The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow 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 Hounslow 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 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WATIR 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 3.390% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 13.33% - -
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
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15 14 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 25.42% 18.18% 2.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
Average daily rate £400 £330 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.21% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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 Hounslow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow WATIR Daily Rate Trend

WATIR
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL