WebDriver Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WebDriver skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebDriver over the 3 months to 21 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 England 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium WebDriver
Rank 372 478 500
Rank change year-on-year
+106 +22
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 141 79 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.333% 0.148% 0.099%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.010% 1.570% 0.933%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 59 28
Average daily rate £370 £345 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.24% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £262 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £446 £475
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
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 4684 5033 5895
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.07% 9.407% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2996 3048 3394
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 204 313
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
WebDriver
UK

WebDriver
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England WebDriver Daily Rate Histogram

WebDriver
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebDriver within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
London +56 101 £400 +8.10%
South East +33 17 £350 +16.66%
East of England +17 11 £333 +20.90%
North West +20 6 £350 -0.14%
Yorkshire +7 4 £220 -26.66%
South West +25 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
WebDriver
UK

WebDriver
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 333 (97.94%) Selenium
2 220 (64.71%) Java
3 205 (60.29%) Cucumber
4 186 (54.71%) BDD
5 175 (51.47%) Agile Software Development
6 154 (45.29%) QA
7 153 (45.00%) TDD
8 103 (30.29%) Ruby
9 100 (29.41%) Scrum
10 90 (26.47%) Test Automation
11 84 (24.71%) Continuous Integration
12 76 (22.35%) Automated Testing
13 73 (21.47%) C#
14 68 (20.00%) Web Services
15 67 (19.71%) OO
16 64 (18.82%) XML
17 62 (18.24%) SQL
18 59 (17.35%) JavaScript
19 58 (17.06%) Automation Testing
20 57 (16.76%) Finance
21 56 (16.47%) JUnit
22 54 (15.88%) E-Commerce
23 52 (15.29%) .NET
24 51 (15.00%) HTML
24 51 (15.00%) SOAP
25 48 (14.12%) Linux
25 48 (14.12%) Jenkins
26 46 (13.53%) JBehave
27 44 (12.94%) soapUI
28 40 (11.76%) TeamCity

