SpecFlow Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SpecFlow skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SpecFlow over the 3 months to 20 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.

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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpecFlow
Rank 435 534 576
Rank change year-on-year
+99 +42
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 98 39 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.211% 0.067% 0.020%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.925% 0.726% 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 30 12
Average daily rate £400 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £550 £500
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 5091 5370 6345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.94% 9.205% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3210 3176 3565
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 212 322
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

SpecFlow
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SpecFlow Jobs Demand Trend

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK.

SpecFlow Daily Rate Trend

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

SpecFlow Daily Rate Histogram

SpecFlow
Top 27 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +121 97 £400 -5.88%
London +42 47 £475 -13.63%
South East +46 34 £375 +25.00%
Berkshire - 16 £300 -
City of London +25 13 £475 -13.63%
Hampshire +5 12 £400 +50.94%
Basingstoke - 11 £400 -
East of England - 9 £350 -
East Sussex +9 5 £325 +8.33%
Reading - 5 £375 -
Bedfordshire - 5 £325 -
Brighton +9 4 £300 -
Yorkshire +3 4 - -
Hungerford - 4 £300 -
Leeds +4 3 - -
West Yorkshire 0 3 - -
Norwich - 3 - -
Norfolk - 3 - -
Newbury - 2 - -
Bristol - 2 - -
South West - 2 - -
West Midlands +8 1 - -
Luton - 1 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £383 -
York - 1 - -

SpecFlow
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 163 (81.91%) C#
2 161 (80.90%) BDD
3 150 (75.38%) .NET
4 145 (72.86%) TDD
5 110 (55.28%) Scrum
6 107 (53.77%) MVC
7 98 (49.25%) Agile Software Development
8 93 (46.73%) SQL Server
9 88 (44.22%) ASP.NET
10 76 (38.19%) Selenium
11 66 (33.17%) SQL
12 65 (32.66%) WCF
13 61 (30.65%) ASP.NET MVC
14 60 (30.15%) Finance
15 57 (28.64%) jQuery
16 55 (27.64%) SOA
17 51 (25.63%) JIRA
18 50 (25.13%) QA
18 50 (25.13%) Web Services
19 47 (23.62%) Kanban
20 46 (23.12%) Microsoft
21 38 (19.10%) Telecoms
22 37 (18.59%) Banking
23 33 (16.58%) Cucumber
24 32 (16.08%) WebDriver
25 31 (15.58%) Middleware
26 30 (15.08%) JavaScript
27 29 (14.57%) XML
27 29 (14.57%) CSS
28 28 (14.07%) Continuous Integration

