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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 395 379
Rank change year-on-year -98 -16 -174
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 221 262 637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.62% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.35% 6.35% 6.85%
Number of salaries quoted 185 219 468
10th Percentile £40,950 £41,250 £37,850
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £88,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.21% -0.33% +9.09%

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 4,127 4,128 9,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.58% 9.77% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,698 2,952 6,741
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,125 £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 £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +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 2 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 2 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 -77 207 £58,500 -2.50% 67
UK excluding London -104 128 £52,500 -12.21% 55
Work from Home +1 92 £55,200 -8.00% 36
London -12 80 £67,500 +3.85% 22
South East -30 41 £51,000 -15.00% 10
South West -36 31 £47,500 -17.39% 8
Midlands -50 24 £55,000 -12.00% 10
West Midlands -28 21 £50,000 -25.93% 7
North of England -69 21 £58,750 +4.91% 11
Yorkshire -65 9 £59,250 -15.36% 3
North West -28 8 £55,500 +0.91% 6
Wales -25 7 £55,200 -10.61% 3
East of England -20 4 £62,500 +17.92% 9
North East -37 4 £65,000 +18.18% 2
East Midlands -53 3 £57,600 -4.00% 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 19 (8.60%) Confluence
2 3 (1.36%) JBoss
3 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.45%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.51%) Azure
2 50 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (20.81%) AWS
4 22 (9.95%) GitHub
5 14 (6.33%) BrowserStack
6 12 (5.43%) OpenShift
7 9 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (3.17%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.71%) SaaS
10 5 (2.26%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.26%) Apigee
10 5 (2.26%) Tricentis Tosca
11 4 (1.81%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.81%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.81%) GCP
11 4 (1.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.17%) HTTP
2 2 (0.90%) DNS
2 2 (0.90%) DSL
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.52%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.07%) DB2
5 5 (2.26%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.81%) InfluxDB
6 4 (1.81%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.81%) Redis
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.36%) Tableau
8 2 (0.90%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.90%) MySQL
9 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.45%) MS Access
9 1 (0.45%) Power BI
9 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 74 (33.48%) Cypress.io
2 57 (25.79%) Postman
3 55 (24.89%) JIRA
4 53 (23.98%) Jenkins
5 36 (16.29%) Git
6 35 (15.84%) Cucumber
6 35 (15.84%) WebDriver
7 33 (14.93%) GitLab
8 30 (13.57%) JMeter
9 27 (12.22%) SoapUI
10 23 (10.41%) REST Assured
11 20 (9.05%) JUnit
12 18 (8.14%) SpecFlow
12 18 (8.14%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (5.88%) SonarQube
14 12 (5.43%) Bitbucket
14 12 (5.43%) TestRail
15 11 (4.98%) TeamCity
16 10 (4.52%) Appium
17 9 (4.07%) Gatling
General
1 70 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 45 (20.36%) Finance
3 24 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.98%) Banking
5 10 (4.52%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.62%) Advertising
6 8 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.26%) Retail
8 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Aviation
9 2 (0.90%) Back Office
9 2 (0.90%) Electronics
9 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.90%) Law
9 2 (0.90%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (26.24%) Lead
2 36 (16.29%) Senior
3 33 (14.93%) Test Engineer
4 32 (14.48%) QA Engineer
5 29 (13.12%) Test Leader
6 28 (12.67%) Tester
7 26 (11.76%) Developer
8 23 (10.41%) QA Leader
9 20 (9.05%) Test Automation Engineer
10 19 (8.60%) Analyst
11 16 (7.24%) Automation Tester
12 14 (6.33%) Automation Engineer
12 14 (6.33%) QA Automation Engineer
12 14 (6.33%) Test Analyst
13 10 (4.52%) Java Developer
13 10 (4.52%) Senior Developer
14 9 (4.07%) Senior Test Engineer
14 9 (4.07%) Software Developer
15 8 (3.62%) Senior Software Developer
15 8 (3.62%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (43.44%) Playwright
2 43 (19.46%) HTML
3 42 (19.00%) .NET
4 25 (11.31%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (10.86%) SOAP
6 23 (10.41%) REST
7 20 (9.05%) React
8 18 (8.14%) pytest
8 18 (8.14%) Spring Boot
9 17 (7.69%) CSS
10 15 (6.79%) Spring
11 14 (6.33%) Node.js
12 13 (5.88%) Gherkin
12 13 (5.88%) RESTful
13 10 (4.52%) XML
14 9 (4.07%) Flask
15 8 (3.62%) AngularJS
15 8 (3.62%) Django
15 8 (3.62%) Puppeteer
15 8 (3.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.95%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.79%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.98%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.36%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.90%) Derivative
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Equities
8 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.90%) FMCG
8 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.69%) Linux
2 8 (3.62%) Windows
3 7 (3.17%) Unix
4 4 (1.81%) CentOS
4 4 (1.81%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (74.66%) Test Automation
2 113 (51.13%) Agile
3 109 (49.32%) CI/CD
4 89 (40.27%) DevOps
5 66 (29.86%) Software Testing
6 59 (26.70%) API Testing
7 51 (23.08%) Scrum
8 49 (22.17%) Mentoring
8 49 (22.17%) Test Strategy
9 45 (20.36%) BDD
10 42 (19.00%) Non-Functional Testing
10 42 (19.00%) Test Management
11 39 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (16.74%) SDLC
14 34 (15.38%) Manual Testing
14 34 (15.38%) Regression Testing
15 31 (14.03%) Test Scripting
16 30 (13.57%) QA Automation
16 30 (13.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 110 (49.77%) Java
2 68 (30.77%) SQL
3 63 (28.51%) C#
4 61 (27.60%) Python
5 44 (19.91%) JavaScript
6 31 (14.03%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.52%) Bash
8 8 (3.62%) Delphi
9 5 (2.26%) Groovy
9 5 (2.26%) PHP
10 4 (1.81%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.36%) Go
11 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.90%) Bicep
12 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.90%) RPG
13 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.45%) JCL
13 1 (0.45%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (20.81%) Degree
2 44 (19.91%) ISTQB
3 22 (9.95%) Security Cleared
4 20 (9.05%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 15 (6.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 15 (6.79%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.17%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.26%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (47.06%) QA
2 34 (15.38%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.36%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.90%) GDPR
5 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) WCAG
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (19.91%) Docker
2 5 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 33 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.50%) Grafana
3 18 (8.14%) Terraform
4 9 (4.07%) Ansible
4 9 (4.07%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.17%) Kibana
6 6 (2.71%) logstash
7 4 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.81%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.36%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.90%) MIIS
9 2 (0.90%) Packer
10 1 (0.45%) Argo
10 1 (0.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (9.05%) Oracle
2 11 (4.98%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.52%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.52%) Google
4 7 (3.17%) Splunk
5 5 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.81%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.81%) Veracode
6 4 (1.81%) VMware
7 3 (1.36%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.36%) Coverity
7 3 (1.36%) HP
7 3 (1.36%) IBM
8 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.90%) SAP
9 1 (0.45%) Concur
9 1 (0.45%) eFront
9 1 (0.45%) New Relic
9 1 (0.45%) Pega