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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 3 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category.

LinkSelenium
Location
3 months to
3 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank268366482
Rank change year-on-year
Up+98Up+116
Matching contract IT job ads35286106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.584 %0.223 %0.145 %
As % of the Development Applications category5.859 %2.672 %1.912 %
Daily rates quoted1993746
Average daily rate£350£325£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.690 %-7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£263£200£223
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£488£410£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£310£275
% change year-on-year
-3.220 %+12.72 %
Hourly rates quoted910
Average hourly rate£37.50£28.13-
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33 %-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£37.50--
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryAll Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
600832195543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK9.964 %8.330 %7.564 %
Daily rates quoted315613051857
Average daily rate£390£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.42 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£270£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£325
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted222195408
Average hourly rate£37.50£28.06£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.63 %-19.82 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£23.00£13.00£18.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£37.50£25.00£35.25
% change year-on-year
+50.00 %-29.07 %

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.

Selenium
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Selenium within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Selenium Demand Trend

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Selenium within the UK.

Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK over the 3 months to 3 September 2010.

Selenium Daily Rate Histogram

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Selenium within the UK.

Selenium Hourly Rate Trend

Selenium
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK over the 3 months to 3 September 2010.

Selenium Hourly Rate Histogram

Selenium
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 3 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+114338£350+8.52 %
LondonUp+42242£375+15.38 %
City of LondonUp+167£381+8.92 %
South EastDown-445£300+50.00 %
BerkshireUp+731£300-
ReadingUp+621£300-
North WestDown-1014£281-12.10 %
YorkshireDown-1012£300-
South WestDown-1211£268-20.59 %
ScotlandDown-1911£276-21.07 %
West YorkshireNew entry-10£288-
CheshireNew entry-9--
EdinburghNew entry-9£276-
WarringtonNew entry-9--
East of EnglandNew entry-9£270-
LeedsNew entry-7£288-
BristolNew entry-6£265-
SurreyDown-224£300-9.09 %
OxfordshireNew entry-4--
MiddlesexDown-73£263-
HertfordshireNew entry-3--
CambridgeshireNew entry-3£190-
SomersetNew entry-3£338-
CambridgeNew entry-3£190-
WatfordNew entry-3--
Canary WharfNew entry-3£700-
West MidlandsDown-142£325+23.80 %
ManchesterDown-222£325+1.56 %
East MidlandsDown-302--
WarwickshireNew entry-2£325-

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1329 (48.74 %)Java
2327 (48.44 %)Agile Software Development
3201 (29.78 %)TDD
4174 (25.78 %)Scrum
5173 (25.63 %)Spring
6150 (22.22 %)JavaScript
6150 (22.22 %)QA
7142 (21.04 %)Hibernate
8132 (19.56 %)Automated Testing
9130 (19.26 %)SQL
10126 (18.67 %)Test Automation
11124 (18.37 %)FitNesse
12121 (17.93 %)JUnit
13114 (16.89 %)Continuous Integration
14111 (16.44 %)ISEB
14111 (16.44 %)MVC
15106 (15.70 %)XML
16105 (15.56 %)Oracle
17103 (15.26 %)Test Scripting
1897 (14.37 %)Subversion
1989 (13.19 %)Unit Testing
1989 (13.19 %)Open Source
1989 (13.19 %)J2EE
2086 (12.74 %)C#
2180 (11.85 %)Finance
2279 (11.70 %)OO
2378 (11.56 %)HTML
2475 (11.11 %)QuickTest Pro
2571 (10.52 %)Maven
2669 (10.22 %).NET

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1173 (25.63 %)Spring
2142 (21.04 %)Hibernate
3106 (15.70 %)XML
489 (13.19 %)J2EE
578 (11.56 %)HTML
669 (10.22 %).NET
766 (9.778 %)Web Services
766 (9.778 %)AJAX
860 (8.889 %)CSS
951 (7.556 %)JSP
1046 (6.815 %)Struts
1141 (6.074 %)Spring MVC
1239 (5.778 %)jQuery
1338 (5.630 %)WebSphere
1338 (5.630 %)ASP.NET
1433 (4.889 %)Adobe Flex
1531 (4.593 %)XHTML
1628 (4.148 %)JMS
1725 (3.704 %)Flash
1824 (3.556 %)SOAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
156 (8.296 %)Apache
235 (5.185 %)WebLogic
332 (4.741 %)Tomcat
414 (2.074 %)CMS
512 (1.778 %)SharePoint
611 (1.630 %)BizTalk Server
79 (1.333 %)WebSphere Portal
88 (1.185 %)ESB
96 (0.889 %)ActiveMQ
96 (0.889 %)Confluence
105 (0.741 %)Jetty
105 (0.741 %)TeamSite
114 (0.593 %)Drupal
123 (0.444 %)GlassFish
132 (0.296 %)Documentum
132 (0.296 %)Mule
132 (0.296 %)Resin
132 (0.296 %)Liferay
141 (0.148 %)Lightstreamer
141 (0.148 %)Umbraco
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
112 (1.778 %)MS Excel
26 (0.889 %)MS Visio
26 (0.889 %)MS Project
35 (0.741 %)MS PowerPoint
41 (0.148 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
148 (7.111 %)Internet
217 (2.519 %)HTTP
34 (0.593 %)ATM
43 (0.444 %)DNS
43 (0.444 %)TCP/IP
52 (0.296 %)VoIP
52 (0.296 %)SNMP
52 (0.296 %)Firewall
52 (0.296 %)TELNET
52 (0.296 %)BSS
61 (0.148 %)LDAP
61 (0.148 %)DHCP
61 (0.148 %)FTP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
156 (8.296 %)SQL Server
252 (7.704 %)MySQL
316 (2.370 %)Oracle 10g
415 (2.222 %)SQL Server 2005
512 (1.778 %)SQL Server 2000
69 (1.333 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
69 (1.333 %)Crystal Reports
75 (0.741 %)Oracle 8/8i
75 (0.741 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
84 (0.593 %)TOAD
84 (0.593 %)SQL Server 2008
93 (0.444 %)Oracle 11g
101 (0.148 %)CouchDB
101 (0.148 %)Reference Data
101 (0.148 %)GIS
101 (0.148 %)PostgreSQL
101 (0.148 %)ETL
101 (0.148 %)RDBMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1124 (18.37 %)FitNesse
2121 (17.93 %)JUnit
397 (14.37 %)Subversion
475 (11.11 %)QuickTest Pro
571 (10.52 %)Maven
653 (7.852 %)Ant
752 (7.704 %)LoadRunner
848 (7.111 %)JBehave
942 (6.222 %)Eclipse
1037 (5.481 %)Cucumber
1133 (4.889 %)JIRA
1133 (4.889 %)WebDriver
1133 (4.889 %)JMeter
1230 (4.444 %)WATIR
1328 (4.148 %)NUnit
1423 (3.407 %)TestNG
1423 (3.407 %)PHPUnit
1423 (3.407 %)WinRunner
1519 (2.815 %)FlexUnit
1519 (2.815 %)Flash Builder
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
180 (11.85 %)Finance
269 (10.22 %)Banking
355 (8.148 %)Investment Banking
440 (5.926 %)Games
531 (4.593 %)Front Office
623 (3.407 %)Publishing
721 (3.111 %)Marketing
819 (2.815 %)Retail
916 (2.370 %)Government
916 (2.370 %)Online Games
1015 (2.222 %)Education
1110 (1.481 %)Social Media
129 (1.333 %)Telecoms
137 (1.037 %)Insurance
137 (1.037 %)Financial Institution
146 (0.889 %)Back Office
154 (0.593 %)Health
154 (0.593 %)Multimedia
154 (0.593 %)Billing
163 (0.444 %)Pensions
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1250 (37.04 %)Developer
2173 (25.63 %)Tester
3163 (24.15 %)Analyst
4133 (19.70 %)Java Developer
5130 (19.26 %)Test Analyst
659 (8.741 %)Agile Java Developer
751 (7.556 %)Web Tester
841 (6.074 %)Test Engineer
934 (5.037 %)QA Analyst
1031 (4.593 %)Agile Test Analyst
1130 (4.444 %)QA Engineer
1226 (3.852 %)QA Tester
1325 (3.704 %)Flex Developer
1424 (3.556 %).NET Developer
1424 (3.556 %)Senior Analyst
1523 (3.407 %)Senior Developer
1622 (3.259 %)Web Developer
1720 (2.963 %)Automation Tester
1818 (2.667 %)Consultant
1818 (2.667 %)Automation Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
189 (13.19 %)Open Source
224 (3.556 %)RIA
319 (2.815 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
418 (2.667 %)Client/Server
418 (2.667 %)Derivative
515 (2.222 %)Equities
611 (1.630 %)Equity Derivative
710 (1.481 %)Computer Science
88 (1.185 %)Data Protection Act
97 (1.037 %)iPhone
97 (1.037 %)N-Tier
105 (0.741 %)iPad
105 (0.741 %)Spread Betting
105 (0.741 %)DTV
105 (0.741 %)BBC
114 (0.593 %)Management Information System
114 (0.593 %)Web 2.0
114 (0.593 %)Cloud Computing
114 (0.593 %)Hedge funds
123 (0.444 %)Dependency Injection
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
163 (9.333 %)UNIX
262 (9.185 %)Linux
317 (2.519 %)Windows
45 (0.741 %)Windows XP
54 (0.593 %)Mac OS
63 (0.444 %)Red Hat Linux
63 (0.444 %)Android
63 (0.444 %)Windows Vista
63 (0.444 %)Solaris
72 (0.296 %)Windows 2000
72 (0.296 %)Windows NT
72 (0.296 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
72 (0.296 %)Windows 7
81 (0.148 %)Ubuntu
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1327 (48.44 %)Agile Software Development
2201 (29.78 %)TDD
3174 (25.78 %)Scrum
4132 (19.56 %)Automated Testing
5126 (18.67 %)Test Automation
6114 (16.89 %)Continuous Integration
7111 (16.44 %)MVC
8103 (15.26 %)Test Scripting
989 (13.19 %)Unit Testing
1079 (11.70 %)OO
1163 (9.333 %)E-Commerce
1260 (8.889 %)Software Testing
1349 (7.259 %)Integration Testing
1445 (6.667 %)Performance Testing
1542 (6.222 %)Regression Testing
1640 (5.926 %)Web Testing
1739 (5.778 %)Load Testing
1836 (5.333 %)BDD
1935 (5.185 %)Web Development
2033 (4.889 %)Pair Programming
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1329 (48.74 %)Java
2150 (22.22 %)JavaScript
3130 (19.26 %)SQL
486 (12.74 %)C#
562 (9.185 %)PHP
642 (6.222 %)Ruby
730 (4.444 %)Shell Script
828 (4.148 %)Perl
924 (3.556 %)PL/SQL
1023 (3.407 %)ActionScript
1122 (3.259 %)XPath
1219 (2.815 %)VB
1318 (2.667 %)C++
1416 (2.370 %)VBScript
1515 (2.222 %)Python
169 (1.333 %)VBA
169 (1.333 %)C
178 (1.185 %)PHP5
178 (1.185 %)Bash shell
186 (0.889 %)T-SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1111 (16.44 %)ISEB
234 (5.037 %)ISTQB
325 (3.704 %)Degree
414 (2.074 %)ISEB Practitioner
57 (1.037 %)Sun Certification
62 (0.296 %)SC Cleared
62 (0.296 %)Security Cleared
71 (0.148 %)MCTS
71 (0.148 %)PhD
71 (0.148 %)Microsoft Certification
71 (0.148 %)MCSE
71 (0.148 %)MCSD
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1150 (22.22 %)QA
21 (0.148 %)MiFID
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (1.185 %)MSMQ
23 (0.444 %)OpenSSO
32 (0.296 %)Terminal Services
32 (0.296 %)Active Directory
32 (0.296 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
148 (7.111 %)HP Quality Center
21 (0.148 %)Tivoli
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1105 (15.56 %)Oracle
227 (4.000 %)Adobe
325 (3.704 %)Microsoft
424 (3.556 %)HP
515 (2.222 %)JBoss
613 (1.926 %)Google
613 (1.926 %)VMware
613 (1.926 %)Sun
78 (1.185 %)Sybase
78 (1.185 %)IBM
78 (1.185 %)Mercator
78 (1.185 %)Typemock
86 (0.889 %)ATG
95 (0.741 %)Canoo
95 (0.741 %)Vignette
104 (0.593 %)Zend
113 (0.444 %)Red Hat
122 (0.296 %)TIBCO
122 (0.296 %)Citrix
122 (0.296 %)Kofax