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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 295 400
Rank change year-on-year -285 +105 -218
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 176 487 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 1.02% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.11% 11.64% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 137 199 417
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 4,287 4,184 9,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.40% 8.72% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,834 2,647 6,297
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -271 148 £59,500 -0.67% 68
UK excluding London -266 106 £55,000 -4.35% 54
Work from Home -224 58 £57,500 +2.22% 32
London -47 52 £70,000 +21.74% 23
South West -57 26 £55,000 -18.52% 8
South East -33 24 £57,500 -4.17% 15
Midlands -93 19 £50,000 -25.93% 8
West Midlands -52 18 £50,000 -25.93% 4
North of England -157 17 £57,500 +2.68% 14
Wales -44 11 £52,000 -8.77% 2
North West -121 8 £57,500 - 8
East of England -35 7 £62,500 +17.92% 3
Yorkshire -33 6 £59,038 +1.97% 2
North East -48 3 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Scotland -37 2 £48,500 -3.00% 2
East Midlands -67 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 16 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (1.70%) JBoss
3 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.20%) Azure
2 55 (31.25%) AWS
3 48 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (10.80%) GitHub
5 17 (9.66%) BrowserStack
6 14 (7.95%) Serverless
7 12 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.11%) GCP
8 9 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
10 6 (3.41%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.41%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.41%) SaaS
11 4 (2.27%) BlazeMeter
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.70%) Apigee
12 3 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.70%) IaaS
12 3 (1.70%) PaaS
12 3 (1.70%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) HTTP
2 3 (1.70%) DSL
3 1 (0.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.55%) DynamoDB
1 8 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 8 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.98%) Redis
3 6 (3.41%) InfluxDB
3 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.27%) MySQL
5 4 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.70%) Tableau
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.57%) Db2
7 1 (0.57%) Power BI
7 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.57%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 71 (40.34%) Cypress.io
2 45 (25.57%) Jenkins
3 41 (23.30%) Git
4 40 (22.73%) Postman
5 39 (22.16%) JIRA
6 32 (18.18%) JMeter
7 29 (16.48%) REST Assured
8 28 (15.91%) GitLab
9 22 (12.50%) Cucumber
10 17 (9.66%) JUnit
11 16 (9.09%) SpecFlow
12 13 (7.39%) Gatling
12 13 (7.39%) TestRail
13 12 (6.82%) WebDriver
13 12 (6.82%) Zephyr
14 9 (5.11%) SonarQube
15 8 (4.55%) Appium
15 8 (4.55%) Robot Framework
16 7 (3.98%) LoadRunner
16 7 (3.98%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.61%) Finance
3 23 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.41%) Advertising
8 4 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Aviation
9 3 (1.70%) Retail
10 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.14%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.57%) Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.57%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 40 (22.73%) Lead
2 36 (20.45%) Senior
3 34 (19.32%) Test Engineer
4 31 (17.61%) QA Engineer
5 20 (11.36%) Test Leader
6 18 (10.23%) QA Leader
7 17 (9.66%) Test Automation Engineer
7 17 (9.66%) Tester
8 15 (8.52%) Developer
9 13 (7.39%) Analyst
10 11 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (6.25%) Automation Tester
10 11 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
11 10 (5.68%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Java Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) Test Analyst
13 8 (4.55%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.98%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (55.68%) Playwright
2 22 (12.50%) HTML
3 19 (10.80%) .NET
3 19 (10.80%) REST
4 17 (9.66%) React
4 17 (9.66%) Spring Boot
5 16 (9.09%) Node.js
6 14 (7.95%) CSS
7 13 (7.39%) Spring
8 10 (5.68%) Kafka
8 10 (5.68%) XML
9 8 (4.55%) Jest
9 8 (4.55%) Puppeteer
9 8 (4.55%) pytest
9 8 (4.55%) RESTful
10 7 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (3.98%) JSON
11 6 (3.41%) Gherkin
11 6 (3.41%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (3.41%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.77%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.52%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.84%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.70%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.70%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.70%) NHS
8 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.14%) FMCG
9 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.57%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.95%) Linux
2 8 (4.55%) Unix
2 8 (4.55%) Windows
3 6 (3.41%) CentOS
4 4 (2.27%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (77.27%) Test Automation
2 105 (59.66%) CI/CD
3 101 (57.39%) Agile
4 80 (45.45%) DevOps
5 57 (32.39%) Test Strategy
6 52 (29.55%) Software Testing
7 46 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.02%) Manual Testing
8 37 (21.02%) Regression Testing
9 34 (19.32%) API Testing
9 34 (19.32%) Mentoring
9 34 (19.32%) SDLC
10 33 (18.75%) AI
10 33 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 32 (18.18%) BDD
11 32 (18.18%) Scrum
12 29 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (14.77%) Non-Functional Testing
13 26 (14.77%) QA Automation
14 25 (14.20%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (43.75%) Java
2 50 (28.41%) Python
3 35 (19.89%) C#
3 35 (19.89%) JavaScript
4 32 (18.18%) SQL
5 26 (14.77%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.11%) Bash
7 6 (3.41%) Groovy
7 6 (3.41%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.41%) Ruby
8 5 (2.84%) Scala
9 2 (1.14%) Bicep
9 2 (1.14%) C++
9 2 (1.14%) PHP
9 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) JCL
10 1 (0.57%) Perl
10 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (17.61%) ISTQB
1 31 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.77%) Degree
3 24 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 6 (3.41%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (53.41%) QA
2 48 (27.27%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.82%) WCAG
4 5 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.27%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.70%) GDPR
7 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (21.59%) Docker
2 6 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (14.20%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.23%) Terraform
3 11 (6.25%) Grafana
4 9 (5.11%) Ansible
4 9 (5.11%) Kibana
5 8 (4.55%) logstash
6 7 (3.98%) HP Fortify
7 6 (3.41%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.70%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.70%) Packer
9 2 (1.14%) MIIS
10 1 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (7.95%) Oracle
2 10 (5.68%) Splunk
3 8 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.98%) Google
5 6 (3.41%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.41%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.41%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.41%) VMware
6 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.27%) Veracode
7 3 (1.70%) HP
7 3 (1.70%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.70%) YouTube
8 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.57%) eFront
8 1 (0.57%) Pega
8 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.57%) SAP