The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 22 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 Brighton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 18 29 24
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -5
Contract jobs citing Selenium 8 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 5.594% 1.908% 1.504%
As % of the Development Applications category 47.06% 20.00% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
+3.20% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.25
All Development Applications
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
17 25 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 11.89% 9.542% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 16
Average daily rate £350 £300 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -17.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £325 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
East Sussex

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 7 (70.00%) Scrum
1 7 (70.00%) TDD
1 7 (70.00%) Gherkin
2 6 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (60.00%) QA
2 6 (60.00%) .NET
3 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (40.00%) SpecFlow
5 3 (30.00%) Finance
5 3 (30.00%) jQuery
5 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (30.00%) CSS
6 2 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (20.00%) MVC
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) ISEB
6 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
6 2 (20.00%) BDD
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 1 (10.00%) User Stories
7 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
7 1 (10.00%) ATDD
7 1 (10.00%) RSpec
7 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
7 1 (10.00%) Open Source
7 1 (10.00%) Security Testing

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 7 (70.00%) Gherkin
2 6 (60.00%) .NET
3 3 (30.00%) jQuery
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 1 (10.00%) soapUI
5 1 (10.00%) Ajax
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (10.00%) RSpec
2 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (10.00%) StyleCop
2 1 (10.00%) MSTest
2 1 (10.00%) NUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Fiddler
2 1 (10.00%) FitNesse
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Billing
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
1 6 (60.00%) Test Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Tester
2 5 (50.00%) Automated Tester
3 2 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (10.00%) Open Source
1 1 (10.00%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Scrum
1 7 (70.00%) TDD
2 6 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (10.00%) User Stories
5 1 (10.00%) ATDD
5 1 (10.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Use Case
5 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft