The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RSpec over the 3 months to 18 June 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 South East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank 221 - 253
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RSpec 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.049% - 0.009%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.465% - 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
861 853 1110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.65% 8.491% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 423 481
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £258 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 57 111
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
RSpec
England

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East RSpec Daily Rate Trend

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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 South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Surrey - 2 - -
Berkshire - - - -
RSpec
England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) Git (software)
2 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (83.33%) BDD
3 4 (66.67%) RESTful
3 4 (66.67%) Heroku
3 4 (66.67%) Workflow
4 3 (50.00%) Digital Media
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (16.67%) Selenium
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) XHTML
5 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) MySQL
5 1 (16.67%) Jasmine
5 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (16.67%) Capistrano
5 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (16.67%) Hudson

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) XHTML
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (83.33%) Git (software)
2 1 (16.67%) Capistrano
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Hudson
2 1 (16.67%) Jasmine
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Heroku
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
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