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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 97 121 117
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -4
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 26 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.445% 0.349% 0.121%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.286% 2.059% 0.778%
Number of salaries quoted 16 6 2
Average salary £30,000 £30,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.63% -23.75%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +11.94%
All Development Applications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
280 340 257
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 15.56% 16.93% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 229 306 248
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Selenium
North West

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Selenium Salary Trend

Selenium
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Selenium across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington +28 10 £30,000 +1.69%
Chester - 10 £31,000 -
Knutsford - 2 £24,500 -
Selenium
North West

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 24 (64.86%) SQL
2 20 (54.05%) Test Scripting
3 16 (43.24%) Agile Software Development
4 14 (37.84%) Automated Testing
5 9 (24.32%) TDD
5 9 (24.32%) NUnit
5 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
5 9 (24.32%) QA
6 8 (21.62%) DB2
6 8 (21.62%) VB
6 8 (21.62%) C
6 8 (21.62%) C++
6 8 (21.62%) Perl
6 8 (21.62%) PL/SQL
6 8 (21.62%) Oracle
7 7 (18.92%) Manual Testing
8 6 (16.22%) jQuery
8 6 (16.22%) HP Quality Center
8 6 (16.22%) ISTQB
8 6 (16.22%) CSS
8 6 (16.22%) E-Commerce
8 6 (16.22%) ETL
8 6 (16.22%) SAS
8 6 (16.22%) HP
8 6 (16.22%) ISEB
8 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
8 6 (16.22%) C#
8 6 (16.22%) .NET
9 5 (13.51%) T-SQL
9 5 (13.51%) IIS

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 6 (16.22%) jQuery
1 6 (16.22%) CSS
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 5 (13.51%) HTML
2 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET
2 5 (13.51%) .NET Framework
2 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (13.51%) Razor View Engine
2 5 (13.51%) JSON
2 5 (13.51%) WCF
2 5 (13.51%) LINQ
2 5 (13.51%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (2.703%) LAMP
3 1 (2.703%) Web Services
3 1 (2.703%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.703%) HTML5
3 1 (2.703%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 6 (16.22%) SAS
2 5 (13.51%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MS Excel
1 4 (10.81%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Intranet
2 4 (10.81%) HTTP
3 1 (2.703%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
2 8 (21.62%) DB2
3 4 (10.81%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.703%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) NUnit
2 5 (13.51%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (13.51%) Cucumber
2 5 (13.51%) Git (software)
3 4 (10.81%) Concordion
3 4 (10.81%) Visual Studio
4 2 (5.405%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.703%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (2.703%) JUnit
5 1 (2.703%) Hudson
5 1 (2.703%) QUnit
5 1 (2.703%) Jasmine
General
1 2 (5.405%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Analyst
2 15 (40.54%) Test Analyst
3 9 (24.32%) Tester
4 8 (21.62%) Test Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Web Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Automation Tester
7 4 (10.81%) Agile Test Analyst
7 4 (10.81%) QA Analyst
7 4 (10.81%) Software Tester
8 3 (8.108%) Software Analyst
9 2 (5.405%) Test Manager
10 1 (2.703%) .NET Developer
10 1 (2.703%) Senior Manager
10 1 (2.703%) QA Engineer
10 1 (2.703%) QA Test Analyst
10 1 (2.703%) Senior Test Manager
10 1 (2.703%) Web Analyst
10 1 (2.703%) Web Test Analyst
10 1 (2.703%) Automation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) NHS
2 1 (2.703%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.703%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.703%) Open Source
2 1 (2.703%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Test Scripting
2 16 (43.24%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (37.84%) Automated Testing
4 9 (24.32%) TDD
5 7 (18.92%) Manual Testing
6 6 (16.22%) E-Commerce
6 6 (16.22%) ETL
7 5 (13.51%) OO
7 5 (13.51%) MVC
7 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (10.81%) Software Testing
9 3 (8.108%) Performance Testing
9 3 (8.108%) Test Management
10 2 (5.405%) User Stories
10 2 (5.405%) Scrum
10 2 (5.405%) Load Testing
10 2 (5.405%) BDD
11 1 (2.703%) Validation
11 1 (2.703%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) VB
2 8 (21.62%) C
2 8 (21.62%) C++
2 8 (21.62%) Perl
2 8 (21.62%) PL/SQL
3 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.22%) C#
4 5 (13.51%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.703%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) ISTQB
1 6 (16.22%) ISEB
2 1 (2.703%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle
2 6 (16.22%) HP
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
Cheshire
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Salary: £0 - 35k per year
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