The first table below looks at the demand for WebDriver skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebDriver 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 City of London 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 WebDriver
Rank 178 196 223
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +27
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 21 23 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.331% 0.292% 0.221%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.668% 3.522% 2.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 5
Average daily rate £375 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £249 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £403 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 -
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
787 653 1030
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.39% 8.295% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 487 777
Average daily rate £413 £428 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
WebDriver
London

WebDriver
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London WebDriver Jobs Demand Trend

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebDriver across the City of London region.

City of London WebDriver Daily Rate Trend

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebDriver across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London WebDriver Daily Rate Histogram

WebDriver
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WebDriver 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 WebDriver.

1 56 (98.25%) Selenium
2 42 (73.68%) QA
3 41 (71.93%) Agile Software Development
4 34 (59.65%) Cucumber
5 30 (52.63%) Java
6 25 (43.86%) Finance
6 25 (43.86%) BDD
7 23 (40.35%) Ruby
7 23 (40.35%) .NET
8 20 (35.09%) TDD
9 18 (31.58%) Test Automation
10 15 (26.32%) C#
11 14 (24.56%) OO
12 13 (22.81%) Automation Testing
13 11 (19.30%) SpecFlow
14 10 (17.54%) XML
14 10 (17.54%) C++
14 10 (17.54%) Banking
15 9 (15.79%) Automated Testing
15 9 (15.79%) SQL
15 9 (15.79%) JUnit
15 9 (15.79%) E-Commerce
15 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
16 8 (14.04%) Scrum
16 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
16 8 (14.04%) Software Testing
16 8 (14.04%) Derivative
16 8 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
17 7 (12.28%) Test Scripting
17 7 (12.28%) WATIR

WebDriver
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WebDriver 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 WebDriver. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (40.35%) .NET
2 10 (17.54%) XML
3 6 (10.53%) RESTful
3 6 (10.53%) HTML
4 5 (8.772%) J2EE
4 5 (8.772%) Web Services
5 4 (7.018%) WPF
5 4 (7.018%) SOAP
6 3 (5.263%) Middleware
6 3 (5.263%) JSON
6 3 (5.263%) soapUI
7 2 (3.509%) Gherkin
7 2 (3.509%) REST
7 2 (3.509%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.509%) HTML5
8 1 (1.754%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.754%) COM
8 1 (1.754%) CSS
8 1 (1.754%) Spring
8 1 (1.754%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.754%) CMS
1 1 (1.754%) ESB
1 1 (1.754%) Adobe CQ
Business Applications
1 2 (3.509%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.509%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.772%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.754%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 56 (98.25%) Selenium
2 34 (59.65%) Cucumber
3 11 (19.30%) SpecFlow
4 9 (15.79%) JUnit
4 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
5 7 (12.28%) WATIR
5 7 (12.28%) TestNG
6 6 (10.53%) Git (software)
6 6 (10.53%) QuickTest Pro
7 5 (8.772%) TeamCity
7 5 (8.772%) SilkTest
7 5 (8.772%) Hudson
8 4 (7.018%) FitNesse
8 4 (7.018%) Maven
8 4 (7.018%) Subversion
8 4 (7.018%) JBehave
9 3 (5.263%) JMeter
9 3 (5.263%) NUnit
9 3 (5.263%) WatiN
10 2 (3.509%) JIRA
General
1 25 (43.86%) Finance
2 10 (17.54%) Banking
3 6 (10.53%) Investment Banking
3 6 (10.53%) Games
4 3 (5.263%) Publishing
5 2 (3.509%) Marketing
5 2 (3.509%) Electronics
5 2 (3.509%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.509%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) QA Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Tester
3 10 (17.54%) Analyst
3 10 (17.54%) Automation Tester
4 9 (15.79%) Test Analyst
5 7 (12.28%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.018%) Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Senior Test Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.509%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (3.509%) Automation Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Senior Automation Tester
8 2 (3.509%) Automation Engineer
9 1 (1.754%) QA Tester
9 1 (1.754%) Test Development Engineer
9 1 (1.754%) Software Engineer
9 1 (1.754%) Consultant
9 1 (1.754%) Quality Engineer
9 1 (1.754%) Configuration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Derivative
2 4 (7.018%) Open Source
3 2 (3.509%) Digital Media
3 2 (3.509%) Wiki
3 2 (3.509%) DTV
4 1 (1.754%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.754%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.754%) Social Network
4 1 (1.754%) Spread Betting
4 1 (1.754%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.754%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.772%) Linux
2 2 (3.509%) Windows
3 1 (1.754%) SUSE
3 1 (1.754%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.754%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (71.93%) Agile Software Development
2 25 (43.86%) BDD
3 20 (35.09%) TDD
4 18 (31.58%) Test Automation
5 14 (24.56%) OO
6 13 (22.81%) Automation Testing
7 9 (15.79%) Automated Testing
7 9 (15.79%) E-Commerce
8 8 (14.04%) Scrum
8 8 (14.04%) Software Testing
8 8 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (12.28%) Test Scripting
10 6 (10.53%) Pair Programming
11 5 (8.772%) Test Management
11 5 (8.772%) Manual Testing
12 3 (5.263%) OOP
12 3 (5.263%) Kanban
12 3 (5.263%) Build Automation
13 2 (3.509%) Digital Marketing
13 2 (3.509%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) Java
2 23 (40.35%) Ruby
3 15 (26.32%) C#
4 10 (17.54%) C++
5 9 (15.79%) SQL
6 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.509%) Python
7 2 (3.509%) VB
7 2 (3.509%) Perl
8 1 (1.754%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (3.509%) Degree
1 2 (3.509%) ISTQB
1 2 (3.509%) ISEB
2 1 (1.754%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (73.68%) QA
2 1 (1.754%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (3.509%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (5.263%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.509%) SAP
2 2 (3.509%) HP
3 1 (1.754%) Serena
3 1 (1.754%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.754%) Oracle
3 1 (1.754%) IBM
3 1 (1.754%) Adobe
3 1 (1.754%) Sun
City, London
Specifically, this is a role for a Tester, with experience testing RESTful Web APIs within an agile environment... You will be an experienced Test Engineer, with specific skills...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £325 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013