The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WATIR over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank 365 405 415
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +10
Contract jobs citing WATIR 19 5 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.083% 0.019% 0.089%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.686% 0.181% 0.763%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 17
Average daily rate £375 £344 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £286 £325 £334
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £511 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £306 £288
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2770 2766 3668
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.15% 10.40% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2053 1886 2552
Average daily rate £405 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 25
Average hourly rate £41.50 £37.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.16% +17.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.25 £22.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.00 £45.00 £69.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
WATIR
England

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London WATIR Daily Rate Histogram

WATIR
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WATIR across the London region.

London WATIR Hourly Rate Trend

WATIR
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WATIR within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London - 4 £350 - 2
WATIR
England

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 52 (91.23%) Cucumber
2 44 (77.19%) Ruby
3 37 (64.91%) Agile Software Development
4 35 (61.40%) Selenium
5 33 (57.89%) BDD
6 30 (52.63%) TDD
7 27 (47.37%) QA
8 23 (40.35%) Test Automation
8 23 (40.35%) Java
9 21 (36.84%) WebDriver
10 19 (33.33%) Web Services
11 18 (31.58%) Automation Testing
12 16 (28.07%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (26.32%) Automated Testing
13 15 (26.32%) Scrum
14 14 (24.56%) RESTful
14 14 (24.56%) Jenkins
15 13 (22.81%) E-Commerce
15 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
15 13 (22.81%) SQL
16 12 (21.05%) CruiseControl
17 9 (15.79%) JUnit
17 9 (15.79%) TeamCity
17 9 (15.79%) Marketing
18 8 (14.04%) Maven
18 8 (14.04%) XML
18 8 (14.04%) HTML
18 8 (14.04%) XSLT
18 8 (14.04%) OO
18 8 (14.04%) HTTP

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 19 (33.33%) Web Services
2 14 (24.56%) RESTful
3 8 (14.04%) XML
3 8 (14.04%) HTML
3 8 (14.04%) XSLT
4 7 (12.28%) ASP.NET
4 7 (12.28%) .NET
4 7 (12.28%) Hibernate
5 6 (10.53%) JSON
5 6 (10.53%) Spring
6 5 (8.772%) CSS
6 5 (8.772%) SOAP
6 5 (8.772%) .NET Framework
6 5 (8.772%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (8.772%) REST
7 4 (7.018%) Ajax
8 3 (5.263%) DOM
8 3 (5.263%) WCF
9 2 (3.509%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (3.509%) JAX-RS
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.018%) Umbraco
1 4 (7.018%) CMS
2 2 (3.509%) GlassFish
Applications
1 2 (3.509%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.754%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) HTTP
2 3 (5.263%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.509%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.509%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (91.23%) Cucumber
2 35 (61.40%) Selenium
3 21 (36.84%) WebDriver
4 14 (24.56%) Jenkins
5 12 (21.05%) CruiseControl
6 9 (15.79%) JUnit
6 9 (15.79%) TeamCity
7 8 (14.04%) Maven
8 7 (12.28%) Ant
8 7 (12.28%) FitNesse
9 6 (10.53%) JIRA
10 5 (8.772%) JSUnit
11 4 (7.018%) TestNG
11 4 (7.018%) Subversion
11 4 (7.018%) Visual Studio
12 3 (5.263%) Capybara
13 2 (3.509%) Hudson
13 2 (3.509%) JBehave
13 2 (3.509%) RSpec
13 2 (3.509%) Git (software)
General
1 9 (15.79%) Marketing
2 4 (7.018%) Finance
3 2 (3.509%) Retail
4 1 (1.754%) Electronics
4 1 (1.754%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.754%) Legal
4 1 (1.754%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.754%) Publishing
4 1 (1.754%) Banking
4 1 (1.754%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Developer
2 15 (26.32%) Tester
3 10 (17.54%) Software Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Automation Tester
4 8 (14.04%) QA Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) QA Automation Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Test Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Analyst
6 5 (8.772%) Test Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.263%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.263%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Agile Tester
8 2 (3.509%) Automation Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Automation Test Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Web Tester
8 2 (3.509%) Senior Web Tester
8 2 (3.509%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.263%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.509%) Open Source
3 1 (1.754%) DTV
3 1 (1.754%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.754%) IPTV
3 1 (1.754%) Video on Demand
3 1 (1.754%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.509%) UNIX
2 1 (1.754%) Linux
2 1 (1.754%) Android
2 1 (1.754%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (64.91%) Agile Software Development
2 33 (57.89%) BDD
3 30 (52.63%) TDD
4 23 (40.35%) Test Automation
5 18 (31.58%) Automation Testing
6 16 (28.07%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (26.32%) Automated Testing
7 15 (26.32%) Scrum
8 13 (22.81%) E-Commerce
9 8 (14.04%) OO
10 7 (12.28%) MVC
10 7 (12.28%) Pair Programming
10 7 (12.28%) Test Strategy
11 5 (8.772%) Software Engineering
11 5 (8.772%) Web Application Development
12 4 (7.018%) Web Testing
12 4 (7.018%) Manual Testing
12 4 (7.018%) OOP
13 3 (5.263%) Regression Testing
13 3 (5.263%) UML
Programming Languages
1 44 (77.19%) Ruby
2 23 (40.35%) Java
3 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
3 13 (22.81%) SQL
4 7 (12.28%) C#
5 6 (10.53%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.263%) Ada
6 3 (5.263%) C
7 2 (3.509%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.754%) Python
8 1 (1.754%) PHP
8 1 (1.754%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (8.772%) Degree
2 3 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (5.263%) MCSE
2 3 (5.263%) MCSD
2 3 (5.263%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (47.37%) QA
2 3 (5.263%) Section 508
Systems Management
1 2 (3.509%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.509%) JBoss
2 2 (3.509%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.754%) SAP
Central London / West End
Developer in Test - Java, Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, WatiR, Automation, Agile, Development, QA... As a Developer in Test you will have excellent skills in: - Java Development (OOP) - Automation Testing...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £450 to £500 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Keywords: C#, .Net, C#.Net, ASP.Net, MVC, TDD, BDD, Agile, Scrum, SQL Server, SQL, contract, software development, London, City, City of London, Greater London... The software will...
Think IT Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
MCSE, MCSD, MCTS) Expert-level knowledge of the latest version of the following tech stack: .Net 3.5 or 4.0,C#,Visual Studio 2008/2010,ASP.NET...
Ortolan Group
Rate: From £350 to £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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