The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Selenium 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 for the Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 74 101 98
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -3
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 74 50 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 2.900% 1.733% 1.838%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.87% 9.524% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 74 46 50
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £27,000 £25,353
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £42,500 £37,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +10.29%
All Development Applications
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
414 525 480
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 16.22% 18.20% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 381 462 407
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Selenium
East of England

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Selenium Jobs Demand Trend

Selenium
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Selenium across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Selenium Salary Trend

Selenium
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Selenium across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Selenium Salary Histogram

Selenium
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Cambridgeshire region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +13 42 £42,500 +30.76%
Peterborough -2 11 £70,000 +159.25%
Selenium
East of England

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Selenium.

1 116 (68.24%) QA
2 103 (60.59%) Automated Testing
3 101 (59.41%) Software Testing
4 79 (46.47%) Python
5 76 (44.71%) Test Scripting
6 72 (42.35%) Linux
6 72 (42.35%) Perl
7 59 (34.71%) ISEB
8 57 (33.53%) Web Testing
9 55 (32.35%) Windows
10 46 (27.06%) Manual Testing
11 45 (26.47%) ISTQB
12 44 (25.88%) Agile Software Development
13 43 (25.29%) QuickTest Pro
14 41 (24.12%) Finance
14 41 (24.12%) Degree
14 41 (24.12%) WATIR
15 39 (22.94%) Ruby
15 39 (22.94%) TDD
15 39 (22.94%) UNIX
16 36 (21.18%) Security Testing
16 36 (21.18%) Jasmine
17 35 (20.59%) SQL
18 32 (18.82%) E-Commerce
18 32 (18.82%) JIRA
19 30 (17.65%) C
20 27 (15.88%) WebDriver
21 25 (14.71%) C++
22 23 (13.53%) C#
22 23 (13.53%) FitNesse

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Selenium. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (10.00%) HTML
2 12 (7.059%) XML
3 10 (5.882%) .NET
4 5 (2.941%) CSS
5 3 (1.765%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.765%) jQuery
5 3 (1.765%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.765%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 3 (1.765%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 3 (1.765%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (0.588%) Web Services
6 1 (0.588%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.765%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.588%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.588%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.059%) TCP/IP
2 11 (6.471%) SNMP
3 5 (2.941%) Internet
4 3 (1.765%) WAN
4 3 (1.765%) Intranet
5 1 (0.588%) SSL
5 1 (0.588%) HTTP
5 1 (0.588%) LAN
5 1 (0.588%) X.509
5 1 (0.588%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.529%) MySQL
3 3 (1.765%) DB2
4 2 (1.176%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (1.176%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (25.29%) QuickTest Pro
2 41 (24.12%) WATIR
3 36 (21.18%) Jasmine
4 32 (18.82%) JIRA
5 27 (15.88%) WebDriver
6 23 (13.53%) FitNesse
7 22 (12.94%) Team Foundation Server
8 19 (11.18%) MSTest
9 11 (6.471%) LabVIEW
10 7 (4.118%) NUnit
11 4 (2.353%) TestComplete
12 3 (1.765%) Subversion
12 3 (1.765%) Git (software)
12 3 (1.765%) QUnit
12 3 (1.765%) Rhino Mocks
12 3 (1.765%) Moq
12 3 (1.765%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.588%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (24.12%) Finance
2 5 (2.941%) Law
3 2 (1.176%) Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (26.47%) Test Engineer
2 44 (25.88%) Developer
3 38 (22.35%) Software Developer
4 36 (21.18%) QA Manager
5 32 (18.82%) Software Engineer
6 30 (17.65%) Software Test Engineer
7 28 (16.47%) Tester
8 22 (12.94%) Analyst
9 21 (12.35%) Test Analyst
9 21 (12.35%) Senior Developer
9 21 (12.35%) Software Tester
10 19 (11.18%) Senior Software Developer
11 13 (7.647%) Test Manager
11 13 (7.647%) QA Test Manager
12 11 (6.471%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (6.471%) Systems Test Engineer
12 11 (6.471%) Test Development Engineer
12 11 (6.471%) Development Engineer
13 7 (4.118%) QA Engineer
14 3 (1.765%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.76%) Computer Science
2 19 (11.18%) Mathematics
2 19 (11.18%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (4.706%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.765%) Visualisation
5 1 (0.588%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 72 (42.35%) Linux
2 55 (32.35%) Windows
3 39 (22.94%) UNIX
4 19 (11.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.588%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (60.59%) Automated Testing
2 101 (59.41%) Software Testing
3 76 (44.71%) Test Scripting
4 57 (33.53%) Web Testing
5 46 (27.06%) Manual Testing
6 44 (25.88%) Agile Software Development
7 39 (22.94%) TDD
8 36 (21.18%) Security Testing
9 32 (18.82%) E-Commerce
10 17 (10.00%) Automation Testing
11 6 (3.529%) Performance Testing
11 6 (3.529%) Test Automation
11 6 (3.529%) MVC
12 5 (2.941%) Test Management
12 5 (2.941%) User Acceptance Testing
13 3 (1.765%) Validation
13 3 (1.765%) Scrum
13 3 (1.765%) Pair Programming
13 3 (1.765%) Data Entry
13 3 (1.765%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (46.47%) Python
2 72 (42.35%) Perl
3 39 (22.94%) Ruby
4 35 (20.59%) SQL
5 30 (17.65%) C
6 25 (14.71%) C++
7 23 (13.53%) C#
8 19 (11.18%) Java
9 15 (8.824%) Bash shell
10 11 (6.471%) Tcl
11 5 (2.941%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.353%) VB
Qualifications
1 59 (34.71%) ISEB
2 45 (26.47%) ISTQB
3 41 (24.12%) Degree
4 3 (1.765%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (68.24%) QA
Systems Management
1 15 (8.824%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.824%) HP
3 3 (1.765%) Oracle
4 2 (1.176%) Riverbed
5 1 (0.588%) Adobe
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