The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing Selenium 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
30 27 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 10.07% 10.07% 8.278%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 13 15
Average daily rate £280 £295 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.08% -1.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £265 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £325 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £36.64 £33.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -
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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Java EE
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) JBehave
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) Mockito
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Hudson
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Ant
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Publishing
3 1 (25.00%) CMS
3 1 (25.00%) Bugzilla
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Java EE
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe CQ
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (25.00%) JBehave
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) Ant
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Bugzilla
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe