Selenium Job Trends in the Midlands

Selenium
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands citing Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 26 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	269	144	248
Rank change year-on-year	-125	+104	-39
Permanent jobs citing Selenium	19	82	26
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands	0.12%	1.48%	0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category	4.75%	22.91%	5.17%
Number of salaries quoted	8	17	13
10^th Percentile	£42,500	£38,500	£32,650
25^th Percentile	£45,313	£53,750	£55,188
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£53,000	£62,500	£57,500
Median % change year-on-year	-15.20%	+8.70%	+19.79%
75^th Percentile	£62,000	£67,500	£60,000
90^th Percentile	-	£71,000	£60,593
England median annual salary	£62,000	£60,000	£60,250
% change year-on-year	+3.33%	-0.41%	+0.42%

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 citing development application skills in the Midlands.

	6 months to 26 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing development application skills	400	358	503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands	2.52%	6.46%	5.66%
Number of salaries quoted	227	218	252
10^th Percentile	£31,850	£32,500	£32,500
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£41,250	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£57,500	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	-8.70%	+9.52%	-8.30%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£72,500	£62,500
90^th Percentile	£75,000	£73,750	£72,500
England median annual salary	£62,500	£60,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+3.31%	+0.83%	-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 Salary Trend in the Midlands

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 October 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 26 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Midlands	-66	18	£53,000	-13.82%	6
East Midlands	-79	1	-	-	1
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Selenium Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 October 2026, job vacancies citing Selenium also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region citing Selenium.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Test Automation	100.0%	19
2	CI/CD	89.5%	17
2	Mentoring	89.5%	17
4	Cucumber	73.7%	14
5	Agile	68.4%	13
5	Playwright	68.4%	13
5	Postman	68.4%	13
8	AWS	63.2%	12
8	Git	63.2%	12
8	GitLab	63.2%	12
8	Software Testing	63.2%	12
12	Coaching	57.9%	11
12	Java	57.9%	11
12	QA	57.9%	11
12	User Acceptance Testing	57.9%	11
16	Accessibility	52.6%	10
16	Azure	52.6%	10
16	Non-Functional Testing	52.6%	10
16	Scrum	52.6%	10
16	Test Planning	52.6%	10
21	Functional Testing	47.4%	9
21	Test Strategy	47.4%	9
23	DevOps	42.1%	8
23	JMeter	42.1%	8
23	Security Cleared	42.1%	8
26	BDD	36.8%	7
26	Continuous Integration	36.8%	7
26	Docker	36.8%	7
26	End-to-End Testing	36.8%	7
26	Gatling	36.8%	7

Selenium Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cucumber	73.7%	14
2	Postman	68.4%	13
3	Git	63.2%	12
3	GitLab	63.2%	12
5	JMeter	42.1%	8
6	Gatling	36.8%	7
6	Jenkins	36.8%	7
6	JUnit	36.8%	7
9	JIRA	26.3%	5
9	SoapUI	26.3%	5
9	Zephyr	26.3%	5
12	Cypress.io	10.5%	2
12	LoadRunner	10.5%	2
12	REST Assured	10.5%	2
12	SonarQube	10.5%	2
16	Burp Suite	5.3%	1
16	Gradle	5.3%	1
16	HP UFT	5.3%	1
16	Maven	5.3%	1
16	Ranorex	5.3%	1