The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 50 60 53
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -7
Contract jobs citing Selenium 5 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.954% 0.279% 0.336%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.51% 4.878% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
Average daily rate £288 - £175
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
37 41 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 7.061% 5.710% 6.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 15
Average daily rate £400 £300 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £237 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
Buckinghamshire

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Selenium across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Milton Keynes Selenium Daily Rate Histogram

Selenium
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 3 (60.00%) soapUI
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) Remedy
4 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) V-Model
4 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) soapUI
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Test Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (20.00%) V-Model
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy