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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 148 266
Rank change year-on-year -96 +118 -56
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 29 89 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.20% 1.53% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.84% 20.32% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 17 25 12
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +41.30% -12.38%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £57,813
90th Percentile £65,250 - £60,542
England median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £57,965
% change year-on-year +3.48% -0.80% -3.39%

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 370 438 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.52% 7.52% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 245 276 385
10th Percentile £27,500 £34,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,750 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +13.24% -11.30%
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,900 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -33 28 £47,500 -24.00% 9
East Midlands -67 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 8 (27.59%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 11 (37.93%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) Tricentis Tosca
4 3 (10.34%) Siteimprove
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
3 1 (3.45%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 17 (58.62%) Cucumber
1 17 (58.62%) Postman
2 16 (55.17%) GitLab
3 12 (41.38%) JMeter
4 11 (37.93%) Gatling
4 11 (37.93%) Git
4 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
5 8 (27.59%) Cypress.io
5 8 (27.59%) JIRA
5 8 (27.59%) JUnit
6 7 (24.14%) LoadRunner
6 7 (24.14%) REST Assured
6 7 (24.14%) Zephyr
7 6 (20.69%) SonarQube
8 5 (17.24%) Burp Suite
8 5 (17.24%) SoapUI
9 4 (13.79%) HP UFT
10 3 (10.34%) TestRail
10 3 (10.34%) Toad
11 2 (6.90%) Appium
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Senior
2 9 (31.03%) Lead
3 7 (24.14%) QA Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) QA Leader
4 6 (20.69%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Analyst
5 5 (17.24%) Senior Quality Engineer
6 4 (13.79%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) QA Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Automation Test Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Senior QA Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Test Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (72.41%) Playwright
2 5 (17.24%) JSON
2 5 (17.24%) XML
3 4 (13.79%) ADO
3 4 (13.79%) SOAP
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.45%) Puppeteer
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (3.45%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Kali Linux
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (93.10%) Test Automation
2 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 21 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 17 (58.62%) DevOps
4 15 (51.72%) Mentoring
4 15 (51.72%) Software Testing
5 12 (41.38%) Performance Testing
5 12 (41.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (37.93%) OWASP
6 11 (37.93%) Test Planning
7 10 (34.48%) Non-Functional Testing
8 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (31.03%) SDLC
8 9 (31.03%) Test Management
8 9 (31.03%) Test Strategy
8 9 (31.03%) Validation
9 8 (27.59%) BDD
9 8 (27.59%) Defect Management
9 8 (27.59%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (27.59%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Java
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) JCL
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
2 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (13.79%) ISEB
4 4 (13.79%) ISTQB
4 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (62.07%) QA
2 9 (31.03%) Accessibility
3 6 (20.69%) WCAG
4 3 (10.34%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Grafana
2 5 (17.24%) HP Fortify
3 3 (10.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Veracode
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Pega
2 4 (13.79%) SAP
3 3 (10.34%) HP
4 1 (3.45%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) NCR
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk