The first table below looks at the demand for Sinatra 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 Sinatra over the 3 months to 17 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 Application Development 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sinatra
Rank 199 207 244
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +37
Contract jobs citing Sinatra 2 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.032% 0.077% 0.020%
As % of the Application Development category 0.111% 0.308% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £375 £420 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £406 £380
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £420 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £625 £260
% change year-on-year
-48.00% +140.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1796 1946 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.53% 25.01% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1418 1430 2105
Average daily rate £410 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 21
Average hourly rate £41.75 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Sinatra
London

Sinatra
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Sinatra Jobs Demand Trend

Sinatra
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Sinatra Daily Rate Trend

Sinatra
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sinatra 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 Sinatra.

1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) RSpec
2 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (80.00%) Redis
2 4 (80.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (60.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) Neo4j
3 3 (60.00%) Sass
3 3 (60.00%) Capybara
3 3 (60.00%) Haml
3 3 (60.00%) Memcached
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) OO
3 3 (60.00%) Apache
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) OAuth
3 3 (60.00%) nginx

Sinatra
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sinatra 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 Sinatra. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) OAuth
3 3 (60.00%) Haml
3 3 (60.00%) Memcached
3 3 (60.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) Sass
3 3 (60.00%) JSON
3 3 (60.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Apache
1 3 (60.00%) nginx
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (80.00%) Redis
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (20.00%) Couchbase
3 1 (20.00%) SimpleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) RSpec
1 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) Capybara
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Web Development
2 3 (60.00%) Refactoring
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Java