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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 141 301
Rank change year-on-year -98 +160 -159
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 22 94 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.16% 1.66% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.41% 20.61% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16 30 16
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,375 £33,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,813 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £66,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +26.19% +2.70%
75th Percentile £61,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,625 - £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,650 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.25% -

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 343 456 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.55% 8.05% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 247 294 533
10th Percentile £26,475 £32,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,375 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,679 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -46 21 £50,000 -25.93% 3
East Midlands -64 1 - - 1
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 7 (31.82%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) AWS
4 4 (18.18%) Tricentis Tosca
5 3 (13.64%) Siteimprove
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.55%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau
3 1 (4.55%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) GitLab
1 10 (45.45%) Postman
2 9 (40.91%) Cucumber
3 7 (31.82%) Gatling
3 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
3 7 (31.82%) JIRA
3 7 (31.82%) JMeter
4 6 (27.27%) Cypress.io
5 5 (22.73%) Git
5 5 (22.73%) LoadRunner
5 5 (22.73%) REST Assured
5 5 (22.73%) Zephyr
6 4 (18.18%) Burp Suite
6 4 (18.18%) JUnit
6 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
7 3 (13.64%) HP UFT
7 3 (13.64%) SoapUI
7 3 (13.64%) TestRail
7 3 (13.64%) Toad
8 2 (9.09%) Appium
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Lead
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
3 7 (31.82%) QA Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) QA Leader
4 5 (22.73%) Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (13.64%) QA Analyst
6 3 (13.64%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Senior QA Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Quality Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Test Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Test Leader
8 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) Playwright
2 2 (9.09%) ADO
2 2 (9.09%) JSON
2 2 (9.09%) SOAP
2 2 (9.09%) XML
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.55%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.55%) NHS
3 1 (4.55%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Kali Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 15 (68.18%) Agile
2 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 14 (63.64%) DevOps
4 11 (50.00%) Performance Testing
5 10 (45.45%) Software Testing
6 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 8 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
6 8 (36.36%) SDLC
6 8 (36.36%) Test Planning
7 7 (31.82%) OWASP
7 7 (31.82%) Test Management
7 7 (31.82%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
8 6 (27.27%) Defect Management
8 6 (27.27%) Test Strategy
8 6 (27.27%) Validation
9 5 (22.73%) Scenario Testing
9 5 (22.73%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) JCL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
4 2 (9.09%) ISEB
4 2 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (72.73%) QA
2 6 (27.27%) Accessibility
3 3 (13.64%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (13.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Grafana
1 4 (18.18%) HP Fortify
2 3 (13.64%) HP ALM
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
1 4 (18.18%) Veracode
2 3 (13.64%) HP
3 2 (9.09%) Pega
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk