The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category.

Selenium
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank178240339
Rank change year-on-year
Up+62Up+99
Matching permanent IT job ads17681204542
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.466 %0.982 %0.568 %
As % of the Development Applications category10.32 %7.658 %5.270 %
Number of salaries quoted16171076461
Average salary£42,500£40,000£41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-3.61 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£57,500£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£34,250£35,000
% change year-on-year
+9.48 %-2.14 %
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryAll Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
171321572210284
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK14.21 %12.82 %10.77 %
Number of salaries quoted15031138058624
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£28,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,449£35,500
% change year-on-year
+1.47 %+5.49 %

Selenium
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Selenium Demand Trend

Selenium
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK.

Selenium Salary Trend

Selenium
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Selenium over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Selenium Salary Histogram

Selenium
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+611701£42,500+6.25 %
LondonUp+571137£45,000-
South EastUp+3229£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+38225£47,500+5.55 %
East of EnglandUp+38144£37,500+13.63 %
BerkshireUp+1480£40,000-11.11 %
YorkshireUp+2071£31,250-10.71 %
HertfordshireUp+7170£50,000+38.88 %
West MidlandsUp+3356£47,500+22.58 %
West YorkshireUp+2854£35,000+7.69 %
CambridgeshireDown-1149£32,500-
SurreyDown-3646£50,000+42.85 %
LeedsUp+1042£35,000+16.66 %
ScotlandUp+3039£35,000-
HampshireNo change038£40,000-15.78 %
CambridgeDown-1436£32,500-
East SussexUp+1230£40,000+33.33 %
ReadingDown-229£41,250-8.33 %
North WestDown-2928£30,750-3.90 %
EdinburghUp+2627£32,500-7.14 %
BrightonUp+326£40,000+33.33 %
WarwickshireNo change025£51,250+28.12 %
East MidlandsUp+1823£35,000+25.00 %
St AlbansNew entry-21£65,000-
BuckinghamshireUp+617£42,500+30.76 %
ManchesterDown-2917£30,000-4.76 %
WalesDown-2616£27,500-21.42 %
WatfordUp+1313£40,000-5.88 %
Milton KeynesUp+713£47,500+46.15 %
StevenageDown-213£44,000-2.22 %

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11667 (45.85 %)Java
21534 (42.19 %)QA
31230 (33.83 %)Agile Software Development
41083 (29.79 %)Scrum
51073 (29.51 %)Automated Testing
61004 (27.61 %)SQL
7921 (25.33 %)C#
8832 (22.88 %)Finance
9825 (22.69 %)TDD
10755 (20.76 %).NET
11725 (19.94 %)JavaScript
12710 (19.53 %)QuickTest Pro
13692 (19.03 %)ISEB
13692 (19.03 %)Cucumber
14614 (16.89 %)Test Automation
15611 (16.80 %)Test Scripting
16547 (15.04 %)Degree
17546 (15.02 %)Linux
18538 (14.80 %)BDD
19506 (13.92 %)E-Commerce
20493 (13.56 %)MVC
21482 (13.26 %)FitNesse
22480 (13.20 %)OO
22480 (13.20 %)SQL Server
23436 (11.99 %)Software Testing
24425 (11.69 %)HTML
24425 (11.69 %)JUnit
25412 (11.33 %)NUnit
26407 (11.19 %)ASP.NET
26407 (11.19 %)Open Source

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1755 (20.76 %).NET
2425 (11.69 %)HTML
3407 (11.19 %)ASP.NET
4380 (10.45 %)CSS
5330 (9.076 %)XML
6318 (8.746 %)Web Services
7294 (8.086 %)ASP.NET MVC
8275 (7.563 %)Ajax
9269 (7.398 %)Spring
10259 (7.123 %)Lucene
11250 (6.876 %)NHibernate
11250 (6.876 %)J2EE
12248 (6.821 %)WCF
13237 (6.518 %)LINQ
14236 (6.491 %)Castle Windsor
15213 (5.858 %)SOAP
16205 (5.638 %)jQuery
17196 (5.391 %)JSP
18184 (5.061 %)Hibernate
19166 (4.565 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1165 (4.538 %)Apache
2156 (4.290 %)Tomcat
372 (1.980 %)CMS
461 (1.678 %)Confluence
544 (1.210 %)WebLogic
544 (1.210 %)SharePoint
633 (0.908 %)Apache Solr
732 (0.880 %)GlassFish
732 (0.880 %)ActiveMQ
831 (0.853 %)SharePoint Server
923 (0.633 %)Magento
1018 (0.495 %)Umbraco
1117 (0.468 %)nginx
1117 (0.468 %)Sitecore CMS
1117 (0.468 %)IIS
1216 (0.440 %)Drupal
1315 (0.413 %)BizTalk Server
1413 (0.358 %)Amazon AWS
1511 (0.303 %)ColdFusion
1511 (0.303 %)TeamSite
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
167 (1.843 %)MS Excel
255 (1.513 %)MS Visio
352 (1.430 %)Photoshop
437 (1.018 %)MS Office
530 (0.825 %)Mingle
68 (0.220 %)Acrobat
76 (0.165 %)Fireworks
76 (0.165 %)Adobe Illustrator
76 (0.165 %)MS PowerPoint
84 (0.110 %)SketchUp
93 (0.083 %)Spreadsheet
101 (0.028 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (0.193 %)SAP CRM
25 (0.138 %)Google Analytics
34 (0.110 %)WebTrends
42 (0.055 %)Front Arena
51 (0.028 %)Oracle EBS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1232 (6.381 %)Internet
252 (1.430 %)HTTP
331 (0.853 %)Broadband
428 (0.770 %)Intranet
524 (0.660 %)TCP/IP
524 (0.660 %)Wireless
611 (0.303 %)2.5G
611 (0.303 %)3G
611 (0.303 %)Wi-Fi
710 (0.275 %)Firewall
88 (0.220 %)Wireshark
97 (0.193 %)SSL
97 (0.193 %)RTP
106 (0.165 %)GSM
106 (0.165 %)UMTS
106 (0.165 %)SAN
106 (0.165 %)DHCP
106 (0.165 %)DNS
115 (0.138 %)Network Security
115 (0.138 %)NAS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1480 (13.20 %)SQL Server
2316 (8.691 %)MySQL
3293 (8.058 %)SQL Server 2008
463 (1.733 %)PostgreSQL
560 (1.650 %)SQL Server 2005
639 (1.073 %)RDBMS
736 (0.990 %)Oracle 11g
826 (0.715 %)MongoDB
826 (0.715 %)JasperReports
925 (0.688 %)TOAD
1016 (0.440 %)DB2
1016 (0.440 %)Oracle Reports
1114 (0.385 %)NoSQL
1114 (0.385 %)Redis
1213 (0.358 %)Oracle 8/8i
1311 (0.303 %)Data Warehouse
1410 (0.275 %)Oracle 9i
1410 (0.275 %)Apache Cassandra
159 (0.248 %)Hadoop
168 (0.220 %)OLAP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1710 (19.53 %)QuickTest Pro
2692 (19.03 %)Cucumber
3482 (13.26 %)FitNesse
4425 (11.69 %)JUnit
5412 (11.33 %)NUnit
6346 (9.516 %)WebDriver
7323 (8.883 %)Subversion
8272 (7.481 %)JIRA
9246 (6.766 %)Rhino Mocks
10223 (6.133 %)JMeter
11205 (5.638 %)Git (software)
12199 (5.473 %)LoadRunner
13197 (5.418 %)Maven
14184 (5.061 %)WATIR
15168 (4.620 %)Hudson
16158 (4.345 %)Visual Studio
17154 (4.235 %)RSpec
18135 (3.713 %)Eclipse
19126 (3.465 %)Ant
20108 (2.970 %)WinRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1832 (22.88 %)Finance
2261 (7.178 %)Games
3184 (5.061 %)Telecoms
4179 (4.923 %)Banking
5158 (4.345 %)Retail
6136 (3.740 %)Advertising
7113 (3.108 %)Marketing
8106 (2.915 %)Law
974 (2.035 %)Investment Banking
1054 (1.485 %)Publishing
1141 (1.128 %)Back Office
1229 (0.798 %)Front Office
1323 (0.633 %)Pharmaceutical
1421 (0.578 %)Retail Banking
1517 (0.468 %)Online Betting
1517 (0.468 %)Automotive
1612 (0.330 %)Billing
1711 (0.303 %)Legal
1711 (0.303 %)Multimedia
1810 (0.275 %)Manufacturing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11038 (28.55 %)Analyst
2988 (27.17 %)Developer
3843 (23.18 %)Tester
4811 (22.30 %)Test Analyst
5334 (9.186 %)Test Engineer
6306 (8.416 %)QA Analyst
7277 (7.618 %).NET Developer
8261 (7.178 %)Java Developer
9235 (6.463 %)QA Engineer
10184 (5.061 %)Senior Analyst
11171 (4.703 %)QA Tester
12160 (4.400 %)Automation Engineer
13142 (3.905 %)Test Manager
14141 (3.878 %)Senior Test Analyst
15139 (3.823 %)Senior Tester
16137 (3.768 %)Senior Developer
16137 (3.768 %)Automation Tester
17130 (3.575 %)Software Tester
18128 (3.520 %)Web Developer
19123 (3.383 %)Automation Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1407 (11.19 %)Open Source
2178 (4.895 %)Computer Science
3147 (4.043 %)iPhone
4133 (3.658 %)Digital Media
5131 (3.603 %)Online Games
6120 (3.300 %)Client/Server
780 (2.200 %)Social Media
875 (2.063 %)Derivative
971 (1.953 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1066 (1.815 %)Blackberry
1066 (1.815 %)iPad
1147 (1.293 %)Hedge funds
1147 (1.293 %)Mathematics
1243 (1.183 %)SaaS
1336 (0.990 %)New Media
1435 (0.963 %)Spread Betting
1534 (0.935 %)RIA
1629 (0.798 %)Graphic Design
1629 (0.798 %)Equities
1728 (0.770 %)Social Network
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1546 (15.02 %)Linux
2360 (9.901 %)UNIX
3321 (8.828 %)Windows
4161 (4.428 %)Android
577 (2.118 %)Apple iOS
658 (1.595 %)Debian
721 (0.578 %)Solaris
811 (0.303 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
910 (0.275 %)Windows Server 2008
109 (0.248 %)Windows Server 2003
118 (0.220 %)Mac OS X
126 (0.165 %)Ubuntu
134 (0.110 %)openSUSE
143 (0.083 %)CentOS
143 (0.083 %)SUSE
143 (0.083 %)Windows NT
152 (0.055 %)AIX
152 (0.055 %)Windows Mobile
152 (0.055 %)Mac OS
161 (0.028 %)Windows 7
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11230 (33.83 %)Agile Software Development
21083 (29.79 %)Scrum
31073 (29.51 %)Automated Testing
4825 (22.69 %)TDD
5614 (16.89 %)Test Automation
6611 (16.80 %)Test Scripting
7538 (14.80 %)BDD
8506 (13.92 %)E-Commerce
9493 (13.56 %)MVC
10480 (13.20 %)OO
11436 (11.99 %)Software Testing
12350 (9.626 %)Continuous Integration
13292 (8.031 %)Kanban
14235 (6.463 %)Web Application Development
15231 (6.353 %)Manual Testing
16228 (6.271 %)Scrum-ban
17226 (6.216 %)Unit Testing
18195 (5.363 %)Performance Testing
19189 (5.198 %)Test Strategy
19189 (5.198 %)Web Development
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11667 (45.85 %)Java
21004 (27.61 %)SQL
3921 (25.33 %)C#
4725 (19.94 %)JavaScript
5375 (10.31 %)Ruby
6331 (9.103 %)PHP
7262 (7.206 %)Python
8226 (6.216 %)Perl
9160 (4.400 %)Bash shell
10148 (4.070 %)C++
11147 (4.043 %)VBScript
1296 (2.640 %)VB
1391 (2.503 %)XPath
1487 (2.393 %)PL/SQL
1583 (2.283 %)C
1672 (1.980 %)Shell Script
1771 (1.953 %)PHP5
1870 (1.925 %)ActionScript
1963 (1.733 %)VB.NET
2040 (1.100 %)Scala
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1692 (19.03 %)ISEB
2547 (15.04 %)Degree
3261 (7.178 %)ISTQB
4232 (6.381 %)Microsoft Certification
5231 (6.353 %)MCAD
6229 (6.298 %)MCSD
6229 (6.298 %)MCTS
7228 (6.271 %)MCP
824 (0.660 %)ISEB Practitioner
917 (0.468 %)Security Cleared
1012 (0.330 %)HND
1110 (0.275 %)Sun Certification
128 (0.220 %)ITIL Certification
128 (0.220 %)SC Cleared
137 (0.193 %)PhD
143 (0.083 %)MCPD
143 (0.083 %)MySQL Certification
152 (0.055 %)PRINCE2 Certification
161 (0.028 %)MCSE
161 (0.028 %)CSQA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11534 (42.19 %)QA
214 (0.385 %)ISO 9000
313 (0.358 %)WCAG
45 (0.138 %)PAS 78
54 (0.110 %)SLA
54 (0.110 %)PCI DSS
63 (0.083 %)Solvency II
63 (0.083 %)GLP
72 (0.055 %)21 CFR Part 11
72 (0.055 %)ISO 9001
72 (0.055 %)ISO/IEC 27001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
121 (0.578 %)VMware Infrastructure
214 (0.385 %)Varnish
38 (0.220 %)Xen
38 (0.220 %)Hyper-V
45 (0.138 %)NFS
45 (0.138 %)Samba
45 (0.138 %)Squid
45 (0.138 %)FreeRADIUS
51 (0.028 %)VirtualBox
51 (0.028 %)Veritas Cluster Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1191 (5.253 %)HP Quality Center
246 (1.265 %)Puppet
323 (0.633 %)Nagios
410 (0.275 %)ZABBIX
59 (0.248 %)WebInspect
65 (0.138 %)OpenView
72 (0.055 %)Red Hat Satellite
81 (0.028 %)CA Wily
81 (0.028 %)Cacti
81 (0.028 %)Munin
81 (0.028 %)OpenNMS
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1391 (10.75 %)Oracle
2293 (8.058 %)Microsoft
3105 (2.888 %)JBoss
497 (2.668 %)HP
553 (1.458 %)Atlassian
637 (1.018 %)Google
732 (0.880 %)Apple
831 (0.853 %)Adobe
831 (0.853 %)Facebook
929 (0.798 %)Zend
929 (0.798 %)VMware
1027 (0.743 %)IBM
1117 (0.468 %)Sitecore
1215 (0.413 %)Twitter
1215 (0.413 %)Mercator
1314 (0.385 %)Sony
1314 (0.385 %)Sybase
1413 (0.358 %)SAP
1512 (0.330 %)Sencha
1611 (0.303 %)T-Plan