WATIR Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank 773 780 812
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +32
Permanent jobs citing WATIR 89 119 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.082% 0.099% 0.055%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.558% 0.696% 0.434%
Number of salaries quoted 70 110 68
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +26.66%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 15947 17092 15900
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.75% 14.16% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13623 14969 13983
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WATIR Jobs Demand Trend

WATIR
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WATIR within the UK.

WATIR Salary Trend

WATIR
Salary Histogram

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

WATIR Salary Histogram

WATIR
Top 27 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 UK 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
England -6 88 £50,000 +11.11%
East of England +17 28 £70,000 +21.73%
London +14 25 £50,000 +11.11%
Cambridgeshire +31 21 £70,000 +139.31%
South East +25 21 £50,000 +78.57%
Hampshire - 14 £50,000 -
North West - 11 £27,500 -
Basingstoke - 11 £50,000 -
Peterborough - 11 £70,000 -
Bedfordshire - 7 £40,000 -
Lancashire - 7 £27,500 -
Oxfordshire - 6 £55,000 -
Oxford - 5 £55,000 -
City of London -12 4 £50,000 -
Manchester - 4 £27,500 -
Bolton - 4 £27,500 -
South West -3 2 £52,000 +38.66%
Cambridge 0 1 £30,000 +7.14%
Northern Ireland - 1 £25,000 -
Dorset - 1 £70,000 -
Berkshire - 1 £47,500 -
Reading - 1 £47,500 -
Portsmouth - 1 £50,000 -
Kidlington - 1 £52,500 -
Bristol - 1 £34,000 -
Belfast - 1 £25,000 -
County Antrim - 1 £25,000 -

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 166 (88.30%) Selenium
2 123 (65.43%) QA
3 89 (47.34%) TDD
4 82 (43.62%) Cucumber
5 81 (43.09%) E-Commerce
6 73 (38.83%) Agile Software Development
7 72 (38.30%) Ruby
8 68 (36.17%) Java
9 59 (31.38%) BDD
10 56 (29.79%) Test Automation
11 55 (29.26%) WebDriver
12 52 (27.66%) C#
12 52 (27.66%) Automated Testing
13 51 (27.13%) Python
13 51 (27.13%) FitNesse
14 48 (25.53%) SQL
15 46 (24.47%) Security Testing
15 46 (24.47%) Degree
16 41 (21.81%) C++
16 41 (21.81%) Web Testing
17 37 (19.68%) Jasmine
18 36 (19.15%) XML
19 35 (18.62%) C
20 33 (17.55%) JavaScript
20 33 (17.55%) Scrum
21 32 (17.02%) QuickTest Pro
22 28 (14.89%) HTML
22 28 (14.89%) Web Services
22 28 (14.89%) Open Source
23 25 (13.30%) Mobile App

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 36 (19.15%) XML
2 28 (14.89%) HTML
2 28 (14.89%) Web Services
3 24 (12.77%) .NET
4 23 (12.23%) soapUI
4 23 (12.23%) REST
5 19 (10.11%) SOAP
6 16 (8.511%) CSS
6 16 (8.511%) Ajax
7 12 (6.383%) ASP.NET
7 12 (6.383%) DHTML
8 11 (5.851%) ASP.NET MVC
9 9 (4.787%) .NET Framework
9 9 (4.787%) Gherkin
10 8 (4.255%) Ruby on Rails
11 5 (2.660%) J2EE
11 5 (2.660%) NHibernate
12 4 (2.128%) OpenRasta
12 4 (2.128%) StructureMap
12 4 (2.128%) ServiceStack
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.191%) IIS
2 4 (2.128%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.128%) Apache Solr
2 4 (2.128%) nginx
3 3 (1.596%) Apache
4 2 (1.064%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.532%) CMS
5 1 (0.532%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.532%) Magento
5 1 (0.532%) Shopify
Applications
1 1 (0.532%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.70%) HTTP
2 18 (9.574%) Internet
3 3 (1.596%) DHCP
3 3 (1.596%) Modbus
4 1 (0.532%) X.509
4 1 (0.532%) Intranet
4 1 (0.532%) SSL
4 1 (0.532%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.532%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.383%) Oracle BI EE
2 9 (4.787%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.596%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.064%) MySQL
5 1 (0.532%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 166 (88.30%) Selenium
2 82 (43.62%) Cucumber
3 55 (29.26%) WebDriver
4 51 (27.13%) FitNesse
5 37 (19.68%) Jasmine
6 32 (17.02%) QuickTest Pro
7 18 (9.574%) RSpec
8 15 (7.979%) Git (software)
8 15 (7.979%) LoadRunner
9 7 (3.723%) Capybara
10 6 (3.191%) GitHub
10 6 (3.191%) Jenkins
10 6 (3.191%) Hudson
10 6 (3.191%) JIRA
10 6 (3.191%) JMeter
11 5 (2.660%) JUnit
11 5 (2.660%) Subversion
11 5 (2.660%) SpecFlow
11 5 (2.660%) Behat
12 4 (2.128%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 25 (13.30%) Finance
2 17 (9.043%) Publishing
3 6 (3.191%) Games
4 4 (2.128%) Music
4 4 (2.128%) Music Industry
4 4 (2.128%) Banking
5 2 (1.064%) Law
6 1 (0.532%) Legal
6 1 (0.532%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.532%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (23.40%) Analyst
2 38 (20.21%) QA Manager
3 32 (17.02%) Test Analyst
4 25 (13.30%) Test Engineer
5 18 (9.574%) QA Analyst
6 17 (9.043%) Tester
6 17 (9.043%) Test Manager
7 16 (8.511%) Developer
8 14 (7.447%) Consultant
8 14 (7.447%) Test Consultant
8 14 (7.447%) Test Leader
9 13 (6.915%) QA Test Manager
10 12 (6.383%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.383%) Design Engineer
11 10 (5.319%) QA Engineer
12 9 (4.787%) Lead Test Analyst
12 9 (4.787%) Agile Test Analyst
13 7 (3.723%) QA Test Analyst
13 7 (3.723%) Team Leader
14 5 (2.660%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.89%) Open Source
2 25 (13.30%) Mobile App
3 20 (10.64%) Computer Science
4 11 (5.851%) Blog
5 6 (3.191%) Digital Media
6 4 (2.128%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.128%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.596%) Mathematics
8 2 (1.064%) New Media
8 2 (1.064%) Social Media
8 2 (1.064%) Social Network
8 2 (1.064%) SaaS
8 2 (1.064%) Interactive TV
8 2 (1.064%) Device Driver
8 2 (1.064%) BBC
9 1 (0.532%) STB
9 1 (0.532%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.11%) Windows
2 14 (7.447%) Linux
3 6 (3.191%) UNIX
4 2 (1.064%) SUSE
5 1 (0.532%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (47.34%) TDD
2 81 (43.09%) E-Commerce
3 73 (38.83%) Agile Software Development
4 59 (31.38%) BDD
5 56 (29.79%) Test Automation
6 52 (27.66%) Automated Testing
7 46 (24.47%) Security Testing
8 41 (21.81%) Web Testing
9 33 (17.55%) Scrum
10 19 (10.11%) Unit Testing
10 19 (10.11%) Manual Testing
10 19 (10.11%) System Testing
11 17 (9.043%) Waterfall
11 17 (9.043%) RAD
12 16 (8.511%) OO
12 16 (8.511%) Software Engineering
12 16 (8.511%) Software Testing
12 16 (8.511%) Web Application Development
13 15 (7.979%) SOA
14 14 (7.447%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.30%) Ruby
2 68 (36.17%) Java
3 52 (27.66%) C#
4 51 (27.13%) Python
5 48 (25.53%) SQL
6 41 (21.81%) C++
7 35 (18.62%) C
8 33 (17.55%) JavaScript
9 24 (12.77%) PHP
10 19 (10.11%) Perl
11 3 (1.596%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.596%) ActionScript
12 2 (1.064%) Groovy
13 1 (0.532%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (24.47%) Degree
2 13 (6.915%) ISEB
3 2 (1.064%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.064%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (65.43%) QA
2 1 (0.532%) WAI
2 1 (0.532%) Section 508
Systems Management
1 12 (6.383%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (7.447%) Oracle
2 12 (6.383%) Siebel
3 5 (2.660%) Apple
4 4 (2.128%) Sony
4 4 (2.128%) Toshiba
4 4 (2.128%) HP
5 3 (1.596%) Google
5 3 (1.596%) Twitter
6 2 (1.064%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.532%) JBoss
7 1 (0.532%) Zend
7 1 (0.532%) Facebook
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