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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 176 260
Rank change year-on-year -46 +84 -89
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 11 45 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.85% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.42% 9.83% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10 39 33
10th Percentile £40,358 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.45% -10.09%
75th Percentile £64,188 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,775 - £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%

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 322 458 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.34% 8.70% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 242 321 643
10th Percentile £27,525 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,950 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Selenium job vacancy trend 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 9 March 2026.

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 9 March 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
West Midlands -12 8 £60,000 -11.11% 12
East Midlands -40 3 £60,000 - 5
Selenium
England

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Cucumber
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) JUnit
2 3 (27.27%) Postman
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) Gatling
4 1 (9.09%) TestRail
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Lead
1 6 (54.55%) QA Leader
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) QA Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Tester
5 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Playwright
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) Django
2 3 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (27.27%) Flask
2 3 (27.27%) pytest
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
4 6 (54.55%) Agile
5 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
6 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (36.36%) Microservices
6 4 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 4 (36.36%) TDD
6 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (27.27%) API Testing
7 3 (27.27%) BDD
7 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 3 (27.27%) SDLC
7 3 (27.27%) Secure Coding
7 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (18.18%) API Development
8 2 (18.18%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Delphi
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Grafana
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow