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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 291 421
Rank change year-on-year -304 +130 -163
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 203 467 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.95% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.42% 12.37% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 145 175 264
10th Percentile £40,033 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,375 £45,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -0.80% -3.39%
75th Percentile £73,140 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £77,500 £90,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% -

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 4,596 3,775 6,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.11% 7.68% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,983 2,267 3,968
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £46,747 £47,779 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 8 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 8 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 -262 176 £60,000 +4.35% 180
UK excluding London -279 131 £55,000 -3.08% 121
Work from Home -242 62 £55,000 - 115
London -59 61 £75,000 +30.43% 109
Midlands -89 30 £47,500 -24.00% 16
West Midlands -44 29 £47,500 -20.17% 12
South West -71 28 £50,000 -9.09% 22
South East -52 24 £55,000 -4.35% 23
North of England -173 17 £65,000 +17.12% 21
East of England -46 15 £55,000 +3.77% 7
Wales -57 15 £47,500 -16.67% 3
North West -122 9 £65,000 +18.18% 10
Yorkshire -45 5 £65,000 +16.07% 7
North East -64 3 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Scotland -50 2 £48,500 +4.86% 15
East Midlands -79 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 25 (12.32%) Confluence
2 3 (1.48%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) Apache
3 2 (0.99%) JBoss
3 2 (0.99%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.99%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Moqups
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 83 (40.89%) Azure
2 80 (39.41%) AWS
3 48 (23.65%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (12.32%) GitHub
5 18 (8.87%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (6.90%) GCP
6 14 (6.90%) SaaS
7 13 (6.40%) BrowserStack
7 13 (6.40%) Serverless
8 11 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.42%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.43%) Tricentis Tosca
10 8 (3.94%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.46%) Figma
12 4 (1.97%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.97%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (1.97%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.48%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.48%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.46%) HTTP
2 4 (1.97%) DNS
2 4 (1.97%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.48%) 4G
3 3 (1.48%) 5G
3 3 (1.48%) SSH
4 1 (0.49%) BGP
4 1 (0.49%) Broadband
4 1 (0.49%) DHCP
4 1 (0.49%) DSL
4 1 (0.49%) OSPF
4 1 (0.49%) SSL
4 1 (0.49%) VLAN
4 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.40%) Redis
3 9 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.43%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.43%) MySQL
3 9 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.45%) InfluxDB
6 6 (2.96%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.97%) ZAP BI
8 3 (1.48%) Tableau
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.49%) Db2
Development Applications
1 78 (38.42%) Cypress.io
2 65 (32.02%) Jenkins
3 60 (29.56%) Git
3 60 (29.56%) Postman
4 53 (26.11%) JIRA
5 47 (23.15%) GitLab
6 39 (19.21%) JMeter
7 35 (17.24%) REST Assured
8 32 (15.76%) Cucumber
9 26 (12.81%) JUnit
10 25 (12.32%) Gatling
11 20 (9.85%) Zephyr
12 15 (7.39%) TestRail
13 12 (5.91%) SonarQube
14 11 (5.42%) NUnit
14 11 (5.42%) Robot Framework
15 10 (4.93%) SoapUI
15 10 (4.93%) SpecFlow
16 9 (4.43%) LoadRunner
17 8 (3.94%) Newman
General
1 48 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.24%) Finance
3 31 (15.27%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.45%) Aviation
6 7 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.45%) Retail
7 6 (2.96%) Banking
8 5 (2.46%) Advertising
9 3 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.48%) Military
9 3 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.99%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Front Office
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.49%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 56 (27.59%) Senior
2 36 (17.73%) Test Engineer
3 34 (16.75%) Lead
4 32 (15.76%) QA Engineer
5 21 (10.34%) Test Automation Engineer
6 20 (9.85%) Developer
7 17 (8.37%) Analyst
8 16 (7.88%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.88%) Test Leader
8 16 (7.88%) Tester
9 13 (6.40%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) Java Engineer
10 12 (5.91%) QA Leader
10 12 (5.91%) Test Analyst
11 11 (5.42%) Junior
12 10 (4.93%) Senior QA Engineer
12 10 (4.93%) Senior Test Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Automation Test Analyst
13 9 (4.43%) Automation Tester
13 9 (4.43%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (55.67%) Playwright
2 36 (17.73%) REST
3 29 (14.29%) React
4 26 (12.81%) Terraform
5 23 (11.33%) .NET
5 23 (11.33%) HTML
6 22 (10.84%) RESTful
7 19 (9.36%) CSS
7 19 (9.36%) Spring
7 19 (9.36%) Spring Boot
8 18 (8.87%) Kafka
9 16 (7.88%) JSON
9 16 (7.88%) Node.js
10 15 (7.39%) pytest
11 14 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (6.40%) Jest
13 8 (3.94%) XML
14 7 (3.45%) ADO
14 7 (3.45%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (3.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.27%) Product Ownership
2 23 (11.33%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.37%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.96%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.96%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.97%) IoT
8 4 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.48%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.48%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.48%) NHS
10 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.99%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.99%) FMCG
11 1 (0.49%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.84%) Linux
2 14 (6.90%) Windows
3 7 (3.45%) CentOS
4 5 (2.46%) Kali Linux
4 5 (2.46%) Unix
5 3 (1.48%) AIX
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (82.76%) Test Automation
2 138 (67.98%) CI/CD
3 129 (63.55%) Agile
4 94 (46.31%) DevOps
5 67 (33.00%) Software Testing
6 58 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (27.09%) Mentoring
8 52 (25.62%) Test Strategy
9 48 (23.65%) Manual Testing
9 48 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (20.20%) AI
11 40 (19.70%) SDLC
12 39 (19.21%) Scrum
12 39 (19.21%) User Acceptance Testing
13 37 (18.23%) API Testing
14 36 (17.73%) BDD
14 36 (17.73%) End-to-End Testing
15 35 (17.24%) Regression Testing
16 32 (15.76%) Performance Testing
17 30 (14.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 83 (40.89%) Java
2 61 (30.05%) Python
3 40 (19.70%) C#
4 38 (18.72%) JavaScript
5 37 (18.23%) SQL
6 16 (7.88%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.91%) Bash
8 7 (3.45%) Go
8 7 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.45%) Ruby
9 5 (2.46%) Scala
10 4 (1.97%) Groovy
10 4 (1.97%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.97%) PHP
10 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.99%) Bicep
11 2 (0.99%) C++
12 1 (0.49%) JCL
Qualifications
1 40 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.73%) ISTQB
3 27 (13.30%) Degree
3 27 (13.30%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.96%) ISEB
6 6 (2.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 6 (2.96%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.48%) OCP
7 3 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (52.22%) QA
2 45 (22.17%) Accessibility
3 23 (11.33%) WCAG
4 4 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.97%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.97%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.48%) GDPR
5 3 (1.48%) NIST
6 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (24.63%) Docker
2 7 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (21.18%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.84%) Grafana
3 10 (4.93%) Ansible
3 10 (4.93%) Kibana
4 9 (4.43%) logstash
5 7 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.45%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.96%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.48%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.99%) MIIS
9 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.49%) Control-M
9 1 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.49%) Nagios
9 1 (0.49%) Packer
9 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.49%) Puppet
9 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.40%) Splunk
2 11 (5.42%) Red Hat
3 10 (4.93%) Oracle
4 9 (4.43%) Google
4 9 (4.43%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.94%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.45%) Pega
6 7 (3.45%) SAP
6 7 (3.45%) VMware
7 5 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.46%) Veracode
8 4 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.97%) YouTube
9 3 (1.48%) HP
9 3 (1.48%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.99%) IBM
11 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.49%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.49%) NCR
11 1 (0.49%) Tradeweb