The first table below looks at the demand for WATIR skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WATIR over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Warwickshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR)
Rank - 58 -
Permanent jobs citing WATIR 0 23 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire - 3.022% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 18.55% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 20 0
Average salary - £50,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £46,250 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+13.51% +42.30%
All Development Applications
Warwickshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
142 124 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 17.84% 16.29% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 125 112 74
Average salary £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,600 £34,200 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £50,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
WATIR
West Midlands

WATIR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire WATIR Salary Trend

WATIR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) RSpec
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Modbus
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) ActionScript
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) LAMP
2 2 (66.67%) Device Driver
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

WATIR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 (66.67%) Ajax
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Modbus
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) RSpec
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Web Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Web Team Leader
1 2 (66.67%) Team Leader
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) DSDM
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) ActionScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
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