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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 270 409
Rank change year-on-year -255 +139 -208
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 200 481 606
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 1.13% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.68% 12.08% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 162 200 439
10th Percentile £39,221 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £85,210
90th Percentile £84,875 £83,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 4,276 3,982 9,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.59% 9.32% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,813 2,591 6,590
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +9.20% -8.42%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £76,250
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 28 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 28 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 -226 182 £59,750 -0.42% 57
UK excluding London -252 115 £52,500 -8.70% 48
Work from Home -177 80 £55,698 -7.17% 32
London -43 69 £67,500 +5.47% 16
South East -17 41 £51,000 -15.00% 9
South West -48 27 £55,000 -18.52% 6
Midlands -108 19 £50,000 -25.93% 13
West Midlands -63 18 £50,000 -25.93% 10
North of England -158 16 £61,250 +9.38% 10
North West -111 7 £56,000 +1.82% 7
Wales -36 6 £52,000 -15.79%
East of England -50 6 £62,500 +17.92% 3
Yorkshire -58 6 £59,038 -1.27% 3
North East -46 3 £65,000 +18.18%
East Midlands -74 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 18 (9.00%) Confluence
2 3 (1.50%) JBoss
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.00%) Azure
2 53 (26.50%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (20.50%) AWS
4 16 (8.00%) GitHub
5 15 (7.50%) BrowserStack
6 7 (3.50%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.50%) Tricentis Tosca
7 6 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.50%) GCP
9 4 (2.00%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.00%) Apigee
9 4 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.00%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.00%) SaaS
9 4 (2.00%) Serverless
10 3 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.50%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (1.50%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.00%) HTTP
2 2 (1.00%) DNS
2 2 (1.00%) DSL
3 1 (0.50%) Broadband
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.50%) DB2
3 5 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.00%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.00%) Redis
4 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.50%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.50%) Tableau
6 2 (1.00%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.00%) MySQL
7 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.50%) MS Access
7 1 (0.50%) Power BI
7 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.50%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 73 (36.50%) Cypress.io
2 56 (28.00%) Postman
3 55 (27.50%) JIRA
4 43 (21.50%) Jenkins
5 32 (16.00%) Git
6 31 (15.50%) WebDriver
7 28 (14.00%) JMeter
8 24 (12.00%) GitLab
8 24 (12.00%) REST Assured
9 23 (11.50%) SoapUI
10 22 (11.00%) Cucumber
11 18 (9.00%) Team Foundation Server
12 16 (8.00%) SpecFlow
13 15 (7.50%) JUnit
14 12 (6.00%) Gatling
15 11 (5.50%) SonarQube
16 9 (4.50%) Bitbucket
16 9 (4.50%) Robot Framework
16 9 (4.50%) TestNG
16 9 (4.50%) TestRail
General
1 56 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.50%) Finance
3 20 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.50%) Advertising
7 5 (2.50%) Banking
7 5 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Retail
9 3 (1.50%) Aviation
10 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Electronics
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (26.50%) Lead
2 33 (16.50%) Senior
2 33 (16.50%) Test Engineer
3 29 (14.50%) QA Engineer
4 26 (13.00%) Test Leader
5 25 (12.50%) Tester
6 19 (9.50%) Analyst
6 19 (9.50%) QA Leader
7 16 (8.00%) Automation Tester
7 16 (8.00%) Developer
8 15 (7.50%) Test Analyst
8 15 (7.50%) Test Automation Engineer
9 10 (5.00%) QA Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.50%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.50%) Senior Test Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Web Engineer
12 7 (3.50%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (3.50%) Test Manager
13 6 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (48.00%) Playwright
2 38 (19.00%) .NET
3 37 (18.50%) HTML
4 21 (10.50%) SOAP
5 18 (9.00%) REST
6 15 (7.50%) React
7 12 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (5.50%) CSS
9 10 (5.00%) Node.js
9 10 (5.00%) RESTful
9 10 (5.00%) Spring Boot
9 10 (5.00%) XML
10 8 (4.00%) Gherkin
10 8 (4.00%) Puppeteer
11 7 (3.50%) JSON
11 7 (3.50%) Kafka
11 7 (3.50%) pytest
11 7 (3.50%) Spring
12 6 (3.00%) Swagger
12 6 (3.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.50%) Housing Association
4 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.50%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.50%) NHS
4 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.00%) FMCG
5 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.50%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.50%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.50%) Linux
2 7 (3.50%) Unix
2 7 (3.50%) Windows
3 4 (2.00%) CentOS
3 4 (2.00%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (74.00%) Test Automation
2 112 (56.00%) Agile
3 98 (49.00%) CI/CD
4 80 (40.00%) DevOps
5 64 (32.00%) Software Testing
6 53 (26.50%) API Testing
6 53 (26.50%) Test Strategy
7 49 (24.50%) Scrum
8 45 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (21.50%) Mentoring
10 42 (21.00%) Non-Functional Testing
11 38 (19.00%) Test Management
12 37 (18.50%) User Acceptance Testing
13 35 (17.50%) Manual Testing
14 33 (16.50%) BDD
14 33 (16.50%) Regression Testing
14 33 (16.50%) Test Scripting
15 32 (16.00%) SDLC
16 29 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (13.50%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 91 (45.50%) Java
2 56 (28.00%) C#
3 55 (27.50%) SQL
4 48 (24.00%) Python
5 34 (17.00%) JavaScript
6 26 (13.00%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.50%) Bash
8 6 (3.00%) Groovy
9 4 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.00%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.50%) Scala
11 2 (1.00%) Bicep
11 2 (1.00%) C++
11 2 (1.00%) PHP
11 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.50%) JCL
12 1 (0.50%) Perl
12 1 (0.50%) RPG
12 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (21.50%) Degree
1 43 (21.50%) ISTQB
2 25 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 19 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (49.50%) QA
2 43 (21.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.00%) Software Quality Assurance
4 4 (2.00%) WCAG
5 2 (1.00%) GDPR
5 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (17.50%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (11.50%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.00%) Terraform
3 12 (6.00%) Grafana
4 9 (4.50%) Ansible
5 7 (3.50%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.50%) Kibana
6 6 (3.00%) logstash
7 4 (2.00%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.50%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.50%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.00%) MIIS
9 2 (1.00%) Packer
10 1 (0.50%) Argo
10 1 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (6.00%) Oracle
2 10 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.50%) Google
4 8 (4.00%) Splunk
5 7 (3.50%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.00%) Veracode
6 4 (2.00%) VMware
7 3 (1.50%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.50%) Coverity
7 3 (1.50%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.50%) HP
8 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.00%) YouTube
9 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.50%) Concur
9 1 (0.50%) eFront
9 1 (0.50%) IBM
9 1 (0.50%) SAP