The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank 435 427 413
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -14
Permanent jobs citing RSpec 6 11 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.027% 0.046% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.204% 0.332% 0.187%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 6
Average salary £51,250 £45,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.88% +38.46%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £33,750
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +48.14%
All Development Applications
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2941 3314 3204
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 13.26% 13.96% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2543 2959 2881
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
RSpec
England

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East RSpec Salary Trend

RSpec
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RSpec across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East RSpec Salary Histogram

RSpec
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RSpec within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Surrey +9 6 £47,500 +5.55%
Berkshire +9 1 £55,000 +22.22%
RSpec
England

RSpec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 21 (100.00%) Ruby
2 20 (95.24%) Ruby on Rails
3 16 (76.19%) Linux
4 14 (66.67%) Open Source
4 14 (66.67%) Cucumber
4 14 (66.67%) Redis
5 13 (61.90%) Ubuntu
6 12 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (57.14%) nginx
6 12 (57.14%) PHP
6 12 (57.14%) MySQL
7 11 (52.38%) Capistrano
8 10 (47.62%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (42.86%) Apache
10 8 (38.10%) Mac OS X
10 8 (38.10%) Shell Script
10 8 (38.10%) Configuration Management
10 8 (38.10%) Gentoo
10 8 (38.10%) PHPUnit
10 8 (38.10%) Zend
10 8 (38.10%) Zend Framework
10 8 (38.10%) TDD
10 8 (38.10%) Static Code Analysis
10 8 (38.10%) Puppet
10 8 (38.10%) Active Record
10 8 (38.10%) Phing
10 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
11 7 (33.33%) Git (software)
12 6 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (28.57%) Web Services

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 20 (95.24%) Ruby on Rails
2 8 (38.10%) Zend Framework
3 6 (28.57%) Web Services
3 6 (28.57%) Resque
3 6 (28.57%) PostGIS
4 5 (23.81%) Node.js
5 4 (19.05%) REST
5 4 (19.05%) KnockoutJS
5 4 (19.05%) Backbone.js
6 3 (14.29%) Sass
6 3 (14.29%) JSON
6 3 (14.29%) Haml
7 2 (9.524%) HTML5
7 2 (9.524%) jQuery
7 2 (9.524%) XML
7 2 (9.524%) CSS
7 2 (9.524%) SOAP
7 2 (9.524%) CSS3
8 1 (4.762%) JavaBeans
8 1 (4.762%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 12 (57.14%) nginx
2 9 (42.86%) Apache
3 2 (9.524%) Rackspace Cloud
4 1 (4.762%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) Redis
2 12 (57.14%) MySQL
3 10 (47.62%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (23.81%) Hadoop
5 3 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.762%) Big Data
6 1 (4.762%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.762%) GIS
Development Applications
1 14 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 11 (52.38%) Capistrano
3 8 (38.10%) PHPUnit
3 8 (38.10%) Phing
3 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
4 7 (33.33%) Git (software)
5 4 (19.05%) CruiseControl
5 4 (19.05%) Hudson
6 3 (14.29%) Capybara
7 2 (9.524%) GitHub
8 1 (4.762%) JIRA
General
1 2 (9.524%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (9.524%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (9.524%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (9.524%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.524%) Administrator
5 2 (9.524%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (66.67%) Open Source
2 4 (19.05%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.524%) Heroku
4 1 (4.762%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.762%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.762%) Telematics
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Linux
2 13 (61.90%) Ubuntu
3 8 (38.10%) Mac OS X
3 8 (38.10%) Gentoo
4 1 (4.762%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.762%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (38.10%) Configuration Management
2 8 (38.10%) TDD
2 8 (38.10%) Static Code Analysis
2 8 (38.10%) Active Record
3 6 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (19.05%) BDD
5 1 (4.762%) Unit Testing
5 1 (4.762%) Kanban
5 1 (4.762%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Ruby
2 12 (57.14%) PHP
3 8 (38.10%) Shell Script
4 5 (23.81%) C++
4 5 (23.81%) Python
5 4 (19.05%) Perl
6 2 (9.524%) Java
6 2 (9.524%) SQL
6 2 (9.524%) CoffeeScript
7 1 (4.762%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Zend
2 2 (9.524%) Rackspace
3 1 (4.762%) BT
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