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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 133 189
Rank change year-on-year -21 +56 -22
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 7 11 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.16% 0.54% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.61% 4.66% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 15
10th Percentile £43,500 £44,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,125 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +47.37% -17.39%
75th Percentile £66,125 £88,125 £69,375
90th Percentile £71,000 £95,000 £70,000
North West median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -7.50% +23.08% -18.75%

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 194 236 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.36% 11.69% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 149 178 371
10th Percentile £28,850 £42,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% +16.59% -3.40%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £90,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 3 April 2026.

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 3 April 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
Stockport - 1 £72,500 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Postman
2 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
4 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
1 2 (28.57%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Puppeteer
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) QA Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
4 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
4 1 (14.29%) People Management
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) PHP
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA