The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSpec over the 3 months to 20 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank 218 209 197
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -12
Permanent jobs citing RSpec 1 4 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.019% 0.066% 0.166%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.169% 0.541% 1.074%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 9
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% +38.46%
UK excluding London average salary £38,750 £49,500 £33,750
% change year-on-year
-21.71% +46.66%
All Development Applications
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
592 739 838
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 11.00% 12.13% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 498 669 732
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
RSpec
South East

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire RSpec Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RSpec across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire RSpec Salary Trend

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Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited RSpec.

1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Gentoo
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (100.00%) Zend
1 3 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Capistrano
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
1 3 (100.00%) Active Record
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
1 3 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Phing
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited RSpec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (100.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Capistrano
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Phing
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 3 (100.00%) Gentoo
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Active Record
1 3 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Zend
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