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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 387 379
Rank change year-on-year -90 -8 -176
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 229 266 648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.64% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.49% 6.26% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 196 219 478
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.23% -0.41%
75th Percentile £70,313 £73,125 £91,934
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 4,173 4,250 9,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.76% 10.16% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,760 3,014 6,740
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £76,250 £81,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,001 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -70 215 £58,500 -2.50% 69
UK excluding London -97 133 £52,500 -12.50% 61
Work from Home +1 92 £55,200 -8.00% 32
London -12 83 £67,500 +3.85% 27
South East -46 47 £51,000 -15.00% 16
South West -41 30 £47,500 -26.92% 5
Midlands -49 24 £55,200 -13.41% 7
North of England -73 21 £58,750 +6.82% 11
West Midlands -33 20 £52,500 -22.22% 3
Yorkshire -63 9 £59,250 -0.92%
North West -39 8 £55,500 +0.91% 9
Wales -27 7 £55,200 -10.61% 2
East of England -32 4 £62,500 +47.06% 10
North East -37 4 £65,000 +18.18% 2
East Midlands -66 4 £60,000 - 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 19 (8.30%) Confluence
2 3 (1.31%) JBoss
3 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.49%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.87%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (29.26%) Azure
2 53 (23.14%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (20.96%) AWS
4 22 (9.61%) GitHub
5 16 (6.99%) BrowserStack
6 12 (5.24%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (2.62%) SaaS
9 5 (2.18%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.18%) Apigee
9 5 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.18%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.75%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.75%) GCP
10 4 (1.75%) Serverless
10 4 (1.75%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.06%) HTTP
2 5 (2.18%) DNS
3 2 (0.87%) DSL
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.24%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.37%) DB2
5 4 (1.75%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.75%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.75%) Redis
6 3 (1.31%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.31%) Tableau
7 2 (0.87%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.87%) MySQL
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.44%) MS Access
8 1 (0.44%) Power BI
8 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 69 (30.13%) Cypress.io
2 56 (24.45%) Postman
3 54 (23.58%) Jenkins
3 54 (23.58%) JIRA
4 38 (16.59%) Git
5 37 (16.16%) Cucumber
6 34 (14.85%) WebDriver
7 33 (14.41%) GitLab
8 30 (13.10%) JMeter
9 28 (12.23%) SoapUI
10 23 (10.04%) REST Assured
11 21 (9.17%) JUnit
12 20 (8.73%) SpecFlow
13 18 (7.86%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (5.24%) Bitbucket
14 12 (5.24%) Robot Framework
14 12 (5.24%) SonarQube
14 12 (5.24%) TeamCity
14 12 (5.24%) TestRail
15 10 (4.37%) Appium
General
1 73 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.96%) Finance
3 29 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.55%) Banking
5 11 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.49%) Advertising
6 8 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.18%) Retail
8 4 (1.75%) Back Office
9 3 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.31%) Law
10 2 (0.87%) Aviation
10 2 (0.87%) Electronics
10 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (27.07%) Lead
2 37 (16.16%) Senior
3 34 (14.85%) Test Engineer
4 32 (13.97%) QA Engineer
5 30 (13.10%) Test Leader
6 28 (12.23%) Tester
7 27 (11.79%) Developer
8 25 (10.92%) QA Leader
9 23 (10.04%) Analyst
10 20 (8.73%) Test Automation Engineer
11 18 (7.86%) Test Analyst
12 16 (6.99%) Automation Tester
13 14 (6.11%) QA Automation Engineer
14 13 (5.68%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (4.80%) Java Developer
16 10 (4.37%) Senior Developer
17 9 (3.93%) QA Analyst
17 9 (3.93%) Senior Test Engineer
17 9 (3.93%) Software Developer
18 8 (3.49%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (42.36%) Playwright
2 48 (20.96%) .NET
3 45 (19.65%) HTML
4 26 (11.35%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (10.48%) SOAP
6 23 (10.04%) React
6 23 (10.04%) REST
7 19 (8.30%) CSS
8 18 (7.86%) pytest
8 18 (7.86%) Spring Boot
9 16 (6.99%) Gherkin
10 15 (6.55%) Node.js
10 15 (6.55%) Spring
11 14 (6.11%) RESTful
12 11 (4.80%) XML
13 8 (3.49%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.49%) Django
13 8 (3.49%) Flask
13 8 (3.49%) Puppeteer
13 8 (3.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.04%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.99%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.80%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.75%) Derivative
7 4 (1.75%) Equities
7 4 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.31%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.31%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.31%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.87%) FMCG
9 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.17%) Linux
2 13 (5.68%) Windows
3 6 (2.62%) Unix
4 4 (1.75%) CentOS
5 3 (1.31%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (76.42%) Test Automation
2 114 (49.78%) Agile
3 113 (49.34%) CI/CD
4 93 (40.61%) DevOps
5 70 (30.57%) Software Testing
6 59 (25.76%) API Testing
7 54 (23.58%) Scrum
8 51 (22.27%) Mentoring
9 49 (21.40%) BDD
10 48 (20.96%) Test Strategy
11 47 (20.52%) Test Management
12 44 (19.21%) Non-Functional Testing
12 44 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (16.59%) Manual Testing
14 35 (15.28%) Regression Testing
14 35 (15.28%) SDLC
14 35 (15.28%) Test Scripting
15 31 (13.54%) QA Automation
16 29 (12.66%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 112 (48.91%) Java
2 72 (31.44%) SQL
3 68 (29.69%) C#
4 62 (27.07%) Python
5 49 (21.40%) JavaScript
6 34 (14.85%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.37%) Bash
8 8 (3.49%) Delphi
9 5 (2.18%) PHP
10 4 (1.75%) Groovy
10 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.31%) Go
11 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.31%) RPG
12 2 (0.87%) Bicep
12 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.44%) JCL
13 1 (0.44%) Scala
13 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (21.40%) Degree
2 47 (20.52%) ISTQB
3 25 (10.92%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 19 (8.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 15 (6.55%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.49%) ISEB
8 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.62%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (45.85%) QA
2 34 (14.85%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.31%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (19.65%) Docker
2 5 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (14.85%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.17%) Terraform
3 20 (8.73%) Grafana
4 12 (5.24%) Ansible
5 8 (3.49%) HP Fortify
6 6 (2.62%) Kibana
7 5 (2.18%) logstash
8 4 (1.75%) HP ALM
8 4 (1.75%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.75%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.87%) MIIS
9 2 (0.87%) Packer
10 1 (0.44%) Argo
10 1 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (8.73%) Oracle
2 11 (4.80%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.37%) Google
4 9 (3.93%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.06%) Splunk
6 6 (2.62%) Black Duck
6 6 (2.62%) Coverity
7 5 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.75%) HP
8 4 (1.75%) IBM
8 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.75%) VMware
9 3 (1.31%) SAP
9 3 (1.31%) Veracode
10 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.44%) Adobe
11 1 (0.44%) Concur
11 1 (0.44%) Pega
11 1 (0.44%) Siebel