RSpec Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 England 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 486 550 550
Rank change year-on-year
+64 0
Contract jobs citing RSpec 32 12 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.077% 0.022% 0.040%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.692% 0.241% 0.376%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 15
Average daily rate £400 £425 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +36.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £315 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £450 £386
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
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 4625 4983 6116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.14% 9.331% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2957 3014 3530
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £587
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 207 313
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.13 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
RSpec
UK

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England RSpec Daily Rate Trend

RSpec
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RSpec across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England RSpec Daily Rate Histogram

RSpec
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RSpec within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +50 29 £400 -5.88%
South East - 3 - -
RSpec
UK

RSpec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 57 (95.00%) Ruby
2 55 (91.67%) Cucumber
3 42 (70.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 42 (70.00%) TDD
4 41 (68.33%) BDD
5 36 (60.00%) JavaScript
6 31 (51.67%) CSS
7 26 (43.33%) HTML
8 25 (41.67%) jQuery
9 24 (40.00%) Git (software)
10 23 (38.33%) Scrum
11 21 (35.00%) Selenium
11 21 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
12 16 (26.67%) Java
13 13 (21.67%) RESTful
14 12 (20.00%) MySQL
14 12 (20.00%) Linux
14 12 (20.00%) Workflow
15 11 (18.33%) OO
15 11 (18.33%) Hudson
15 11 (18.33%) Continuous Integration
15 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
16 10 (16.67%) QA
16 10 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
17 9 (15.00%) XHTML
17 9 (15.00%) JSON
17 9 (15.00%) Heroku
17 9 (15.00%) WebDriver
18 8 (13.33%) Capistrano
18 8 (13.33%) Web Development

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 42 (70.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 31 (51.67%) CSS
3 26 (43.33%) HTML
4 25 (41.67%) jQuery
5 13 (21.67%) RESTful
6 9 (15.00%) XHTML
6 9 (15.00%) JSON
7 7 (11.67%) REST
8 6 (10.00%) XML
9 5 (8.333%) Sass
9 5 (8.333%) Web Services
9 5 (8.333%) Haml
10 4 (6.667%) HTML5
10 4 (6.667%) Ajax
11 3 (5.000%) Spring
11 3 (5.000%) Hibernate
11 3 (5.000%) Dojo
11 3 (5.000%) Sinatra
11 3 (5.000%) CSS3
11 3 (5.000%) OAuth
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.333%) nginx
1 2 (3.333%) GlassFish
1 2 (3.333%) Apache
2 1 (1.667%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.333%) HTTP
2 3 (5.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) MySQL
2 10 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.00%) Redis
4 5 (8.333%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.667%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.667%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.333%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.667%) Big Data
7 1 (1.667%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 55 (91.67%) Cucumber
2 24 (40.00%) Git (software)
3 21 (35.00%) Selenium
4 11 (18.33%) Hudson
4 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
5 9 (15.00%) WebDriver
6 8 (13.33%) Capistrano
7 6 (10.00%) Jasmine
8 5 (8.333%) Capybara
8 5 (8.333%) Subversion
8 5 (8.333%) JBehave
9 4 (6.667%) Behat
10 3 (5.000%) Maven
11 2 (3.333%) JIRA
11 2 (3.333%) WATIR
11 2 (3.333%) CruiseControl
11 2 (3.333%) GitHub
12 1 (1.667%) SpecFlow
12 1 (1.667%) JUnit
12 1 (1.667%) JMeter
General
1 8 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (6.667%) Retail
3 2 (3.333%) Music
4 1 (1.667%) Games
4 1 (1.667%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 38 (63.33%) Developer
2 24 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 9 (15.00%) Ruby Developer
4 3 (5.000%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.000%) Test Engineer
5 2 (3.333%) Build Engineer
5 2 (3.333%) Tester
5 2 (3.333%) Analyst
5 2 (3.333%) Test Analyst
5 2 (3.333%) Senior Developer
5 2 (3.333%) QA Engineer
6 1 (1.667%) Mobile Tester
6 1 (1.667%) Web Analyst
6 1 (1.667%) Junior Tester
6 1 (1.667%) Junior
6 1 (1.667%) Software Engineer
6 1 (1.667%) Web Test Analyst
6 1 (1.667%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (1.667%) Automation Tester
6 1 (1.667%) Automation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Heroku
2 8 (13.33%) Digital Media
3 3 (5.000%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.000%) iPhone
4 2 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.333%) iPad
4 2 (3.333%) Open Source
4 2 (3.333%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.333%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.667%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.667%) BBC
5 1 (1.667%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.667%) Online Games
5 1 (1.667%) Podcast
5 1 (1.667%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (5.000%) UNIX
3 2 (3.333%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.333%) Android
4 1 (1.667%) Windows Phone
4 1 (1.667%) Windows
4 1 (1.667%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (70.00%) TDD
2 41 (68.33%) BDD
3 23 (38.33%) Scrum
4 21 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
5 12 (20.00%) Workflow
6 11 (18.33%) OO
6 11 (18.33%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (13.33%) Web Development
7 8 (13.33%) Automated Testing
8 6 (10.00%) E-Commerce
8 6 (10.00%) OOP
9 5 (8.333%) Automation Testing
10 3 (5.000%) User Stories
10 3 (5.000%) Software Engineering
10 3 (5.000%) Extreme Programming
10 3 (5.000%) Refactoring
10 3 (5.000%) Test Automation
11 2 (3.333%) Dependency Injection
11 2 (3.333%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (3.333%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (95.00%) Ruby
2 36 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (26.67%) Java
4 7 (11.67%) SQL
5 5 (8.333%) C#
5 5 (8.333%) C++
5 5 (8.333%) CoffeeScript
6 4 (6.667%) PHP
7 3 (5.000%) Python
8 2 (3.333%) Groovy
9 1 (1.667%) XPath
9 1 (1.667%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (3.333%) Degree
1 2 (3.333%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (6.667%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (3.333%) Red Hat
1 2 (3.333%) JBoss
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle
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