The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RSpec over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RSpec 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.106% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.813% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
123 59 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 13.06% 7.642% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 30 66
Average daily rate £338 £275 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £284 £228 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £353 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
RSpec
Scotland

RSpec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) DSDM
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Build Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DSDM
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat