The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSpec over the 3 months to 21 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank - 96 -
Permanent jobs citing RSpec 0 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.276% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 2.484% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 0
Average salary - £72,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £33,750
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +48.14%
All Development Applications
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
201 161 111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 11.92% 11.12% 8.558%
Number of salaries quoted 185 151 99
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,550 £25,150 £21,900
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
RSpec
West Midlands

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham RSpec Jobs Demand Trend

RSpec
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham RSpec Salary Trend

RSpec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
1 2 (100.00%) Capistrano
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Active Record
2 1 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Phing
2 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Haml
2 1 (50.00%) Memcached
2 1 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
2 1 (50.00%) Haml
2 1 (50.00%) Memcached
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Capistrano
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Phing
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Development
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Active Record
1 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Zend