Selenium Job Trends in the North of England

Selenium
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 225 296
Rank change year-on-year -47 +71 -128
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 21 27 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.42% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.11% 4.29% 4.84%
Number of salaries quoted 19 22 58
10th Percentile £47,000 £32,358 £41,375
25th Percentile £49,875 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £57,500 £54,584
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.34% -0.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,840 £89,951
90th Percentile £73,140 £91,625 £100,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 675 630 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.54% 9.73% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 500 454 1,110
10th Percentile - £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,625 £76,840 £73,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,354 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Selenium job vacancy trend in the North of England

Selenium
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the North of England

Selenium
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 March 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
Yorkshire -47 10 £53,500 -10.83% 8
North West -24 7 £55,000 -15.38% 10
North East -20 4 £65,000 +40.54% 1
Selenium
England

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (9.52%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 3 (14.29%) Apigee
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (14.29%) Serverless
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.52%) Tableau
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (42.86%) GitLab
3 8 (38.10%) Cypress.io
4 7 (33.33%) Postman
5 6 (28.57%) SonarQube
6 5 (23.81%) Cucumber
6 5 (23.81%) JMeter
7 4 (19.05%) Git
8 3 (14.29%) JIRA
8 3 (14.29%) JUnit
8 3 (14.29%) LoadRunner
8 3 (14.29%) Maven
8 3 (14.29%) REST Assured
9 2 (9.52%) Gatling
10 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Advertising
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Lead
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) QA Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Web Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Automation Tester
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Playwright
2 6 (28.57%) HTML
3 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
4 3 (14.29%) CSS
4 3 (14.29%) Gherkin
4 3 (14.29%) Jest
4 3 (14.29%) Kafka
4 3 (14.29%) Middleware
4 3 (14.29%) Node.js
4 3 (14.29%) Puppeteer
5 2 (9.52%) Drools
5 2 (9.52%) pytest
5 2 (9.52%) Spring
5 2 (9.52%) XML
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Cordova
6 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.76%) Flask
6 1 (4.76%) Ionic Framework
6 1 (4.76%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Hackathon
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Test Automation
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
3 9 (42.86%) DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
5 6 (28.57%) API Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (23.81%) AI
6 5 (23.81%) Coaching
7 4 (19.05%) BDD
7 4 (19.05%) ERP
7 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (19.05%) Security Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
8 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
8 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) Groovy
4 2 (9.52%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.76%) Delphi
5 1 (4.76%) Go
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) HP Fortify
2 2 (9.52%) Control-M
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) IBM
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) New Relic