The first table below looks at the demand for SpecFlow skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SpecFlow 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 Hampshire 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
SpecFlow
Rank 92 94 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 12 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.775% 0.312% -
As % of the Development Applications category 5.085% 2.404% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
Average daily rate £400 £265 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.94% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £300 -
% change year-on-year
+18.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
236 208 252
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 15.25% 12.98% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 100 75
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £458 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 34 64
Average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £31.00 £32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
SpecFlow
South East

SpecFlow
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire SpecFlow Jobs Demand Trend

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SpecFlow across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire SpecFlow Daily Rate Trend

SpecFlow
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Basingstoke - 11 £400 -
SpecFlow
South East

SpecFlow
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing SpecFlow 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 SpecFlow.

1 18 (94.74%) C#
1 18 (94.74%) TDD
2 17 (89.47%) SQL
2 17 (89.47%) .NET
2 17 (89.47%) Selenium
2 17 (89.47%) BDD
3 14 (73.68%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (68.42%) MVC
4 13 (68.42%) Scrum
4 13 (68.42%) WCF
4 13 (68.42%) jQuery
4 13 (68.42%) Kanban
5 12 (63.16%) Git (software)
5 12 (63.16%) Subversion
5 12 (63.16%) MySQL
5 12 (63.16%) ASP.NET
5 12 (63.16%) XML
5 12 (63.16%) OO
6 11 (57.89%) Web Services
6 11 (57.89%) ReSharper
6 11 (57.89%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (47.37%) SQL Server
8 8 (42.11%) T-SQL
8 8 (42.11%) C++
8 8 (42.11%) Python
8 8 (42.11%) WSDL
8 8 (42.11%) XML Schema
8 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2000
8 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2005
8 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008

SpecFlow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing SpecFlow 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 SpecFlow. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (89.47%) .NET
2 13 (68.42%) WCF
2 13 (68.42%) jQuery
3 12 (63.16%) ASP.NET
3 12 (63.16%) XML
4 11 (57.89%) Web Services
4 11 (57.89%) ASP.NET MVC
5 8 (42.11%) LINQ
5 8 (42.11%) WSDL
5 8 (42.11%) XML Schema
6 5 (26.32%) HTML
7 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
8 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (10.53%) HTML5
9 2 (10.53%) soapUI
9 2 (10.53%) NHibernate
10 1 (5.263%) CSS
10 1 (5.263%) SOAP
10 1 (5.263%) RESTful
10 1 (5.263%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.263%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) MySQL
2 9 (47.37%) SQL Server
3 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2000
3 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 17 (89.47%) Selenium
2 12 (63.16%) Subversion
2 12 (63.16%) Git (software)
3 11 (57.89%) ReSharper
4 6 (31.58%) WebDriver
5 5 (26.32%) WATIR
5 5 (26.32%) FitNesse
6 2 (10.53%) NUnit
7 1 (5.263%) Hudson
7 1 (5.263%) GitHub
7 1 (5.263%) Jenkins
7 1 (5.263%) Firebug
7 1 (5.263%) Fiddler
7 1 (5.263%) Maven
7 1 (5.263%) NetAdvantage
7 1 (5.263%) JMeter
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.53%) Electronics
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
3 1 (5.263%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
1 12 (63.16%) C# Developer
2 11 (57.89%) Agile C# Developer
3 9 (47.37%) C# .NET Developer
3 9 (47.37%) .NET Developer
4 8 (42.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (42.11%) Agile .NET Developer
4 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (26.32%) Team Leader
5 5 (26.32%) Analyst
5 5 (26.32%) Test Analyst
5 5 (26.32%) Test Team Leader
6 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.263%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Lead Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (21.05%) SaaS
3 2 (10.53%) DTV
4 1 (5.263%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) Linux
1 1 (5.263%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) TDD
2 17 (89.47%) BDD
3 14 (73.68%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (68.42%) MVC
4 13 (68.42%) Scrum
4 13 (68.42%) Kanban
5 12 (63.16%) OO
6 5 (26.32%) SOA
6 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (21.05%) Integration Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Pair Programming
8 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) OOP
9 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
9 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
10 1 (5.263%) Performance Testing
10 1 (5.263%) Security Testing
10 1 (5.263%) Web Testing
10 1 (5.263%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) C#
2 17 (89.47%) SQL
3 8 (42.11%) T-SQL
3 8 (42.11%) Python
3 8 (42.11%) C++
4 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
5 5 (26.32%) Perl
5 5 (26.32%) Java
5 5 (26.32%) C
6 1 (5.263%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
3 1 (5.263%) Infragistics
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