The first table below looks at the demand for WebDriver skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 289 345 378
Rank change year-on-year
+56 +33
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 101 60 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.458% 0.222% 0.170%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.790% 2.315% 1.496%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 51 28
Average daily rate £400 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2665 2592 3475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.10% 9.606% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1975 1760 2375
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £285 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 29
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +27.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.20 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

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

London 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 London 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
City of London +12 20 £388 +19.23%
Hounslow - 2 - -
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 263 (98.13%) Selenium
2 184 (68.66%) Java
3 182 (67.91%) Cucumber
4 155 (57.84%) BDD
5 148 (55.22%) Agile Software Development
6 132 (49.25%) TDD
7 131 (48.88%) QA
8 94 (35.07%) Ruby
9 76 (28.36%) Scrum
10 66 (24.63%) Continuous Integration
10 66 (24.63%) Test Automation
11 65 (24.25%) OO
12 63 (23.51%) Automated Testing
13 53 (19.78%) XML
14 52 (19.40%) JavaScript
14 52 (19.40%) JUnit
14 52 (19.40%) Automation Testing
15 46 (17.16%) C#
16 45 (16.79%) Finance
17 43 (16.04%) Web Services
17 43 (16.04%) E-Commerce
18 41 (15.30%) HTML
18 41 (15.30%) SQL
19 39 (14.55%) Linux
19 39 (14.55%) Jenkins
20 38 (14.18%) .NET
21 36 (13.43%) JBehave
22 35 (13.06%) TeamCity
23 33 (12.31%) SOAP
24 31 (11.57%) Git (software)

WebDriver
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 53 (19.78%) XML
2 43 (16.04%) Web Services
3 41 (15.30%) HTML
4 38 (14.18%) .NET
5 33 (12.31%) SOAP
6 29 (10.82%) RESTful
7 25 (9.328%) soapUI
8 24 (8.955%) CSS
9 19 (7.090%) JSON
10 14 (5.224%) REST
11 11 (4.104%) WCF
12 9 (3.358%) HTML5
13 8 (2.985%) jQuery
14 7 (2.612%) Gherkin
14 7 (2.612%) J2EE
14 7 (2.612%) XSLT
14 7 (2.612%) CSS3
15 5 (1.866%) Ruby on Rails
16 4 (1.493%) Java EE
16 4 (1.493%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 22 (8.209%) CMS
2 17 (6.343%) Adobe CQ
3 6 (2.239%) Apache Pig
4 4 (1.493%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.746%) ESB
6 1 (0.373%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.373%) IIS
6 1 (0.373%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.746%) Mingle
2 1 (0.373%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.119%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.970%) HTTP
2 11 (4.104%) Internet
3 1 (0.373%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.716%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.597%) Big Data
3 11 (4.104%) SQL Server 2012
4 7 (2.612%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.612%) Hadoop
5 4 (1.493%) Sqoop
6 3 (1.119%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.746%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.746%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.373%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.373%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.373%) MySQL
8 1 (0.373%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.373%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 263 (98.13%) Selenium
2 182 (67.91%) Cucumber
3 52 (19.40%) JUnit
4 39 (14.55%) Jenkins
5 36 (13.43%) JBehave
6 35 (13.06%) TeamCity
7 31 (11.57%) Git (software)
8 30 (11.19%) Hudson
9 26 (9.701%) WATIR
10 22 (8.209%) Subversion
10 22 (8.209%) FitNesse
10 22 (8.209%) TestNG
11 21 (7.836%) Maven
12 18 (6.716%) SpecFlow
12 18 (6.716%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 17 (6.343%) Mockito
14 16 (5.970%) CruiseControl
15 13 (4.851%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (3.358%) Eclipse
16 9 (3.358%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 45 (16.79%) Finance
2 16 (5.970%) Banking
3 13 (4.851%) Games
4 8 (2.985%) Publishing
5 7 (2.612%) Telecoms
5 7 (2.612%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.119%) Electronics
6 3 (1.119%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.119%) Marketing
7 2 (0.746%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.746%) Retail
8 1 (0.373%) Billing
8 1 (0.373%) Front Office
8 1 (0.373%) Law
Job Titles
1 67 (25.00%) Tester
2 53 (19.78%) Developer
3 51 (19.03%) QA Engineer
4 46 (17.16%) Analyst
5 43 (16.04%) Test Analyst
6 39 (14.55%) Test Engineer
7 32 (11.94%) Automation Tester
8 21 (7.836%) Automation Engineer
9 17 (6.343%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.104%) Technical Tester
11 10 (3.731%) Technical Engineer
12 9 (3.358%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.985%) Automation Analyst
13 8 (2.985%) QA Tester
13 8 (2.985%) Senior Tester
14 7 (2.612%) Senior Test Analyst
14 7 (2.612%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (2.612%) Automation Test Analyst
14 7 (2.612%) Test Automation Engineer
14 7 (2.612%) QA Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.090%) Open Source
1 19 (7.090%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (5.597%) Digital Media
3 11 (4.104%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.612%) Blackberry
4 7 (2.612%) Derivative
4 7 (2.612%) Social Media
5 6 (2.239%) iPhone
6 4 (1.493%) Social Gaming
6 4 (1.493%) Online Games
6 4 (1.493%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.119%) DTV
8 2 (0.746%) Spread Betting
8 2 (0.746%) Wiki
8 2 (0.746%) Social Network
8 2 (0.746%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.373%) New Media
9 1 (0.373%) STB
9 1 (0.373%) Handset
9 1 (0.373%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.55%) Linux
2 12 (4.478%) Windows
3 10 (3.731%) Android
4 8 (2.985%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.493%) Windows Phone
6 2 (0.746%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.746%) CentOS
6 2 (0.746%) UNIX
6 2 (0.746%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (57.84%) BDD
2 148 (55.22%) Agile Software Development
3 132 (49.25%) TDD
4 76 (28.36%) Scrum
5 66 (24.63%) Continuous Integration
5 66 (24.63%) Test Automation
6 65 (24.25%) OO
7 63 (23.51%) Automated Testing
8 52 (19.40%) Automation Testing
9 43 (16.04%) E-Commerce
10 24 (8.955%) Test Scripting
10 24 (8.955%) Software Testing
11 22 (8.209%) SOA
12 19 (7.090%) Manual Testing
12 19 (7.090%) Pair Programming
13 18 (6.716%) OOP
14 17 (6.343%) Workflow
15 11 (4.104%) Web Testing
16 8 (2.985%) Kanban
16 8 (2.985%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 184 (68.66%) Java
2 94 (35.07%) Ruby
3 52 (19.40%) JavaScript
4 46 (17.16%) C#
5 41 (15.30%) SQL
6 18 (6.716%) Python
7 14 (5.224%) C++
8 8 (2.985%) PHP
9 7 (2.612%) Perl
10 6 (2.239%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.866%) Groovy
12 4 (1.493%) XPath
12 4 (1.493%) C
13 3 (1.119%) VB
14 2 (0.746%) Tcl
15 1 (0.373%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.373%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.373%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (3.731%) ISEB
2 8 (2.985%) Degree
3 7 (2.612%) ISTQB
4 2 (0.746%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (48.88%) QA
2 13 (4.851%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 14 (5.224%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 17 (6.343%) Adobe
2 15 (5.597%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.597%) HP
3 6 (2.239%) Oracle
4 3 (1.119%) SAP
5 2 (0.746%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.746%) IBM
5 2 (0.746%) Serena
6 1 (0.373%) Sun
6 1 (0.373%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (0.373%) Cognos
6 1 (0.373%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.373%) Tableau
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London
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Rate: £325 - £350 per day
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