The first table below looks at the demand for SpecFlow skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SpecFlow over the 3 months to 24 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 Norwich 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpecFlow
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 2.344% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 23.08% - -
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
Norwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
13 11 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 10.16% 6.358% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 11
Average daily rate £310 £381 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.68% +32.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £282 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £412 £302
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
SpecFlow
Norfolk

SpecFlow
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich SpecFlow Jobs Demand Trend

SpecFlow
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) WatiN
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (50.00%) Games
3 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) Online Games
3 2 (50.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Sitefinity
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) AutoMapper
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) NUnit
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC

SpecFlow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (25.00%) AutoMapper
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Sitefinity
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) WatiN
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
1 2 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Online Games
2 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft