The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 109 123 117
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -6
Contract jobs citing Selenium 9 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.384% 0.192% 0.322%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.571% 2.317% 4.425%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
Average daily rate £305 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £306 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £345 £450
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
252 259 226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.75% 8.296% 7.288%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 138 118
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.80 £16.30 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £128.00 £33.32 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
England

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Selenium across the North West region.

North West Selenium Hourly Rate Trend

Selenium
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Lancashire - 4 £300 -
Merseyside - 2 £330 -
Manchester +8 1 £287 -11.84%
Cheshire +4 1 £300 -
Selenium
England

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 9 (69.23%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) Scrum
3 7 (53.85%) SOAP
3 7 (53.85%) Web Services
4 6 (46.15%) Eclipse
4 6 (46.15%) ISEB
4 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (46.15%) WebDriver
4 6 (46.15%) soapUI
5 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
5 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
6 4 (30.77%) QA
6 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
6 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
6 4 (30.77%) XML
6 4 (30.77%) SQL
6 4 (30.77%) C#
6 4 (30.77%) HTML
6 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
6 4 (30.77%) REST
6 4 (30.77%) Apple iOS
6 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
6 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (30.77%) Android
7 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
7 3 (23.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (23.08%) TestNG
7 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 3 (23.08%) J2EE

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 7 (53.85%) SOAP
1 7 (53.85%) Web Services
2 6 (46.15%) soapUI
3 4 (30.77%) XML
3 4 (30.77%) HTML
3 4 (30.77%) REST
4 3 (23.08%) J2EE
4 3 (23.08%) Flash
4 3 (23.08%) Spring
4 3 (23.08%) Apache Flex
4 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
5 2 (15.38%) .NET
6 1 (7.692%) iOS SDK
6 1 (7.692%) Gherkin
6 1 (7.692%) iPhone SDK
6 1 (7.692%) CSS
6 1 (7.692%) JSON
6 1 (7.692%) WCF
6 1 (7.692%) Series 60
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) SNMP
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
1 3 (23.08%) TELNET
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.692%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Eclipse
1 6 (46.15%) WebDriver
2 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
3 3 (23.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (23.08%) TestNG
3 3 (23.08%) JUnit
3 3 (23.08%) JIRA
4 2 (15.38%) WATIR
4 2 (15.38%) FitNesse
4 2 (15.38%) Mercurial
4 2 (15.38%) MyEclipse
4 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (7.692%) Hudson
5 1 (7.692%) Robotium
5 1 (7.692%) Firebug
5 1 (7.692%) Xcode
General
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Test Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Test Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.692%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Automated Test Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Automated Test Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Agile Test Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Web Test Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Web Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
2 3 (23.08%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.692%) iPhone
3 1 (7.692%) Semantic Web
3 1 (7.692%) Blackberry
3 1 (7.692%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Apple iOS
1 4 (30.77%) Android
2 1 (7.692%) bada
2 1 (7.692%) Maemo
2 1 (7.692%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
2 1 (7.692%) Mac OS X
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Scrum
2 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
4 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
4 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Web Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Automated Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
6 2 (15.38%) RAD
6 2 (15.38%) System Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
7 1 (7.692%) Automation Testing
7 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
7 1 (7.692%) TDD
7 1 (7.692%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) Ruby
4 2 (15.38%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) C
4 2 (15.38%) C++
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) ISEB
2 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
1 3 (23.08%) Adobe
2 1 (7.692%) Symbian