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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 156 117
Rank change year-on-year +47 -39 +54
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 39 14 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.69% 0.38% 1.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.22% 4.44% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 28
10th Percentile £58,400 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,625 £38,188 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £45,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.81% -23.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,875 £66,500
90th Percentile - £67,750 £84,000
North West median annual salary £66,250 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +47.22% -25.00% +14.29%

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 161 315 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.98% 8.55% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 94 145 300
10th Percentile £39,500 £36,950 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,500 £67,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £81,750 £77,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +2.38% -11.80% +8.23%

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
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 28 October 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 - 4 - -
Salford +17 3 - -
Stockport - 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - -
Bolton - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
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 15 (38.46%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 37 (94.87%) AWS
2 29 (74.36%) Azure
3 9 (23.08%) GCP
4 7 (17.95%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (69.23%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (89.74%) Cucumber
1 35 (89.74%) GitLab
2 34 (87.18%) JIRA
3 28 (71.79%) Bitbucket
3 28 (71.79%) Maven
4 27 (69.23%) SonarQube
4 27 (69.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.13%) Gatling
5 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.13%) JMeter
6 1 (2.56%) Appium
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) Git
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
General
1 33 (84.62%) Finance
2 27 (69.23%) Banking
2 27 (69.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (46.15%) Corporate Banking
3 18 (46.15%) Investment Banking
3 18 (46.15%) Retail
4 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (79.49%) Software Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Java Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Principal Java Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) QA Leader
6 1 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Automation Test Lead
6 1 (2.56%) Automation Tester
6 1 (2.56%) Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Lead Tester
6 1 (2.56%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (84.62%) Kafka
1 33 (84.62%) Spring
1 33 (84.62%) Spring Boot
2 28 (71.79%) CSS
2 28 (71.79%) HTML
3 27 (69.23%) JPA
3 27 (69.23%) React
3 27 (69.23%) Redux
4 18 (46.15%) CSS3
4 18 (46.15%) HTML5
4 18 (46.15%) Jest
4 18 (46.15%) REST
4 18 (46.15%) RESTful
4 18 (46.15%) Sass
5 9 (23.08%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.13%) Playwright
7 1 (2.56%) JSR 170
7 1 (2.56%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 29 (74.36%) Product Ownership
2 27 (69.23%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (15.38%) Wiki
4 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) Life Science
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (94.87%) DevOps
1 37 (94.87%) Test Automation
2 36 (92.31%) Agile
2 36 (92.31%) CI/CD
3 35 (89.74%) Microservices
4 33 (84.62%) Containerisation
4 33 (84.62%) Software Engineering
5 31 (79.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (74.36%) SDLC
7 27 (69.23%) Front End Development
7 27 (69.23%) Performance Optimisation
8 23 (58.97%) Mentoring
9 21 (53.85%) User Experience
10 18 (46.15%) Migration
10 18 (46.15%) Responsive Web Design
10 18 (46.15%) Strategic Thinking
11 15 (38.46%) TDD
12 12 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (23.08%) Clean Code
14 6 (15.38%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (87.18%) Java
2 29 (74.36%) SQL
3 28 (71.79%) JavaScript
4 18 (46.15%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.13%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (79.49%) QA
2 18 (46.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (84.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (84.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (69.23%) Solace
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe