RSpec
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RSpec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RSpec over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 890 946 958
Rank change year-on-year +56 +12 -112
Permanent jobs citing RSpec 6 24 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.023% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.063% 0.16% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 26
10th Percentile £62,500 £42,500 £53,500
25th Percentile £68,285 £55,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,138 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% +17.24% +7.41%
75th Percentile - - £82,500
90th Percentile - - £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,569 - £82,500
% change year-on-year - - +26.92%

All Development Application Skills
UK

RSpec is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RSpec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RSpec in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RSpec.

Salary trend for RSpec in the UK

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Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RSpec within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +108 5 £78,138 +25.02% 5
London +125 3 £78,138 +25.02% 4
Work from Home +80 2 £67,500 -20.59% 5
UK excluding London - 2 £71,569 - 2
North of England - 1 £65,000 - 1
North West - 1 £65,000 - 1
South West - 1 £78,138 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Linode
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (66.67%) Redis
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Capybara
General
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (66.67%) Local Government
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (66.67%) Sidekiq
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Housing Association
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) User Research
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes