The first table below looks at the demand for Capybara skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capybara over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capybara
Rank 201 215 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing Capybara 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.025% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.250% 0.304% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
800 657 985
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.45% 8.357% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 486 739
Average daily rate £405 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Capybara
London

Capybara
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Capybara across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

City of London Capybara Jobs Demand Trend

Capybara
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Capybara across the City of London region.

City of London Capybara Daily Rate Trend

Capybara
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Capybara also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Capybara.

1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) OO
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Ajax
3 4 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (66.67%) Refactoring
3 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) RSpec
3 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (66.67%) REST
4 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (50.00%) Sinatra
4 3 (50.00%) Redis
4 3 (50.00%) Neo4j
4 3 (50.00%) Sass
4 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) Haml
4 3 (50.00%) Memcached
4 3 (50.00%) nginx
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) OAuth
4 3 (50.00%) Web Development
4 3 (50.00%) JSON

Capybara
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Capybara also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Capybara. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) Ajax
2 4 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) Sinatra
3 3 (50.00%) Sass
3 3 (50.00%) jQuery
3 3 (50.00%) Haml
3 3 (50.00%) Memcached
3 3 (50.00%) OAuth
3 3 (50.00%) JSON
4 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
5 1 (16.67%) XSD
5 1 (16.67%) XHTML
5 1 (16.67%) WSDL
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) nginx
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Redis
2 3 (50.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) RSpec
1 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) WATIR
3 1 (16.67%) Rational Robot
3 1 (16.67%) TestNG
3 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 1 (16.67%) TestComplete
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) OO
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Refactoring
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Web Development
5 1 (16.67%) Extreme Programming
5 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (16.67%) MVC
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle