RSpec Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for RSpec skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSpec over the 3 months to 24 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.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RSpec
Rank 758 727 834
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +107
Permanent jobs citing RSpec 104 172 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.096% 0.143% 0.038%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.652% 1.006% 0.296%
Number of salaries quoted 83 138 43
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +31.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,250 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-9.50% +42.85%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 15947 17092 15900
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.75% 14.16% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13623 14969 13983
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

RSpec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RSpec Jobs Demand Trend

RSpec
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RSpec within the UK.

RSpec Salary Trend

RSpec
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RSpec over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

RSpec Salary Histogram

RSpec
Top 12 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England -42 104 £50,000 -4.76%
London +34 91 £50,000 -4.76%
City of London +5 24 £55,000 +4.76%
Surrey +7 9 £41,500 -7.77%
South East +4 9 £43,000 -4.44%
Farnham - 4 £40,000 -
Guildford -9 2 £45,250 -4.73%
Stevenage +9 1 £47,500 +26.66%
Hertfordshire +7 1 £47,500 +26.66%
Berkshire +2 1 £55,000 +22.22%
East of England -2 1 £47,500 +26.66%
Hackney - 1 - -

RSpec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 251 (93.66%) Ruby
2 208 (77.61%) Cucumber
3 172 (64.18%) Ruby on Rails
3 172 (64.18%) TDD
4 143 (53.36%) BDD
5 137 (51.12%) Git (software)
6 133 (49.63%) Agile Software Development
7 100 (37.31%) JavaScript
8 83 (30.97%) SQL
9 80 (29.85%) Scrum
10 76 (28.36%) Java
11 75 (27.99%) MySQL
11 75 (27.99%) CSS
12 71 (26.49%) Continuous Integration
13 70 (26.12%) Linux
14 69 (25.75%) E-Commerce
15 65 (24.25%) HTML
16 62 (23.13%) Web Services
16 62 (23.13%) MongoDB
17 61 (22.76%) Selenium
18 56 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
19 54 (20.15%) Jenkins
20 52 (19.40%) QA
21 50 (18.66%) JIRA
21 50 (18.66%) nginx
22 46 (17.16%) Sinatra
23 43 (16.04%) Redis
24 42 (15.67%) Open Source
25 39 (14.55%) Subversion
26 37 (13.81%) Finance

