RSpec Contract Job Trends in London

RSpec
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London citing RSpec skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	468	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing RSpec	2	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.010%	-	-
As % of the Development Applications category	0.072%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	£483	-	-
25^th Percentile	£503	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£540	-	-
75^th Percentile	£573	-	-
90^th Percentile	£589	-	-
England median daily rate	£540	-	-

All Development Application Skills
London

RSpec falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing development application skills in London.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing development application skills	2,777	2,258	2,193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	13.54%	16.05%	14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,843	1,552	1,453
10^th Percentile	£363	£351	£363
25^th Percentile	£425	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£550
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.55%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£669
90^th Percentile	£737	£734	£775
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	25	9	6
10^th Percentile	£27.50	£39.95	£25.63
25^th Percentile	£41.25	£42.50	£31.71
Median hourly rate	£57.00	£56.50	£35.29
Median % change year-on-year	+0.88%	+60.12%	-35.85%
75^th Percentile	£63.75	£88.75	£55.76
90^th Percentile	£87.83	£110.00	£66.34
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£65.00	£65.00

RSpec Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RSpec relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

RSpec Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RSpec.

RSpec Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RSpec in London over the 6 months to 13 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RSpec in London

RSpec Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing RSpec also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing RSpec.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	100.0%	2
1	CI/CD	100.0%	2
1	Clean Code	100.0%	2
1	PostgreSQL	100.0%	2
1	Problem-Solving	100.0%	2
1	RESTful	100.0%	2
1	Ruby	100.0%	2
1	Ruby on Rails	100.0%	2
1	TDD	100.0%	2
1	Technical Leadership	100.0%	2
11	Accessibility	50.0%	1
11	AI	50.0%	1
11	API Design	50.0%	1
11	API Integration	50.0%	1
11	BDD	50.0%	1
11	Business Analysis	50.0%	1
11	Capybara	50.0%	1
11	Code Quality	50.0%	1
11	Continuous Delivery	50.0%	1
11	Continuous Integration	50.0%	1
11	Cross-Browser Compatibility	50.0%	1
11	CSS	50.0%	1
11	Data Protection	50.0%	1
11	Database Tuning	50.0%	1
11	Deployment Automation	50.0%	1
11	DevOps	50.0%	1
11	Front End Development	50.0%	1
11	Full-Stack Development	50.0%	1
11	GDPR	50.0%	1
11	Git	50.0%	1

RSpec Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Capybara	50.0%	1
1	Git	50.0%	1