Selenium Job Trends in the West Midlands

Selenium
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Selenium skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 187 167
Rank change year-on-year +26 -20 +75
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 15 19 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.41% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.85% 5.76% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 7
10th Percentile £32,500 £51,801 £43,680
25th Percentile £42,069 £55,188 £47,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +17.35% -3.92%
75th Percentile £64,938 £60,741 £49,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £64,500 £50,574
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,887 £61,000
% change year-on-year -4.59% +3.09% +1.67%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 191 330 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.77% 7.18% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 137 163 257
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,482 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% -6.95% -

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Selenium
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Selenium

Selenium
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Selenium in the West Midlands

Selenium
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Birmingham +22 10 £61,500 +6.96% 1
Coventry -1 2 £48,975 - 3
Solihull - 1 £60,000 -
Selenium
England

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) SaaS
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) TestRail
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) Gatling
3 1 (6.67%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) MSTest
3 1 (6.67%) NUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Lead
2 6 (40.00%) QA Leader
3 5 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) QA Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 4 (26.67%) Tester
5 3 (20.00%) Software Tester
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
7 1 (6.67%) Junior
7 1 (6.67%) Junior Software Tester
7 1 (6.67%) Junior Tester
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Playwright
2 2 (13.33%) Django
2 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (13.33%) Flask
2 2 (13.33%) pytest
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (53.33%) API Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Mentoring
3 7 (46.67%) Coaching
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) QA Automation
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) SDLC
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) TDD
7 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (20.00%) BDD
7 3 (20.00%) Regression Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (13.33%) Delphi
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (80.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft