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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 287 414
Rank change year-on-year -280 +127 -222
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 186 482 615
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 1.07% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.34% 11.74% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 146 193 416
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £69,126 £71,250 £79,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £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 4,281 4,106 9,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 9.08% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,831 2,596 6,421
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £92,500
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 24 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 24 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 -247 160 £57,500 - 34
UK excluding London -239 112 £55,000 -4.35% 35
Work from Home -199 63 £57,500 - 12
London -35 57 £65,000 +13.04% 8
South West -56 29 £51,250 -24.07% 1
South East -29 28 £52,500 -12.50% 10
Midlands -97 19 £50,000 -25.93% 5
West Midlands -44 18 £50,000 -25.93% 3
North of England -154 18 £57,500 +4.55% 12
Wales -40 10 £49,750 -12.72%
North West -106 9 £57,500 +4.55% 5
East of England -42 6 £62,500 +17.92% 2
Yorkshire -51 6 £59,038 +1.97% 2
North East -44 3 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Scotland -44 2 £48,500 -7.62% 4
East Midlands -71 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 16 (8.60%) Confluence
2 3 (1.61%) JBoss
3 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 72 (38.71%) Azure
2 53 (28.49%) AWS
2 53 (28.49%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (11.29%) GitHub
4 17 (9.14%) BrowserStack
5 13 (6.99%) Serverless
6 11 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.84%) GCP
7 9 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.76%) Tricentis Tosca
9 6 (3.23%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.23%) SaaS
10 5 (2.69%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.69%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.15%) BlazeMeter
11 4 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.61%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.61%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (1.61%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) HTTP
2 3 (1.61%) DSL
3 1 (0.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.76%) DynamoDB
2 7 (3.76%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.23%) InfluxDB
3 6 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.23%) Redis
4 5 (2.69%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.15%) MySQL
5 4 (2.15%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.61%) Tableau
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.54%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.54%) Db2
7 1 (0.54%) Power BI
7 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.54%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 77 (41.40%) Cypress.io
2 48 (25.81%) Postman
3 45 (24.19%) Jenkins
4 44 (23.66%) JIRA
5 40 (21.51%) Git
6 32 (17.20%) JMeter
7 29 (15.59%) GitLab
7 29 (15.59%) REST Assured
8 21 (11.29%) Cucumber
9 18 (9.68%) JUnit
10 17 (9.14%) WebDriver
11 16 (8.60%) SpecFlow
12 14 (7.53%) Gatling
13 13 (6.99%) TestRail
14 11 (5.91%) SoapUI
15 10 (5.38%) SonarQube
15 10 (5.38%) Zephyr
16 8 (4.30%) Appium
16 8 (4.30%) Robot Framework
16 8 (4.30%) TestNG
General
1 41 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.82%) Finance
3 21 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.23%) Advertising
6 6 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.61%) Aviation
7 3 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.61%) Retail
8 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.54%) Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Marketing
9 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.54%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 44 (23.66%) Lead
2 35 (18.82%) Senior
3 34 (18.28%) Test Engineer
4 29 (15.59%) QA Engineer
5 23 (12.37%) Test Leader
6 22 (11.83%) Tester
7 20 (10.75%) QA Leader
8 17 (9.14%) Test Automation Engineer
9 15 (8.06%) Developer
10 13 (6.99%) Automation Tester
11 12 (6.45%) Analyst
12 10 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.38%) QA Automation Engineer
13 9 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.84%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.84%) Senior Test Engineer
14 8 (4.30%) Java Engineer
14 8 (4.30%) Web Engineer
15 7 (3.76%) Test Analyst
16 6 (3.23%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (54.30%) Playwright
2 26 (13.98%) HTML
3 25 (13.44%) .NET
4 19 (10.22%) REST
5 16 (8.60%) Spring Boot
6 15 (8.06%) Node.js
6 15 (8.06%) React
7 13 (6.99%) CSS
8 12 (6.45%) Spring
9 10 (5.38%) XML
10 9 (4.84%) Kafka
10 9 (4.84%) SOAP
11 8 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.30%) Jest
11 8 (4.30%) Puppeteer
11 8 (4.30%) pytest
11 8 (4.30%) RESTful
12 7 (3.76%) JSON
12 7 (3.76%) Swagger
13 6 (3.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.37%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.99%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.15%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.61%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.61%) NHS
7 3 (1.61%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.08%) FMCG
9 1 (0.54%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.54%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.54%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.53%) Linux
2 8 (4.30%) Unix
2 8 (4.30%) Windows
3 6 (3.23%) CentOS
4 4 (2.15%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.08%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (75.27%) Test Automation
2 104 (55.91%) Agile
3 103 (55.38%) CI/CD
4 83 (44.62%) DevOps
5 59 (31.72%) Test Strategy
6 58 (31.18%) Software Testing
7 47 (25.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (23.12%) API Testing
9 39 (20.97%) User Acceptance Testing
10 38 (20.43%) Manual Testing
10 38 (20.43%) Regression Testing
11 36 (19.35%) Scrum
11 36 (19.35%) SDLC
12 35 (18.82%) Mentoring
13 32 (17.20%) AI
14 31 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
15 30 (16.13%) BDD
16 28 (15.05%) Test Management
17 27 (14.52%) Acceptance Criteria
17 27 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 83 (44.62%) Java
2 51 (27.42%) Python
3 42 (22.58%) C#
4 39 (20.97%) SQL
5 35 (18.82%) JavaScript
6 25 (13.44%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.38%) Bash
8 6 (3.23%) Groovy
8 6 (3.23%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.69%) Ruby
9 5 (2.69%) Scala
10 2 (1.08%) Bicep
10 2 (1.08%) C++
10 2 (1.08%) PHP
10 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.54%) JCL
11 1 (0.54%) Perl
11 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (19.89%) ISTQB
2 31 (16.67%) Degree
3 30 (16.13%) Security Cleared
4 23 (12.37%) SC Cleared
5 15 (8.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 11 (5.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.23%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (52.69%) QA
2 50 (26.88%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.91%) WCAG
4 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.15%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.08%) GDPR
6 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (20.97%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (13.44%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.60%) Terraform
3 12 (6.45%) Grafana
4 9 (4.84%) Ansible
4 9 (4.84%) Kibana
5 8 (4.30%) logstash
6 7 (3.76%) HP Fortify
7 6 (3.23%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.61%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.61%) Packer
9 2 (1.08%) MIIS
10 1 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.53%) Oracle
2 11 (5.91%) Splunk
3 8 (4.30%) Google
3 8 (4.30%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.23%) VMware
6 4 (2.15%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.15%) Veracode
7 3 (1.61%) HP
8 2 (1.08%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.08%) YouTube
9 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.54%) eFront
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce