The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 58 76 80
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +4
Contract jobs citing Selenium 7 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.834% 0.269% 0.188%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.071% 3.750% 1.786%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.25
All Development Applications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
99 80 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 11.80% 7.175% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 19 36
Average daily rate £361 £338 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.03% +10.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £238 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £371 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -41.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.40 £11.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
Berkshire

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading Selenium Daily Rate Histogram

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Selenium Hourly Rate Trend

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
1 9 (60.00%) Automated Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Test Automation
3 7 (46.67%) Java
4 6 (40.00%) QA
4 6 (40.00%) Automation Testing
5 5 (33.33%) BDD
5 5 (33.33%) TDD
5 5 (33.33%) Finance
5 5 (33.33%) .NET
5 5 (33.33%) Windows
6 4 (26.67%) Maven
6 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
7 3 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (20.00%) Spring
7 3 (20.00%) SQL
7 3 (20.00%) WATIR
7 3 (20.00%) FitNesse
7 3 (20.00%) Ant
7 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 2 (13.33%) WinRunner
8 2 (13.33%) QuickTest Pro
8 2 (13.33%) Internet
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
8 2 (13.33%) C#
8 2 (13.33%) HTML
8 2 (13.33%) Linux
8 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
8 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) Ajax
3 2 (13.33%) jQuery
4 1 (6.667%) Grails
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Maven
1 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (20.00%) WATIR
2 3 (20.00%) FitNesse
2 3 (20.00%) Ant
3 2 (13.33%) WinRunner
3 2 (13.33%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (13.33%) TestComplete
3 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (6.667%) JBehave
4 1 (6.667%) NUnit
4 1 (6.667%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
4 1 (6.667%) IntelliJ
4 1 (6.667%) JUnit
4 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Tester
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Tester
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Coordinator
3 2 (13.33%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (6.667%) Mobile Tester
4 1 (6.667%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Software Tester
4 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
1 1 (6.667%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.667%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.667%) Android
3 1 (6.667%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
3 1 (6.667%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
1 9 (60.00%) Automated Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Test Automation
3 6 (40.00%) Automation Testing
4 5 (33.33%) BDD
4 5 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Web Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
6 1 (6.667%) ATDD
6 1 (6.667%) User Stories
6 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.667%) Use Case
6 1 (6.667%) OOP
6 1 (6.667%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) C#
4 1 (6.667%) Scala
4 1 (6.667%) Ruby
4 1 (6.667%) Python
4 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
1 1 (6.667%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (13.33%) vCloud
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
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