The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Berkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 108 139 122
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -17
Contract jobs citing Ruby 10 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.423% 0.156% 0.367%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.416% 0.663% 1.168%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
Average daily rate £475 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.15% +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £293 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £370 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -48.38%
All Programming Languages
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
706 754 942
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 29.88% 23.56% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 380 413
Average daily rate £375 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £481 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 18 75
Average hourly rate £32.75 £32.50 £44.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.76% -26.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.28 £19.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £44.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire Ruby Daily Rate Trend

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ruby across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Berkshire Ruby Daily Rate Histogram

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ruby across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Ruby Hourly Rate Trend

Ruby
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Slough -3 4 - -
Reading - 3 £475 - 3
Windsor +7 2 £550 +69.23%
Ascot - - - -
Bracknell - - - - 1
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 9 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 8 (66.67%) Web Development
2 8 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (58.33%) .NET
3 7 (58.33%) CSS
4 6 (50.00%) jQuery
5 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
5 5 (41.67%) PRINCE2
5 5 (41.67%) C#
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
5 5 (41.67%) Ajax
6 4 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (33.33%) MVC
6 4 (33.33%) XHTML
6 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
6 4 (33.33%) VB.NET
6 4 (33.33%) XML
6 4 (33.33%) XSLT
6 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
6 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
6 4 (33.33%) LINQ
6 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
7 3 (25.00%) Scrum
7 3 (25.00%) TDD
7 3 (25.00%) Kanban
7 3 (25.00%) MySQL
7 3 (25.00%) Linux
8 2 (16.67%) OOP

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 9 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
2 7 (58.33%) .NET
2 7 (58.33%) CSS
3 6 (50.00%) jQuery
4 5 (41.67%) Ajax
5 4 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (33.33%) LINQ
5 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 4 (33.33%) XML
5 4 (33.33%) XSLT
5 4 (33.33%) XHTML
6 2 (16.67%) Node.js
6 2 (16.67%) Sphinx
6 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (8.333%) REST
7 1 (8.333%) Grails
7 1 (8.333%) Django
7 1 (8.333%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) ColdFusion
2 1 (8.333%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.333%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.333%) SpecFlow
3 1 (8.333%) JBehave
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Web Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Web Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior .NET Web Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Web Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
6 1 (8.333%) Project Manager
6 1 (8.333%) Digital Project Manager
6 1 (8.333%) Automated Test Engineer
6 1 (8.333%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Blog
1 2 (16.67%) Social Network
1 2 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (8.333%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (66.67%) Web Development
2 5 (41.67%) PRINCE2
3 4 (33.33%) MVC
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) Kanban
5 2 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (16.67%) OOP
6 1 (8.333%) B2B
6 1 (8.333%) B2C
6 1 (8.333%) Project Management
6 1 (8.333%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (8.333%) Information Security
6 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 2 (16.67%) Scala
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.333%) Perl
5 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
5 1 (8.333%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle