The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WATIR over the 3 months to 24 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank 559 573 611
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +38
Permanent jobs citing WATIR 25 63 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.057% 0.117% 0.067%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.371% 0.873% 0.561%
Number of salaries quoted 12 63 39
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £67,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +26.66%
All Development Applications
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
6733 7216 6949
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 15.40% 13.45% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5786 6358 6062
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £66,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
WATIR
England

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London WATIR Salary Trend

WATIR
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WATIR across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London WATIR Salary Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London -12 4 £50,000 -
WATIR
England

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 68 (86.08%) Cucumber
2 60 (75.95%) Selenium
3 44 (55.70%) QA
4 39 (49.37%) Test Automation
5 37 (46.84%) WebDriver
5 37 (46.84%) Ruby
6 33 (41.77%) E-Commerce
7 31 (39.24%) Agile Software Development
8 29 (36.71%) BDD
9 28 (35.44%) TDD
10 21 (26.58%) Java
11 19 (24.05%) Degree
12 18 (22.78%) Computer Science
12 18 (22.78%) QuickTest Pro
12 18 (22.78%) Internet
13 17 (21.52%) JavaScript
14 16 (20.25%) Manual Testing
14 16 (20.25%) FitNesse
14 16 (20.25%) Web Application Development
15 15 (18.99%) Software Engineering
16 14 (17.72%) SQL
16 14 (17.72%) OO
16 14 (17.72%) Scrum
16 14 (17.72%) RSpec
17 13 (16.46%) Automation Testing
17 13 (16.46%) HTML
17 13 (16.46%) C#
18 12 (15.19%) Ajax
18 12 (15.19%) DHTML
18 12 (15.19%) CSS

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 13 (16.46%) HTML
2 12 (15.19%) Ajax
2 12 (15.19%) DHTML
2 12 (15.19%) CSS
3 7 (8.861%) Gherkin
4 6 (7.595%) .NET
5 5 (6.329%) REST
5 5 (6.329%) NHibernate
5 5 (6.329%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.063%) Web Services
6 4 (5.063%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (5.063%) OAuth
6 4 (5.063%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (5.063%) ServiceStack
6 4 (5.063%) NancyFx
6 4 (5.063%) OpenRasta
6 4 (5.063%) StructureMap
7 3 (3.797%) XML
8 2 (2.532%) J2EE
8 2 (2.532%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.063%) IIS
1 4 (5.063%) nginx
1 4 (5.063%) Apache Solr
1 4 (5.063%) RabbitMQ
Communications & Networking
1 18 (22.78%) Internet
2 3 (3.797%) HTTP
3 1 (1.266%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.595%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.266%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 68 (86.08%) Cucumber
2 60 (75.95%) Selenium
3 37 (46.84%) WebDriver
4 18 (22.78%) QuickTest Pro
5 16 (20.25%) FitNesse
6 14 (17.72%) RSpec
7 10 (12.66%) Git (software)
8 6 (7.595%) JIRA
9 5 (6.329%) Behat
9 5 (6.329%) Hudson
9 5 (6.329%) Capybara
9 5 (6.329%) Jenkins
9 5 (6.329%) JUnit
10 4 (5.063%) JMeter
10 4 (5.063%) NUnit
10 4 (5.063%) ReSharper
10 4 (5.063%) TeamCity
10 4 (5.063%) GitHub
10 4 (5.063%) JBehave
10 4 (5.063%) NDepend
General
1 6 (7.595%) Publishing
1 6 (7.595%) Games
2 4 (5.063%) Finance
2 4 (5.063%) Music
2 4 (5.063%) Music Industry
3 3 (3.797%) Banking
4 2 (2.532%) Law
5 1 (1.266%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.266%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (22.78%) Test Engineer
2 14 (17.72%) Tester
3 13 (16.46%) Developer
3 13 (16.46%) Analyst
3 13 (16.46%) Test Leader
4 12 (15.19%) Design Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) QA Analyst
6 8 (10.13%) QA Engineer
7 5 (6.329%) Senior QA Engineer
8 4 (5.063%) Test Analyst
9 3 (3.797%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.797%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.532%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.532%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (2.532%) Automation Test Analyst
10 2 (2.532%) Automation Specialist
10 2 (2.532%) Automation Tester
10 2 (2.532%) Automation Analyst
10 2 (2.532%) QA Leader
11 1 (1.266%) Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Computer Science
2 11 (13.92%) Blog
2 11 (13.92%) Open Source
3 6 (7.595%) Digital Media
4 4 (5.063%) Blackberry
5 3 (3.797%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.532%) Social Network
6 2 (2.532%) SaaS
7 1 (1.266%) Social Media
7 1 (1.266%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.266%) STB
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.861%) Windows
2 2 (2.532%) Linux
3 1 (1.266%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (49.37%) Test Automation
2 33 (41.77%) E-Commerce
3 31 (39.24%) Agile Software Development
4 29 (36.71%) BDD
5 28 (35.44%) TDD
6 16 (20.25%) Manual Testing
6 16 (20.25%) Web Application Development
7 15 (18.99%) Software Engineering
8 14 (17.72%) OO
8 14 (17.72%) Scrum
9 13 (16.46%) Automation Testing
10 8 (10.13%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.861%) Automated Testing
12 5 (6.329%) Performance Testing
12 5 (6.329%) Pair Programming
12 5 (6.329%) MVC
12 5 (6.329%) OOP
13 4 (5.063%) Refactoring
13 4 (5.063%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.84%) Ruby
2 21 (26.58%) Java
3 17 (21.52%) JavaScript
4 14 (17.72%) SQL
5 13 (16.46%) C#
6 7 (8.861%) Python
7 6 (7.595%) C++
8 3 (3.797%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.797%) C
8 3 (3.797%) PHP
9 2 (2.532%) Perl
9 2 (2.532%) Groovy
10 1 (1.266%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Degree
2 1 (1.266%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.266%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (55.70%) QA
2 1 (1.266%) Section 508
2 1 (1.266%) WAI
Vendors
1 4 (5.063%) Sony
1 4 (5.063%) Toshiba
1 4 (5.063%) Apple
1 4 (5.063%) HP
2 3 (3.797%) Twitter
2 3 (3.797%) Google
3 1 (1.266%) Oracle
3 1 (1.266%) Microsoft
London
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