RSpec
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring RSpec skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RSpec over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 698 901 945
Rank change year-on-year +203 +44 +8
Permanent jobs citing RSpec 4 6 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.006% 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.066% 0.063% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 16
10th Percentile £43,750 £62,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £68,285 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £78,138 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -8.07% +17.24%
75th Percentile £71,250 - -
90th Percentile £78,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £71,569 -
% change year-on-year -23.15% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,028 9,520 13,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 9.18% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,562 6,582 8,354
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%

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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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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RSpec over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for RSpec in the UK

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Top 5 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 31 May 2025. 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 +170 4 £60,000 -23.21% 6
London +105 3 £65,000 -16.81% 4
Work from Home +121 2 £65,000 -3.70% 8
UK excluding London +182 1 £55,000 -23.15% 3
South East - 1 £55,000 - 1

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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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Email Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOD
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Mercator