Selenium Job Trends in the South East

Selenium
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 186 198
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 -25
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 67 82 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.55% 1.14% 1.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.17% 8.80% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 61 66 137
10th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £49,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +3.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £81,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 659 932 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.39% 13.01% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 409 557 978
10th Percentile £30,550 £33,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,150 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Selenium job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the South East over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Hampshire -18 23 £51,250 -8.89% 4
Surrey +2 18 £45,000 -26.53% 2
Thames Valley -33 16 £46,250 -40.32% 3
Berkshire -31 10 £38,000 -50.97% 2
Buckinghamshire - 5 £60,000 -
Kent - 4 £42,250 -
Isle of Wight - 3 £41,500 - 1
West Sussex - 3 £67,500 - 1
Oxfordshire +4 1 £42,500 - 1
East Sussex -10 1 £52,500 -8.70% 1
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England

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.99%) Apache
1 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.99%) Appian
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) Azure
2 25 (37.31%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (26.87%) AWS
4 4 (5.97%) GitHub
5 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.99%) MinIO
5 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.49%) GCP
6 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.91%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.99%) Airbyte
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) MySQL
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (41.79%) Postman
2 23 (34.33%) SoapUI
2 23 (34.33%) WebDriver
3 22 (32.84%) JIRA
4 20 (29.85%) Robot Framework
4 20 (29.85%) Team Foundation Server
5 19 (28.36%) Git
6 17 (25.37%) Snyk
7 10 (14.93%) Cypress.io
8 6 (8.96%) SpecFlow
9 5 (7.46%) Appium
9 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
9 5 (7.46%) REST Assured
10 4 (5.97%) Cucumber
10 4 (5.97%) JUnit
10 4 (5.97%) Visual Studio
11 3 (4.48%) GitLab
11 3 (4.48%) JMeter
11 3 (4.48%) NUnit
12 2 (2.99%) TestRail
General
1 36 (53.73%) Social Skills
2 23 (34.33%) Finance
3 18 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.99%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.99%) Law
6 1 (1.49%) Advertising
6 1 (1.49%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Electronics
6 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.49%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Analyst
1 16 (23.88%) Lead
1 16 (23.88%) Test Analyst
2 10 (14.93%) Tester
3 7 (10.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Senior
4 6 (8.96%) Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Automation Test Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Automation Tester
6 4 (5.97%) QA Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead Test Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Test Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Software Tester
8 2 (2.99%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (46.27%) .NET
2 24 (35.82%) SOAP
3 21 (31.34%) HTML
4 14 (20.90%) Playwright
5 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET
5 4 (5.97%) Gherkin
5 4 (5.97%) REST
6 3 (4.48%) pytest
7 2 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.99%) Kafka
7 2 (2.99%) RESTful
8 1 (1.49%) CSS
8 1 (1.49%) jQuery
8 1 (1.49%) JSON
8 1 (1.49%) LAMP
8 1 (1.49%) OpenID
8 1 (1.49%) Web Services
8 1 (1.49%) WebdriverIO
8 1 (1.49%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.99%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.91%) Linux
1 12 (17.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (64.18%) Agile
1 43 (64.18%) Test Automation
2 39 (58.21%) Test Management
3 36 (53.73%) Scrum
3 36 (53.73%) Software Testing
4 30 (44.78%) Test Scripting
5 28 (41.79%) CI/CD
6 27 (40.30%) DevOps
7 24 (35.82%) API Testing
7 24 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (31.34%) Mentoring
9 20 (29.85%) Cross-Browser Testing
9 20 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (29.85%) Non-Functional Testing
10 17 (25.37%) DevSecOps
10 17 (25.37%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 17 (25.37%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 17 (25.37%) Secrets Management
11 14 (20.90%) Logistics
12 13 (19.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) Java
2 32 (47.76%) C#
3 29 (43.28%) SQL
4 11 (16.42%) Python
5 4 (5.97%) PHP
5 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.48%) Go
7 2 (2.99%) Bash
7 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.49%) Bicep
8 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (44.78%) Degree
2 26 (38.81%) ISTQB
3 20 (29.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 20 (29.85%) Security Cleared
4 18 (26.87%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
7 4 (5.97%) ISEB
8 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.90%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) Terraform
2 17 (25.37%) Ansible
3 5 (7.46%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Nessus
4 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.49%) MIIS
Vendors
1 17 (25.37%) Black Duck
1 17 (25.37%) Coverity
2 2 (2.99%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (2.99%) Blue Prism
2 2 (2.99%) UiPath
2 2 (2.99%) VMware
3 1 (1.49%) Google
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle
3 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow