The first table below looks at the demand for Capybara skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Capybara over the 3 months to 23 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Capybara
Rank 845 895 872
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -23
Permanent jobs citing Capybara 17 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.016% 0.002% 0.001%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.107% 0.018% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 1
Average salary £47,500 £62,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.00% +78.57%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 - £35,000
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15867 17081 16112
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.75% 14.15% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13540 14965 14169
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

Capybara
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Capybara within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Capybara Jobs Demand Trend

Capybara
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Capybara within the UK.

Capybara Salary Trend

Capybara
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Capybara over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Capybara Salary Histogram

Capybara
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Capybara within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +37 16 £48,750 -22.00%
London +45 11 £52,500 -16.00%
Surrey - 5 £40,000 -
South East - 5 £40,000 -
Farnham - 4 £40,000 -
City of London - 2 £50,000 -
Hackney - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £22,500 -
Dundee - 1 £22,500 -

Capybara
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Capybara.

1 36 (87.80%) Ruby
2 33 (80.49%) TDD
3 32 (78.05%) Cucumber
4 30 (73.17%) RSpec
5 26 (63.41%) REST
6 25 (60.98%) Ruby on Rails
7 20 (48.78%) JavaScript
7 20 (48.78%) nginx
8 19 (46.34%) SQL
8 19 (46.34%) OO
9 18 (43.90%) BDD
10 17 (41.46%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (41.46%) Scrum
11 15 (36.59%) Refactoring
12 14 (34.15%) Web Development
12 14 (34.15%) Redis
13 13 (31.71%) Sass
13 13 (31.71%) JSON
14 12 (29.27%) Selenium
14 12 (29.27%) Haml
14 12 (29.27%) MongoDB
14 12 (29.27%) NoSQL
14 12 (29.27%) Sinatra
14 12 (29.27%) MySQL
14 12 (29.27%) CSS
14 12 (29.27%) Web Services
15 11 (26.83%) Apache
15 11 (26.83%) Automated Testing
15 11 (26.83%) Agile Software Development
15 11 (26.83%) Memcached

Capybara
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Capybara. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (63.41%) REST
2 25 (60.98%) Ruby on Rails
3 13 (31.71%) Sass
3 13 (31.71%) JSON
4 12 (29.27%) Haml
4 12 (29.27%) Sinatra
4 12 (29.27%) CSS
4 12 (29.27%) Web Services
5 11 (26.83%) Memcached
5 11 (26.83%) OAuth
6 10 (24.39%) Ajax
7 8 (19.51%) jQuery
7 8 (19.51%) HTML
8 7 (17.07%) .NET
8 7 (17.07%) JRuby
9 5 (12.20%) CSS3
9 5 (12.20%) Node.js
10 4 (9.756%) OpenRasta
10 4 (9.756%) NancyFx
10 4 (9.756%) ServiceStack
Application Platforms
1 20 (48.78%) nginx
2 11 (26.83%) Apache
3 4 (9.756%) Rackspace Cloud
3 4 (9.756%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (9.756%) Apache Solr
3 4 (9.756%) IIS
4 1 (2.439%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 3 (7.317%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (41.46%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (34.15%) Redis
3 12 (29.27%) MongoDB
3 12 (29.27%) NoSQL
3 12 (29.27%) MySQL
4 11 (26.83%) Neo4j
5 4 (9.756%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.439%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.439%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 32 (78.05%) Cucumber
2 30 (73.17%) RSpec
3 12 (29.27%) Selenium
4 9 (21.95%) Git (software)
5 8 (19.51%) JIRA
6 7 (17.07%) WATIR
7 5 (12.20%) Capistrano
8 4 (9.756%) GitHub
8 4 (9.756%) Rhino Mocks
8 4 (9.756%) NDepend
8 4 (9.756%) ReSharper
8 4 (9.756%) TeamCity
8 4 (9.756%) NUnit
9 3 (7.317%) Subversion
9 3 (7.317%) Eclipse
9 3 (7.317%) IntelliJ
9 3 (7.317%) WatiN
10 2 (4.878%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.439%) QuickTest Pro
11 1 (2.439%) FitNesse
General
1 5 (12.20%) Music
2 4 (9.756%) Music Industry
2 4 (9.756%) Publishing
3 3 (7.317%) Finance
4 2 (4.878%) Banking
5 1 (2.439%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) Test Engineer
2 11 (26.83%) Ruby Developer
3 10 (24.39%) Senior Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Software Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.317%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (7.317%) .NET Developer
6 3 (7.317%) Team Leader
6 3 (7.317%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (4.878%) UI Programmer
7 2 (4.878%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (4.878%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.439%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.439%) Development Team Leader
8 1 (2.439%) Software Test Engineer
8 1 (2.439%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Open Source
2 5 (12.20%) Blackberry
2 5 (12.20%) Mobile App
3 4 (9.756%) Digital Media
3 4 (9.756%) Heroku
4 3 (7.317%) Blog
5 2 (4.878%) New Media
5 2 (4.878%) Taxonomies
5 2 (4.878%) Interactive TV
5 2 (4.878%) BBC
6 1 (2.439%) Handset
6 1 (2.439%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.439%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Windows
3 1 (2.439%) Android
3 1 (2.439%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.439%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (80.49%) TDD
2 19 (46.34%) OO
3 18 (43.90%) BDD
4 17 (41.46%) Scrum
5 15 (36.59%) Refactoring
6 14 (34.15%) Web Development
7 11 (26.83%) Automated Testing
7 11 (26.83%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (26.83%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (24.39%) Test Automation
9 8 (19.51%) MVC
9 8 (19.51%) Test Strategy
9 8 (19.51%) User Stories
10 6 (14.63%) Test Scripting
10 6 (14.63%) Pair Programming
11 4 (9.756%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (7.317%) Enterprise Architecture
12 3 (7.317%) E-Commerce
12 3 (7.317%) Integration Testing
13 2 (4.878%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 36 (87.80%) Ruby
2 20 (48.78%) JavaScript
3 19 (46.34%) SQL
4 10 (24.39%) Java
5 8 (19.51%) PHP
6 5 (12.20%) C#
6 5 (12.20%) CoffeeScript
7 4 (9.756%) Python
7 4 (9.756%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.317%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (9.756%) Rackspace
1 4 (9.756%) HP
1 4 (9.756%) Apple
1 4 (9.756%) Sony
1 4 (9.756%) Toshiba
2 3 (7.317%) Google
2 3 (7.317%) Adobe
2 3 (7.317%) Twitter
3 1 (2.439%) Oracle
Central London / West End
You will follow Agile software development practices and the company embrace BDD using tools such as Cucumber and Rspec... Required Skills: - Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture patterns, OO...
TechnoRecruit
Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Farnham, Surrey
Ruby on Rails, HAML, NGINX, Unicorn, Capistrano Job Description My clients are seeking a motivated Senior Ruby developer to join their team... Skills Required 3 years Ruby on...
Parker White Consulting Ltd
Salary: From £40 to £45,000 per annum Plus benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Senior Ruby Software Developer... Requirements 3+ years Ruby on Rails commercial experience * Good level of knowledge in the following: * Postgres * HAML * NGINX * Unicorn * Capistrano * Sass * CoffeeScript * RSpec * Capybara *...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £40000 - £46000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Skills & Responsibilities of the QA Test Analyst: - Experience with test automation tools (like Fitnesse, Selenium, QTP, Watir and others) and frameworks (like Capybara or Cucumber). - Notions of configuration...
NBS Recruitment
Salary: £35,000 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 21 May 2013