Selenium Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 98 133 114
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 25 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.033% 0.197% 0.370%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.225% 3.371% 3.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 4
Average daily rate £346 £170 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.67% -57.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £308 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.87% +11.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.25
All Development Applications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 271 178 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 11.20% 5.838% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 62 100
Average daily rate £375 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.96% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £395 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 18
Average hourly rate £15.00 £28.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.42% -37.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
South East

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Selenium across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Berkshire Selenium Jobs Demand Trend

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Selenium across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Selenium across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Selenium Daily Rate Histogram

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Selenium across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Selenium Hourly Rate Trend

Selenium
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 7 £325 -
Hungerford - 4 £300 -
Slough -12 2 - -
Wokingham - 2 £265 -
Newbury - 2 £363 -
Bracknell -9 1 £525 -
Selenium
South East

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Selenium also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Selenium.

1 18 (47.37%) Java
2 16 (42.11%) Automated Testing
3 15 (39.47%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (34.21%) C#
4 13 (34.21%) BDD
5 12 (31.58%) Test Automation
5 12 (31.58%) .NET
6 11 (28.95%) TDD
6 11 (28.95%) Windows
6 11 (28.95%) QA
7 10 (26.32%) Scrum
7 10 (26.32%) Automation Testing
8 8 (21.05%) SQL
8 8 (21.05%) SpecFlow
9 7 (18.42%) REST
9 7 (18.42%) Test Scripting
9 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
10 6 (15.79%) Finance
10 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
10 6 (15.79%) HTML
10 6 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (15.79%) WebDriver
10 6 (15.79%) Cucumber
11 5 (13.16%) Apple iOS
11 5 (13.16%) Android
11 5 (13.16%) JIRA
11 5 (13.16%) Spring
11 5 (13.16%) Visual Studio
11 5 (13.16%) J2EE
11 5 (13.16%) JavaScript

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Selenium also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Selenium. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (31.58%) .NET
2 7 (18.42%) REST
3 6 (15.79%) HTML
4 5 (13.16%) J2EE
4 5 (13.16%) Hibernate
4 5 (13.16%) Spring
5 4 (10.53%) WCF
5 4 (10.53%) XML
5 4 (10.53%) jQuery
6 3 (7.895%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (7.895%) Gherkin
6 3 (7.895%) Web Services
6 3 (7.895%) ASP.NET
6 3 (7.895%) JSON
7 2 (5.263%) Ajax
7 2 (5.263%) SOAP
7 2 (5.263%) soapUI
8 1 (2.632%) RESTful
8 1 (2.632%) JMS
8 1 (2.632%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.263%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (5.263%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.632%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) VoIP
1 2 (5.263%) HTTP
1 2 (5.263%) Internet
1 2 (5.263%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.632%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) SpecFlow
2 6 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (15.79%) WebDriver
2 6 (15.79%) Cucumber
3 5 (13.16%) Visual Studio
3 5 (13.16%) JIRA
4 4 (10.53%) FitNesse
4 4 (10.53%) Maven
5 3 (7.895%) TeamCity
5 3 (7.895%) WATIR
5 3 (7.895%) NUnit
5 3 (7.895%) Ant
6 2 (5.263%) JUnit
6 2 (5.263%) WinRunner
6 2 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (5.263%) LoadRunner
6 2 (5.263%) Fiddler
6 2 (5.263%) TestComplete
6 2 (5.263%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.632%) CruiseControl
General
1 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (7.895%) Banking
4 2 (5.263%) Automotive
5 1 (2.632%) Billing
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Tester
2 11 (28.95%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Automation Tester
4 4 (10.53%) Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Test Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Tester
5 3 (7.895%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.263%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.263%) Coordinator
6 2 (5.263%) Test Coordinator
6 2 (5.263%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (2.632%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.632%) Software Tester
7 1 (2.632%) Automation Analyst
7 1 (2.632%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.632%) Mobile Tester
7 1 (2.632%) Architect
7 1 (2.632%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.895%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.263%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.263%) Replication
3 1 (2.632%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.632%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.632%) Semantic Web
3 1 (2.632%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.632%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.95%) Windows
2 5 (13.16%) Android
2 5 (13.16%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.53%) UNIX
4 2 (5.263%) Linux
5 1 (2.632%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.632%) SUSE
5 1 (2.632%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Automated Testing
2 15 (39.47%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (34.21%) BDD
4 12 (31.58%) Test Automation
5 11 (28.95%) TDD
6 10 (26.32%) Scrum
6 10 (26.32%) Automation Testing
7 7 (18.42%) Test Scripting
8 4 (10.53%) MVC
9 3 (7.895%) Stress Testing
9 3 (7.895%) Use Case
9 3 (7.895%) UML
9 3 (7.895%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (7.895%) Manual Testing
9 3 (7.895%) ATDD
9 3 (7.895%) User Stories
10 2 (5.263%) Analytics
10 2 (5.263%) Test Strategy
10 2 (5.263%) Kanban
10 2 (5.263%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Java
2 13 (34.21%) C#
3 8 (21.05%) SQL
4 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.895%) Objective-C
6 2 (5.263%) VB
6 2 (5.263%) C++
7 1 (2.632%) Python
7 1 (2.632%) Groovy
7 1 (2.632%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.632%) ISEB
1 1 (2.632%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.263%) vCloud
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.263%) VMware
3 1 (2.632%) Google
3 1 (2.632%) Sun
Automation Tester
Reading, Berkshire
Selenium, QTP, TestComplete) Experience of working within an Agile environment... Strong SQL knowledge and experience (Postgresql an advantage) Experience of Server OS (Linux, Windows Server, Suse and Ubuntu)...
Experis IT
Rate: £275 - £375 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
Senior QA Engineer (Java development, Automation, Selenium) - Berks
Berkshire
Enterprise Software solutions company are looking for a talented and experienced QA Engineer with strong Automation experience and solid Java development skills and background... You will have a...
Arden Resourcing Limited
Rate: From £350 to £400 per day 4 month contract
Posted: 17 May 2013
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