The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 199 216 228
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +12
Contract jobs citing WATIR 4 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.062% 0.013% 0.083%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.500% 0.152% 0.812%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
Average daily rate £344 - £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 - £294
10% offered a daily rate of more than £441 - £400
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
800 657 985
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.45% 8.357% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 486 739
Average daily rate £405 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
WATIR
London

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London WATIR Daily Rate Trend

WATIR
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WATIR across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London WATIR Daily Rate Histogram

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 19 (95.00%) Cucumber
2 15 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (75.00%) QA
2 15 (75.00%) Selenium
3 13 (65.00%) Ruby
4 10 (50.00%) BDD
5 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (45.00%) TDD
6 7 (35.00%) E-Commerce
6 7 (35.00%) WebDriver
7 6 (30.00%) Automation Testing
8 5 (25.00%) Java
8 5 (25.00%) SQL
8 5 (25.00%) Automated Testing
8 5 (25.00%) Marketing
9 4 (20.00%) Scrum
9 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
9 4 (20.00%) Test Strategy
9 4 (20.00%) JIRA
10 3 (15.00%) WatiN
10 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (15.00%) OO
10 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
10 3 (15.00%) Ant
10 3 (15.00%) JUnit
10 3 (15.00%) Finance
11 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
11 2 (10.00%) HTTP
11 2 (10.00%) Manual Testing
11 2 (10.00%) Groovy

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 1 (5.000%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (5.000%) RESTful
1 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (5.000%) Hibernate
1 1 (5.000%) ASP
1 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.000%) CSS
1 1 (5.000%) Web Services
1 1 (5.000%) HTML
1 1 (5.000%) .NET
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (95.00%) Cucumber
2 15 (75.00%) Selenium
3 7 (35.00%) WebDriver
4 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (20.00%) JIRA
5 3 (15.00%) WatiN
5 3 (15.00%) Ant
5 3 (15.00%) JUnit
6 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
6 2 (10.00%) FitNesse
6 2 (10.00%) Maven
6 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (10.00%) Git (software)
7 1 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (5.000%) JBehave
7 1 (5.000%) Concordion
7 1 (5.000%) Capybara
7 1 (5.000%) CruiseControl
7 1 (5.000%) Subversion
7 1 (5.000%) TestComplete
General
1 5 (25.00%) Marketing
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Front Office
4 1 (5.000%) Electronics
4 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) QA Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Tester
3 4 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Automation Tester
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) QA Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Automation Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Development Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Agile Test Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior QA Tester
6 1 (5.000%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Open Source
1 1 (5.000%) Video on Demand
1 1 (5.000%) IPTV
1 1 (5.000%) Derivative
1 1 (5.000%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (5.000%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.000%) Android
1 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (50.00%) BDD
3 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (45.00%) TDD
4 7 (35.00%) E-Commerce
5 6 (30.00%) Automation Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Automated Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (15.00%) OO
9 2 (10.00%) Manual Testing
10 1 (5.000%) Web Application Development
10 1 (5.000%) Pair Programming
10 1 (5.000%) Software Engineering
10 1 (5.000%) Programme Management
10 1 (5.000%) Software Testing
10 1 (5.000%) Digital Marketing
10 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
10 1 (5.000%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Ruby
2 5 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.000%) PHP
5 1 (5.000%) C#
5 1 (5.000%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.000%) SAP