The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 63 42 42
Rank change year-on-year
-21 0
Contract jobs citing Selenium 11 25 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.488% 2.877% 1.887%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.79% 30.86% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 7
Average daily rate £213 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.61% +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
86 81 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 11.64% 9.321% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 51 34
Average daily rate £280 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
West Yorkshire

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 11 (47.83%) C#
1 11 (47.83%) Scrum
1 11 (47.83%) WebDriver
2 10 (43.48%) Automated Testing
3 9 (39.13%) Oracle
4 8 (34.78%) Web Services
4 8 (34.78%) QA
4 8 (34.78%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (30.43%) JIRA
6 6 (26.09%) TDD
6 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
6 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
6 6 (26.09%) BDD
6 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
6 6 (26.09%) Automation Testing
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (21.74%) Redis
7 5 (21.74%) Percona
7 5 (21.74%) Route 53
7 5 (21.74%) HTML5
7 5 (21.74%) MongoDB
7 5 (21.74%) CSS3
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon AWS
7 5 (21.74%) Internet
7 5 (21.74%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (21.74%) CSS
7 5 (21.74%) MySQL
7 5 (21.74%) Visual Studio

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 8 (34.78%) Web Services
2 5 (21.74%) HTML5
2 5 (21.74%) CSS3
2 5 (21.74%) CSS
2 5 (21.74%) jQuery
2 5 (21.74%) Ajax
2 5 (21.74%) JSON
3 3 (13.04%) Gherkin
3 3 (13.04%) .NET
3 3 (13.04%) HTML
3 3 (13.04%) ASP
3 3 (13.04%) XML
4 1 (4.348%) soapUI
4 1 (4.348%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
2 5 (21.74%) Route 53
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon AWS
3 4 (17.39%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Internet
2 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (21.74%) Redis
1 5 (21.74%) MongoDB
1 5 (21.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) WebDriver
2 7 (30.43%) JIRA
3 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (21.74%) Visual Studio
4 5 (21.74%) Git (software)
5 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
5 3 (13.04%) SpecFlow
5 3 (13.04%) MSI
5 3 (13.04%) TeamCity
6 2 (8.696%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (4.348%) Hudson
7 1 (4.348%) JMeter
7 1 (4.348%) Ant
7 1 (4.348%) JUnit
7 1 (4.348%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (4.348%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (4.348%) CruiseControl
7 1 (4.348%) Subversion
General
1 2 (8.696%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
1 9 (39.13%) Test Analyst
2 8 (34.78%) Tester
3 5 (21.74%) Mobile Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Web Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Front-End Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Front-End Web Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Agile Tester
5 2 (8.696%) QA Test Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) QA Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.696%) Agile Test Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.348%) Automation Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Automation Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Open Source
1 1 (4.348%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Scrum
2 10 (43.48%) Automated Testing
3 8 (34.78%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (26.09%) TDD
4 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
4 6 (26.09%) BDD
4 6 (26.09%) Automation Testing
5 5 (21.74%) Security Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.04%) Agile Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Test Management
7 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
7 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (8.696%) Test Scripting
8 2 (8.696%) System Testing
8 2 (8.696%) User Stories
8 2 (8.696%) Performance Testing
9 1 (4.348%) Test Strategy
9 1 (4.348%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) VB
4 1 (4.348%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) ISEB
2 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) Percona
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) HP
3 3 (13.04%) VMware