The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WATIR over the 3 months to 17 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank 214 - 193
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WATIR 1 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.019% - 0.058%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.172% - 0.376%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
Average salary £47,500 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £48,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +30.00%
All Development Applications
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
580 788 798
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 11.27% 12.85% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 479 727 698
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
WATIR
South East

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire WATIR Salary Trend

WATIR
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WATIR within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 1 £47,500 -
WATIR
South East

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (50.00%) soapUI
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) soapUI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) V-Model
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle