The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 22 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 Programming Languages category for the Bedfordshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 25 - 42
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Ruby 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.094% - 0.342%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.407% - 1.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £350 - £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.71% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -27.27%
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
54 62 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.27% 22.22% 31.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 40
Average daily rate £338 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +52.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
Average hourly rate £24.38 £38.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.85% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Ruby
East of England

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Bedfordshire Ruby Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire Ruby Daily Rate Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Ruby 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 Ruby.

1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Git (software)
3 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
3 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 3 (60.00%) .NET
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (40.00%) W3C
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (40.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Apache
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) Online Games
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Kanban
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (40.00%) Web Development

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Ruby 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 Ruby. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) CSS3
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Mustache
3 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) nginx
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) SpecFlow
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) WATIR
General
1 2 (40.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) W3C
1 2 (40.00%) Online Games
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Varnish