The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 23 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 Merseyside 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Selenium 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.971% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 7.143% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £330 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.25
All Development Applications
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
28 31 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 13.59% 11.74% 9.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 9
Average daily rate £356 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.61% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £300 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £17.51 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
North West

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) soapUI
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) soapUI
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA