Selenium Job Trends in Manchester

Selenium
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 158 112
Rank change year-on-year +38 -46 +69
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 11 14 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.46% 0.39% 1.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.80% 4.43% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 26
10th Percentile £54,750 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,250 £38,188 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £45,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.52% -23.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £69,063 £63,750 £66,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,250 £84,000
North West median annual salary £62,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +37.78% -25.00% +20.00%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 141 316 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.89% 8.84% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 104 143 284
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,350 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £59,263
% change year-on-year +2.38% -11.41% +7.75%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in Manchester

Selenium
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in Manchester

Selenium
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. 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
Altrincham - 1 - -
Selenium
North West

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Cucumber
2 5 (45.45%) GitLab
3 4 (36.36%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) Gatling
4 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 2 (18.18%) JMeter
4 2 (18.18%) Postman
5 1 (9.09%) Appium
5 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
5 1 (9.09%) Git
5 1 (9.09%) JUnit
5 1 (9.09%) Maven
5 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
5 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) QA Automation Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) QA Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) QA Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) JSR 170
3 1 (9.09%) OSGi
3 1 (9.09%) pytest
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
1 3 (27.27%) Wiki
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Life Science
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 5 (45.45%) Microservices
5 4 (36.36%) API Testing
5 4 (36.36%) QA Automation
6 3 (27.27%) API Development
6 3 (27.27%) Coaching
6 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
6 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) TDD
7 2 (18.18%) BDD
7 2 (18.18%) Information Security
7 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe