RSpec
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RSpec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RSpec over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 713 790
Rank change year-on-year +123 +77 -145
Contract jobs citing RSpec 1 5 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.008% 0.072%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.019% 0.056% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 51
10th Percentile - £460 £450
25th Percentile - £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +21.83%
75th Percentile - £700 £694
90th Percentile - - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £510
% change year-on-year - -21.57% +13.33%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,157 8,909 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.95% 15.06% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,468 6,263 11,255
10th Percentile £355 £387 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 246 212
10th Percentile £33.20 £44.82 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.38 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.18
90th Percentile £80.90 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RSpec.

Daily rate trend for RSpec in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RSpec.

Hourly rate trend for RSpec in the UK

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Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RSpec within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +128 1 - - 3

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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 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Sinatra
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google