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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 155 247
Rank change year-on-year -105 +92 -38
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 19 83 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.12% 1.50% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.87% 22.99% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 13
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,650
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +8.70% +19.79%
75th Percentile £51,625 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,775 £70,750 £60,593
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 390 361 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.49% 6.51% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 222 222 269
10th Percentile £29,525 £34,025 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £57,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +15.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -58 18 £46,250 -24.80% 21
East Midlands -76 1 - - 2
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 5 (26.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (84.21%) Cucumber
2 15 (78.95%) Postman
3 14 (73.68%) GitLab
4 12 (63.16%) Git
5 10 (52.63%) JMeter
6 9 (47.37%) Gatling
6 9 (47.37%) Jenkins
7 7 (36.84%) JUnit
8 5 (26.32%) JIRA
8 5 (26.32%) SoapUI
8 5 (26.32%) Zephyr
9 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
9 4 (21.05%) LoadRunner
9 4 (21.05%) REST Assured
9 4 (21.05%) SonarQube
10 3 (15.79%) Burp Suite
10 3 (15.79%) HP UFT
11 1 (5.26%) Gradle
11 1 (5.26%) Ranorex
11 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) QA Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior QA Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Test Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
7 1 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
7 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) Playwright
2 6 (31.58%) JSON
2 6 (31.58%) XML
3 5 (26.32%) ADO
3 5 (26.32%) SOAP
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Kali Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (89.47%) CI/CD
2 17 (89.47%) Mentoring
3 15 (78.95%) Agile
4 12 (63.16%) Software Testing
5 11 (57.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (52.63%) DevOps
6 10 (52.63%) Test Planning
7 9 (47.37%) Coaching
7 9 (47.37%) OWASP
8 8 (42.11%) Non-Functional Testing
8 8 (42.11%) Scrum
9 7 (36.84%) BDD
9 7 (36.84%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (36.84%) End-to-End Testing
9 7 (36.84%) Functional Testing
9 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (36.84%) Test Strategy
10 6 (31.58%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 6 (31.58%) Degree
4 5 (26.32%) ISEB
4 5 (26.32%) ISTQB
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) QA
2 8 (42.11%) Accessibility
3 6 (31.58%) WCAG
4 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Grafana
2 3 (15.79%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Pega
1 5 (26.32%) SAP
2 3 (15.79%) Veracode
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) NCR