RSpec Contracts with Work from Home Options

RSpec
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 467 570
Rank change year-on-year +122 +103 -131
Contract jobs citing RSpec 1 2 50
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.006% 0.008% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.054% 0.050% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 46
10th Percentile - £384 £450
25th Percentile - £420 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £505 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -15.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £615 £688
90th Percentile - £666 £700
UK median daily rate - £650 £600
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +21.83%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,856 4,017 8,359
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.01% 15.38% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 2,873 6,049
10th Percentile £360 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 102
10th Percentile £27.62 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £47.06 £54.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £61.61
90th Percentile - £78.37 £67.77
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +12.22%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing RSpec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RSpec trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing RSpec.

RSpec daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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