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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 276 423
Rank change year-on-year -274 +147 -230
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 189 489 612
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 1.10% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.50% 11.81% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 151 198 424
10th Percentile £39,221 £41,250 £37,150
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,650 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.25% -1.64%
75th Percentile £69,084 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,875 £95,000
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 4,199 4,139 9,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 9.35% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,782 2,625 6,499
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,858 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,600 £93,750
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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -233 167 £59,500 -0.83% 30
UK excluding London -255 111 £52,500 -8.70% 30
Work from Home -188 69 £57,500 - 20
London -38 62 £66,250 +3.52% 4
South East -30 33 £52,500 -12.50% 4
South West -56 28 £55,000 -18.52% 5
Midlands -91 19 £50,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands -57 18 £50,000 -25.93% 2
North of England -151 16 £61,250 +10.36% 9
Wales -36 8 £49,750 -12.72%
North West -92 7 £56,000 +1.82% 4
East of England -40 6 £62,500 +17.92% 3
Yorkshire -46 6 £59,038 +1.97% 5
North East -41 3 £65,000 +18.18%
Scotland -45 1 £48,500 -7.62% 3
East Midlands -73 1 - - 2

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 17 (8.99%) Confluence
2 3 (1.59%) JBoss
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 67 (35.45%) Azure
2 53 (28.04%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (23.81%) AWS
4 19 (10.05%) GitHub
5 16 (8.47%) BrowserStack
6 9 (4.76%) Serverless
7 7 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.70%) Tricentis Tosca
8 6 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.17%) GCP
9 5 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.65%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.65%) SaaS
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.59%) Apigee
11 3 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.59%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (1.59%) IaaS
11 3 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.17%) HTTP
2 3 (1.59%) DSL
3 1 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.82%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.17%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.17%) Redis
4 5 (2.65%) InfluxDB
4 5 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.12%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.12%) MySQL
5 4 (2.12%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.59%) Tableau
7 2 (1.06%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.06%) Db2
8 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.53%) Power BI
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 77 (40.74%) Cypress.io
2 51 (26.98%) Postman
3 50 (26.46%) JIRA
4 42 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 35 (18.52%) Git
6 29 (15.34%) JMeter
7 28 (14.81%) GitLab
8 27 (14.29%) REST Assured
9 22 (11.64%) WebDriver
10 21 (11.11%) Cucumber
11 17 (8.99%) JUnit
12 16 (8.47%) SpecFlow
13 15 (7.94%) SoapUI
14 13 (6.88%) Gatling
15 11 (5.82%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (5.82%) TestRail
16 10 (5.29%) SonarQube
17 9 (4.76%) TestNG
17 9 (4.76%) Zephyr
18 8 (4.23%) Maven
General
1 48 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.11%) Finance
3 20 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.17%) Advertising
6 6 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.59%) Aviation
7 3 (1.59%) Retail
8 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.06%) Banking
8 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 43 (22.75%) Lead
2 34 (17.99%) Senior
3 33 (17.46%) Test Engineer
4 29 (15.34%) QA Engineer
5 25 (13.23%) Tester
6 23 (12.17%) Test Leader
7 19 (10.05%) QA Leader
8 15 (7.94%) Automation Tester
8 15 (7.94%) Test Automation Engineer
9 13 (6.88%) Analyst
9 13 (6.88%) Developer
10 10 (5.29%) QA Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
11 9 (4.76%) Test Analyst
12 8 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Java Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Web Engineer
13 7 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (51.85%) Playwright
2 30 (15.87%) .NET
2 30 (15.87%) HTML
3 19 (10.05%) REST
4 15 (7.94%) React
5 14 (7.41%) Node.js
6 13 (6.88%) CSS
6 13 (6.88%) SOAP
6 13 (6.88%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.29%) XML
8 9 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (4.76%) Spring
9 8 (4.23%) Puppeteer
10 7 (3.70%) Jest
10 7 (3.70%) JSON
10 7 (3.70%) Kafka
10 7 (3.70%) pytest
10 7 (3.70%) RESTful
11 6 (3.17%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.59%) Housing Association
5 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.59%) NHS
5 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.06%) FMCG
6 2 (1.06%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.88%) Linux
2 8 (4.23%) Unix
3 7 (3.70%) Windows
4 5 (2.65%) CentOS
5 4 (2.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (75.13%) Test Automation
2 106 (56.08%) Agile
3 97 (51.32%) CI/CD
4 81 (42.86%) DevOps
5 59 (31.22%) Software Testing
6 58 (30.69%) Test Strategy
7 46 (24.34%) API Testing
7 46 (24.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (20.63%) Scrum
8 39 (20.63%) User Acceptance Testing
9 38 (20.11%) Mentoring
10 36 (19.05%) Manual Testing
10 36 (19.05%) Regression Testing
11 33 (17.46%) Non-Functional Testing
11 33 (17.46%) SDLC
12 30 (15.87%) BDD
12 30 (15.87%) Test Management
13 28 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (14.81%) Test Scripting
14 27 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 85 (44.97%) Java
2 50 (26.46%) Python
3 48 (25.40%) C#
4 44 (23.28%) SQL
5 34 (17.99%) JavaScript
6 26 (13.76%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.29%) Bash
8 6 (3.17%) Groovy
9 5 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.12%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.59%) Ruby
11 3 (1.59%) Scala
12 2 (1.06%) Bicep
12 2 (1.06%) C++
12 2 (1.06%) PHP
12 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.53%) JCL
13 1 (0.53%) Perl
13 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (21.16%) ISTQB
2 37 (19.58%) Degree
3 26 (13.76%) Security Cleared
4 21 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 13 (6.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.17%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.53%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (52.91%) QA
2 49 (25.93%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.23%) WCAG
4 5 (2.65%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.12%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.06%) GDPR
6 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (19.58%) Docker
2 5 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (12.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.41%) Terraform
3 12 (6.35%) Grafana
4 8 (4.23%) Ansible
4 8 (4.23%) Kibana
5 7 (3.70%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.70%) logstash
6 5 (2.65%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.59%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.59%) Packer
8 2 (1.06%) MIIS
8 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.53%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (7.41%) Oracle
2 10 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.76%) Google
3 9 (4.76%) Splunk
4 7 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.17%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.65%) VMware
7 4 (2.12%) Veracode
8 3 (1.59%) HP
9 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.06%) YouTube
10 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.53%) eFront
10 1 (0.53%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.53%) Salesforce