The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 61 65 69
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +4
Contract jobs citing Selenium 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.137% 0.125% 0.303%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.220% 1.351% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £300 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.25
All Development Applications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
82 74 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 11.22% 9.273% 5.758%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 38 32
Average daily rate £375 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £355 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £33.75 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.75 £30.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £30.00 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
North West

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Selenium Daily 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Chester - 1 £300 -
Selenium
North West

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Flash
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
1 3 (100.00%) TELNET
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) TestNG
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) MyEclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Mercurial
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Flash
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Flex
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (100.00%) TestNG
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) MyEclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Mercurial
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe