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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 176 207 195
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -12
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 40 8 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.762% 0.145% 0.348%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.155% 0.725% 2.524%
Number of salaries quoted 39 8 21
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% +27.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,800 £31,750 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £43,850 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +11.94%
All Development Applications
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
776 1103 832
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 14.79% 19.93% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 686 983 748
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,750 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Selenium
England

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Selenium Salary Trend

Selenium
Salary Histogram

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

South West 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 South West 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
Bristol - 27 £40,000 -
Wiltshire +11 6 £30,000 -29.41%
Somerset +1 5 £33,500 -
Dorset -9 2 £51,250 +46.42%
Selenium
England

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 30 (40.54%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (39.19%) ISEB
3 28 (37.84%) E-Commerce
4 26 (35.14%) JavaScript
4 26 (35.14%) SQL
5 25 (33.78%) QuickTest Pro
5 25 (33.78%) Test Automation
6 23 (31.08%) C#
7 22 (29.73%) Scrum
8 21 (28.38%) .NET
8 21 (28.38%) CSS
9 20 (27.03%) Java
9 20 (27.03%) Finance
9 20 (27.03%) Software Testing
9 20 (27.03%) QA
9 20 (27.03%) Test Scripting
10 19 (25.68%) Automated Testing
11 18 (24.32%) XML
11 18 (24.32%) jQuery
12 17 (22.97%) HTML
12 17 (22.97%) ISTQB
13 15 (20.27%) HTML5
14 14 (18.92%) HP
15 13 (17.57%) Internet
15 13 (17.57%) MS Excel
15 13 (17.57%) VBA
15 13 (17.57%) VBScript
15 13 (17.57%) Linux
15 13 (17.57%) OOP
15 13 (17.57%) Subversion

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 21 (28.38%) .NET
1 21 (28.38%) CSS
2 18 (24.32%) XML
2 18 (24.32%) jQuery
3 17 (22.97%) HTML
4 15 (20.27%) HTML5
5 10 (13.51%) XHTML
6 9 (12.16%) ASP.NET
7 8 (10.81%) Web Services
8 7 (9.459%) Adobe AIR
8 7 (9.459%) CodeIgniter
8 7 (9.459%) CSS3
9 6 (8.108%) Spring
9 6 (8.108%) J2EE
10 5 (6.757%) SOAP
10 5 (6.757%) Hibernate
11 3 (4.054%) JDBC
11 3 (4.054%) Java EE
12 2 (2.703%) Castle Windsor
12 2 (2.703%) REST
Application Platforms
1 10 (13.51%) Drupal
1 10 (13.51%) Apache
2 8 (10.81%) Magento
3 7 (9.459%) WordPress
3 7 (9.459%) ExpressionEngine
4 6 (8.108%) CMS
5 5 (6.757%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (5.405%) Tomcat
7 2 (2.703%) GlassFish
8 1 (1.351%) WebLogic
8 1 (1.351%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.351%) Shopify
Applications
1 13 (17.57%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.703%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) Internet
2 1 (1.351%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.22%) MySQL
2 5 (6.757%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.054%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.703%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.351%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.351%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 25 (33.78%) QuickTest Pro
2 13 (17.57%) Subversion
2 13 (17.57%) WebDriver
3 11 (14.86%) JUnit
4 9 (12.16%) Cucumber
4 9 (12.16%) Jenkins
5 7 (9.459%) NUnit
6 6 (8.108%) Mercurial
7 5 (6.757%) TeamCity
7 5 (6.757%) FitNesse
7 5 (6.757%) MSBuild
8 4 (5.405%) MbUnit
8 4 (5.405%) LabVIEW
8 4 (5.405%) Maven
8 4 (5.405%) Visual Studio
9 3 (4.054%) WebLOAD
9 3 (4.054%) Git (software)
10 2 (2.703%) JBehave
10 2 (2.703%) Rhino Mocks
10 2 (2.703%) Mockito
General
1 20 (27.03%) Finance
2 2 (2.703%) Financial Institution
2 2 (2.703%) Advertising
3 1 (1.351%) Marketing
3 1 (1.351%) Banking
3 1 (1.351%) Retail
3 1 (1.351%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 29 (39.19%) Analyst
2 26 (35.14%) Test Analyst
3 23 (31.08%) Developer
4 14 (18.92%) Automation Analyst
5 11 (14.86%) Test Automation Analyst
6 7 (9.459%) Tester
6 7 (9.459%) PHP Developer
6 7 (9.459%) QA Engineer
7 6 (8.108%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (8.108%) .NET Developer
7 6 (8.108%) Test Engineer
8 5 (6.757%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.757%) Drupal Developer
8 5 (6.757%) PHP Drupal Developer
9 4 (5.405%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 4 (5.405%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.405%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.405%) Web Developer
9 4 (5.405%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.054%) Web Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.459%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.703%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.351%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.351%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.351%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.351%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (1.351%) Open Source
3 1 (1.351%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.57%) Linux
2 10 (13.51%) CentOS
2 10 (13.51%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.054%) UNIX
4 2 (2.703%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.54%) Agile Software Development
2 28 (37.84%) E-Commerce
3 25 (33.78%) Test Automation
4 22 (29.73%) Scrum
5 20 (27.03%) Software Testing
5 20 (27.03%) Test Scripting
6 19 (25.68%) Automated Testing
7 13 (17.57%) OOP
8 11 (14.86%) OO
9 10 (13.51%) TDD
10 9 (12.16%) OOD
10 9 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (10.81%) Unit Testing
12 6 (8.108%) MVC
13 5 (6.757%) Manual Testing
13 5 (6.757%) Automation Testing
14 4 (5.405%) Test Strategy
14 4 (5.405%) Web Application Development
14 4 (5.405%) BDD
14 4 (5.405%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.14%) JavaScript
1 26 (35.14%) SQL
2 23 (31.08%) C#
3 20 (27.03%) Java
4 13 (17.57%) VBA
4 13 (17.57%) VBScript
5 10 (13.51%) PHP
6 7 (9.459%) PHP4
7 3 (4.054%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.054%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.703%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.351%) Python
9 1 (1.351%) Erlang
9 1 (1.351%) Groovy
9 1 (1.351%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.351%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (39.19%) ISEB
2 17 (22.97%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.054%) Degree
4 2 (2.703%) Sun Certification
5 1 (1.351%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.351%) MCP
5 1 (1.351%) MCAD
5 1 (1.351%) MCSD
5 1 (1.351%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (27.03%) QA
2 1 (1.351%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.351%) ISO 14001
Systems Management
1 7 (9.459%) Plesk
2 1 (1.351%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) HP
2 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.459%) Adobe
4 5 (6.757%) Sitecore
5 4 (5.405%) Oracle
6 1 (1.351%) Sun
6 1 (1.351%) JBoss
6 1 (1.351%) Zend
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