Selenium Job Trends in England

Selenium
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 402 322
Rank change year-on-year -9 -80 -105
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 214 284 546
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.63% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.57% 5.93% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 184 172 455
10th Percentile £37,150 £41,375 £42,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £50,486
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,257 4,786 7,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.62% 10.62% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,224 2,718 5,837
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,375 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Selenium job vacancy trend in England

Selenium
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in England

Selenium
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the England region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
London +48 88 £66,250 -3.28% 32
South East -22 69 £48,750 -27.78% 27
South West -6 23 £47,500 -38.71% 4
Midlands -20 13 £60,000 - 3
North of England -36 12 £54,250 +20.56% 12
West Midlands +3 9 £58,750 -9.62% 3
North West +4 6 £55,000 +22.22% 7
Yorkshire -50 5 £53,500 +64.69% 5
East Midlands -28 4 £60,000 -
East of England +18 2 £52,500 +31.25% 7
North East -3 1 £55,200 +47.20%
Selenium
UK

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (7.94%) Confluence
2 4 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.40%) Apache
3 3 (1.40%) Appian
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (5.14%) MS Visio
2 9 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.40%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (28.97%) Azure
2 55 (25.70%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (21.96%) AWS
4 18 (8.41%) GitHub
5 11 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (4.67%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.74%) OpenShift
7 8 (3.74%) SaaS
8 7 (3.27%) BrowserStack
8 7 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.34%) Adobe Analytics
9 5 (2.34%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.40%) Datadog
10 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.40%) MinIO
11 2 (0.93%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (0.93%) Figma
11 2 (0.93%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.93%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.93%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.61%) DNS
2 5 (2.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) SSH
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.75%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.54%) Relational Database
4 13 (6.07%) DB2
5 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.40%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.40%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.93%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.93%) Tableau
8 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.47%) Big Data
8 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 65 (30.37%) JIRA
2 61 (28.50%) Postman
3 51 (23.83%) Jenkins
4 49 (22.90%) Cypress.io
5 46 (21.50%) WebDriver
6 44 (20.56%) Git
7 41 (19.16%) Cucumber
8 33 (15.42%) SoapUI
9 25 (11.68%) Team Foundation Server
10 22 (10.28%) Robot Framework
11 21 (9.81%) GitLab
11 21 (9.81%) JMeter
12 19 (8.88%) JUnit
13 18 (8.41%) Snyk
14 17 (7.94%) REST Assured
15 14 (6.54%) Bitbucket
15 14 (6.54%) SpecFlow
16 13 (6.07%) TeamCity
17 12 (5.61%) LoadRunner
18 11 (5.14%) Appium
General
1 82 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 57 (26.64%) Finance
3 42 (19.63%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.41%) Banking
5 13 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.61%) Law
7 11 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.80%) Retail
9 5 (2.34%) Advertising
9 5 (2.34%) Electronics
10 4 (1.87%) Marketing
11 3 (1.40%) Back Office
12 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.47%) Games
13 1 (0.47%) International Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.47%) Publishing
13 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (28.04%) Lead
2 36 (16.82%) Senior
3 35 (16.36%) Test Engineer
4 31 (14.49%) Developer
5 26 (12.15%) Test Leader
6 24 (11.21%) Analyst
6 24 (11.21%) Tester
7 23 (10.75%) Test Analyst
7 23 (10.75%) Test Automation Engineer
8 20 (9.35%) QA Engineer
9 19 (8.88%) QA Leader
10 13 (6.07%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Automation Tester
10 13 (6.07%) Java Developer
11 12 (5.61%) QA Automation Engineer
11 12 (5.61%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.67%) Automation Test Lead
13 8 (3.74%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.74%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (3.27%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (29.44%) Playwright
2 48 (22.43%) HTML
3 43 (20.09%) .NET
4 32 (14.95%) SOAP
5 26 (12.15%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (11.21%) REST
7 22 (10.28%) React
8 20 (9.35%) CSS
9 18 (8.41%) pytest
10 16 (7.48%) Gherkin
10 16 (7.48%) RESTful
11 13 (6.07%) Node.js
12 12 (5.61%) Spring
13 11 (5.14%) Kafka
14 10 (4.67%) Spring Boot
15 7 (3.27%) Django
15 7 (3.27%) Flask
15 7 (3.27%) Middleware
16 6 (2.80%) Swagger
16 6 (2.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.68%) Product Ownership
2 19 (8.88%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (7.01%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (5.14%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.87%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.40%) Derivative
7 3 (1.40%) Equities
7 3 (1.40%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.40%) W3C
8 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.68%) Linux
2 16 (7.48%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) CentOS
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (81.31%) Test Automation
2 118 (55.14%) Agile
3 110 (51.40%) CI/CD
4 85 (39.72%) DevOps
5 75 (35.05%) Software Testing
6 66 (30.84%) API Testing
7 65 (30.37%) Test Management
8 63 (29.44%) Scrum
9 56 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (24.77%) Mentoring
11 50 (23.36%) BDD
11 50 (23.36%) Non-Functional Testing
12 48 (22.43%) Test Scripting
13 40 (18.69%) Test Strategy
14 35 (16.36%) Microservices
15 34 (15.89%) Manual Testing
16 33 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (14.95%) SDLC
18 26 (12.15%) Cross-Browser Testing
19 25 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 109 (50.93%) Java
2 79 (36.92%) SQL
3 72 (33.64%) C#
4 60 (28.04%) Python
5 48 (22.43%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.41%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.27%) Delphi
8 5 (2.34%) Bash
8 5 (2.34%) Go
8 5 (2.34%) PHP
9 3 (1.40%) RPG
10 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.93%) Scala
11 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.47%) Perl
11 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (25.23%) Degree
2 50 (23.36%) ISTQB
3 37 (17.29%) Security Cleared
4 26 (12.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 21 (9.81%) DV Cleared
6 19 (8.88%) SC Cleared
7 13 (6.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (4.67%) ISEB
10 5 (2.34%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (41.59%) QA
2 33 (15.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.40%) SEPA
5 2 (0.93%) WCAG
6 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (16.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.47%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.62%) Terraform
3 19 (8.88%) Ansible
4 13 (6.07%) Grafana
5 5 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.87%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.40%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.93%) Control-M
8 2 (0.93%) Nessus
9 1 (0.47%) Argo
9 1 (0.47%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.47%) Kibana
9 1 (0.47%) logstash
9 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (8.41%) Black Duck
1 18 (8.41%) Coverity
2 16 (7.48%) Oracle
3 10 (4.67%) Atlassian
4 8 (3.74%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.80%) Google
5 6 (2.80%) IBM
6 5 (2.34%) Adobe
6 5 (2.34%) Splunk
7 4 (1.87%) SAP
7 4 (1.87%) VMware
8 3 (1.40%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (1.40%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.40%) HP
8 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.40%) Siebel
8 3 (1.40%) Tealium
8 3 (1.40%) UiPath
9 2 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace