The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WATIR over the 3 months to 22 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 Wales 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WATIR 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
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
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
46 52 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 10.77% 9.059% 8.869%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 27 22
Average daily rate £325 £383 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.03% +19.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
WATIR
UK

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales WATIR Daily Rate Trend

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Capybara
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (50.00%) Firebug
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (50.00%) Perforce
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Capybara
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (50.00%) Firebug
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Testing Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Perforce