The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RSpec over the 3 months to 22 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 Guildford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RSpec 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 0.459% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.448% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
29 11 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 13.30% 9.091% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 6
Average daily rate £285 £425 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.94% +66.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
RSpec
Surrey

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford RSpec Jobs Demand Trend

RSpec
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Heroku
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Media

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Heroku
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Guildford, Surrey
Key Skills - Modern RESTful approach to Ruby on Rails development - Using Git as part of the daily development workflow (or other distributed source control systems) - RSpec/Cucumber with...
Austin Fraser
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 16 May 2013