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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank - - 234
Permanent jobs citing RSpec 0 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West - - 0.043%
As % of the Development Applications category - - 0.316%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
Average salary - - £36,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +42.85%
All Development Applications
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
1111 1113 948
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 15.55% 15.64% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 962 980 874
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
RSpec
England

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West RSpec Salary Trend

RSpec
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 6 (100.00%) Ruby
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (50.00%) Apple
2 3 (50.00%) HTML5
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) Riak
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) PHP
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) nginx
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (16.67%) MVC

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 6 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (50.00%) HTML5
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (50.00%) Riak
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (50.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) BDD
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (50.00%) Kanban
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Apple