Ruby Contracts in Bristol
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby 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 Programming Languages category for the Bristol 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 46 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing Ruby 4 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.775% 0.239% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.439% 0.816% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £265 £190 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.47% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +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%
Search 1 Ruby jobs in Bristol
All Programming Languages
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 164 245 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 31.78% 29.31% 25.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 154 85
Average daily rate £310 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £405 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -14.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.97 £22.80 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £44.60 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
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Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Ruby Daily Rate Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (71.43%) Scrum
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) BDD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) WATIR
3 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 3 (42.86%) FitNesse
3 3 (42.86%) jQuery
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
3 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) Web Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Hudson
4 2 (28.57%) Agile Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 2 (28.57%) PHP
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (28.57%) VB.NET
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) NHibernate
4 2 (28.57%) QA
4 2 (28.57%) Finance

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (42.86%) jQuery
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) NHibernate
2 2 (28.57%) WinForms
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) WATIR
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) FitNesse
1 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Hudson
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Open Source
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) BDD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Web Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Testing
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) PHP
2 2 (28.57%) VB.NET
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
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