WebDriver
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 68 (20.00%) Web Services
2 64 (18.82%) XML
3 52 (15.29%) .NET
4 51 (15.00%) HTML
4 51 (15.00%) SOAP
5 44 (12.94%) soapUI
6 32 (9.412%) RESTful
7 27 (7.941%) CSS
8 22 (6.471%) REST
9 21 (6.176%) WCF
10 20 (5.882%) JSON
11 14 (4.118%) Gherkin
12 13 (3.824%) J2EE
13 10 (2.941%) HTML5
13 10 (2.941%) jQuery
14 7 (2.059%) XSLT
14 7 (2.059%) CSS3
15 5 (1.471%) Ruby on Rails
16 4 (1.176%) Java EE
16 4 (1.176%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 24 (7.059%) CMS
2 18 (5.294%) Adobe CQ
3 11 (3.235%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.353%) SharePoint 2010
5 6 (1.765%) Apache Pig
6 5 (1.471%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (1.176%) Apache Solr
7 4 (1.176%) Confluence
8 2 (0.588%) ESB
8 2 (0.588%) Apache
8 2 (0.588%) IIS
9 1 (0.294%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.294%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.294%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.176%) MS Office
2 2 (0.588%) Mingle
2 2 (0.588%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.176%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.294%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.294%) HTTP
2 11 (3.235%) Internet
3 1 (0.294%) CDMA
3 1 (0.294%) GSM
3 1 (0.294%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.882%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.412%) Big Data
3 11 (3.235%) SQL Server 2012
4 7 (2.059%) Hadoop
4 7 (2.059%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.176%) Sqoop
6 3 (0.882%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.588%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.588%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (0.588%) MySQL
8 1 (0.294%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.294%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.294%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.294%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.294%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.294%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 333 (97.94%) Selenium
2 205 (60.29%) Cucumber
3 56 (16.47%) JUnit
4 48 (14.12%) Jenkins
5 46 (13.53%) JBehave
6 40 (11.76%) TeamCity
7 37 (10.88%) WATIR
8 36 (10.59%) Hudson
9 35 (10.29%) Git (software)
10 34 (10.00%) FitNesse
11 32 (9.412%) SpecFlow
12 27 (7.941%) Maven
13 25 (7.353%) Subversion
14 24 (7.059%) JIRA
15 22 (6.471%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 22 (6.471%) TestNG
16 20 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
17 18 (5.294%) Mockito
18 16 (4.706%) CruiseControl
19 15 (4.412%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 57 (16.76%) Finance
2 16 (4.706%) Banking
3 14 (4.118%) Games
4 11 (3.235%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.353%) Publishing
6 7 (2.059%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.471%) Retail
8 4 (1.176%) Marketing
8 4 (1.176%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.176%) Electronics
9 2 (0.588%) Billing
9 2 (0.588%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.294%) Front Office
10 1 (0.294%) Law
Job Titles
1 87 (25.59%) Tester
2 73 (21.47%) Analyst
3 67 (19.71%) Test Analyst
4 61 (17.94%) Developer
5 56 (16.47%) QA Engineer
6 42 (12.35%) Automation Tester
6 42 (12.35%) Test Engineer
7 23 (6.765%) Automation Engineer
8 20 (5.882%) Java Developer
9 13 (3.824%) Senior Tester
10 11 (3.235%) Technical Tester
11 10 (2.941%) Automation Analyst
11 10 (2.941%) QA Analyst
11 10 (2.941%) Technical Engineer
12 9 (2.647%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.353%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (2.353%) QA Automation Engineer
13 8 (2.353%) QA Tester
13 8 (2.353%) Automation Test Analyst
13 8 (2.353%) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.471%) Open Source
2 20 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (4.706%) Digital Media
4 12 (3.529%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.059%) Blackberry
5 7 (2.059%) Derivative
5 7 (2.059%) Social Media
6 6 (1.765%) iPhone
7 4 (1.176%) Social Gaming
7 4 (1.176%) SaaS
7 4 (1.176%) Online Games
7 4 (1.176%) Computer Science
7 4 (1.176%) DTV
8 2 (0.588%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.588%) Spread Betting
8 2 (0.588%) Wiki
8 2 (0.588%) Social Network
9 1 (0.294%) Handset
9 1 (0.294%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.294%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.12%) Linux
2 23 (6.765%) Windows
3 15 (4.412%) Android
4 8 (2.353%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.353%) UNIX
5 4 (1.176%) Windows Phone
6 3 (0.882%) SUSE
7 2 (0.588%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.588%) CentOS
8 1 (0.294%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (54.71%) BDD
2 175 (51.47%) Agile Software Development
3 153 (45.00%) TDD
4 100 (29.41%) Scrum
5 90 (26.47%) Test Automation
6 84 (24.71%) Continuous Integration
7 76 (22.35%) Automated Testing
8 67 (19.71%) OO
9 58 (17.06%) Automation Testing
10 54 (15.88%) E-Commerce
11 36 (10.59%) Test Scripting
12 32 (9.412%) Software Testing
13 29 (8.529%) SOA
14 24 (7.059%) Manual Testing
15 19 (5.588%) Pair Programming
16 18 (5.294%) OOP
16 18 (5.294%) Workflow
17 16 (4.706%) Agile Testing
17 16 (4.706%) Web Testing
18 13 (3.824%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 220 (64.71%) Java
2 103 (30.29%) Ruby
3 73 (21.47%) C#
4 62 (18.24%) SQL
5 59 (17.35%) JavaScript
6 26 (7.647%) Python
7 19 (5.588%) C++
8 12 (3.529%) Perl
9 11 (3.235%) PHP
10 9 (2.647%) C
10 9 (2.647%) Groovy
11 7 (2.059%) VB
12 6 (1.765%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.176%) XPath
14 3 (0.882%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.588%) Tcl
16 1 (0.294%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.294%) ActionScript
16 1 (0.294%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (7.353%) ISEB
2 14 (4.118%) ISTQB
3 8 (2.353%) Degree
4 2 (0.588%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.588%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.588%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.294%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.294%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (45.29%) QA
2 13 (3.824%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.882%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.706%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (6.176%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.294%) Adobe
2 18 (5.294%) HP
3 12 (3.529%) Oracle
4 5 (1.471%) SAP
5 3 (0.882%) VMware
6 2 (0.588%) Capita
6 2 (0.588%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.588%) IBM
6 2 (0.588%) Sun
6 2 (0.588%) Serena
6 2 (0.588%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.294%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (0.294%) Cognos
7 1 (0.294%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.294%) Tableau
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