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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 288 418
Rank change year-on-year -254 +130 -224
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 195 481 609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 1.10% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.64% 11.73% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 158 197 434
10th Percentile £39,221 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £69,169 £71,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £81,125 £83,750 £98,500
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 4,200 4,101 9,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.51% 9.42% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 2,664 6,573
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.73% -9.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
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 3 June 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 3 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 -218 177 £59,500 -0.83% 63
UK excluding London -245 110 £52,500 -8.70% 58
Work from Home -172 77 £55,698 -7.17% 42
London -18 69 £67,500 +7.14% 17
South East -20 36 £51,000 -15.00% 4
South West -54 27 £55,000 -18.52% 7
Midlands -104 19 £50,000 -25.93% 11
West Midlands -68 18 £50,000 -25.93% 8
North of England -149 16 £61,250 +10.36% 16
East of England -41 7 £62,500 +17.92% 3
North West -109 7 £56,000 +1.82% 11
Yorkshire -56 6 £59,038 +1.97% 5
Wales -38 5 £52,000 -30.67% 3
North East -48 3 £65,000 +18.18%
East Midlands -58 1 - - 3

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 (8.72%) Confluence
2 3 (1.54%) JBoss
3 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.85%) Azure
2 52 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (20.51%) AWS
4 17 (8.72%) GitHub
5 16 (8.21%) BrowserStack
6 7 (3.59%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.59%) Tricentis Tosca
7 6 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.56%) GCP
8 5 (2.56%) SaaS
9 4 (2.05%) Apigee
9 4 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.05%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.05%) Serverless
10 3 (1.54%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.54%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.54%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) HTTP
2 3 (1.54%) DSL
3 1 (0.51%) Broadband
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.05%) DB2
4 4 (2.05%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.05%) Redis
5 3 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.54%) Tableau
6 2 (1.03%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.03%) MySQL
7 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.51%) MS Access
7 1 (0.51%) Power BI
7 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.51%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 74 (37.95%) Cypress.io
2 54 (27.69%) Postman
3 52 (26.67%) JIRA
4 42 (21.54%) Jenkins
5 31 (15.90%) Git
6 27 (13.85%) JMeter
6 27 (13.85%) WebDriver
7 25 (12.82%) GitLab
8 24 (12.31%) REST Assured
9 21 (10.77%) Cucumber
10 20 (10.26%) SoapUI
11 16 (8.21%) SpecFlow
12 15 (7.69%) JUnit
12 15 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (6.15%) Gatling
14 10 (5.13%) SonarQube
15 9 (4.62%) TestNG
15 9 (4.62%) TestRail
16 8 (4.10%) Appium
16 8 (4.10%) Maven
General
1 53 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.54%) Finance
3 19 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.59%) Advertising
7 6 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.05%) Banking
8 4 (2.05%) Retail
9 3 (1.54%) Aviation
10 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.03%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 49 (25.13%) Lead
2 33 (16.92%) Senior
3 32 (16.41%) Test Engineer
4 29 (14.87%) QA Engineer
5 25 (12.82%) Test Leader
5 25 (12.82%) Tester
6 19 (9.74%) QA Leader
7 17 (8.72%) Analyst
8 16 (8.21%) Automation Tester
9 15 (7.69%) Developer
9 15 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
10 13 (6.67%) Test Analyst
11 10 (5.13%) QA Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Web Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (3.59%) Test Manager
15 6 (3.08%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (49.74%) Playwright
2 35 (17.95%) .NET
3 34 (17.44%) HTML
4 18 (9.23%) SOAP
5 17 (8.72%) REST
6 15 (7.69%) React
7 12 (6.15%) CSS
8 10 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (5.13%) Node.js
8 10 (5.13%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.13%) XML
9 9 (4.62%) RESTful
10 8 (4.10%) Puppeteer
11 7 (3.59%) Gherkin
11 7 (3.59%) JSON
11 7 (3.59%) Kafka
11 7 (3.59%) Spring
12 6 (3.08%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.08%) pytest
12 6 (3.08%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.54%) Housing Association
5 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.54%) NHS
5 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.03%) FMCG
6 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.18%) Linux
2 8 (4.10%) Unix
3 6 (3.08%) Windows
4 4 (2.05%) CentOS
4 4 (2.05%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (74.36%) Test Automation
2 107 (54.87%) Agile
3 96 (49.23%) CI/CD
4 78 (40.00%) DevOps
5 60 (30.77%) Software Testing
6 54 (27.69%) Test Strategy
7 50 (25.64%) API Testing
8 45 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (22.56%) Scrum
10 40 (20.51%) Mentoring
11 38 (19.49%) Non-Functional Testing
11 38 (19.49%) User Acceptance Testing
12 37 (18.97%) Manual Testing
13 34 (17.44%) Regression Testing
14 33 (16.92%) Test Management
15 32 (16.41%) SDLC
16 31 (15.90%) BDD
16 31 (15.90%) Test Scripting
17 28 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
18 27 (13.85%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (45.13%) Java
2 54 (27.69%) C#
3 51 (26.15%) SQL
4 48 (24.62%) Python
5 34 (17.44%) JavaScript
6 27 (13.85%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.62%) Bash
8 6 (3.08%) Groovy
9 4 (2.05%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.54%) Scala
11 2 (1.03%) Bicep
11 2 (1.03%) C++
11 2 (1.03%) PHP
11 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.51%) JCL
12 1 (0.51%) Perl
12 1 (0.51%) RPG
12 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (20.51%) Degree
1 40 (20.51%) ISTQB
2 24 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 13 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.56%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.51%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (51.28%) QA
2 44 (22.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.05%) Software Quality Assurance
4 4 (2.05%) WCAG
5 2 (1.03%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (17.44%) Docker
2 5 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.18%) Terraform
3 11 (5.64%) Grafana
4 8 (4.10%) Ansible
5 7 (3.59%) HP Fortify
5 7 (3.59%) Kibana
6 6 (3.08%) logstash
7 4 (2.05%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.54%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.54%) Packer
9 2 (1.03%) MIIS
9 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (6.15%) Oracle
2 9 (4.62%) Google
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.10%) Splunk
4 7 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.08%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.05%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.05%) Veracode
6 4 (2.05%) VMware
7 3 (1.54%) HP
8 2 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.03%) YouTube
9 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.51%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.51%) Concur
9 1 (0.51%) Coverity
9 1 (0.51%) eFront
9 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.51%) SAP