Cheltenham Ruby on Rails Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails (RoR) skills within the Cheltenham 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location Belfast Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Doncaster East of England Edinburgh England Gatwick High Wycombe Lancashire London Manchester North West Northern Ireland Rotherham Scotland Sheffield South East South Yorkshire UK Wales West Sussex Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 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	£300	£237
% change on same period last year	+26.76 %
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	£35.00	£26.25
% change on same period last year	+33.33 %
Application Development Cheltenham
Matching contract IT job ads	23	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.011 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£418	£217
Average daily rate	£435	£258
% change on same period last year	+68.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£453	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.13	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.25	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
Ruby on Rails Gloucestershire

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.