The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WATIR over the 3 months to 23 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank 315 310 322
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +12
Permanent jobs citing WATIR 5 18 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.043% 0.138% 0.032%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.305% 1.312% 0.303%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 5
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £34,250 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £71,000 £72,500 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £48,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +30.00%
All Development Applications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
1640 1372 1649
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 14.14% 10.50% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1405 1291 1522
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,450 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
WATIR
London

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London WATIR Salary Trend

WATIR
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WATIR across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London WATIR Salary Histogram

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 13 (86.67%) Selenium
2 12 (80.00%) TDD
2 12 (80.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 11 (73.33%) Cucumber
4 10 (66.67%) QA
4 10 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (60.00%) Java
6 8 (53.33%) FitNesse
6 8 (53.33%) Automation Testing
7 7 (46.67%) SQL
7 7 (46.67%) OO
8 6 (40.00%) Games
8 6 (40.00%) E-Commerce
8 6 (40.00%) WebDriver
9 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 5 (33.33%) BDD
9 5 (33.33%) OOP
10 3 (20.00%) Banking
10 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
10 3 (20.00%) C#
10 3 (20.00%) Scrum
11 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
11 2 (13.33%) Internet
11 2 (13.33%) Rational Robot
11 2 (13.33%) .NET
11 2 (13.33%) XML
11 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (13.33%) Kanban
11 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
11 2 (13.33%) JMeter

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) XML
1 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.667%) RESTful
2 1 (6.667%) JSON
2 1 (6.667%) NHibernate
2 1 (6.667%) jQuery
2 1 (6.667%) XSLT
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.667%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Selenium
2 12 (80.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 11 (73.33%) Cucumber
4 8 (53.33%) FitNesse
5 6 (40.00%) WebDriver
6 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
6 2 (13.33%) Rational Robot
6 2 (13.33%) JMeter
6 2 (13.33%) Behat
6 2 (13.33%) RSpec
6 2 (13.33%) JBehave
7 1 (6.667%) Sahi
7 1 (6.667%) Fiddler
7 1 (6.667%) JSUnit
7 1 (6.667%) JUnit
7 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (40.00%) Games
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Legal
3 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) QA Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Automation Test Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Automation Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) QA Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Developer
6 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
1 2 (13.33%) Digital Media
2 1 (6.667%) Open Source
2 1 (6.667%) Video on Demand
2 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.667%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) UNIX
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) TDD
2 10 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (53.33%) Automation Testing
4 7 (46.67%) OO
5 6 (40.00%) E-Commerce
6 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 5 (33.33%) BDD
6 5 (33.33%) OOP
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (13.33%) Kanban
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (13.33%) ATDD
9 1 (6.667%) Waterfall
9 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
9 1 (6.667%) User Stories
9 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
9 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
9 1 (6.667%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) Ruby
5 1 (6.667%) Groovy
5 1 (6.667%) C
5 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.667%) C++
5 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.667%) Perl
5 1 (6.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft