The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 10 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 2.959% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 20.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £31,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +11.94%
All Development Applications
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
50 43 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 14.79% 27.56% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 27 43 63
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Selenium
Cheshire

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Selenium Salary Trend

Selenium
Salary Histogram

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

Chester Selenium Salary Histogram

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 14 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 6 (42.86%) HP Quality Center
3 6 (42.86%) HP
3 6 (42.86%) ISEB
3 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 6 (42.86%) ETL
3 6 (42.86%) SAS
3 6 (42.86%) ISTQB
4 5 (35.71%) Automated Testing
5 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Concordion
6 3 (21.43%) HTTP
6 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
7 2 (14.29%) TDD
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 2 (14.29%) User Stories
8 1 (7.143%) QUnit
8 1 (7.143%) Jasmine
8 1 (7.143%) Kanban
8 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (7.143%) HTML5
8 1 (7.143%) Cucumber
8 1 (7.143%) BDD
8 1 (7.143%) Hudson
8 1 (7.143%) CSS3
8 1 (7.143%) Pair Programming
8 1 (7.143%) Smartphone
8 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 1 (7.143%) HTML5
1 1 (7.143%) CSS3
1 1 (7.143%) jQuery
1 1 (7.143%) .NET
1 1 (7.143%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Concordion
2 1 (7.143%) QUnit
2 1 (7.143%) Jasmine
2 1 (7.143%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.143%) Hudson
2 1 (7.143%) JUnit
General
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Test Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Analyst
2 7 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Software Tester
3 4 (28.57%) Tester
4 1 (7.143%) Agile Test Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Agile .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Web Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Web Test Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Smartphone
1 1 (7.143%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 6 (42.86%) ETL
4 5 (35.71%) Automated Testing
5 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
7 2 (14.29%) TDD
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 2 (14.29%) User Stories
8 1 (7.143%) Kanban
8 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (7.143%) BDD
8 1 (7.143%) Pair Programming
8 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
8 1 (7.143%) Load Testing
8 1 (7.143%) Web Testing
8 1 (7.143%) Test Management
8 1 (7.143%) Regression Testing
8 1 (7.143%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) C#
2 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) ISEB
1 6 (42.86%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) HP
Chester, North West
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