The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 29 44 30
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -14
Contract jobs citing Ruby 9 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.857% 0.911% 2.158%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.422% 1.487% 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
Average daily rate £360 - £438
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 - £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -48.38%
All Programming Languages
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
166 269 162
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 52.70% 61.28% 58.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 147 85
Average daily rate £320 £310 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -5.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 37 22
Average hourly rate £40.25 £37.50 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.33% +10.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £35.00 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.50 £60.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Ruby
Cambridgeshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Ruby Daily Rate Trend

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Ruby Hourly Rate Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (50.00%) Linux
1 9 (50.00%) Java
1 9 (50.00%) Perl
1 9 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 5 (27.78%) Web Services
3 5 (27.78%) TDD
3 5 (27.78%) Information Management
3 5 (27.78%) RESTful
3 5 (27.78%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (22.22%) Git (software)
4 4 (22.22%) JAX-RS
4 4 (22.22%) Spring
4 4 (22.22%) Maven
4 4 (22.22%) JSON
4 4 (22.22%) Informatics
4 4 (22.22%) Biology
4 4 (22.22%) jQuery
4 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 4 (22.22%) MVC
4 4 (22.22%) Hibernate
4 4 (22.22%) Subversion
4 4 (22.22%) VMware

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 5 (27.78%) Web Services
2 5 (27.78%) RESTful
2 5 (27.78%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (22.22%) JSON
3 4 (22.22%) J2EE
3 4 (22.22%) Swing
3 4 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 4 (22.22%) Spring
3 4 (22.22%) jQuery
3 4 (22.22%) JAX-RS
4 3 (16.67%) CSS
4 3 (16.67%) XML
5 2 (11.11%) XSLT
5 2 (11.11%) CSS3
5 2 (11.11%) HTML5
5 2 (11.11%) Ajax
6 1 (5.556%) HTML
6 1 (5.556%) .NET
6 1 (5.556%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Apache
1 4 (22.22%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
1 2 (11.11%) GIMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Subversion
1 4 (22.22%) Maven
1 4 (22.22%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.556%) JMeter
General
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Perl Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Web Applications Developer
4 2 (11.11%) UI Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (11.11%) UI Programmer
5 1 (5.556%) Ruby Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.556%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Agile C# Developer
5 1 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) WPF Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (22.22%) Informatics
2 4 (22.22%) Biology
3 2 (11.11%) Life Science
3 2 (11.11%) Open Source
3 2 (11.11%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Android
3 1 (5.556%) UNIX
3 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (27.78%) TDD
2 5 (27.78%) Information Management
3 4 (22.22%) MVC
3 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Bioinformatics
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Compatibility Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Software Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) OO
5 1 (5.556%) MVVM
5 1 (5.556%) Web Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
1 9 (50.00%) Perl
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) Lisp
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 3 (16.67%) C++
5 3 (16.67%) PHP
6 2 (11.11%) Assembly Language
6 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
6 2 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Web tools such as JQuery and/or web application frameworks like Ruby on Rails... Analytical languages such as R or Matlab... Degree or Masters in computer science, software...
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Posted: 31 May 2013