Belfast Ruby on Rails Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails (RoR) skills within the Belfast region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location Belfast Bristol City of London Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hertfordshire Leeds London Manchester Midlands North West Scotland South East South West Stevenage Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£242
% change on same period last year	+17.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.83	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development Belfast
Matching contract IT job ads	57	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.089 %	0.028 %
Daily rates quoted	14	5
Average minimum daily rate	£239	£260
Average daily rate	£260	£265
% change on same period last year	-1.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£282	£271
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.91	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£28.73	£34.40
% change on same period last year	-16.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.55	£38.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.97	£31.52
% change on same period last year	-8.10 %
Ruby on Rails County Antrim

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Ruby on Rails
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Ruby on Rails
Top 1 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails.

1 1 (100.00 %) Ruby

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Ruby Developer

Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Ruby