The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 93 104 97
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -7
Contract jobs citing Selenium 25 6 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.025% 0.226% 0.507%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.470% 3.550% 5.490%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
Average daily rate £383 £263 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.57% -15.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £349 £213 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £313 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
264 169 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.82% 6.353% 9.229%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 77 133
Average daily rate £356 £325 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.61% -16.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £210 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 1
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
UK

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Selenium Daily Rate Histogram

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Glasgow -7 9 £406 +102.61%
Stirling - 6 £425 -
Edinburgh +6 4 £350 +7.69%
Fife - 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 - -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £403 -
Selenium
UK

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 31 (64.58%) Agile Software Development
2 30 (62.50%) Java
3 26 (54.17%) SQL
4 22 (45.83%) XML
4 22 (45.83%) Spring
5 21 (43.75%) UNIX
6 17 (35.42%) J2EE
7 16 (33.33%) Oracle
7 16 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 16 (33.33%) Banking
7 16 (33.33%) CruiseControl
7 16 (33.33%) Unit Testing
8 15 (31.25%) Hibernate
8 15 (31.25%) Scrum
8 15 (31.25%) WebSphere
8 15 (31.25%) PL/SQL
8 15 (31.25%) CSS
8 15 (31.25%) Cucumber
8 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
9 14 (29.17%) QuickTest Pro
9 14 (29.17%) JMS
9 14 (29.17%) Maven
10 13 (27.08%) Eclipse
10 13 (27.08%) JSP
11 12 (25.00%) Struts
11 12 (25.00%) Perl
11 12 (25.00%) OO
11 12 (25.00%) Shell Script
11 12 (25.00%) MVC
11 12 (25.00%) Ajax

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 22 (45.83%) XML
1 22 (45.83%) Spring
2 17 (35.42%) J2EE
3 15 (31.25%) Hibernate
3 15 (31.25%) WebSphere
3 15 (31.25%) CSS
4 14 (29.17%) JMS
5 13 (27.08%) JSP
6 12 (25.00%) Struts
6 12 (25.00%) Ajax
7 11 (22.92%) GWT
7 11 (22.92%) Spring Web Flow
7 11 (22.92%) iBATIS
7 11 (22.92%) Spring MVC
7 11 (22.92%) XSLT
7 11 (22.92%) JDBC
8 9 (18.75%) RESTful
8 9 (18.75%) Web Services
9 6 (12.50%) JSF
10 5 (10.42%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 7 (14.58%) Tomcat
2 6 (12.50%) Mule
3 4 (8.333%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (6.250%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.250%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.250%) MySQL
4 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 16 (33.33%) CruiseControl
2 15 (31.25%) Cucumber
2 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 14 (29.17%) QuickTest Pro
3 14 (29.17%) Maven
4 13 (27.08%) Eclipse
5 10 (20.83%) Subversion
6 9 (18.75%) JIRA
7 6 (12.50%) JUnit
8 5 (10.42%) FitNesse
8 5 (10.42%) Ant
9 3 (6.250%) Hudson
9 3 (6.250%) Eclipse RCP
9 3 (6.250%) RSpec
9 3 (6.250%) WebDriver
9 3 (6.250%) WATIR
10 1 (2.083%) Robotium
10 1 (2.083%) JBehave
10 1 (2.083%) Visual Studio
10 1 (2.083%) JMeter
General
1 16 (33.33%) Banking
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (8.333%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (50.00%) Developer
2 22 (45.83%) Java Developer
3 12 (25.00%) Analyst
3 12 (25.00%) Test Analyst
4 4 (8.333%) Tester
5 3 (6.250%) Automated Test Analyst
5 3 (6.250%) QA Analyst
5 3 (6.250%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (6.250%) Build Engineer
6 2 (4.167%) Systems Tester
6 2 (4.167%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.083%) Middle Office Analyst
7 1 (2.083%) Automation Tester
7 1 (2.083%) Automation Analyst
7 1 (2.083%) Mobile Tester
7 1 (2.083%) Test Consultant
7 1 (2.083%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.083%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.083%) Applications Tester
7 1 (2.083%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.250%) Clustering
2 3 (6.250%) Open Source
2 3 (6.250%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.083%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.083%) Derivative
3 1 (2.083%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.083%) iPhone
3 1 (2.083%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.083%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) UNIX
2 2 (4.167%) Windows
2 2 (4.167%) Android
3 1 (2.083%) Solaris
3 1 (2.083%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (64.58%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 15 (31.25%) Scrum
4 12 (25.00%) OO
4 12 (25.00%) MVC
5 11 (22.92%) Web Application Development
6 10 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 10 (20.83%) Extreme Programming
6 10 (20.83%) TDD
7 9 (18.75%) BDD
8 8 (16.67%) Automated Testing
9 7 (14.58%) Test Scripting
10 5 (10.42%) Dependency Injection
10 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
11 4 (8.333%) UML
12 3 (6.250%) User Stories
12 3 (6.250%) Product Management
12 3 (6.250%) Multithreading
12 3 (6.250%) DSDM
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) Java
2 26 (54.17%) SQL
3 16 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 15 (31.25%) PL/SQL
5 12 (25.00%) Perl
5 12 (25.00%) Shell Script
6 5 (10.42%) Ruby
7 4 (8.333%) C#
8 3 (6.250%) XPath
9 2 (4.167%) C++
10 1 (2.083%) PHP
10 1 (2.083%) VB
10 1 (2.083%) VBA
10 1 (2.083%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) Degree
2 2 (4.167%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Control-M
2 3 (6.250%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Oracle
2 8 (16.67%) JBoss
3 7 (14.58%) Sybase
4 5 (10.42%) HP
5 4 (8.333%) Cadis
6 3 (6.250%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.167%) IBM
8 1 (2.083%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.083%) Sun
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