The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridge 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 35 45 29
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -16
Contract jobs citing Selenium 1 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.304% 0.708% 1.953%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.846% 4.167% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £315 £275 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £15.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
26 72 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 7.903% 16.98% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 12
Average daily rate £315 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £145 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £362 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 9
Average hourly rate £40.50 £36.25 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.72% +45.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £35.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.65 £47.00 £34.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
Cambridgeshire

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Selenium Hourly Rate Trend

Selenium
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Twitter
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Twitter