RSpec Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RSpec over the 3 months to 23 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 City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank 192 214 241
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +27
Contract jobs citing RSpec 7 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.110% 0.064% 0.040%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.889% 0.766% 0.388%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
Average daily rate £350 £450 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% +44.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 787 653 1030
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.39% 8.295% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 487 777
Average daily rate £413 £428 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
RSpec
London

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London RSpec Jobs Demand Trend

RSpec
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RSpec across the City of London region.

City of London RSpec Daily Rate Trend

RSpec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RSpec 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited RSpec.

1 11 (100.00%) Ruby
2 10 (90.91%) TDD
2 10 (90.91%) Ruby on Rails
3 9 (81.82%) Cucumber
4 7 (63.64%) CSS
5 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
5 6 (54.55%) Web Development
5 6 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (45.45%) Selenium
6 5 (45.45%) BDD
6 5 (45.45%) OO
7 4 (36.36%) Linux
7 4 (36.36%) MySQL
7 4 (36.36%) Scrum
7 4 (36.36%) Git (software)
7 4 (36.36%) jQuery
8 3 (27.27%) Refactoring
8 3 (27.27%) HTML5
8 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
8 3 (27.27%) Sinatra
8 3 (27.27%) REST
8 3 (27.27%) HTML
8 3 (27.27%) XHTML
8 3 (27.27%) Capybara
8 3 (27.27%) Redis
9 2 (18.18%) Neo4j
9 2 (18.18%) Sass
9 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (18.18%) Apache
9 2 (18.18%) PHP

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RSpec also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RSpec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (90.91%) Ruby on Rails
2 7 (63.64%) CSS
3 4 (36.36%) jQuery
4 3 (27.27%) HTML5
4 3 (27.27%) Sinatra
4 3 (27.27%) REST
4 3 (27.27%) HTML
4 3 (27.27%) XHTML
5 2 (18.18%) Sass
5 2 (18.18%) Web Services
5 2 (18.18%) Ajax
5 2 (18.18%) CSS3
5 2 (18.18%) Haml
5 2 (18.18%) Memcached
5 2 (18.18%) JSON
5 2 (18.18%) OAuth
5 2 (18.18%) Dojo
6 1 (9.091%) RESTful
6 1 (9.091%) Node.js
6 1 (9.091%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Internet
2 1 (9.091%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Redis
3 2 (18.18%) Neo4j
3 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.091%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Cucumber
2 5 (45.45%) Selenium
3 4 (36.36%) Git (software)
4 3 (27.27%) Capybara
5 2 (18.18%) Subversion
6 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Music
2 1 (9.091%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Junior Tester
4 1 (9.091%) Tester
4 1 (9.091%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Podcast
1 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
1 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.091%) BBC
1 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) TDD
2 6 (54.55%) Web Development
2 6 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (45.45%) BDD
3 5 (45.45%) OO
4 4 (36.36%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Refactoring
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (9.091%) Performance Testing
7 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
7 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
7 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (9.091%) Test Strategy
7 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
7 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
7 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
7 1 (9.091%) Extreme Programming
7 1 (9.091%) Pair Programming
7 1 (9.091%) MVC
7 1 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Ruby
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.091%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
1 1 (9.091%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle
Ruby on Rails Developer
City, London
Skills: Experience using Ruby on Rails. Knowledge of any Test driven development (cucumber, rspec, selenium) Experience in version control (Subversion, GIT) Front-end development using XHTML, HTML5, CSS2/...
Experis IT
Rate: £300 - £400 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
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