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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 65 65 92
Rank change year-on-year
0 +27
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 21 27 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.974% 1.975% 0.820%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.35% 14.52% 12.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 12
Average salary £36,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.30% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,250 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,550 £37,500 £46,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +10.29%
All Development Applications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
170 186 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 15.98% 13.61% 6.494%
Number of salaries quoted 111 130 84
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Selenium
Scotland

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Selenium Salary Trend

Selenium
Salary Histogram

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

Edinburgh Selenium Salary Histogram

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 23 (71.88%) Degree
2 22 (68.75%) TDD
3 21 (65.63%) Java
4 16 (50.00%) Scrum
5 15 (46.88%) JUnit
5 15 (46.88%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (43.75%) QA
6 14 (43.75%) Unit Testing
6 14 (43.75%) Web Testing
6 14 (43.75%) .NET
7 13 (40.63%) Test Scripting
8 11 (34.38%) Ant
8 11 (34.38%) XML
8 11 (34.38%) Puppet
8 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
9 10 (31.25%) PHP
9 10 (31.25%) Games
9 10 (31.25%) Finance
9 10 (31.25%) Internet
9 10 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (28.13%) Computer Science
10 9 (28.13%) Subversion
10 9 (28.13%) Hibernate
10 9 (28.13%) Eclipse
11 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
11 8 (25.00%) Ajax
12 7 (21.88%) Automated Testing
12 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
12 7 (21.88%) JSF
12 7 (21.88%) Open Source

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 14 (43.75%) .NET
2 11 (34.38%) XML
3 9 (28.13%) Hibernate
4 8 (25.00%) Ajax
5 7 (21.88%) JSF
5 7 (21.88%) J2EE
5 7 (21.88%) Struts
6 6 (18.75%) jQuery
7 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET
8 4 (12.50%) WCF
8 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (12.50%) Gherkin
8 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 3 (9.375%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 3 (9.375%) .NET Framework
9 3 (9.375%) NHibernate
9 3 (9.375%) HTML
10 2 (6.250%) CSS
10 2 (6.250%) Servlets
10 2 (6.250%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 10 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (21.88%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (9.375%) NServiceBus
3 3 (9.375%) MSMQ
4 1 (3.125%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (6.250%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) JUnit
2 11 (34.38%) Ant
2 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
3 9 (28.13%) Subversion
3 9 (28.13%) Eclipse
4 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
5 4 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
6 3 (9.375%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (9.375%) LoadRunner
7 2 (6.250%) TestDirector
7 2 (6.250%) JMeter
7 2 (6.250%) Bugzilla
7 2 (6.250%) Maven
8 1 (3.125%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.125%) Concordion
8 1 (3.125%) MSBuild
8 1 (3.125%) WatiN
8 1 (3.125%) WebDriver
8 1 (3.125%) MSTest
8 1 (3.125%) ReSharper
General
1 10 (31.25%) Games
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Retail
3 1 (3.125%) Multimedia
3 1 (3.125%) Retail Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Test Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Automated Test Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Test Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
6 4 (12.50%) Programmer
6 4 (12.50%) Java Developer
7 3 (9.375%) .NET Developer
7 3 (9.375%) Software Engineer
7 3 (9.375%) Java Analyst Programmer
7 3 (9.375%) Java Programmer
8 2 (6.250%) Software Developer
8 2 (6.250%) Tester
8 2 (6.250%) Lead Developer
8 2 (6.250%) Consultant
8 2 (6.250%) Test Consultant
8 2 (6.250%) Software Tester
8 2 (6.250%) C# Developer
8 2 (6.250%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Computer Science
2 7 (21.88%) Open Source
3 2 (6.250%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.125%) iPhone
4 1 (3.125%) AS400
4 1 (3.125%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.250%) Windows
2 1 (3.125%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) TDD
2 16 (50.00%) Scrum
3 15 (46.88%) Continuous Integration
4 14 (43.75%) Unit Testing
4 14 (43.75%) Web Testing
5 13 (40.63%) Test Scripting
6 7 (21.88%) Automated Testing
6 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (21.88%) CRM
7 6 (18.75%) UML
8 3 (9.375%) Refactoring
8 3 (9.375%) MVC
9 2 (6.250%) Regression Testing
9 2 (6.250%) Software Testing
9 2 (6.250%) Test Management
9 2 (6.250%) Test Automation
9 2 (6.250%) Web Application Development
9 2 (6.250%) Automation Testing
10 1 (3.125%) Test Strategy
10 1 (3.125%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) Java
2 10 (31.25%) PHP
3 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (21.88%) C#
5 2 (6.250%) SQL
5 2 (6.250%) VB.NET
5 2 (6.250%) XPath
6 1 (3.125%) Groovy
6 1 (3.125%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (71.88%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Sun Certification
3 3 (9.375%) ISEB
4 2 (6.250%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (43.75%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Puppet
2 3 (9.375%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) JBoss
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.125%) HP