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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 22 26 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 7 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 5.785% 3.252% -
As % of the Development Applications category 21.21% 16.67% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 0
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +11.94%
All Development Applications
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
33 24 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 27.27% 19.51% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 29 24 5
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -8.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Selenium
Lancashire

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston Selenium Salary Trend

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 8 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
2 7 (87.50%) MCP
2 7 (87.50%) MCAD
2 7 (87.50%) MCSD
2 7 (87.50%) OO
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (87.50%) MVC
2 7 (87.50%) Advertising
2 7 (87.50%) Scrum
2 7 (87.50%) TDD
2 7 (87.50%) NUnit
2 7 (87.50%) Lucene
2 7 (87.50%) MCTS
2 7 (87.50%) NHibernate
2 7 (87.50%) WCF
2 7 (87.50%) LINQ
2 7 (87.50%) Kanban
2 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 7 (87.50%) Rhino Mocks
2 7 (87.50%) Cucumber
2 7 (87.50%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) Castle Windsor
2 7 (87.50%) Scrum-ban
2 7 (87.50%) Web Application Development
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server 2012
2 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 7 (87.50%) .NET
1 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
1 7 (87.50%) Lucene
1 7 (87.50%) NHibernate
1 7 (87.50%) WCF
1 7 (87.50%) LINQ
1 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET MVC
1 7 (87.50%) Castle Windsor
1 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) soapUI
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) NUnit
1 7 (87.50%) Rhino Mocks
1 7 (87.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) WATIR
2 1 (12.50%) FitNesse
General
1 7 (87.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
1 7 (87.50%) .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) OO
1 7 (87.50%) MVC
1 7 (87.50%) Scrum
1 7 (87.50%) TDD
1 7 (87.50%) Kanban
1 7 (87.50%) BDD
1 7 (87.50%) Scrum-ban
1 7 (87.50%) Web Application Development
2 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
2 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) System Testing
2 1 (12.50%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) Ruby
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) MCP
1 7 (87.50%) MCAD
1 7 (87.50%) MCSD
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (87.50%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
Preston, North West
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