Selenium Job Trends in the South West

Selenium
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 161 219
Rank change year-on-year -43 +58 -82
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 30 17 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.33% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.08% 6.34% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 15
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,450 £46,000
25th Percentile £44,719 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,125 £72,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,750 £85,250
England median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.48% -4.17% -

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 424 268 716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.73% 7.62% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 280 161 480
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.45% +0.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,375 £82,500 £83,750
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 South West

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Selenium

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the South West over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Gloucestershire -31 8 - - 3
Dorset -2 7 - - 2
Wiltshire -3 6 £46,750 +33.57%
Devon -18 4 £55,000 +37.50%
Somerset -37 3 £42,500 -38.18%
Selenium
England

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) JBoss
1 1 (3.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 12 (40.00%) Azure
3 11 (36.67%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 4 (13.33%) GitHub
5 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (6.67%) BrowserStack
7 2 (6.67%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.33%) Datadog
8 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) InfluxDB
2 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.00%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 21 (70.00%) Cypress.io
2 17 (56.67%) Jenkins
3 9 (30.00%) Git
3 9 (30.00%) GitLab
4 8 (26.67%) JMeter
4 8 (26.67%) Postman
5 7 (23.33%) Robot Framework
6 6 (20.00%) TestRail
7 4 (13.33%) NUnit
7 4 (13.33%) REST Assured
8 3 (10.00%) JUnit
8 3 (10.00%) Snyk
8 3 (10.00%) SonarQube
9 2 (6.67%) Appium
9 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
9 2 (6.67%) Gradle
9 2 (6.67%) Maven
10 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (3.33%) Moq
10 1 (3.33%) NSubstitute
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Aviation
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Military
5 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.67%) Law
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Test Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Lead
5 4 (13.33%) QA Leader
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Test Leader
7 2 (6.67%) Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
7 2 (6.67%) Functional Tester
7 2 (6.67%) Principal Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Principal Software Developer
7 2 (6.67%) QA Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) Playwright
2 9 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (30.00%) pytest
3 7 (23.33%) .NET
4 4 (13.33%) .NET Core
4 4 (13.33%) Keycloak
4 4 (13.33%) React
5 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.00%) Node.js
5 3 (10.00%) RESTful
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.33%) CSS
6 1 (3.33%) CSS3
6 1 (3.33%) HTML
6 1 (3.33%) HTML5
6 1 (3.33%) OAuth
6 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.33%) OpenID
6 1 (3.33%) React Native
6 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 8 (26.67%) Linux
3 6 (20.00%) CentOS
4 2 (6.67%) Unix
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 23 (76.67%) CI/CD
3 17 (56.67%) Agile
4 16 (53.33%) Software Testing
5 12 (40.00%) DevOps
6 11 (36.67%) Manual Testing
7 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (30.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (26.67%) Customer Service
9 8 (26.67%) SDLC
10 7 (23.33%) Regression Testing
11 6 (20.00%) BDD
11 6 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
11 6 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
11 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (20.00%) Test Management
11 6 (20.00%) Test Scripting
12 5 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (23.33%) Bash
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.00%) Go
5 3 (10.00%) SQL
6 2 (6.67%) C#
6 2 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (10.00%) OCP
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (46.67%) QA
2 8 (26.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (10.00%) NIST
4 2 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 9 (30.00%) Grafana
3 8 (26.67%) Kibana
3 8 (26.67%) logstash
4 7 (23.33%) Ansible
5 6 (20.00%) vCenter Server
6 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.33%) Nagios
7 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.33%) Puppet
7 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 7 (23.33%) Atlassian
2 7 (23.33%) Splunk
3 6 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) New Relic
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle