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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 168 130
Rank change year-on-year +59 -38 +62
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 44 13 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.86% 0.32% 1.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.14% 3.79% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 36
10th Percentile £47,000 - £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -34.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,188 £60,000 £66,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,000 £76,375
North West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +17.07%

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 175 343 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.38% 8.44% 14.99%
Number of salaries quoted 102 175 333
10th Percentile £41,288 £36,450 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,188 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.00% +8.23%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium 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 September 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 September 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 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - -
Bolton - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Salford - 3 - - 1
Stockport - 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - - 2
Selenium
North West

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (34.09%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (93.18%) AWS
2 34 (77.27%) Azure
3 13 (29.55%) GCP
4 7 (15.91%) GitHub
5 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (2.27%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.27%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (61.36%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (88.64%) JIRA
2 35 (79.55%) Cucumber
2 35 (79.55%) GitLab
3 28 (63.64%) Bitbucket
3 28 (63.64%) Maven
4 27 (61.36%) SonarQube
4 27 (61.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (15.91%) Postman
6 6 (13.64%) JMeter
7 5 (11.36%) Appium
8 4 (9.09%) Fiddler
8 4 (9.09%) LoadRunner
9 2 (4.55%) Gatling
9 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
10 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
10 1 (2.27%) Git
10 1 (2.27%) JUnit
10 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
General
1 37 (84.09%) Finance
2 27 (61.36%) Banking
2 27 (61.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (40.91%) Corporate Banking
3 18 (40.91%) Investment Banking
3 18 (40.91%) Retail
4 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Cantonese Language
5 4 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 4 (9.09%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Marketing
7 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (70.45%) Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Tester
3 6 (13.64%) Java Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Lead
4 4 (9.09%) QA Tester
5 2 (4.55%) Automation Tester
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Principal Java Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Automation Test Lead
6 1 (2.27%) Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Lead Tester
6 1 (2.27%) QA Leader
6 1 (2.27%) Senior
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (75.00%) Kafka
1 33 (75.00%) Spring
1 33 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 28 (63.64%) CSS
2 28 (63.64%) HTML
3 27 (61.36%) JPA
3 27 (61.36%) React
3 27 (61.36%) Redux
4 18 (40.91%) CSS3
4 18 (40.91%) HTML5
4 18 (40.91%) Jest
4 18 (40.91%) REST
4 18 (40.91%) RESTful
4 18 (40.91%) Sass
5 9 (20.45%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.55%) Playwright
7 1 (2.27%) JSR 170
7 1 (2.27%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 28 (63.64%) Enterprise Software
1 28 (63.64%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.64%) Wiki
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Life Science
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (95.45%) Agile
1 42 (95.45%) Test Automation
2 40 (90.91%) CI/CD
3 37 (84.09%) DevOps
4 35 (79.55%) Microservices
5 33 (75.00%) Containerisation
5 33 (75.00%) Software Engineering
6 31 (70.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (65.91%) SDLC
8 27 (61.36%) Front End Development
8 27 (61.36%) Performance Optimisation
9 25 (56.82%) User Experience
10 22 (50.00%) Mentoring
11 18 (40.91%) Migration
11 18 (40.91%) Responsive Web Design
11 18 (40.91%) Strategic Thinking
12 15 (34.09%) TDD
13 12 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (22.73%) Code Quality
15 9 (20.45%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (86.36%) Java
2 32 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 30 (68.18%) SQL
4 18 (40.91%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.36%) Python
6 1 (2.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (79.55%) QA
2 19 (43.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (61.36%) Solace
2 4 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) Adobe
3 1 (2.27%) Siebel