RSpec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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
1 172 (64.18%) Ruby on Rails
2 75 (27.99%) CSS
3 65 (24.25%) HTML
4 62 (23.13%) Web Services
5 46 (17.16%) Sinatra
6 37 (13.81%) jQuery
7 31 (11.57%) XML
7 31 (11.57%) REST
8 26 (9.701%) Haml
9 25 (9.328%) JSON
9 25 (9.328%) Ajax
9 25 (9.328%) Sass
10 23 (8.582%) HTML5
11 22 (8.209%) Gherkin
12 21 (7.836%) Backbone.js
12 21 (7.836%) Memcached
13 19 (7.090%) Node.js
14 15 (5.597%) JRuby
14 15 (5.597%) KnockoutJS
15 14 (5.224%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 50 (18.66%) nginx
2 35 (13.06%) Apache
3 28 (10.45%) Amazon AWS
4 11 (4.104%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (2.985%) Apache Solr
6 5 (1.866%) Rackspace Cloud
6 5 (1.866%) Confluence
6 5 (1.866%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.493%) IIS
7 4 (1.493%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (1.493%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.119%) WordPress
9 2 (0.746%) Jetty
10 1 (0.373%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.119%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.970%) Internet
2 5 (1.866%) HTTP
3 3 (1.119%) Modbus
3 3 (1.119%) DNS
3 3 (1.119%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (27.99%) MySQL
2 62 (23.13%) MongoDB
3 56 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (16.04%) Redis
5 29 (10.82%) NoSQL
6 23 (8.582%) Neo4j
7 12 (4.478%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.985%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.239%) Big Data
9 6 (2.239%) Riak
10 5 (1.866%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.866%) CouchDB
10 5 (1.866%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.119%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.373%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.373%) GIS
Development Applications
1 208 (77.61%) Cucumber
2 137 (51.12%) Git (software)
3 61 (22.76%) Selenium
4 54 (20.15%) Jenkins
5 50 (18.66%) JIRA
6 39 (14.55%) Subversion
7 31 (11.57%) Capybara
8 29 (10.82%) Capistrano
9 25 (9.328%) Hudson
10 19 (7.090%) CruiseControl
11 18 (6.716%) WATIR
12 14 (5.224%) GitHub
13 13 (4.851%) WebDriver
14 12 (4.478%) JMeter
15 10 (3.731%) Firebug
15 10 (3.731%) Fiddler
15 10 (3.731%) PHPUnit
16 9 (3.358%) Phing
17 7 (2.612%) TeamCity
18 5 (1.866%) JBehave
General
1 37 (13.81%) Finance
2 18 (6.716%) Games
3 10 (3.731%) Marketing
4 8 (2.985%) Publishing
5 5 (1.866%) Music
5 5 (1.866%) Music Industry
6 4 (1.493%) Legal
7 3 (1.119%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.373%) Online Betting
8 1 (0.373%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.373%) Retail
Job Titles
1 142 (52.99%) Developer
2 60 (22.39%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 48 (17.91%) Ruby Developer
4 37 (13.81%) Tester
5 34 (12.69%) Senior Developer
6 32 (11.94%) Analyst
6 32 (11.94%) Test Analyst
7 17 (6.343%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
7 17 (6.343%) QA Engineer
7 17 (6.343%) Test Engineer
8 12 (4.478%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.478%) Software Engineer
9 10 (3.731%) Graduate
10 9 (3.358%) Lead Developer
11 8 (2.985%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (2.985%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (2.985%) Test Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.612%) Agile Tester
13 6 (2.239%) Software Developer
13 6 (2.239%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.67%) Open Source
2 36 (13.43%) Mobile App
3 19 (7.090%) Computer Science
4 16 (5.970%) iPhone
5 14 (5.224%) Heroku
6 10 (3.731%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.612%) SaaS
8 6 (2.239%) iPad
8 6 (2.239%) Social Media
9 5 (1.866%) Online Games
9 5 (1.866%) Blog
10 4 (1.493%) Blackberry
10 4 (1.493%) Digital Media
11 2 (0.746%) Device Driver
11 2 (0.746%) Engine Yard
12 1 (0.373%) New Media
12 1 (0.373%) Telematics
12 1 (0.373%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.373%) Podcast
12 1 (0.373%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 70 (26.12%) Linux
2 23 (8.582%) Android
2 23 (8.582%) Apple iOS
3 20 (7.463%) Ubuntu
4 19 (7.090%) CentOS
5 13 (4.851%) UNIX
6 12 (4.478%) Mac OS X
7 9 (3.358%) Gentoo
8 7 (2.612%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.493%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (64.18%) TDD
2 143 (53.36%) BDD
3 133 (49.63%) Agile Software Development
4 80 (29.85%) Scrum
5 71 (26.49%) Continuous Integration
6 69 (25.75%) E-Commerce
7 37 (13.81%) Test Automation
8 36 (13.43%) User Stories
9 34 (12.69%) Test Scripting
10 29 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (10.45%) Automated Testing
12 25 (9.328%) OO
13 23 (8.582%) OOP
14 22 (8.209%) Web Development
14 22 (8.209%) Automation Testing
15 16 (5.970%) Refactoring
16 15 (5.597%) Software Testing
17 13 (4.851%) Test Strategy
18 12 (4.478%) Product Management
19 11 (4.104%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 251 (93.66%) Ruby
2 100 (37.31%) JavaScript
3 83 (30.97%) SQL
4 76 (28.36%) Java
5 37 (13.81%) PHP
6 30 (11.19%) Python
7 17 (6.343%) C++
8 15 (5.597%) Perl
9 14 (5.224%) Bash shell
10 11 (4.104%) PL/SQL
11 10 (3.731%) CoffeeScript
12 9 (3.358%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.985%) ActionScript
14 7 (2.612%) C
15 6 (2.239%) C#
16 5 (1.866%) Lua
17 4 (1.493%) Haskell
17 4 (1.493%) Erlang
17 4 (1.493%) Scala
17 4 (1.493%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 19 (7.090%) Degree
2 3 (1.119%) ISEB
3 1 (0.373%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.40%) QA
System Software
1 11 (4.104%) Varnish
2 4 (1.493%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 25 (9.328%) Puppet
2 12 (4.478%) Nagios
3 3 (1.119%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (5.597%) Apple
2 14 (5.224%) Oracle
3 10 (3.731%) Facebook
4 9 (3.358%) Zend
4 9 (3.358%) Google
5 7 (2.612%) HP
6 5 (1.866%) Rackspace
7 4 (1.493%) Sony
7 4 (1.493%) Toshiba
8 3 (1.119%) Twitter
8 3 (1.119%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.119%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.373%) BT
9 1 (0.373%) JBoss
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