The first table below looks at the demand for SpecFlow skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SpecFlow over the 3 months to 23 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 West Midlands 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpecFlow
Rank 96 104 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.061% 0.044% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.752% 0.498% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £300 -
% change year-on-year
+22.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
133 201 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 8.155% 8.937% 6.332%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 105 69
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £362
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 7
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +20.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
SpecFlow
England

SpecFlow
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands SpecFlow Jobs Demand Trend

SpecFlow
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) WatiN
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) NMock
2 1 (50.00%) Moq
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) MSBuild

SpecFlow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) WatiN
1 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (50.00%) NMock
1 1 (50.00%) Moq
1 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle