18.96%) AWS
4 15 (7.11%) BrowserStack
5 14 (6.64%) GitHub
6 7 (3.32%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.32%) Tricentis Tosca
7 6 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.37%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.37%) Apigee
8 5 (2.37%) SaaS
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.90%) GCP
9 4 (1.90%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.90%) Serverless
10 3 (1.42%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (1.42%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) HTTP
2 2 (0.95%) DNS
2 2 (0.95%) DSL
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.11%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.32%) DB2
4 6 (2.84%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.90%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.90%) Redis
5 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.42%) Tableau
7 2 (0.95%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.95%) MySQL
8 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.47%) MS Access
8 1 (0.47%) Power BI
8 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.47%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 75 (35.55%) Cypress.io
2 55 (26.07%) JIRA
3 53 (25.12%) Postman
4 48 (22.75%) Jenkins
5 35 (16.59%) WebDriver
6 30 (14.22%) Git
6 30 (14.22%) JMeter
7 24 (11.37%) GitLab
7 24 (11.37%) SoapUI
8 23 (10.90%) Cucumber
8 23 (10.90%) REST Assured
9 18 (8.53%) SpecFlow
9 18 (8.53%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (6.16%) SonarQube
11 11 (5.21%) Bitbucket
11 11 (5.21%) Gatling
11 11 (5.21%) JUnit
12 10 (4.74%) Robot Framework
12 10 (4.74%) TestRail
13 9 (4.27%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.38%) Finance
3 26 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.79%) Advertising
5 8 (3.79%) Banking
5 8 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.37%) Retail
7 3 (1.42%) Aviation
7 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.95%) Electronics
8 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.95%) Marketing
9 1 (0.47%) Back Office
9 1 (0.47%) Law
9 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (27.96%) Lead
2 37 (17.54%) Test Engineer
3 30 (14.22%) QA Engineer
3 30 (14.22%) Senior
4 29 (13.74%) Test Leader
5 27 (12.80%) Tester
6 20 (9.48%) QA Leader
6 20 (9.48%) Test Automation Engineer
7 19 (9.00%) Analyst
8 18 (8.53%) Developer
9 17 (8.06%) Automation Tester
10 14 (6.64%) Test Analyst
11 11 (5.21%) QA Automation Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.27%) Senior Test Engineer
14 8 (3.79%) Automation Test Lead
14 8 (3.79%) Java Developer
14 8 (3.79%) Web Engineer
15 7 (3.32%) Test Manager
16 6 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (45.97%) Playwright
2 40 (18.96%) .NET
2 40 (18.96%) HTML
3 21 (9.95%) REST
3 21 (9.95%) SOAP
4 17 (8.06%) React
5 14 (6.64%) CSS
5 14 (6.64%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (5.69%) Node.js
6 12 (5.69%) RESTful
7 11 (5.21%) Gherkin
8 10 (4.74%) Spring Boot
8 10 (4.74%) XML
9 8 (3.79%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.79%) Puppeteer
9 8 (3.79%) Web Services
10 7 (3.32%) JSON
10 7 (3.32%) Kafka
10 7 (3.32%) pytest
10 7 (3.32%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.95%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.16%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.79%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.42%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.42%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.95%) FMCG
7 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.95%) NHS
7 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.58%) Linux
2 8 (3.79%) Windows
3 7 (3.32%) Unix
4 4 (1.90%) CentOS
4 4 (1.90%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (74.41%) Test Automation
2 114 (54.03%) Agile
3 101 (47.87%) CI/CD
4 83 (39.34%) DevOps
5 65 (30.81%) Software Testing
6 56 (26.54%) API Testing
7 53 (25.12%) Test Strategy
8 51 (24.17%) Scrum
9 43 (20.38%) Mentoring
10 42 (19.91%) Non-Functional Testing
11 41 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (18.96%) BDD
12 40 (18.96%) Test Management
13 35 (16.59%) Manual Testing
13 35 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (16.11%) SDLC
15 33 (15.64%) Regression Testing
15 33 (15.64%) User Acceptance Testing
16 32 (15.17%) Test Scripting
17 30 (14.22%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 97 (45.97%) Java
2 61 (28.91%) C#
3 60 (28.44%) SQL
4 51 (24.17%) Python
5 40 (18.96%) JavaScript
6 29 (13.74%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.27%) Bash
8 5 (2.37%) Groovy
9 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.95%) Bicep
11 2 (0.95%) C++
11 2 (0.95%) PHP
11 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.95%) RPG
11 2 (0.95%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.47%) JCL
12 1 (0.47%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (22.27%) Degree
2 43 (20.38%) ISTQB
3 23 (10.90%) Security Cleared
4 19 (9.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 17 (8.06%) SC Cleared
6 14 (6.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.32%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.95%) ISEB
13 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (48.82%) QA
2 40 (18.96%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.42%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.95%) WCAG
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (16.59%) Docker
2 5 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) Firmware
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.58%) Terraform
3 12 (5.69%) Grafana
4 9 (4.27%) Ansible
4 9 (4.27%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.32%) Kibana
6 6 (2.84%) logstash
7 4 (1.90%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.42%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.95%) MIIS
9 2 (0.95%) Packer
10 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (5.69%) Microsoft
1 12 (5.69%) Oracle
2 10 (4.74%) Google
3 8 (3.79%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.32%) Splunk
5 6 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.90%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.90%) Veracode
6 4 (1.90%) VMware
7 3 (1.42%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.42%) Coverity
7 3 (1.42%) HP
7 3 (1.42%) IBM
8 2 (0.95%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) SAP
8 2 (0.95%) YouTube
9 1 (0.47%) Concur
9 1 (0.47%) eFront
9 1 (0.47%) Pega