Selenium Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Selenium
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 341 370
Rank change year-on-year -87 +29 -185
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 134 163 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.61% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.48% 6.22% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 113 146 316
10th Percentile £36,850 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £81,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.64% -0.81%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,446 2,622 6,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.88% 9.87% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,684 1,866 4,653
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £83,592
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Selenium job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Selenium
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Selenium.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the UK excluding London

Selenium
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
South East -51 49 £51,000 -15.00% 18
South West -38 30 £47,500 -26.92% 4
Midlands -55 24 £55,200 -13.41% 8
North of England -73 21 £58,750 +6.82% 16
West Midlands -31 20 £52,500 -22.22% 5
Yorkshire -55 9 £59,250 -0.92% 3
North West -29 8 £55,500 +0.91% 10
Wales -25 6 £53,600 -13.20% 2
East of England -31 4 £62,500 +47.06% 10
North East -31 4 £65,000 +18.18% 3
East Midlands -65 4 £60,000 - 3
Selenium
UK

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (5.22%) Confluence
2 3 (2.24%) JBoss
3 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.57%) Azure
2 42 (31.34%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (23.13%) AWS
4 13 (9.70%) GitHub
5 10 (7.46%) OpenShift
6 8 (5.97%) BrowserStack
7 6 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.99%) Apigee
9 4 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.99%) SaaS
9 4 (2.99%) Serverless
9 4 (2.99%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (2.24%) Siteimprove
11 2 (1.49%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (1.49%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.48%) DNS
2 3 (2.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.99%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.99%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.49%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.49%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.75%) Tableau
6 1 (0.75%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 50 (37.31%) Cypress.io
2 38 (28.36%) Postman
3 34 (25.37%) Jenkins
4 30 (22.39%) JIRA
5 29 (21.64%) GitLab
6 28 (20.90%) Git
7 21 (15.67%) WebDriver
8 20 (14.93%) SoapUI
9 18 (13.43%) JMeter
10 16 (11.94%) Cucumber
10 16 (11.94%) Team Foundation Server
11 14 (10.45%) JUnit
11 14 (10.45%) REST Assured
11 14 (10.45%) Robot Framework
12 11 (8.21%) TestRail
13 10 (7.46%) SonarQube
14 7 (5.22%) Appium
14 7 (5.22%) Gatling
14 7 (5.22%) Maven
14 7 (5.22%) Snyk
General
1 37 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.42%) Finance
3 19 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.99%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.24%) Advertising
6 3 (2.24%) Law
7 2 (1.49%) Aviation
7 2 (1.49%) Electronics
8 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (34.33%) Lead
2 24 (17.91%) QA Leader
3 22 (16.42%) Senior
4 19 (14.18%) Test Engineer
4 19 (14.18%) Test Leader
5 18 (13.43%) Analyst
6 16 (11.94%) Tester
7 15 (11.19%) QA Engineer
8 14 (10.45%) Developer
8 14 (10.45%) Test Analyst
8 14 (10.45%) Test Automation Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) Automation Tester
10 8 (5.97%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.48%) QA Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Senior Software Developer
13 5 (3.73%) QA Analyst
13 5 (3.73%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.99%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (43.28%) Playwright
2 35 (26.12%) .NET
3 25 (18.66%) HTML
4 19 (14.18%) SOAP
5 14 (10.45%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (9.70%) pytest
7 12 (8.96%) Spring Boot
8 10 (7.46%) REST
9 9 (6.72%) Spring
10 7 (5.22%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.48%) ASP.NET
11 6 (4.48%) Django
11 6 (4.48%) Flask
11 6 (4.48%) Gherkin
12 5 (3.73%) CSS
12 5 (3.73%) Jest
12 5 (3.73%) Node.js
12 5 (3.73%) Web Services
13 4 (2.99%) Puppeteer
13 4 (2.99%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.42%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.49%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.75%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.75%) NHS
6 1 (0.75%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.45%) Linux
2 10 (7.46%) Windows
3 4 (2.99%) CentOS
4 3 (2.24%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (72.39%) Test Automation
2 72 (53.73%) CI/CD
3 71 (52.99%) Agile
4 66 (49.25%) DevOps
5 52 (38.81%) Software Testing
6 42 (31.34%) API Testing
7 40 (29.85%) Test Management
8 32 (23.88%) Mentoring
9 29 (21.64%) Scrum
10 28 (20.90%) Non-Functional Testing
11 27 (20.15%) Manual Testing
12 26 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (19.40%) SDLC
13 24 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (17.91%) Regression Testing
13 24 (17.91%) Test Scripting
14 23 (17.16%) Acceptance Criteria
15 18 (13.43%) Performance Testing
15 18 (13.43%) Test Strategy
16 17 (12.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 55 (41.04%) Java
2 41 (30.60%) C#
3 39 (29.10%) SQL
4 35 (26.12%) Python
5 22 (16.42%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.21%) Bash
7 9 (6.72%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.48%) Delphi
9 4 (2.99%) Groovy
9 4 (2.99%) PHP
9 4 (2.99%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.24%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.49%) Bicep
11 2 (1.49%) Go
12 1 (0.75%) JCL
12 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (28.36%) Degree
2 25 (18.66%) ISTQB
3 21 (15.67%) Security Cleared
4 17 (12.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 10 (7.46%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.72%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (3.73%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (42.54%) QA
2 25 (18.66%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.24%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.49%) GDPR
4 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.49%) WCAG
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (19.40%) Docker
2 4 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (14.18%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.43%) Terraform
3 17 (12.69%) Grafana
4 11 (8.21%) Ansible
5 8 (5.97%) HP Fortify
6 5 (3.73%) Kibana
6 5 (3.73%) logstash
7 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.99%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.24%) HP ALM
9 2 (1.49%) MIIS
9 2 (1.49%) Nessus
Vendors
1 14 (10.45%) Oracle
2 7 (5.22%) Black Duck
2 7 (5.22%) Coverity
2 7 (5.22%) Splunk
3 6 (4.48%) Google
4 5 (3.73%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.99%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.99%) VMware
6 3 (2.24%) HP
6 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.24%) Veracode
7 1 (0.75%) Adobe
7 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) New Relic