The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT jobs advertised for the Preston 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 Preston region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing WATIR 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +26.66%
All Development Applications
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
33 24 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 27.27% 19.51% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 29 24 5
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -8.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
WATIR
Lancashire

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston WATIR Salary Trend

WATIR
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) RAD
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Test Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) RAD
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA