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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 240 208
Rank change year-on-year -11 -32 +27
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 19 60 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.49% 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.76% 6.88% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 14 28 53
10th Percentile £49,725 £31,925 £43,000
25th Percentile £50,500 £35,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £45,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -26.23% +16.19%
75th Percentile £64,938 £60,185 £68,750
90th Percentile £68,875 £62,019 £91,934
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -

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 505 872 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.35% 7.19% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 371 471 786
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £43,710 £47,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -12.15% +8.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £76,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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
North West +28 9 £62,000 +37.78% 8
Yorkshire 0 8 £53,500 +42.67% 4
North East +11 2 £55,200 -4.77% 2
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 1 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
4 2 (10.53%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) Apigee
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.26%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Tableau
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Cucumber
1 6 (31.58%) GitLab
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) Cypress.io
2 5 (26.32%) JMeter
2 5 (26.32%) SonarQube
3 3 (15.79%) JUnit
3 3 (15.79%) LoadRunner
3 3 (15.79%) Maven
3 3 (15.79%) Postman
4 2 (10.53%) Appium
4 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (10.53%) Gatling
4 2 (10.53%) Git
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA
4 2 (10.53%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.26%) Mockito
5 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
5 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Advertising
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Lead
2 6 (31.58%) Test Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
4 4 (21.05%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (21.05%) Lead Test Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) QA Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) QA Leader
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) CSS
1 4 (21.05%) HTML
1 4 (21.05%) Playwright
2 3 (15.79%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) Middleware
2 3 (15.79%) Node.js
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.53%) HTML5
3 2 (10.53%) Jest
3 2 (10.53%) pytest
3 2 (10.53%) React
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.26%) Django
4 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.26%) jQuery
4 1 (5.26%) JSR 170
4 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Hackathon
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Life Science
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Test Automation
2 11 (57.89%) DevOps
3 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
4 8 (42.11%) Agile
5 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (31.58%) Security Testing
7 5 (26.32%) API Testing
7 5 (26.32%) Test Strategy
8 4 (21.05%) BDD
8 4 (21.05%) Microservices
8 4 (21.05%) QA Automation
9 3 (15.79%) AI
9 3 (15.79%) Coaching
9 3 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
9 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
9 3 (15.79%) SDLC
9 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
9 3 (15.79%) User Experience
9 3 (15.79%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 6 (31.58%) C#
3 6 (31.58%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Delphi
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) HP Fortify
2 2 (10.53%) Control-M
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) IBM
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Adobe
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) New Relic
3 1 (5.26%) Veracode