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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 267 232
Rank change year-on-year +103 -35 +5
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 143 64 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.52% 0.46% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.38% 6.47% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 20 32 69
10th Percentile £39,625 £32,625 £42,050
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £60,600 £60,185 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,324 £74,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £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 542 989 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.78% 7.04% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 305 611 890
10th Percentile £33,150 £37,574 £39,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +2.36%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +94 128 £55,000 +22.22% 12
Yorkshire -1 10 £56,000 +40.00% 5
North East +21 5 £55,000 -5.11% 4
Selenium
England

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 48 (33.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.70%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.70%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 128 (89.51%) AWS
2 124 (86.71%) Azure
3 44 (30.77%) GCP
4 8 (5.59%) GitHub
5 3 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.40%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (1.40%) SaaS
6 2 (1.40%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.70%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.70%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (82.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.20%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.20%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.80%) MySQL
4 2 (1.40%) Endeca
5 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 125 (87.41%) GitLab
1 125 (87.41%) JIRA
2 122 (85.31%) Cucumber
3 114 (79.72%) Bitbucket
3 114 (79.72%) Maven
3 114 (79.72%) SonarQube
4 113 (79.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (6.99%) Postman
6 7 (4.90%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.90%) JMeter
7 6 (4.20%) Appium
7 6 (4.20%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.80%) Fiddler
8 4 (2.80%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.10%) JUnit
10 2 (1.40%) Gatling
10 2 (1.40%) Git
10 2 (1.40%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.40%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 124 (86.71%) Finance
2 112 (78.32%) Banking
2 112 (78.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 72 (50.35%) Corporate Banking
3 72 (50.35%) Investment Banking
3 72 (50.35%) Retail
4 8 (5.59%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Marketing
6 4 (2.80%) Cantonese Language
6 4 (2.80%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.80%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (1.40%) Law
8 1 (0.70%) Advertising
8 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.70%) Publishing
8 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 118 (82.52%) Software Engineer
2 8 (5.59%) Tester
3 7 (4.90%) Lead
4 6 (4.20%) Java Engineer
4 6 (4.20%) Senior
5 4 (2.80%) Developer
5 4 (2.80%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (2.80%) QA Tester
5 4 (2.80%) Test Engineer
6 3 (2.10%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (2.10%) Automation Tester
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (1.40%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (1.40%) Principal Java Engineer
7 2 (1.40%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (1.40%) QA Leader
7 2 (1.40%) React Developer
7 2 (1.40%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (1.40%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (83.22%) Spring Boot
2 118 (82.52%) Kafka
2 118 (82.52%) Spring
3 117 (81.82%) CSS
3 117 (81.82%) HTML
4 115 (80.42%) React
5 113 (79.02%) JPA
5 113 (79.02%) Redux
6 76 (53.15%) RESTful
7 75 (52.45%) HTML5
8 74 (51.75%) CSS3
9 73 (51.05%) Jest
9 73 (51.05%) REST
10 72 (50.35%) Sass
11 41 (28.67%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.50%) Playwright
13 4 (2.80%) .NET
14 3 (2.10%) Node.js
14 3 (2.10%) SOAP
15 2 (1.40%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 114 (79.72%) Product Ownership
2 113 (79.02%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.20%) Wiki
4 2 (1.40%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.70%) Life Science
5 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.70%) Social Media
5 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (96.50%) Test Automation
2 135 (94.41%) Agile
3 133 (93.01%) CI/CD
4 130 (90.91%) DevOps
5 123 (86.01%) Software Engineering
6 121 (84.62%) Microservices
7 118 (82.52%) Containerisation
8 117 (81.82%) Performance Optimisation
9 116 (81.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 116 (81.12%) SDLC
10 114 (79.72%) Front End Development
11 84 (58.74%) User Experience
12 77 (53.85%) Mentoring
13 74 (51.75%) Responsive Web Design
14 72 (50.35%) Migration
14 72 (50.35%) Strategic Thinking
15 47 (32.87%) TDD
16 44 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (29.37%) Clean Code
18 12 (8.39%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 129 (90.21%) Java
2 125 (87.41%) JavaScript
3 119 (83.22%) SQL
4 72 (50.35%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.29%) C#
6 8 (5.59%) Python
7 1 (0.70%) Go
7 1 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (4.20%) ISTQB
2 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (88.11%) QA
2 74 (51.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 118 (82.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 118 (82.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 112 (78.32%) Solace
2 6 (4.20%) Oracle
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.40%) Adobe
4 2 (1.40%) CyberSource
5 1 (0.70%) Google
5 1 (0.70%) New Relic
5 1 (0.70%) Siebel
5 1 (0.70%) Veracode