The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 519 560 566
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +6
Contract jobs citing WATIR 22 10 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.046% 0.017% 0.056%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.416% 0.182% 0.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 19
Average daily rate £363 £325 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% -12.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £281 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £453 £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 1
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5287 5509 6681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.99% 9.493% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3305 3239 3901
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 213 289
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £22.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

WATIR Daily Rate Trend

WATIR
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WATIR within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 within the UK.

WATIR Hourly Rate Trend

WATIR
Top 25 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 UK 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
England +25 22 £363 +11.53% 8
London +40 19 £375 +9.09% 5
City of London - 4 £350 - 2
Bedfordshire - 2 £350 -
East of England - 2 £350 - 2
South East +26 1 £475 +79.24%
Berkshire - 1 £475 -
Reading - 1 £475 -
Northern Ireland - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - - 2
Dorset - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Lancashire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
South West - - - - 1
North West - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Oxford - - - -
Peterborough - - - - 1
County Antrim - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Belfast - - - -
Bolton - - - -
Bristol - - - - 1
Kidlington - - - -

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 62 (77.50%) Cucumber
2 58 (72.50%) Selenium
3 53 (66.25%) Ruby
4 52 (65.00%) Agile Software Development
5 49 (61.25%) TDD
5 49 (61.25%) BDD
6 42 (52.50%) QA
7 39 (48.75%) Java
8 30 (37.50%) WebDriver
9 28 (35.00%) Scrum
10 27 (33.75%) SQL
10 27 (33.75%) Automation Testing
11 25 (31.25%) Web Services
12 24 (30.00%) Automated Testing
13 23 (28.75%) Test Automation
14 22 (27.50%) C#
15 20 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
16 19 (23.75%) .NET
16 19 (23.75%) FitNesse
17 18 (22.50%) E-Commerce
17 18 (22.50%) RESTful
17 18 (22.50%) Jenkins
18 17 (21.25%) JavaScript
19 15 (18.75%) CruiseControl
19 15 (18.75%) Maven
20 14 (17.50%) XML
21 13 (16.25%) ASP.NET
21 13 (16.25%) Hibernate
22 12 (15.00%) Spring
22 12 (15.00%) HTML

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 25 (31.25%) Web Services
2 19 (23.75%) .NET
3 18 (22.50%) RESTful
4 14 (17.50%) XML
5 13 (16.25%) ASP.NET
5 13 (16.25%) Hibernate
6 12 (15.00%) Spring
6 12 (15.00%) HTML
7 8 (10.00%) WCF
7 8 (10.00%) SOAP
7 8 (10.00%) XSLT
8 7 (8.750%) .NET Framework
8 7 (8.750%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (8.750%) REST
9 6 (7.500%) JSON
10 5 (6.250%) J2ME
10 5 (6.250%) JMS
10 5 (6.250%) J2EE
10 5 (6.250%) CSS
10 5 (6.250%) JAX-RS
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.250%) BizTalk Server
1 5 (6.250%) GlassFish
2 4 (5.000%) Umbraco
2 4 (5.000%) CMS
3 1 (1.250%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.500%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.250%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) HTTP
2 3 (3.750%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) MySQL
2 8 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.250%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.750%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 62 (77.50%) Cucumber
2 58 (72.50%) Selenium
3 30 (37.50%) WebDriver
4 19 (23.75%) FitNesse
5 18 (22.50%) Jenkins
6 15 (18.75%) CruiseControl
6 15 (18.75%) Maven
7 10 (12.50%) Ant
8 9 (11.25%) TeamCity
8 9 (11.25%) JUnit
8 9 (11.25%) Subversion
8 9 (11.25%) JIRA
9 7 (8.750%) WatiN
9 7 (8.750%) SpecFlow
10 6 (7.500%) MSTest
10 6 (7.500%) Hudson
10 6 (7.500%) NUnit
11 5 (6.250%) JSUnit
11 5 (6.250%) RSpec
11 5 (6.250%) Git (software)
General
1 9 (11.25%) Marketing
2 5 (6.250%) Finance
3 2 (2.500%) Retail
4 1 (1.250%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.250%) Electronics
4 1 (1.250%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.250%) Legal
4 1 (1.250%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.250%) Publishing
4 1 (1.250%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) Tester
3 15 (18.75%) QA Engineer
4 12 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Analyst
6 10 (12.50%) Test Analyst
6 10 (12.50%) Automation Tester
7 7 (8.750%) Test Engineer
7 7 (8.750%) QA Automation Engineer
7 7 (8.750%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.250%) Test Team Leader
8 5 (6.250%) Team Leader
8 5 (6.250%) Build Engineer
9 3 (3.750%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.750%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (3.750%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.750%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.750%) Agile Tester
9 3 (3.750%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.500%) Senior Web Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.750%) Computer Science
2 2 (2.500%) Open Source
2 2 (2.500%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.250%) DTV
3 1 (1.250%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.250%) IPTV
3 1 (1.250%) Video on Demand
3 1 (1.250%) SaaS
3 1 (1.250%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Linux
2 8 (10.00%) Windows
3 5 (6.250%) UNIX
4 1 (1.250%) SUSE
4 1 (1.250%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.250%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (65.00%) Agile Software Development
2 49 (61.25%) TDD
2 49 (61.25%) BDD
3 28 (35.00%) Scrum
4 27 (33.75%) Automation Testing
5 24 (30.00%) Automated Testing
6 23 (28.75%) Test Automation
7 20 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (22.50%) E-Commerce
9 11 (13.75%) SOA
10 9 (11.25%) MVC
11 8 (10.00%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.00%) OO
12 7 (8.750%) Pair Programming
12 7 (8.750%) Test Strategy
13 6 (7.500%) Software Testing
14 5 (6.250%) DSDM
14 5 (6.250%) Workflow
14 5 (6.250%) Extreme Programming
14 5 (6.250%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 53 (66.25%) Ruby
2 39 (48.75%) Java
3 27 (33.75%) SQL
4 22 (27.50%) C#
5 17 (21.25%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.50%) C
6 10 (12.50%) Perl
6 10 (12.50%) Python
7 7 (8.750%) C++
8 6 (7.500%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.000%) PHP
10 3 (3.750%) Ada
11 2 (2.500%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.250%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (6.250%) Degree
2 3 (3.750%) MCSD
2 3 (3.750%) MCSE
2 3 (3.750%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.750%) MCTS
3 1 (1.250%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (52.50%) QA
2 3 (3.750%) Section 508
Systems Management
1 5 (6.250%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (7.500%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.250%) Red Hat
2 5 (6.250%) JBoss
3 1 (1.250%) 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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