The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium 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 Hounslow 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
Rank 15 12 13
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +1
Contract jobs citing Selenium 4 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 6.780% 5.195% 1.493%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.67% 28.57% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Average daily rate £375 £340 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% +3.03%
UK excluding London average daily rate £324 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
+3.60% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.25
All Development Applications
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15 14 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 25.42% 18.18% 2.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
Average daily rate £400 £330 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.21% -
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
London

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) Scrum
1 6 (85.71%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
1 6 (85.71%) BDD
2 5 (71.43%) Ruby
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 4 (57.14%) XML
3 4 (57.14%) XSLT
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) HTTP
4 3 (42.86%) ISEB
4 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
4 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
4 3 (42.86%) CruiseControl
4 3 (42.86%) JSON
4 3 (42.86%) JIRA
4 3 (42.86%) WATIR
4 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (42.86%) TeamCity
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) RESTful
5 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Android
5 2 (28.57%) Video on Demand

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 6 (85.71%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 4 (57.14%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) XSLT
3 3 (42.86%) JSON
3 3 (42.86%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) Cocoa
4 2 (28.57%) Cocoa Touch
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) SOAP
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (14.29%) jQuery
5 1 (14.29%) soapUI
5 1 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) CSS3
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
2 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) TOAD
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (42.86%) CruiseControl
3 3 (42.86%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) WATIR
3 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
3 3 (42.86%) TeamCity
4 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) TestNG
4 1 (14.29%) TortoiseSVN
4 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (28.57%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Tester
2 3 (42.86%) Automation Tester
2 3 (42.86%) Agile Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Video on Demand
1 2 (28.57%) STB
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
1 2 (28.57%) IPTV
2 1 (14.29%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Scrum
1 6 (85.71%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (85.71%) BDD
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) DRM
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) Automation Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Web Development
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) Ruby
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
5 2 (28.57%) Objective-C
5 2 (28.57%) Python
5 2 (28.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) ISEB
1 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA