The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 22 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 Surrey 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank - 84 94
Contract jobs citing Selenium 0 13 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.790% 0.384%
As % of the Development Applications category - 5.439% 3.518%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 6
Average daily rate - £283 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
+3.20% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.25
All Development Applications
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
125 239 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 10.80% 14.52% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 144 111
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
South East

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 (66.67%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (55.56%) E-Commerce
3 4 (44.44%) XML
3 4 (44.44%) SOAP
3 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
3 4 (44.44%) HP
3 4 (44.44%) Web Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (44.44%) Automated Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Agile Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 3 (33.33%) MVVM
4 3 (33.33%) Network Management
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 3 (33.33%) Physics
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) Silverlight
4 3 (33.33%) Use Case
4 3 (33.33%) Product Management
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
4 3 (33.33%) SNMP
4 3 (33.33%) 3GPP
4 3 (33.33%) GIS
4 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (33.33%) Telelogic
4 3 (33.33%) Telelogic TAU

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 (44.44%) XML
1 4 (44.44%) SOAP
2 3 (33.33%) Silverlight
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) CORBA
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) soapUI
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) WAP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SNMP
1 3 (33.33%) 3GPP
2 1 (11.11%) CDMA
2 1 (11.11%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (33.33%) Telelogic TAU
2 3 (33.33%) Rational Rose
3 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
4 1 (11.11%) Hudson
4 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (11.11%) JUnit
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
General
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Tester
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Tester
3 3 (33.33%) Silverlight Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 3 (33.33%) Physics
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) E-Commerce
3 4 (44.44%) Web Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Automated Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Agile Testing
4 3 (33.33%) MVVM
4 3 (33.33%) Network Management
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Use Case
4 3 (33.33%) Product Management
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) UML
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) SOA
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) HP
2 3 (33.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 3 (33.33%) Telelogic
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle