The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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 76 62 67
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +5
Contract jobs citing Selenium 12 29 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.956% 1.853% 1.067%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.836% 26.36% 9.302%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 7
Average daily rate £213 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.61% +8.33%
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
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
122 110 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 9.721% 7.029% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 66 54
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £258 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
Yorkshire

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -21 11 £213 -34.61%
Selenium
Yorkshire

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 12 (46.15%) WebDriver
2 11 (42.31%) C#
2 11 (42.31%) Scrum
2 11 (42.31%) Automated Testing
3 9 (34.62%) Oracle
4 8 (30.77%) Web Services
4 8 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (30.77%) QA
5 7 (26.92%) JIRA
5 7 (26.92%) TDD
5 7 (26.92%) BDD
5 7 (26.92%) Test Automation
6 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
6 6 (23.08%) Automation Testing
6 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
6 6 (23.08%) SQL
7 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
7 5 (19.23%) MySQL
7 5 (19.23%) Visual Studio
7 5 (19.23%) CSS
7 5 (19.23%) Internet
7 5 (19.23%) ISEB
7 5 (19.23%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (19.23%) JSON
7 5 (19.23%) Ajax
7 5 (19.23%) jQuery
7 5 (19.23%) Security Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (19.23%) Redis
7 5 (19.23%) Percona

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 8 (30.77%) Web Services
2 5 (19.23%) CSS
2 5 (19.23%) JSON
2 5 (19.23%) Ajax
2 5 (19.23%) jQuery
2 5 (19.23%) HTML5
2 5 (19.23%) CSS3
3 3 (11.54%) XML
3 3 (11.54%) ASP
3 3 (11.54%) .NET
3 3 (11.54%) HTML
3 3 (11.54%) Gherkin
4 2 (7.692%) soapUI
5 1 (3.846%) Middleware
5 1 (3.846%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 5 (19.23%) Route 53
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon AWS
3 4 (15.38%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Office
2 1 (3.846%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Internet
2 1 (3.846%) DVB
2 1 (3.846%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) MySQL
1 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (19.23%) Redis
1 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) WebDriver
2 7 (26.92%) JIRA
3 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (19.23%) Visual Studio
4 5 (19.23%) Git (software)
5 3 (11.54%) MSI
5 3 (11.54%) TeamCity
5 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
5 3 (11.54%) SpecFlow
6 2 (7.692%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (3.846%) Ant
7 1 (3.846%) JUnit
7 1 (3.846%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (3.846%) JMeter
7 1 (3.846%) CruiseControl
7 1 (3.846%) Subversion
7 1 (3.846%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (3.846%) Hudson
General
1 2 (7.692%) Finance
2 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.846%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) Test Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) Tester
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Web Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Front-End Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Front-End Web Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Mobile Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Agile Tester
3 3 (11.54%) Automation Tester
4 2 (7.692%) Agile Test Analyst
4 2 (7.692%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) QA Test Analyst
4 2 (7.692%) QA Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Test Leader
5 1 (3.846%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Automated Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.846%) EPoS
1 1 (3.846%) MPEG
1 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
1 1 (3.846%) IPTV
1 1 (3.846%) STB
1 1 (3.846%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Scrum
1 11 (42.31%) Automated Testing
2 8 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (26.92%) TDD
3 7 (26.92%) BDD
3 7 (26.92%) Test Automation
4 6 (23.08%) Automation Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Security Testing
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (11.54%) Test Management
7 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Manual Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Agile Testing
8 2 (7.692%) User Stories
8 2 (7.692%) System Testing
8 2 (7.692%) Performance Testing
8 2 (7.692%) Regression Testing
8 2 (7.692%) Test Scripting
9 1 (3.846%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) C#
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) VB
5 2 (7.692%) Java
6 1 (3.846%) Tcl
6 1 (3.846%) COBOL
6 1 (3.846%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) ISEB
2 1 (3.846%) HND
2 1 (3.846%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.846%) Degree
2 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.846%) BC Cleared
2 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle
2 5 (19.23%) Percona
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.54%) HP
4 3 (11.54%) VMware