Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 October 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 6 months to 25 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Selenium
England > North East
6 months to
25 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 87 43 55
Rank change year-on-year -44 +12 +19
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 18 28 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.45% 4.06% 3.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.95% 14.07% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 37
10th Percentile " £32,700 £26,600
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £39,674
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +13.42% -6.65%
75th Percentile £43,750 £62,500 £45,000
90th Percentile " " £56,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%

Selenium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for development application skills.

All Development Application Skills
North East
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 259 199 202
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.82% 28.84% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 202 183 152
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £29,775
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,625 £60,000 £51,563
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £59,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% +7.70%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the North East

Selenium
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the North East.

Salary trend for Selenium in the North East

Selenium
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the North East over the 6 months to 25 October 2021.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the North East

Selenium
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the North East region over the 6 months to 25 October 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Tyne and Wear -27 16 £42,500 -5.56% 8
Durham -23 2 £35,000 -41.67% 1
Selenium
England

For the 6 months to 25 October 2021, IT jobs citing Selenium also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region with a requirement for Selenium.

1 15 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 11 (61.11%) Functional Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
3 10 (55.56%) Postman
3 10 (55.56%) Cucumber
3 10 (55.56%) Java
3 10 (55.56%) JMeter
4 9 (50.00%) JIRA
4 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
6 7 (38.89%) Manual Testing
6 7 (38.89%) Software Testing
6 7 (38.89%) HP
6 7 (38.89%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (38.89%) HP ALM
6 7 (38.89%) Defect Management
7 6 (33.33%) REST Assured
7 6 (33.33%) Performance Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Degree
8 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
8 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
8 5 (27.78%) Integration Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (27.78%) Bugzilla
8 5 (27.78%) IBM
8 5 (27.78%) Thought Leadership
8 5 (27.78%) WireMock
8 5 (27.78%) IBM Cloud
8 5 (27.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving

Selenium
Co-occurring IT Skills in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
1 4 (22.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Cucumber
1 10 (55.56%) JMeter
1 10 (55.56%) Postman
2 9 (50.00%) JIRA
3 6 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 5 (27.78%) Bugzilla
5 4 (22.22%) LoadRunner
6 3 (16.67%) NeoLoad
7 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
8 1 (5.56%) Git (software)
8 1 (5.56%) Maven
8 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
8 1 (5.56%) Subversion
8 1 (5.56%) TestNG
8 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (27.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Tester
2 6 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Functional Test Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Selenium Tester
4 4 (22.22%) Software Tester
4 4 (22.22%) Systems Tester
5 3 (16.67%) Automation Tester
6 2 (11.11%) Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Software Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Software Test Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Junior
7 1 (5.56%) QA Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) WireMock
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 11 (61.11%) Functional Testing
3 7 (38.89%) Acceptance Criteria
3 7 (38.89%) Defect Management
3 7 (38.89%) Manual Testing
3 7 (38.89%) Software Testing
4 6 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
5 5 (27.78%) Integration Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
5 5 (27.78%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (22.22%) Load Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Scalability Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Stress Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Scrum
8 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) HP
2 5 (27.78%) IBM
3 4 (22.22%) BroadSoft
3 4 (22.22%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle