The first table below looks at the demand for Capistrano skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capistrano over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capistrano
Rank 370 399 430
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +31
Contract jobs citing Capistrano 11 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.051% 0.011% 0.013%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.419% 0.116% 0.115%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 3
Average daily rate £425 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £250
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2628 2585 3477
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.11% 9.627% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1948 1754 2379
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 29
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Capistrano
England

Capistrano
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Capistrano Jobs Demand Trend

Capistrano
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Capistrano Daily Rate Trend

Capistrano
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Capistrano across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Capistrano Daily Rate Histogram

Capistrano
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Capistrano 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 Capistrano.

1 18 (69.23%) Ruby
1 18 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 17 (65.38%) Git (software)
3 16 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
3 16 (61.54%) HTML
4 15 (57.69%) TDD
5 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
6 13 (50.00%) BDD
7 12 (46.15%) MySQL
7 12 (46.15%) Ruby on Rails
8 11 (42.31%) CSS
9 10 (38.46%) Linux
9 10 (38.46%) Cucumber
10 9 (34.62%) Scrum
11 8 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
11 8 (30.77%) Maven
11 8 (30.77%) SOAP
11 8 (30.77%) Web Services
11 8 (30.77%) Apache
11 8 (30.77%) Varnish
11 8 (30.77%) nginx
11 8 (30.77%) Apache Solr
11 8 (30.77%) RSpec
12 7 (26.92%) Apple iOS
12 7 (26.92%) Puppet
12 7 (26.92%) Redis
12 7 (26.92%) Java
13 6 (23.08%) Ant
13 6 (23.08%) Mac OS X
13 6 (23.08%) Nagios

Capistrano
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (61.54%) HTML
2 12 (46.15%) Ruby on Rails
3 11 (42.31%) CSS
4 8 (30.77%) SOAP
4 8 (30.77%) Web Services
5 6 (23.08%) JSON
5 6 (23.08%) RESTful
5 6 (23.08%) REST
6 5 (19.23%) Sass
6 5 (19.23%) Resque
6 5 (19.23%) jQuery
6 5 (19.23%) JSP
6 5 (19.23%) JMS
6 5 (19.23%) JMX
7 4 (15.38%) Gearman
7 4 (15.38%) XHTML
8 3 (11.54%) Java EE
9 2 (7.692%) Apache CXF
9 2 (7.692%) Hibernate
9 2 (7.692%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 8 (30.77%) Apache
1 8 (30.77%) nginx
1 8 (30.77%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.846%) Confluence
2 1 (3.846%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Internet
2 1 (3.846%) SSH
2 1 (3.846%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) MySQL
2 7 (26.92%) Redis
3 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.692%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.846%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.846%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 18 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 17 (65.38%) Git (software)
3 10 (38.46%) Cucumber
4 8 (30.77%) RSpec
4 8 (30.77%) Maven
5 6 (23.08%) Ant
5 6 (23.08%) Subversion
5 6 (23.08%) Hudson
6 5 (19.23%) EasyMock
6 5 (19.23%) Mockito
6 5 (19.23%) Selenium
6 5 (19.23%) JUnit
6 5 (19.23%) CruiseControl
7 4 (15.38%) PHPUnit
7 4 (15.38%) Jasmine
7 4 (15.38%) Phing
8 2 (7.692%) TeamCity
9 1 (3.846%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (3.846%) JIRA
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
1 5 (19.23%) Banking
2 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.846%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 21 (80.77%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Ruby Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Agile Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.692%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (7.692%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (7.692%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.846%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) Web Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (3.846%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (3.846%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 2 (7.692%) iPhone
2 2 (7.692%) Open Source
2 2 (7.692%) iPad
2 2 (7.692%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.846%) Online Banking
3 1 (3.846%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.846%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Apple iOS
3 6 (23.08%) Mac OS X
3 6 (23.08%) Ubuntu
4 5 (19.23%) Gentoo
5 3 (11.54%) Android
5 3 (11.54%) VMS
5 3 (11.54%) Windows
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Phone
6 1 (3.846%) UNIX
6 1 (3.846%) Solaris
6 1 (3.846%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (57.69%) TDD
3 13 (50.00%) BDD
4 9 (34.62%) Scrum
5 8 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (19.23%) Web Development
6 5 (19.23%) Active Record
6 5 (19.23%) Content Management
6 5 (19.23%) Dependency Injection
7 4 (15.38%) Automated Testing
7 4 (15.38%) OOA/OOD
8 2 (7.692%) Configuration Management
8 2 (7.692%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (3.846%) Waterfall
9 1 (3.846%) Static Code Analysis
9 1 (3.846%) Build Automation
9 1 (3.846%) Software Deployment
9 1 (3.846%) Release Management
9 1 (3.846%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) Ruby
2 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 7 (26.92%) Java
4 5 (19.23%) PHP
5 2 (7.692%) SQL
5 2 (7.692%) Bash shell
5 2 (7.692%) Korn
6 1 (3.846%) Groovy
6 1 (3.846%) Python
6 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) QA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Puppet
2 6 (23.08%) Nagios
3 1 (3.846%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Apple
2 3 (11.54%) Zend
2 3 (11.54%) Adobe
3 1 (3.846%) Red Hat
London
PostgreSQL or MySQL. Familiarity with Agile Methodology (TDD/BDD/XP/Scrum) JavaScript / jQuery. HTML/XHTML/CSS. Linux... Testing (Cucumber/Rspec) Deployment (Chef/Capistrano) - CI (Hudson/CC/Jenkins) Experience...
Bridge Noble
Rate: £350 - £500 per day + (dependant on experience) + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013