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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank - 32 -
Permanent jobs citing WATIR 0 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwick - 4.118% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 30.43% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 0
Average salary - £46,250 -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +26.66%
All Development Applications
Warwick
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
64 23 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwick 28.57% 13.53% 9.836%
Number of salaries quoted 61 22 18
Average salary £35,000 £52,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £33,500 £38,800
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
WATIR
Warwickshire

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwick 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 Warwick region.

Warwick WATIR Salary Trend

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warwick 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 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) RSpec
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Modbus
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (75.00%) LAMP
2 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Subversion
2 3 (75.00%) Automated Testing
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) ActionScript
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) Device Driver
4 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warwick 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 3 (75.00%) Ajax
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (75.00%) LAMP
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Modbus
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) RSpec
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Team Leader
2 2 (50.00%) Web Team Leader
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
1 3 (75.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) DSDM
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) ActionScript
2 3 (75.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss