The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 22 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 136 133 165
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +32
Permanent jobs citing Selenium 63 57 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.252% 1.235% 0.147%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.08% 9.076% 1.463%
Number of salaries quoted 59 52 6
Average salary £37,000 £47,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.10% +22.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,900 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £70,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +10.29%
All Development Applications
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
625 628 410
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 12.43% 13.61% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 572 551 366
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Selenium
England

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Selenium Salary Trend

Selenium
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Selenium across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Birmingham +8 32 £40,000 -5.88%
Warwickshire -2 17 £37,000 -26.00%
Worcestershire - 12 £37,000 -
Shropshire - 3 - -
Staffordshire -11 2 £29,500 -18.62%
West Bromwich - 2 £36,250 -
Coventry -14 1 £35,000 -
Solihull - 1 £37,500 -
Selenium
England

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 66 (51.97%) Automated Testing
2 63 (49.61%) SQL
3 61 (48.03%) QA
4 55 (43.31%) Java
5 53 (41.73%) SQL Server
6 50 (39.37%) Manual Testing
7 48 (37.80%) Agile Software Development
8 33 (25.98%) Finance
9 32 (25.20%) Scrum
9 32 (25.20%) Oracle
10 31 (24.41%) ISEB
10 31 (24.41%) TDD
10 31 (24.41%) SQL Server 2008
11 30 (23.62%) MVC
11 30 (23.62%) UNIX
12 28 (22.05%) JBoss
12 28 (22.05%) Subversion
12 28 (22.05%) Ajax
13 26 (20.47%) Windows
13 26 (20.47%) SOAP
13 26 (20.47%) HTML
13 26 (20.47%) Unit Testing
14 25 (19.69%) Tomcat
14 25 (19.69%) Spring
14 25 (19.69%) Maven
14 25 (19.69%) Hibernate
15 24 (18.90%) JasperReports
15 24 (18.90%) JMX
15 24 (18.90%) Eclipse
15 24 (18.90%) JMS

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 28 (22.05%) Ajax
2 26 (20.47%) SOAP
2 26 (20.47%) HTML
3 25 (19.69%) Spring
3 25 (19.69%) Hibernate
4 24 (18.90%) JMX
4 24 (18.90%) JMS
4 24 (18.90%) Spring MVC
5 19 (14.96%) .NET
6 17 (13.39%) Java EE
6 17 (13.39%) HTML5
6 17 (13.39%) J2EE
7 16 (12.60%) CSS
8 11 (8.661%) RESTful
8 11 (8.661%) Ruby on Rails
8 11 (8.661%) LAMP
9 10 (7.874%) Web Services
9 10 (7.874%) CSS3
10 8 (6.299%) ASP.NET
10 8 (6.299%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 25 (19.69%) Tomcat
2 24 (18.90%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (8.661%) Apache
4 4 (3.150%) IIS
5 3 (2.362%) GlassFish
5 3 (2.362%) Windows Azure
5 3 (2.362%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.575%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.787%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (7.874%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.150%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.661%) Modbus
1 11 (8.661%) DHCP
2 1 (0.787%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (41.73%) SQL Server
2 31 (24.41%) SQL Server 2008
3 24 (18.90%) JasperReports
3 24 (18.90%) SQL Server 2005
4 23 (18.11%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (12.60%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (6.299%) MySQL
7 4 (3.150%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (3.150%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (2.362%) RavenDB
8 3 (2.362%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.787%) SQL Server 2012
9 1 (0.787%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 28 (22.05%) Subversion
2 25 (19.69%) Maven
3 24 (18.90%) Eclipse
3 24 (18.90%) TeamCity
3 24 (18.90%) FitNesse
3 24 (18.90%) Apache Continuum
4 14 (11.02%) QuickTest Pro
5 10 (7.874%) Hudson
6 9 (7.087%) Cucumber
6 9 (7.087%) Jenkins
7 8 (6.299%) NUnit
8 7 (5.512%) WebDriver
9 6 (4.724%) TestComplete
10 5 (3.937%) Rhino Mocks
11 4 (3.150%) SilkTest
11 4 (3.150%) RSpec
11 4 (3.150%) WATIR
11 4 (3.150%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.362%) Appcelerator Titanium
12 3 (2.362%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (25.98%) Finance
2 4 (3.150%) Retail
3 2 (1.575%) Billing
3 2 (1.575%) Banking
4 1 (0.787%) Back Office
4 1 (0.787%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (35.43%) Developer
2 40 (31.50%) Analyst
2 40 (31.50%) Test Analyst
3 32 (25.20%) Tester
4 18 (14.17%) QA Tester
5 17 (13.39%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.81%) Systems Analyst
6 15 (11.81%) Systems Test Analyst
7 13 (10.24%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (10.24%) Systems Tester
7 13 (10.24%) Java Developer
8 11 (8.661%) Coordinator
8 11 (8.661%) Test Coordinator
9 9 (7.087%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 9 (7.087%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 9 (7.087%) QA Engineer
10 8 (6.299%) Lead Developer
10 8 (6.299%) UAT Tester
11 7 (5.512%) Team Leader
12 6 (4.724%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.39%) Firmware
2 8 (6.299%) Device Driver
3 7 (5.512%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.724%) Open Source
5 5 (3.937%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.575%) AS400
7 1 (0.787%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.787%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.62%) UNIX
2 26 (20.47%) Windows
3 15 (11.81%) Windows 2000
4 12 (9.449%) Linux
5 4 (3.150%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.362%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.362%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (51.97%) Automated Testing
2 50 (39.37%) Manual Testing
3 48 (37.80%) Agile Software Development
4 32 (25.20%) Scrum
5 31 (24.41%) TDD
6 30 (23.62%) MVC
7 26 (20.47%) Unit Testing
8 24 (18.90%) Test Scripting
9 18 (14.17%) Automation Testing
9 18 (14.17%) User Acceptance Testing
10 17 (13.39%) OO
11 16 (12.60%) Multithreading
12 15 (11.81%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (9.449%) SOA
13 12 (9.449%) Test Automation
14 11 (8.661%) Release Management
15 9 (7.087%) BDD
15 9 (7.087%) Software Testing
15 9 (7.087%) Regression Testing
16 8 (6.299%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 63 (49.61%) SQL
2 55 (43.31%) Java
3 23 (18.11%) VB
4 20 (15.75%) PHP
5 18 (14.17%) Ruby
6 17 (13.39%) C++
7 11 (8.661%) Perl
7 11 (8.661%) ActionScript
8 10 (7.874%) JavaScript
9 8 (6.299%) VB.NET
10 7 (5.512%) C#
11 4 (3.150%) VB6
12 3 (2.362%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (24.41%) ISEB
2 15 (11.81%) ISTQB
3 8 (6.299%) Degree
4 5 (3.937%) MCTS
4 5 (3.937%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.937%) MCP
4 5 (3.937%) MCAD
4 5 (3.937%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (48.03%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.575%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 32 (25.20%) Oracle
2 28 (22.05%) JBoss
3 13 (10.24%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.362%) Appcelerator
4 3 (2.362%) Apple
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Automated Test Analyst, Tester, Software Engineer, Developer, Programmer, Selenium/Ranorex/Testcomplete, Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET, SWET, QA Lead, Test Analyst, Lead Tester, ISEB, C#, .Net, Java,...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Automated Test Analyst, Tester, Software Engineer, Developer, Programmer, Selenium/Ranorex/Testcomplete, Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET, SWET, QA Lead, Test Analyst, Lead Tester, ISEB, C#, .Net, Java,...
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Automated Test Analyst, Selenium/Ranorex/Testcomplete, Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET, QA Lead, Test Analyst, Lead Tester, ISEB, C#, .Net, Java, C++, Automated, Desktop, Agile/Scrum, Functional/...
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Automated Test Analyst, Selenium/Ranorex/Testcomplete, Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET, QA Lead, Test Analyst, Lead Tester, ISEB, C#, .Net, Java, C++, Automated, Desktop, Agile/Scrum, Functional/...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Midlands (County)
We are looking to recruit a UAT Manager to join a successful, growing Financial Services organisation based in the West Midlands... As the UAT Manager you will be...
Big Red Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
West Midlands (County)
Experience of testing multiple applications written in various languages (including Visual Basic & HTML) which interface to a SQL server or Oracle database. - A working knowledge of Windows 2000,...
Big Red Recruitment
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013