The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WATIR 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.643% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 5.109% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £40,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £48,750 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +50.00%
All Development Applications
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
137 184 109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 12.58% 18.93% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 128 160 105
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £29,000 £34,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,400 £51,750 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
WATIR
East of England

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire WATIR Jobs Demand Trend

WATIR
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WATIR across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire WATIR Salary Trend

WATIR
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WATIR.

1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 8 (100.00%) Scrum
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) Selenium
2 7 (87.50%) WebDriver
2 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 7 (87.50%) Cucumber
2 7 (87.50%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) MVC
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Mobile App
2 7 (87.50%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) Ruby
2 7 (87.50%) Web Development
2 7 (87.50%) .NET Framework
2 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
3 3 (37.50%) SpecFlow
4 1 (12.50%) Jasmine
4 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) QA
4 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WATIR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 7 (87.50%) .NET Framework
2 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Selenium
2 7 (87.50%) WebDriver
2 7 (87.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
3 3 (37.50%) SpecFlow
4 1 (12.50%) Jasmine
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Agile Test Analyst
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst
1 7 (87.50%) Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) QA Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 8 (100.00%) Scrum
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
2 7 (87.50%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) MVC
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) Ruby
1 7 (87.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA