The first table below looks at the demand for Sinatra skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sinatra over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sinatra
Rank 512 565 578
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +13
Contract jobs citing Sinatra 17 19 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.033% 0.010%
As % of the Application Development category 0.134% 0.128% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 6
Average daily rate £350 £410 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.63% +26.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £400 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £420 £400
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12670 14829 16814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.43% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7931 8681 9832
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 388 570
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Sinatra
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Sinatra Daily Rate Trend

Sinatra
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Sinatra within the UK.

Sinatra Hourly Rate Trend

Sinatra
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sinatra within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +44 17 £350 -14.63%
London +31 11 £400 -2.43%
South East - 3 £400 -
Surrey - 3 £400 -
City of London +11 2 £375 -10.71%
Leeds - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
North West - 1 £350 -
Manchester - 1 £350 -
Guildford - 1 £300 -
Brentford - 1 £330 -

Sinatra
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 20 (100.00%) Ruby
2 19 (95.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 17 (85.00%) JavaScript
3 17 (85.00%) CSS
4 13 (65.00%) Git (software)
5 12 (60.00%) MySQL
6 9 (45.00%) Scrum
7 8 (40.00%) Mercurial
7 8 (40.00%) HTML5
7 8 (40.00%) CSS3
7 8 (40.00%) Subversion
7 8 (40.00%) HTML
8 7 (35.00%) TDD
8 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (35.00%) jQuery
8 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (30.00%) Ajax
9 6 (30.00%) Apache
10 5 (25.00%) SQL
10 5 (25.00%) .NET
10 5 (25.00%) Web Services
10 5 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (25.00%) Test Scripting
10 5 (25.00%) Redis
10 5 (25.00%) Facebook
10 5 (25.00%) Twitter
10 5 (25.00%) Mobile App
11 4 (20.00%) Regular Expression
11 4 (20.00%) RavenDB
11 4 (20.00%) RESTful

Sinatra
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 19 (95.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 17 (85.00%) CSS
3 8 (40.00%) HTML5
3 8 (40.00%) CSS3
3 8 (40.00%) HTML
4 7 (35.00%) jQuery
5 6 (30.00%) Ajax
6 5 (25.00%) .NET
6 5 (25.00%) Web Services
7 4 (20.00%) Regular Expression
7 4 (20.00%) RESTful
7 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
7 4 (20.00%) LINQ
7 4 (20.00%) Lucene
7 4 (20.00%) XML
7 4 (20.00%) XHTML
8 3 (15.00%) REST
8 3 (15.00%) Semantic HTML
9 2 (10.00%) Sass
9 2 (10.00%) Haml
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Apache
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Solr
3 3 (15.00%) WordPress
4 2 (10.00%) Facebook Platform
4 2 (10.00%) nginx
5 1 (5.000%) Amazon AWS
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) MySQL
2 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (25.00%) Redis
4 4 (20.00%) RavenDB
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (10.00%) Neo4j
6 2 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (5.000%) SimpleDB
7 1 (5.000%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Git (software)
2 8 (40.00%) Mercurial
2 8 (40.00%) Subversion
3 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 3 (15.00%) RSpec
4 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (10.00%) Capybara
6 1 (5.000%) Jenkins
6 1 (5.000%) dbdeploy
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.00%) Electronics
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (95.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) Ruby Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Agile .NET Developer
4 4 (20.00%) .NET Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (20.00%) Open Source
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (20.00%) NHS
3 2 (10.00%) iPad
3 2 (10.00%) iPhone
3 2 (10.00%) Social Network
3 2 (10.00%) DTV
4 1 (5.000%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Android
1 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Scrum
2 7 (35.00%) TDD
2 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (15.00%) OOP
5 3 (15.00%) Web Development
5 3 (15.00%) Progressive Enhancement
5 3 (15.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 3 (15.00%) Graceful Degradation
6 2 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (10.00%) Refactoring
6 2 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 2 (10.00%) OO
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.000%) MVC
7 1 (5.000%) UML
7 1 (5.000%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Ruby
2 17 (85.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (5.000%) C++
6 1 (5.000%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Facebook
1 5 (25.00%) Twitter
2 2 (10.00%) SAP