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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 48 53 53
Rank change year-on-year
+5 0
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 9 10 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.718% 1.629% 1.565%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.571% 10.20% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 9
Average salary £38,500 £30,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.33% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,900 £25,000 £23,900
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £33,200 £27,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +11.94%
All Development Applications
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
105 98 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 20.04% 15.96% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 102 92 69
Average salary £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.57% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,500 £50,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Selenium
South Yorkshire

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Selenium Salary Trend

Selenium
Salary Histogram

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

Sheffield Selenium Salary Histogram

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 7 (58.33%) ISEB
1 7 (58.33%) QA
2 5 (41.67%) PHP
3 4 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) MySQL
3 4 (33.33%) Internet
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Retail
4 3 (25.00%) Automated Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Online Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Open Source
4 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (16.67%) Ajax
5 2 (16.67%) Spring
5 2 (16.67%) HTML
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) JUnit
5 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (16.67%) CSS
6 1 (8.333%) JSP
6 1 (8.333%) SOAP
6 1 (8.333%) Web Services
6 1 (8.333%) XML
6 1 (8.333%) Linux
6 1 (8.333%) UML

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 2 (16.67%) Ajax
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (8.333%) JSP
2 1 (8.333%) SOAP
2 1 (8.333%) Web Services
2 1 (8.333%) XML
2 1 (8.333%) J2EE
2 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
2 1 (8.333%) Java EE
2 1 (8.333%) jQuery
2 1 (8.333%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
1 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
1 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (8.333%) JMeter
4 1 (8.333%) FitNesse
4 1 (8.333%) jMock
4 1 (8.333%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (33.33%) Banking
1 4 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.333%) Investment Banking
2 1 (8.333%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Test Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Lead Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Lead Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Online Banking
1 3 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (8.333%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (8.333%) UML
4 1 (8.333%) OOP
4 1 (8.333%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
4 1 (8.333%) Software Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PHP
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) ISEB
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) JBoss
1 1 (8.333%) HP
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle
1 1 (8.333%) ATG