The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 21 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 Wales 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 43 54 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing Selenium 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.472% 0.179% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.255% 1.923% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £273 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £324 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
+3.60% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.25
All Development Applications
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
47 52 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 11.08% 9.302% 9.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 22
Average daily rate £325 £375 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +17.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £440 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -56.75%
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 Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales Selenium Daily 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 21 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
South Wales +10 2 £273 -
Selenium
UK

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) XML
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) OO
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) TDD
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) WATIR
1 2 (33.33%) Rational Functional Tester
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) BDD
1 2 (33.33%) Capybara
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Hudson
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
2 1 (16.67%) Firebug
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
2 1 (16.67%) CruiseControl
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) XML
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) WATIR
1 2 (33.33%) Rational Functional Tester
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Capybara
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Hudson
2 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
2 1 (16.67%) Firebug
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) CruiseControl
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Functional Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Testing Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) OO
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) TDD
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Perforce