WebDriver Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WebDriver skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebDriver 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.

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 WebDriver
Rank 398 483 529
Rank change year-on-year
+85 +46
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 144 82 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.311% 0.140% 0.092%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.825% 1.539% 0.871%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 60 30
Average daily rate £370 £341 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.42% -9.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £264 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £446 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 -
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 5098 5328 6545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 11.00% 9.128% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3210 3142 3691
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £269 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 221 320
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

WebDriver
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WebDriver within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

WebDriver Jobs Demand Trend

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebDriver Daily Rate Trend

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebDriver within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

WebDriver Daily Rate Histogram

WebDriver
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 WebDriver within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +104 140 £373 +9.15%
London +72 99 £400 +8.10%
City of London +18 21 £375 +15.38%
South East +27 18 £356 +18.75%
East of England +24 11 £333 +20.90%
Berkshire +24 8 £363 +11.53%
Hertfordshire - 7 £316 -
North West +14 5 £350 -0.14%
Buckinghamshire +9 5 £288 -
West Yorkshire +3 4 £220 -26.66%
Yorkshire 0 4 £220 -26.66%
Leeds -4 4 £220 -26.66%
Edinburgh +11 3 £350 -
Milton Keynes +7 3 £365 -
Hampshire -1 3 £330 +24.52%
Scotland -10 3 £350 -
Cambridgeshire +11 2 £315 +14.54%
Cambridge +9 2 £315 +14.54%
Reading - 2 £413 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £350 -
Leicestershire - 2 £350 -
Lancashire - 2 £350 -
Basingstoke - 2 £330 -
Hounslow - 2 - -
Merseyside - 2 £330 -
East Midlands - 2 £350 -
South West +30 1 - -
Brighton +8 1 £350 +16.66%
East Sussex +5 1 £350 +16.66%
Somerset - 1 - -

WebDriver
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebDriver 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 WebDriver.

1 341 (97.99%) Selenium
2 226 (64.94%) Java
3 209 (60.06%) Cucumber
4 188 (54.02%) BDD
5 180 (51.72%) Agile Software Development
6 160 (45.98%) QA
7 157 (45.11%) TDD
8 105 (30.17%) Ruby
9 101 (29.02%) Scrum
10 93 (26.72%) Test Automation
11 84 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
12 77 (22.13%) Automated Testing
13 74 (21.26%) C#
14 68 (19.54%) Web Services
14 68 (19.54%) OO
15 65 (18.68%) XML
16 62 (17.82%) SQL
17 61 (17.53%) Automation Testing
18 60 (17.24%) Finance
19 59 (16.95%) JavaScript
20 58 (16.67%) JUnit
21 56 (16.09%) .NET
21 56 (16.09%) E-Commerce
22 53 (15.23%) SOAP
23 52 (14.94%) HTML
24 50 (14.37%) Jenkins
25 49 (14.08%) Linux
26 47 (13.51%) JBehave
27 44 (12.64%) soapUI
28 40 (11.49%) TeamCity

