The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex 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 East Sussex 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 24 35 30
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -5
Contract jobs citing Selenium 8 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 3.448% 1.520% 1.053%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.10% 14.71% 8.333%
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
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
21 34 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 9.052% 10.33% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 19
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £343 £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
South East

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region over the 3 months to 22 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
Brighton +11 8 £300 -
Selenium
South East

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 East Sussex 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