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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 159 271
Rank change year-on-year -186 +112 -39
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 17 143 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.071% 1.52% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.08% 26.63% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13 20 31
10th Percentile £43,750 £39,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% -23.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,600 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £60,741
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

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 816 537 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.41% 5.72% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 523 307 610
10th Percentile £38,984 £33,350 £37,957
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,254 £82,751 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 20 September 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 20 September 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
North West -125 11 £70,000 +27.27% 15
Yorkshire -43 5 £42,500 -24.11% 10
North East -65 1 £65,000 +18.18% 6
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 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
1 3 (17.65%) Tomcat
1 3 (17.65%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.88%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Serverless
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) Apigee
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Cypress.io
2 7 (41.18%) Git
3 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 5 (29.41%) Postman
4 3 (17.65%) JUnit
4 3 (17.65%) Mockito
5 2 (11.76%) Appium
5 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
5 2 (11.76%) JMeter
5 2 (11.76%) Ranorex
6 1 (5.88%) Android Studio
6 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (5.88%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) JIRA
6 1 (5.88%) Maven
6 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
6 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Java Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) QA Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Software Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Tester
4 1 (5.88%) QA Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Playwright
2 7 (41.18%) RESTful
3 6 (35.29%) Spring
4 4 (23.53%) Jest
4 4 (23.53%) React
4 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
5 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
5 3 (17.65%) JPA
5 3 (17.65%) Kafka
5 3 (17.65%) OpenAPI
5 3 (17.65%) React Native
5 3 (17.65%) REST
5 3 (17.65%) Spring MVC
5 3 (17.65%) Swagger
6 2 (11.76%) PySpark
7 1 (5.88%) .NET
7 1 (5.88%) HTML
7 1 (5.88%) Puppeteer
7 1 (5.88%) Terraform
7 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
4 7 (41.18%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) SDLC
6 4 (23.53%) AI
6 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Secure Coding
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 3 (17.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 3 (17.65%) MVC
7 3 (17.65%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (17.65%) SOLID
7 3 (17.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) Kotlin
3 4 (23.53%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) Scala
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (5.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
2 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (17.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Dynatrace
1 3 (17.65%) IBM
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 2 (11.76%) Informatica
2 2 (11.76%) SAP