Selenium Job Trends in the Midlands

Selenium
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 153 265 209
Rank change year-on-year +112 -56 +63
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 85 21 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.52% 0.21% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.63% 3.70% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 21 11 22
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +16.16% +4.21%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £71,250 £60,741 £68,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 393 568 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.01% 5.64% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 241 314 429
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.84%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Midlands 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
East Midlands +73 47 £65,000 +30.00% 4
West Midlands +70 38 £59,500 +3.48% 7
Selenium
England

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 47 (55.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (81.18%) Azure
2 63 (74.12%) AWS
3 47 (55.29%) GCP
4 5 (5.88%) SaaS
5 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (75.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.18%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 68 (80.00%) JIRA
2 66 (77.65%) Cucumber
3 64 (75.29%) GitLab
3 64 (75.29%) Maven
4 63 (74.12%) Bitbucket
4 63 (74.12%) SonarQube
4 63 (74.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
6 4 (4.71%) JMeter
7 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.53%) JUnit
7 3 (3.53%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.35%) Appium
8 2 (2.35%) Git
8 2 (2.35%) TestNG
8 2 (2.35%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.18%) MSTest
9 1 (1.18%) NUnit
9 1 (1.18%) TestRail
General
1 66 (77.65%) Finance
2 63 (74.12%) Banking
2 63 (74.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (18.82%) Corporate Banking
3 16 (18.82%) Investment Banking
3 16 (18.82%) Retail
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 63 (74.12%) Software Engineer
2 9 (10.59%) Lead
3 7 (8.24%) Senior
4 6 (7.06%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Tester
6 4 (4.71%) QA Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) QA Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) QA Leader
6 4 (4.71%) Quality Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Senior Quality Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Software Tester
8 2 (2.35%) Analyst
8 2 (2.35%) Automation Test Lead
8 2 (2.35%) Automation Tester
8 2 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.35%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (2.35%) Test Analyst
8 2 (2.35%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) Test Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (74.12%) CSS
1 63 (74.12%) HTML
1 63 (74.12%) JPA
1 63 (74.12%) Kafka
1 63 (74.12%) React
1 63 (74.12%) Redux
1 63 (74.12%) Spring
1 63 (74.12%) Spring Boot
2 47 (55.29%) Hibernate
3 18 (21.18%) REST
4 16 (18.82%) CSS3
4 16 (18.82%) HTML5
4 16 (18.82%) Jest
4 16 (18.82%) RESTful
4 16 (18.82%) Sass
5 6 (7.06%) Playwright
6 2 (2.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 67 (78.82%) Product Ownership
2 63 (74.12%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.35%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.35%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (98.82%) Test Automation
2 75 (88.24%) Agile
3 74 (87.06%) DevOps
4 73 (85.88%) CI/CD
5 69 (81.18%) SDLC
6 64 (75.29%) Software Engineering
7 63 (74.12%) Containerisation
7 63 (74.12%) Front End Development
7 63 (74.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (74.12%) Microservices
7 63 (74.12%) Performance Optimisation
8 52 (61.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (56.47%) TDD
10 47 (55.29%) Clean Code
11 24 (28.24%) Mentoring
12 18 (21.18%) User Experience
13 17 (20.00%) Migration
14 16 (18.82%) Responsive Web Design
14 16 (18.82%) Strategic Thinking
15 8 (9.41%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 71 (83.53%) Java
2 67 (78.82%) JavaScript
3 66 (77.65%) SQL
4 19 (22.35%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.41%) C#
6 5 (5.88%) Groovy
7 2 (2.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (4.71%) ISTQB
2 3 (3.53%) Degree
3 2 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (88.24%) QA
2 17 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 63 (74.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (74.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 63 (74.12%) Solace
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.18%) SAP