WebDriver
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebDriver 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 WebDriver. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 68 (19.54%) Web Services
2 65 (18.68%) XML
3 56 (16.09%) .NET
4 53 (15.23%) SOAP
5 52 (14.94%) HTML
6 44 (12.64%) soapUI
7 33 (9.483%) RESTful
8 27 (7.759%) CSS
9 25 (7.184%) REST
10 21 (6.034%) WCF
10 21 (6.034%) JSON
11 16 (4.598%) Gherkin
12 13 (3.736%) J2EE
13 10 (2.874%) jQuery
13 10 (2.874%) HTML5
14 7 (2.011%) CSS3
14 7 (2.011%) XSLT
15 6 (1.724%) Ruby on Rails
16 5 (1.437%) WPF
16 5 (1.437%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 25 (7.184%) CMS
2 18 (5.172%) Adobe CQ
3 11 (3.161%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.299%) SharePoint 2010
5 6 (1.724%) Apache Pig
6 5 (1.437%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (1.149%) Apache Solr
7 4 (1.149%) Confluence
8 2 (0.575%) ESB
8 2 (0.575%) Apache
8 2 (0.575%) IIS
9 1 (0.287%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.287%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.287%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.149%) MS Office
2 2 (0.575%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.575%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (1.149%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.287%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.460%) HTTP
2 11 (3.161%) Internet
3 1 (0.287%) CDMA
3 1 (0.287%) GSM
3 1 (0.287%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.034%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.310%) Big Data
3 11 (3.161%) SQL Server 2012
4 7 (2.011%) Hadoop
4 7 (2.011%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.149%) Sqoop
6 3 (0.862%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.575%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (0.575%) MySQL
7 2 (0.575%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.287%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.287%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.287%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.287%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.287%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.287%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 341 (97.99%) Selenium
2 209 (60.06%) Cucumber
3 58 (16.67%) JUnit
4 50 (14.37%) Jenkins
5 47 (13.51%) JBehave
6 40 (11.49%) TeamCity
7 36 (10.34%) WATIR
7 36 (10.34%) Hudson
7 36 (10.34%) Git (software)
8 35 (10.06%) SpecFlow
9 34 (9.770%) FitNesse
10 28 (8.046%) Maven
11 25 (7.184%) Subversion
11 25 (7.184%) JIRA
12 22 (6.322%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 22 (6.322%) TestNG
13 20 (5.747%) Team Foundation Server
14 18 (5.172%) Mockito
15 17 (4.885%) QuickTest Pro
16 16 (4.598%) CruiseControl
General
1 60 (17.24%) Finance
2 16 (4.598%) Banking
3 14 (4.023%) Games
4 11 (3.161%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.299%) Publishing
6 7 (2.011%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.724%) Retail
8 4 (1.149%) Marketing
8 4 (1.149%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.149%) Electronics
9 2 (0.575%) Billing
9 2 (0.575%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.287%) Front Office
10 1 (0.287%) Law
Job Titles
1 87 (25.00%) Tester
2 75 (21.55%) Analyst
3 69 (19.83%) Test Analyst
4 61 (17.53%) Developer
5 59 (16.95%) QA Engineer
6 43 (12.36%) Test Engineer
7 42 (12.07%) Automation Tester
8 23 (6.609%) Automation Engineer
9 20 (5.747%) Java Developer
10 13 (3.736%) Senior Tester
11 11 (3.161%) Technical Tester
12 10 (2.874%) QA Analyst
12 10 (2.874%) Software Engineer
12 10 (2.874%) Technical Engineer
12 10 (2.874%) Automation Analyst
13 9 (2.586%) Senior Test Analyst
13 9 (2.586%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (2.299%) Automation Test Analyst
14 8 (2.299%) Test Automation Engineer
14 8 (2.299%) QA Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.609%) Open Source
2 21 (6.034%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (4.598%) Digital Media
4 12 (3.448%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.299%) Derivative
6 7 (2.011%) Social Media
6 7 (2.011%) Blackberry
7 6 (1.724%) iPhone
8 5 (1.437%) Computer Science
9 4 (1.149%) Online Games
9 4 (1.149%) DTV
9 4 (1.149%) Social Gaming
10 3 (0.862%) SaaS
11 2 (0.575%) Spread Betting
11 2 (0.575%) Wiki
11 2 (0.575%) Social Network
11 2 (0.575%) Mobile Banking
12 1 (0.287%) Inversion of Control
12 1 (0.287%) Video on Demand
12 1 (0.287%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.08%) Linux
2 23 (6.609%) Windows
3 14 (4.023%) Android
4 8 (2.299%) UNIX
4 8 (2.299%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.149%) Windows Phone
6 3 (0.862%) SUSE
7 2 (0.575%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.575%) CentOS
8 1 (0.287%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (54.02%) BDD
2 180 (51.72%) Agile Software Development
3 157 (45.11%) TDD
4 101 (29.02%) Scrum
5 93 (26.72%) Test Automation
6 84 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
7 77 (22.13%) Automated Testing
8 68 (19.54%) OO
9 61 (17.53%) Automation Testing
10 56 (16.09%) E-Commerce
11 37 (10.63%) Test Scripting
12 33 (9.483%) Software Testing
13 29 (8.333%) SOA
14 24 (6.897%) Manual Testing
15 20 (5.747%) Pair Programming
16 19 (5.460%) OOP
17 18 (5.172%) Workflow
18 16 (4.598%) Web Testing
18 16 (4.598%) Agile Testing
19 13 (3.736%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 226 (64.94%) Java
2 105 (30.17%) Ruby
3 74 (21.26%) C#
4 62 (17.82%) SQL
5 59 (16.95%) JavaScript
6 28 (8.046%) Python
7 20 (5.747%) C++
8 12 (3.448%) Perl
8 12 (3.448%) PHP
9 9 (2.586%) C
10 8 (2.299%) Groovy
11 7 (2.011%) VB
12 6 (1.724%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.149%) XPath
14 3 (0.862%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.575%) Tcl
15 2 (0.575%) Scala
16 1 (0.287%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.287%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 25 (7.184%) ISEB
2 14 (4.023%) ISTQB
3 9 (2.586%) Degree
4 2 (0.575%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.575%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.575%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.287%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.287%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (45.98%) QA
2 13 (3.736%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.862%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.598%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (6.034%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.172%) Adobe
2 18 (5.172%) HP
3 12 (3.448%) Oracle
4 5 (1.437%) SAP
5 3 (0.862%) VMware
6 2 (0.575%) Capita
6 2 (0.575%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.575%) IBM
6 2 (0.575%) Sun
6 2 (0.575%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.575%) Serena
7 1 (0.287%) Tableau
7 1 (0.287%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (0.287%) Cognos
7 1 (0.287%) Sitecore
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