Selenium Contracts in the City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 29 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Selenium London > City of London
Location	3 months to 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	69	84	143
Rank change year-on-year	+15	+59
Contract jobs citing Selenium	106	81	67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	3.24%	2.42%	1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category	15.82%	13.87%	9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted	83	67	50
City of London median daily rate	£450	£425	£445
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	-4.49%
10th Percentile	£363	£322	£313
90th Percentile	£548	£555	£541
London median daily rate	£450	£425	£425
% change year-on-year	+5.88%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	2
City of London median hourly rate	-	-	£45.00
London median hourly rate	-	-	£45.00

Selenium is in the development application skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract Development Application Skills City of London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	670	584	733
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London	20.50%	17.47%	12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted	1280	1185	1456
City of London median daily rate	£476	£463	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.81%	+2.77%
10th Percentile	£350	£319	£313
90th Percentile	£613	£575	£625
London median daily rate	£488	£450	£428
% change year-on-year	+8.33%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	5
City of London median hourly rate	-	-	£45.00
London median hourly rate	£40.00	£43.63	£32.50
% change year-on-year	-8.30%	+34.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Selenium as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Selenium in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Selenium in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Selenium in the City of London over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Selenium in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Selenium in the City of London

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London

For the 6 months to 29 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Selenium also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the City of London region with a requirement for Selenium.

1	136 (77.71%)	Agile Software Development
2	88 (50.29%)	Test Automation
3	62 (35.43%)	SQL
4	61 (34.86%)	Java
5	57 (32.57%)	TDD
5	57 (32.57%)	AngularJS
6	54 (30.86%)	BDD
7	53 (30.29%)	C#
8	52 (29.71%)	Cucumber
9	51 (29.14%)	Finance
10	50 (28.57%)	JavaScript
11	48 (27.43%)	.NET
11	48 (27.43%)	WebDriver
12	46 (26.29%)	Kanban
13	45 (25.71%)	JIRA

14	42 (24.00%)	MVC
14	42 (24.00%)	Scrum
15	40 (22.86%)	Node.js
16	38 (21.71%)	React
16	38 (21.71%)	HTML
16	38 (21.71%)	Banking
16	38 (21.71%)	Retail
17	35 (20.00%)	Stakeholder Management
18	33 (18.86%)	ASP.NET
18	33 (18.86%)	E-Commerce
19	32 (18.29%)	ASP.NET MVC
20	31 (17.71%)	Mentoring
20	31 (17.71%)	CSS
21	30 (17.14%)	QA
22	29 (16.57%)	JIRA Agile

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	8 (4.57%)	Tomcat
2	7 (4.00%)	Mule
2	7 (4.00%)	WebLogic
3	4 (2.29%)	CMS
3	4 (2.29%)	Confluence
3	4 (2.29%)	JBoss
4	3 (1.71%)	Elasticsearch
4	3 (1.71%)	EPiServer
4	3 (1.71%)	Sitecore CMS
5	1 (0.57%)	Adobe Experience Manager
5	1 (0.57%)	Apache TomEE
5	1 (0.57%)	ATG Dynamo
5	1 (0.57%)	Jetty
5	1 (0.57%)	MQSeries
5	1 (0.57%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	4 (2.29%)	Microsoft Excel
2	3 (1.71%)	Adobe Creative Suite
2	3 (1.71%)	OmniGraffle
3	2 (1.14%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	3 (1.71%)	Eloqua
2	1 (0.57%)	Dynamics CRM
2	1 (0.57%)	Sonata
2	1 (0.57%)	Tercero

Cloud Services
1	8 (4.57%)	GitHub
2	7 (4.00%)	Amazon AWS
3	6 (3.43%)	Microsoft Azure
4	4 (2.29%)	BrowserStack
5	3 (1.71%)	Google Play
6	2 (1.14%)	AWS Lambda
6	2 (1.14%)	vREST
7	1 (0.57%)	Cloud Computing
7	1 (0.57%)	Google Cloud Platform
7	1 (0.57%)	IaaS
7	1 (0.57%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
7	1 (0.57%)	Sauce Labs

Communications & Networking
1	3 (1.71%)	Internet
2	2 (1.14%)	HTTP
2	2 (1.14%)	SSL
3	1 (0.57%)	DNS
3	1 (0.57%)	Intranet
3	1 (0.57%)	LDAP
3	1 (0.57%)	SNMP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	13 (7.43%)	Relational Database
2	8 (4.57%)	MongoDB
3	7 (4.00%)	Big Data
3	7 (4.00%)	SQL Server
4	6 (3.43%)	MySQL
5	4 (2.29%)	NoSQL
6	3 (1.71%)	Couchbase
7	2 (1.14%)	SQL Server 2008
8	1 (0.57%)	Data Warehouse
8	1 (0.57%)	DB2
8	1 (0.57%)	Hadoop
8	1 (0.57%)	Qlik Sense
8	1 (0.57%)	QlikView
8	1 (0.57%)	SQL Server 2012

Development Applications
1	52 (29.71%)	Cucumber
2	48 (27.43%)	WebDriver
3	45 (25.71%)	JIRA
4	29 (16.57%)	JIRA Agile
5	26 (14.86%)	Jenkins
6	15 (8.57%)	Maven
7	14 (8.00%)	JUnit
7	14 (8.00%)	Protractor
7	14 (8.00%)	SpecFlow
8	11 (6.29%)	Git (software)
8	11 (6.29%)	gulp
9	10 (5.71%)	Visual Studio
10	9 (5.14%)	Appium
11	8 (4.57%)	SoapUI
12	7 (4.00%)	Jasmine
12	7 (4.00%)	Mockito
13	6 (3.43%)	Ant
13	6 (3.43%)	EasyMock
14	5 (2.86%)	Mocha
14	5 (2.86%)	Team Foundation Server

General
1	51 (29.14%)	Finance
2	38 (21.71%)	Banking
2	38 (21.71%)	Retail
3	13 (7.43%)	Front Office
4	11 (6.29%)	Investment Banking
5	9 (5.14%)	Advertising
6	6 (3.43%)	Games
7	5 (2.86%)	Retail Banking
8	3 (1.71%)	Law
8	3 (1.71%)	Marketing
9	2 (1.14%)	International Banking
10	1 (0.57%)	Legal
10	1 (0.57%)	Publishing
10	1 (0.57%)	Telecoms
10	1 (0.57%)	Wholesale Banking

Job Titles
1	95 (54.29%)	Developer
2	37 (21.14%)	Angular Developer
3	26 (14.86%)	Analyst
3	26 (14.86%)	Senior Developer
4	19 (10.86%)	JavaScript Developer
4	19 (10.86%)	Test Analyst
5	17 (9.71%)	Automation Test Analyst
6	16 (9.14%)	Java Developer
7	15 (8.57%)	Tester
8	14 (8.00%)	QA Engineer
9	13 (7.43%)	Python Developer
9	13 (7.43%)	Test Engineer
10	12 (6.86%)	Automation Tester
10	12 (6.86%)	Selenium Test Analyst
11	10 (5.71%)	Node.js Developer
12	9 (5.14%)	Full Stack Developer
12	9 (5.14%)	HTML CSS Developer
12	9 (5.14%)	HTML Developer
12	9 (5.14%)	Web Developer
13	8 (4.57%)	Senior Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	57 (32.57%)	AngularJS
2	48 (27.43%)	.NET
3	40 (22.86%)	Node.js
4	38 (21.71%)	HTML
4	38 (21.71%)	React
5	33 (18.86%)	ASP.NET
6	32 (18.29%)	ASP.NET MVC
7	31 (17.71%)	CSS
8	29 (16.57%)	ASP.NET MVC 4
8	29 (16.57%)	ASP.NET MVC 5
9	24 (13.71%)	HTML5
9	24 (13.71%)	SOAP
10	22 (12.57%)	jQuery
11	19 (10.86%)	REST
12	18 (10.29%)	Spring
13	17 (9.71%)	CSS3
13	17 (9.71%)	JSON
14	14 (8.00%)	Twitter Bootstrap
15	12 (6.86%)	RESTful
15	12 (6.86%)	Sass

Miscellaneous
1	21 (12.00%)	User Experience
2	17 (9.71%)	Mobile App
3	15 (8.57%)	Greenfield Project
4	11 (6.29%)	Fixed Income
4	11 (6.29%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
5	7 (4.00%)	Data Structures
6	4 (2.29%)	Fintech
7	3 (1.71%)	Analytical Skills
7	3 (1.71%)	Cloud Native
7	3 (1.71%)	Online Banking
8	2 (1.14%)	Computer Science
8	2 (1.14%)	Enterprise Software
8	2 (1.14%)	N-Tier
9	1 (0.57%)	Contactless
9	1 (0.57%)	Derivative
9	1 (0.57%)	Graphic Design
9	1 (0.57%)	iPad
9	1 (0.57%)	OTC Derivatives
9	1 (0.57%)	Reference Data
9	1 (0.57%)	W3C

Operating Systems
1	14 (8.00%)	Linux
2	11 (6.29%)	Unix
3	9 (5.14%)	Android
3	9 (5.14%)	Apple iOS
4	3 (1.71%)	Windows

Processes & Methodologies
1	136 (77.71%)	Agile Software Development
2	88 (50.29%)	Test Automation
3	57 (32.57%)	TDD
4	54 (30.86%)	BDD
5	46 (26.29%)	Kanban
6	42 (24.00%)	MVC
6	42 (24.00%)	Scrum
7	35 (20.00%)	Stakeholder Management
8	33 (18.86%)	E-Commerce
9	31 (17.71%)	Mentoring
10	17 (9.71%)	Test Strategy
10	17 (9.71%)	Web Development
11	15 (8.57%)	Microservices
11	15 (8.57%)	OO
11	15 (8.57%)	Software Engineering
11	15 (8.57%)	Test Scripting
11	15 (8.57%)	Unit Testing
12	14 (8.00%)	Analytics
13	13 (7.43%)	DevOps
13	13 (7.43%)	Regression Testing

Programming Languages
1	62 (35.43%)	SQL
2	61 (34.86%)	Java
3	53 (30.29%)	C#
4	50 (28.57%)	JavaScript
5	17 (9.71%)	Python
6	12 (6.86%)	R
7	9 (5.14%)	Bash Shell
8	7 (4.00%)	Shell Script
9	6 (3.43%)	Apple Swift
9	6 (3.43%)	Objective-C
9	6 (3.43%)	PL/SQL
10	5 (2.86%)	Ruby
11	3 (1.71%)	C
12	2 (1.14%)	ES6
12	2 (1.14%)	Go
12	2 (1.14%)	Scala
12	2 (1.14%)	VBA
13	1 (0.57%)	C++
13	1 (0.57%)	PHP
13	1 (0.57%)	VBScript

Qualifications
1	7 (4.00%)	ISTQB
2	6 (3.43%)	Degree
3	5 (2.86%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
4	4 (2.29%)	ISEB
5	2 (1.14%)	Computer Science Degree
6	1 (0.57%)	Postgraduate
6	1 (0.57%)	SC Cleared
6	1 (0.57%)	Security Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	30 (17.14%)	QA
2	2 (1.14%)	MiFID

System Software
1	2 (1.14%)	Docker
2	1 (0.57%)	HDFS

Systems Management
1	4 (2.29%)	HP Quality Center
2	2 (1.14%)	Ansible
2	2 (1.14%)	CA Service Virtualization
2	2 (1.14%)	Opscode Chef
2	2 (1.14%)	Puppet
3	1 (0.57%)	Docker Swarm
3	1 (0.57%)	Kubernetes
3	1 (0.57%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	8 (4.57%)	Oracle
2	7 (4.00%)	Telerik
3	6 (3.43%)	Google
4	5 (2.86%)	Apple
4	5 (2.86%)	Xamarin
5	3 (1.71%)	Adobe
5	3 (1.71%)	HP
5	3 (1.71%)	Marketo
5	3 (1.71%)	Microsoft
5	3 (1.71%)	Sitecore
6	2 (1.14%)	CA
6	2 (1.14%)	Salesforce.com
6	2 (1.14%)	TOWER Software
7	1 (0.57%)	ATG
7	1 (0.57%)	Avaloq
7	1 (0.57%)	Calypso
7	1 (0.57%)	Canoo
7	1 (0.57%)	Murex
7	1 (0.57%)	New Relic
7	1 (0.57%)	TIBCO