Selenium Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 105 123 121
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -2
Contract jobs citing Selenium 3 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.149% 0.402% 0.035%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.493% 3.846% 0.311%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
Average daily rate £278 £240 £135
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.62% +77.77%
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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 201 338 322
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 9.965% 10.45% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 209 147
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £288 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 48
Average hourly rate £41.25 £35.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% -1.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £23.88 £33.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.75 £40.50
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South 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 South West region.

South 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 South West region.

South 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 South West 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
Devon +3 2 £278 +58.57%
Somerset - 1 - -
Selenium
England

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (38.46%) jQuery
2 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) ISEB
2 5 (38.46%) WebDriver
3 4 (30.77%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 4 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) C#
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
3 4 (30.77%) Subversion
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Maven
4 3 (23.08%) Ruby
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
4 3 (23.08%) WATIR
4 3 (23.08%) FitNesse
4 3 (23.08%) Web Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) J2EE
4 3 (23.08%) Delphi
4 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 3 (23.08%) MVC
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (23.08%) Windows

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 5 (38.46%) jQuery
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
3 3 (23.08%) J2EE
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (23.08%) KnockoutJS
4 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) Spring
5 1 (7.692%) MDX
5 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
1 2 (15.38%) GlassFish
2 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) assyst
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) WebDriver
2 4 (30.77%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (30.77%) Subversion
3 3 (23.08%) Maven
3 3 (23.08%) WATIR
3 3 (23.08%) FitNesse
3 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (15.38%) Hudson
4 2 (15.38%) Mockito
4 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (15.38%) JUnit
4 2 (15.38%) jMock
5 1 (7.692%) JIRA
5 1 (7.692%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Developer
2 3 (23.08%) C# Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Test Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Lead Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Clustering
1 1 (7.692%) Replication
1 1 (7.692%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (7.692%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Web Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) MVC
5 2 (15.38%) User Stories
5 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Agile Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 2 (15.38%) OOD
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Kanban
5 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
6 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
1 4 (30.77%) C#
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Ruby
2 3 (23.08%) Delphi
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) ISEB
2 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.692%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (7.692%) Degree
4 1 (7.692%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
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