The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSpec over the 3 months to 17 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 Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank 214 228 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Permanent jobs citing RSpec 7 9 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.133% 0.150% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.874% 1.016% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 0
Average salary £51,250 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.88% -
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £50,000 £35,500
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +40.84%
All Development Applications
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
801 886 853
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 15.23% 14.79% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 712 813 773
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £63,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
RSpec
South East

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey RSpec Salary Trend

RSpec
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RSpec across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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
Farnham - 2 £40,000 -
Guildford -9 1 £47,500 +5.55%
RSpec
South East

RSpec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 15 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 15 (100.00%) Ruby
2 13 (86.67%) Linux
3 12 (80.00%) Cucumber
3 12 (80.00%) Redis
4 11 (73.33%) Open Source
4 11 (73.33%) Ubuntu
5 10 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (60.00%) PHP
6 9 (60.00%) nginx
6 9 (60.00%) Capistrano
7 8 (53.33%) TDD
8 7 (46.67%) Git (software)
9 6 (40.00%) Gentoo
9 6 (40.00%) Zend
9 6 (40.00%) Zend Framework
9 6 (40.00%) Apache
9 6 (40.00%) MySQL
9 6 (40.00%) Mac OS X
9 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
9 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
9 6 (40.00%) PHPUnit
9 6 (40.00%) Puppet
9 6 (40.00%) Active Record
9 6 (40.00%) Static Code Analysis
9 6 (40.00%) Resque
9 6 (40.00%) PostGIS
9 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
9 6 (40.00%) Phing

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 15 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 6 (40.00%) Zend Framework
2 6 (40.00%) Resque
2 6 (40.00%) PostGIS
3 4 (26.67%) Node.js
3 4 (26.67%) KnockoutJS
3 4 (26.67%) Backbone.js
4 3 (20.00%) Sass
4 3 (20.00%) Haml
5 2 (13.33%) Web Services
5 2 (13.33%) REST
Application Platforms
1 9 (60.00%) nginx
2 6 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (13.33%) Rackspace Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) Redis
2 9 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (40.00%) MySQL
4 5 (33.33%) Hadoop
5 3 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (6.667%) Big Data
6 1 (6.667%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 9 (60.00%) Capistrano
3 7 (46.67%) Git (software)
4 6 (40.00%) PHPUnit
4 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (40.00%) Phing
5 4 (26.67%) CruiseControl
5 4 (26.67%) Hudson
6 3 (20.00%) Capybara
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Ruby Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Open Source
2 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (13.33%) Heroku
4 1 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.667%) Telematics
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 11 (73.33%) Ubuntu
3 6 (40.00%) Gentoo
3 6 (40.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (53.33%) TDD
3 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (40.00%) Active Record
3 6 (40.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 5 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (26.67%) BDD
6 1 (6.667%) Kanban
6 1 (6.667%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Ruby
2 9 (60.00%) PHP
3 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (33.33%) C++
5 4 (26.67%) Perl
5 4 (26.67%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) CoffeeScript
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Zend
2 2 (13.33%) Rackspace