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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 182 286
Rank change year-on-year -158 +104 -56
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 15 145 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.067% 1.51% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.81% 22.94% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13 23 39
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,000 £32,400
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% -25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,325 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,140 £70,000 £61,093
England median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £57,965
% change year-on-year +1.74% -0.80% -3.39%

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 827 632 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.68% 6.60% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 566 374 775
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -124 8 £61,250 +11.36% 5
Yorkshire -46 4 £59,038 +5.42% 2
North East -57 3 £65,000 +18.18% 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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
1 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Apigee
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (46.67%) Git
3 6 (40.00%) Cypress.io
4 5 (33.33%) Postman
5 4 (26.67%) GitLab
6 3 (20.00%) JUnit
6 3 (20.00%) REST Assured
7 2 (13.33%) Gatling
7 2 (13.33%) JIRA
7 2 (13.33%) JMeter
7 2 (13.33%) Mockito
8 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
8 1 (6.67%) Maven
8 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Web Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Junior
4 1 (6.67%) Junior Software Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Principal Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Playwright
2 5 (33.33%) RESTful
2 5 (33.33%) Spring
3 4 (26.67%) HTML
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (20.00%) Jest
4 3 (20.00%) JPA
4 3 (20.00%) Kafka
4 3 (20.00%) OpenAPI
4 3 (20.00%) Puppeteer
4 3 (20.00%) Spring MVC
4 3 (20.00%) Swagger
5 2 (13.33%) React
5 2 (13.33%) React Native
6 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (6.67%) Drools
6 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
6 1 (6.67%) Node.js
6 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) AI
4 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (26.67%) SDLC
6 3 (20.00%) API Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Coaching
6 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) Data Extraction
6 3 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 3 (20.00%) MVC
6 3 (20.00%) OOP
6 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
6 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (20.00%) SOLID
6 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (26.67%) Kotlin
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Groovy
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) IBM