The first table below looks at the demand for SpecFlow skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.231% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 2.564% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
39 54 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 9.028% 8.438% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 35 44
Average daily rate £325 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £29.75 £34.00 £22.39
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +51.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.55 £34.00 £14.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.95 £34.00 £30.48
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 Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Oxfordshire SpecFlow Jobs Demand Trend

SpecFlow
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Testing

SpecFlow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#