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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 681 777
Rank change year-on-year +111 +96 -109
Contract jobs citing RSpec 1 6 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.011% 0.077%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.019% 0.071% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 48
10th Percentile - £460 £450
25th Percentile - £550 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £581
Median % change year-on-year - +11.83% +17.42%
75th Percentile - £700 £700
90th Percentile - - £704
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 5,140 8,407 15,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.76% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,456 5,932 11,071
10th Percentile £355 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 229 206
10th Percentile £32.23 £42.61 £37.12
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +14.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £75.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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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 18 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 +106 1 - - 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 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