The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 - 33 30
Contract jobs citing Ruby 0 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff - 0.889% 2.066%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 3.226% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -27.27%
All Programming Languages
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
39 62 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 21.20% 27.56% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 42 41
Average daily rate £375 £275 £337
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -18.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £200 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £500 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £36.25 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
South Wales

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Ruby Hourly Rate Trend

Ruby
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Hudson

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) SQL