SpecFlow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 150 (75.38%) .NET
2 88 (44.22%) ASP.NET
3 65 (32.66%) WCF
4 61 (30.65%) ASP.NET MVC
5 57 (28.64%) jQuery
6 50 (25.13%) Web Services
7 31 (15.58%) Middleware
8 29 (14.57%) XML
8 29 (14.57%) CSS
9 24 (12.06%) HTML
9 24 (12.06%) .NET Framework
10 22 (11.06%) REST
11 21 (10.55%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 19 (9.548%) HTML5
13 17 (8.543%) NHibernate
14 16 (8.040%) LINQ
15 15 (7.538%) Gherkin
16 13 (6.533%) RESTful
17 11 (5.528%) ASP.NET MVC 3
18 9 (4.523%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 20 (10.05%) CMS
2 11 (5.528%) ESB
3 6 (3.015%) MSMQ
3 6 (3.015%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (2.513%) Windows Azure
5 4 (2.010%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (2.010%) NServiceBus
6 2 (1.005%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.005%) IIS
6 2 (1.005%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.503%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.503%) Drupal
7 1 (0.503%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.503%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (5.528%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.508%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.005%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.07%) HTTP
2 2 (1.005%) Broadband
3 1 (0.503%) Internet
3 1 (0.503%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (46.73%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.06%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (7.035%) MySQL
4 13 (6.533%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.030%) MarkLogic
6 9 (4.523%) SQL Server 2005
7 8 (4.020%) SQL Server 2000
8 6 (3.015%) SQL Server 2012
9 5 (2.513%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.010%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.010%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.508%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.005%) RavenDB
12 2 (1.005%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.005%) Oracle 11g
13 1 (0.503%) KDB
13 1 (0.503%) Oracle 8/8i
13 1 (0.503%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 76 (38.19%) Selenium
2 51 (25.63%) JIRA
3 33 (16.58%) Cucumber
4 32 (16.08%) WebDriver
5 26 (13.07%) Git (software)
6 25 (12.56%) Visual Studio
7 24 (12.06%) NUnit
7 24 (12.06%) Team Foundation Server
8 17 (8.543%) Subversion
9 16 (8.040%) Jenkins
10 15 (7.538%) ReSharper
11 14 (7.035%) TeamCity
12 12 (6.030%) Moq
13 10 (5.025%) FitNesse
14 7 (3.518%) WATIR
15 5 (2.513%) Fiddler
15 5 (2.513%) MSTest
15 5 (2.513%) WatiN
16 4 (2.010%) Rhino Mocks
16 4 (2.010%) MSBuild
General
1 60 (30.15%) Finance
2 38 (19.10%) Telecoms
3 37 (18.59%) Banking
4 15 (7.538%) Publishing
5 6 (3.015%) Retail
6 5 (2.513%) Games
7 3 (1.508%) Marketing
8 2 (1.005%) Front Office
8 2 (1.005%) Electronics
8 2 (1.005%) Automotive
8 2 (1.005%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.503%) Advertising
9 1 (0.503%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.503%) Military
9 1 (0.503%) Billing
Job Titles
1 117 (58.79%) Developer
2 65 (32.66%) .NET Developer
3 45 (22.61%) C# Developer
4 28 (14.07%) Analyst
5 25 (12.56%) Test Analyst
6 20 (10.05%) C# .NET Developer
7 16 (8.040%) Tester
8 15 (7.538%) ASP.NET Developer
8 15 (7.538%) QA Engineer
9 14 (7.035%) Agile .NET Developer
9 14 (7.035%) Agile C# Developer
10 13 (6.533%) Test Engineer
11 12 (6.030%) Programmer
12 11 (5.528%) Senior Developer
13 10 (5.025%) C# ASP.NET Developer
14 9 (4.523%) QA Analyst
15 7 (3.518%) .NET Programmer
15 7 (3.518%) Automation Tester
16 6 (3.015%) Automation Engineer
16 6 (3.015%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.528%) Open Source
2 8 (4.020%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (2.513%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.513%) Inversion of Control
3 5 (2.513%) SaaS
4 4 (2.010%) Digital Media
4 4 (2.010%) N-Tier
5 3 (1.508%) PaaS
6 2 (1.005%) Online Games
6 2 (1.005%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.005%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.005%) DTV
6 2 (1.005%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.005%) Derivative
6 2 (1.005%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.503%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.503%) Social Network
7 1 (0.503%) Equities
7 1 (0.503%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.503%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.533%) Windows
2 2 (1.005%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.503%) Linux
3 1 (0.503%) SUSE
3 1 (0.503%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (80.90%) BDD
2 145 (72.86%) TDD
3 110 (55.28%) Scrum
4 107 (53.77%) MVC
5 98 (49.25%) Agile Software Development
6 55 (27.64%) SOA
7 47 (23.62%) Kanban
8 28 (14.07%) Continuous Integration
9 26 (13.07%) Automation Testing
9 26 (13.07%) OO
10 19 (9.548%) Automated Testing
10 19 (9.548%) Test Automation
11 18 (9.045%) UML
12 17 (8.543%) E-Commerce
13 12 (6.030%) Pair Programming
13 12 (6.030%) Software Testing
13 12 (6.030%) Manual Testing
14 10 (5.025%) Unit Testing
15 9 (4.523%) OOP
16 8 (4.020%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 163 (81.91%) C#
2 66 (33.17%) SQL
3 30 (15.08%) JavaScript
4 22 (11.06%) Java
5 19 (9.548%) XQuery
6 14 (7.035%) Ruby
7 13 (6.533%) T-SQL
8 11 (5.528%) C++
8 11 (5.528%) Python
9 5 (2.513%) C
9 5 (2.513%) Perl
10 3 (1.508%) VB
11 2 (1.005%) XPath
11 2 (1.005%) PowerHouse
12 1 (0.503%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (3.518%) Degree
2 2 (1.005%) ISEB
2 2 (1.005%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (1.005%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.503%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.503%) BC Cleared
3 1 (0.503%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (25.13%) QA
2 4 (2.010%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.508%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.005%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 46 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.533%) Sitecore
3 6 (3.015%) Oracle
4 3 (1.508%) VMware
5 2 (1.005%) SAP
5 2 (1.005%) HP
5 2 (1.005%) Mercator
6 1 (0.503%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.503%) 29West
6 1 (0.503%) TIBCO
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