RSpec Contracts in London
 
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 London 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank 358 406 413
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +7
Contract jobs citing RSpec 29 12 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.132% 0.044% 0.065%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.090% 0.459% 0.573%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 12
Average daily rate £400 £425 £319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £315 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £450 £365
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 2661 2617 3491
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.10% 9.572% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1968 1778 2389
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 30
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +27.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.20 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £49.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
RSpec
England

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +12 7 £350 -22.22%
RSpec
England

RSpec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 54 (94.74%) Ruby
2 53 (92.98%) Cucumber
3 44 (77.19%) TDD
4 39 (68.42%) Ruby on Rails
5 34 (59.65%) BDD
6 29 (50.88%) JavaScript
7 26 (45.61%) Scrum
8 24 (42.11%) CSS
9 22 (38.60%) Git (software)
10 21 (36.84%) Selenium
10 21 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
11 19 (33.33%) HTML
11 19 (33.33%) jQuery
12 16 (28.07%) Java
13 14 (24.56%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (22.81%) MySQL
14 13 (22.81%) Linux
15 12 (21.05%) OO
16 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
17 10 (17.54%) Hudson
17 10 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
17 10 (17.54%) QA
17 10 (17.54%) JSON
18 9 (15.79%) Automated Testing
18 9 (15.79%) Web Development
18 9 (15.79%) WebDriver
18 9 (15.79%) Finance
19 8 (14.04%) Subversion
19 8 (14.04%) XHTML
19 8 (14.04%) RESTful

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 39 (68.42%) Ruby on Rails
2 24 (42.11%) CSS
3 19 (33.33%) HTML
3 19 (33.33%) jQuery
4 10 (17.54%) JSON
5 8 (14.04%) XHTML
5 8 (14.04%) RESTful
5 8 (14.04%) REST
6 7 (12.28%) XML
7 6 (10.53%) Haml
7 6 (10.53%) Sass
8 5 (8.772%) Web Services
9 4 (7.018%) HTML5
9 4 (7.018%) Ajax
9 4 (7.018%) Sinatra
10 3 (5.263%) CSS3
10 3 (5.263%) Dojo
10 3 (5.263%) OAuth
10 3 (5.263%) Memcached
10 3 (5.263%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.018%) Apache
1 4 (7.018%) nginx
2 2 (3.509%) GlassFish
3 1 (1.754%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.754%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.772%) HTTP
2 3 (5.263%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.81%) MySQL
2 10 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (14.04%) Redis
4 5 (8.772%) NoSQL
4 5 (8.772%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.018%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (5.263%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.754%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 53 (92.98%) Cucumber
2 22 (38.60%) Git (software)
3 21 (36.84%) Selenium
4 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
5 10 (17.54%) Hudson
6 9 (15.79%) WebDriver
7 8 (14.04%) Subversion
7 8 (14.04%) Capistrano
8 6 (10.53%) JBehave
9 5 (8.772%) Capybara
9 5 (8.772%) Jasmine
10 4 (7.018%) JUnit
10 4 (7.018%) Behat
11 3 (5.263%) CruiseControl
11 3 (5.263%) Maven
12 2 (3.509%) WATIR
12 2 (3.509%) JIRA
12 2 (3.509%) GitHub
13 1 (1.754%) Phing
13 1 (1.754%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
2 4 (7.018%) Retail
3 2 (3.509%) Music
4 1 (1.754%) Music Industry
4 1 (1.754%) Games
Job Titles
1 40 (70.18%) Developer
2 25 (43.86%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 9 (15.79%) Ruby Developer
4 3 (5.263%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.263%) Test Engineer
5 2 (3.509%) Analyst
5 2 (3.509%) Test Analyst
5 2 (3.509%) Senior Developer
5 2 (3.509%) Tester
5 2 (3.509%) QA Engineer
5 2 (3.509%) Build Engineer
6 1 (1.754%) Mobile Tester
6 1 (1.754%) Web Test Analyst
6 1 (1.754%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (1.754%) Web Analyst
6 1 (1.754%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (1.754%) Automation Tester
6 1 (1.754%) Automation Analyst
6 1 (1.754%) Junior Tester
6 1 (1.754%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.018%) Heroku
1 4 (7.018%) Digital Media
2 3 (5.263%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.263%) Open Source
2 3 (5.263%) iPhone
3 2 (3.509%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.509%) iPad
3 2 (3.509%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.754%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.754%) Online Games
4 1 (1.754%) Podcast
4 1 (1.754%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.754%) Social Gaming
4 1 (1.754%) BBC
4 1 (1.754%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.81%) Linux
2 3 (5.263%) UNIX
3 2 (3.509%) Mac OS X
3 2 (3.509%) Android
3 2 (3.509%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.754%) Windows Phone
4 1 (1.754%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.754%) Gentoo
4 1 (1.754%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) TDD
2 34 (59.65%) BDD
3 26 (45.61%) Scrum
4 21 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
5 14 (24.56%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (21.05%) OO
7 9 (15.79%) Automated Testing
7 9 (15.79%) Web Development
8 7 (12.28%) Workflow
9 6 (10.53%) E-Commerce
9 6 (10.53%) OOP
10 5 (8.772%) Automation Testing
11 4 (7.018%) Refactoring
12 3 (5.263%) User Stories
12 3 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (5.263%) Software Engineering
12 3 (5.263%) Test Automation
12 3 (5.263%) Extreme Programming
13 2 (3.509%) SOA
13 2 (3.509%) DSDM
Programming Languages
1 54 (94.74%) Ruby
2 29 (50.88%) JavaScript
3 16 (28.07%) Java
4 6 (10.53%) SQL
5 5 (8.772%) CoffeeScript
5 5 (8.772%) PHP
5 5 (8.772%) C#
5 5 (8.772%) C++
6 3 (5.263%) Python
7 2 (3.509%) Groovy
8 1 (1.754%) XPath
8 1 (1.754%) Scala
8 1 (1.754%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (3.509%) ISEB
1 2 (3.509%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.754%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (8.772%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (3.509%) JBoss
1 2 (3.509%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.754%) Zend
2 1 (1.754%) Oracle
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