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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 212 202
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +60
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 21 39 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.27% 0.57% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.89% 7.41% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 19 27 17
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £55,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.45% -9.26%
75th Percentile £64,750 £62,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,250 £67,500 £53,311
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,254
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.41% +3.76%

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 305 526 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.86% 7.74% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 232 310 383
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,675 £73,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,339 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.18% -5.63% -

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 26 December 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 26 December 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
West Midlands +28 14 £57,500 -0.40% 37
East Midlands -19 7 £60,000 - 27
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
1 6 (28.57%) SaaS
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 5 (23.81%) Git
3 4 (19.05%) GitLab
3 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (19.05%) JUnit
4 3 (14.29%) Postman
5 2 (9.52%) JIRA
5 2 (9.52%) JMeter
5 2 (9.52%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
5 2 (9.52%) TestRail
6 1 (4.76%) Appium
6 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.76%) Gatling
6 1 (4.76%) MSTest
6 1 (4.76%) NUnit
6 1 (4.76%) TestNG
6 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Law
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Lead
2 9 (42.86%) QA Leader
3 8 (38.10%) Senior
4 7 (33.33%) QA Engineer
5 6 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (28.57%) QA Automation Engineer
5 6 (28.57%) Tester
6 3 (14.29%) Software Tester
7 2 (9.52%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (9.52%) Automation Tester
7 2 (9.52%) Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Test Leader
8 1 (4.76%) Junior Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Playwright
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) Django
2 3 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (14.29%) Flask
2 3 (14.29%) pytest
2 3 (14.29%) Spring
2 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.52%) React
4 1 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
4 9 (42.86%) API Testing
5 7 (33.33%) Coaching
6 6 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
6 6 (28.57%) QA Automation
6 6 (28.57%) Software Testing
7 5 (23.81%) BDD
7 5 (23.81%) SDLC
7 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
7 5 (23.81%) TDD
8 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (19.05%) Exploratory Testing
8 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
8 4 (19.05%) Microservices
8 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) C#
2 7 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) Delphi
4 3 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Grafana
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft