The first table below looks at the demand for SpecFlow skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SpecFlow over the 3 months to 21 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 North West 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpecFlow
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £300 -
% change year-on-year
+20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
255 261 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.80% 8.275% 7.276%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 138 116
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.25 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.96 £16.15 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.32 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
SpecFlow
England

SpecFlow
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) ReSharper
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 1 (100.00%) Castle Windsor

SpecFlow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) ReSharper
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL