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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 242 225
Rank change year-on-year +72 -17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 133 64 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.46% 0.50% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.36% 7.12% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11 31 62
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,875 £35,000 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -26.23% +16.19%
75th Percentile £65,500 £58,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £60,741 £91,934
England median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 546 899 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.00% 7.07% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 309 485 864
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,710 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £77,500 £84,717
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% 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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +76 122 £66,250 +47.22% 17
Yorkshire -9 7 £53,500 +47.59% 4
North East +17 4 - - 5
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 47 (35.34%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.75%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 123 (92.48%) AWS
2 117 (87.97%) Azure
3 40 (30.08%) GCP
4 8 (6.02%) GitHub
5 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.50%) SaaS
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.75%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (86.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.51%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.50%) Tableau
4 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 122 (91.73%) Cucumber
2 121 (90.98%) GitLab
3 120 (90.23%) JIRA
4 115 (86.47%) SonarQube
5 114 (85.71%) Bitbucket
5 114 (85.71%) Maven
6 113 (84.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (3.76%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.01%) JMeter
9 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
9 3 (2.26%) Postman
10 2 (1.50%) Appium
10 2 (1.50%) Gatling
10 2 (1.50%) JUnit
10 2 (1.50%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.50%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.75%) Git
11 1 (0.75%) Mockito
11 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
General
1 120 (90.23%) Finance
2 112 (84.21%) Banking
2 112 (84.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 72 (54.14%) Corporate Banking
3 72 (54.14%) Investment Banking
3 72 (54.14%) Retail
4 6 (4.51%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Law
7 1 (0.75%) Marketing
7 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 116 (87.22%) Software Engineer
2 8 (6.02%) Lead
3 6 (4.51%) Java Engineer
4 5 (3.76%) Test Engineer
5 4 (3.01%) Developer
5 4 (3.01%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (2.26%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (2.26%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (2.26%) Senior
6 3 (2.26%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (1.50%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) QA Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) QA Leader
7 2 (1.50%) React Developer
7 2 (1.50%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (90.23%) Kafka
2 119 (89.47%) Spring Boot
3 118 (88.72%) Spring
4 116 (87.22%) CSS
4 116 (87.22%) HTML
5 115 (86.47%) React
6 113 (84.96%) JPA
6 113 (84.96%) Redux
7 74 (55.64%) CSS3
7 74 (55.64%) HTML5
7 74 (55.64%) RESTful
8 73 (54.89%) Jest
9 72 (54.14%) REST
9 72 (54.14%) Sass
10 41 (30.83%) Hibernate
11 4 (3.01%) Playwright
12 3 (2.26%) Node.js
13 2 (1.50%) Middleware
14 1 (0.75%) JSR 170
14 1 (0.75%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 114 (85.71%) Product Ownership
2 112 (84.21%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.51%) Wiki
4 2 (1.50%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.75%) Hackathon
5 1 (0.75%) Life Science
5 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (98.50%) Test Automation
2 126 (94.74%) DevOps
3 125 (93.98%) Agile
4 123 (92.48%) CI/CD
5 121 (90.98%) Microservices
6 120 (90.23%) Software Engineering
7 118 (88.72%) Containerisation
8 116 (87.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 116 (87.22%) SDLC
9 114 (85.71%) Front End Development
9 114 (85.71%) Performance Optimisation
10 79 (59.40%) Mentoring
11 77 (57.89%) User Experience
12 74 (55.64%) Responsive Web Design
13 72 (54.14%) Migration
13 72 (54.14%) Strategic Thinking
14 47 (35.34%) TDD
15 46 (34.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (31.58%) Clean Code
17 6 (4.51%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 122 (91.73%) Java
2 119 (89.47%) JavaScript
3 117 (87.97%) SQL
4 72 (54.14%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.76%) C#
5 5 (3.76%) Python
6 1 (0.75%) Go
6 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (1.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (89.47%) QA
2 72 (54.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 118 (88.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 118 (88.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.50%) Control-M
2 2 (1.50%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 112 (84.21%) Solace
2 2 (1.50%) IBM
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.75%) Veracode