The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WATIR over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WATIR 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.120% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.042% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £475 - -
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
96 80 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 11.50% 7.175% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 19 35
Average daily rate £363 £338 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.40% +8.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £371 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -41.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.40 £11.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
WATIR
Berkshire

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading WATIR Daily Rate Trend

WATIR
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Ant
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Ant
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA