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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 176 280
Rank change year-on-year -56 +104 -119
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 24 42 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.84% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.33% 9.84% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 21 41 31
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 - £65,000
England median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +0.81%

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 379 427 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.98% 8.55% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 293 322 672
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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

Selenium
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 1 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the Midlands

Selenium
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 1 May 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 -36 21 £50,000 -25.93% 7
East Midlands -56 3 £57,600 -4.00% 3
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 (20.83%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) GitHub
3 4 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 3 (12.50%) Siteimprove
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.17%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
3 1 (4.17%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) GitLab
1 8 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (29.17%) Cucumber
2 7 (29.17%) Cypress.io
3 6 (25.00%) JIRA
3 6 (25.00%) Postman
4 5 (20.83%) JMeter
4 5 (20.83%) LoadRunner
4 5 (20.83%) REST Assured
5 4 (16.67%) Burp Suite
5 4 (16.67%) Gatling
5 4 (16.67%) JUnit
5 4 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 4 (16.67%) TestRail
6 3 (12.50%) Git
6 3 (12.50%) HP UFT
6 3 (12.50%) Toad
6 3 (12.50%) Zephyr
7 2 (8.33%) Appium
8 1 (4.17%) TestNG
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Lead
2 10 (41.67%) QA Leader
3 9 (37.50%) QA Engineer
4 8 (33.33%) Senior
5 6 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) Analyst
7 3 (12.50%) QA Analyst
7 3 (12.50%) Test Leader
8 2 (8.33%) Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior QA Analyst
8 2 (8.33%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Tester
9 1 (4.17%) QA Tester
9 1 (4.17%) Quality Analyst
9 1 (4.17%) Senior QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Playwright
2 3 (12.50%) Django
2 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (12.50%) Flask
2 3 (12.50%) pytest
2 3 (12.50%) Spring
2 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.17%) Puppeteer
4 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (4.17%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Kali Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 16 (66.67%) DevOps
3 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 13 (54.17%) Agile
5 11 (45.83%) Performance Testing
6 10 (41.67%) SDLC
6 10 (41.67%) Software Testing
7 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
8 7 (29.17%) Non-Functional Testing
8 7 (29.17%) Validation
9 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 6 (25.00%) Test Management
9 6 (25.00%) Test Planning
10 5 (20.83%) AI
10 5 (20.83%) Exploratory Testing
10 5 (20.83%) Security Testing
10 5 (20.83%) Test Strategy
11 4 (16.67%) Defect Management
11 4 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Java
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) Delphi
5 1 (4.17%) JCL
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Grafana
2 4 (16.67%) HP Fortify
3 3 (12.50%) HP ALM
3 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Veracode
3 3 (12.50%) HP
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk