The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WATIR over the 3 months to 21 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WATIR 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £250
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
60 68 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 7.407% 6.773% 6.838%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 44 31
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
WATIR
South East

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire WATIR Jobs Demand Trend

WATIR
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WATIR across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire WATIR Daily Rate Trend

WATIR
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing WATIR 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited WATIR.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) NUnit
1 6 (100.00%) QA
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) WatiN
1 6 (100.00%) MSTest
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Subversion
2 5 (83.33%) Automated Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Software Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Perl
3 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing WATIR also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WATIR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) NUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) WatiN
1 6 (100.00%) MSTest
2 5 (83.33%) Subversion
3 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Automated Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA