Ruby Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 135 152 207
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +55
Contract jobs citing Ruby 69 66 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.082% 0.839% 0.388%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.590% 2.288% 0.918%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 57 27
Average daily rate £400 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £273 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -27.27%
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 2664 2885 4138
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.76% 36.68% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2061 2166 3141
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 37
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% +16.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.39 £15.00 £17.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
London

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Ruby Hourly Rate Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 77 (46.39%) Cucumber
2 76 (45.78%) Java
3 72 (43.37%) JavaScript
4 67 (40.36%) TDD
5 64 (38.55%) Agile Software Development
6 60 (36.14%) Selenium
7 54 (32.53%) BDD
8 46 (27.71%) CSS
9 42 (25.30%) HTML
10 37 (22.29%) Linux
10 37 (22.29%) Scrum
10 37 (22.29%) Continuous Integration
11 36 (21.69%) Ruby on Rails
11 36 (21.69%) Finance
12 35 (21.08%) OO
12 35 (21.08%) Web Services
13 32 (19.28%) QA
14 27 (16.27%) Spring
15 26 (15.66%) E-Commerce
15 26 (15.66%) Python
16 23 (13.86%) WebDriver
16 23 (13.86%) .NET
17 22 (13.25%) Groovy
18 21 (12.65%) jQuery
18 21 (12.65%) J2EE
18 21 (12.65%) C#
19 20 (12.05%) Git (software)
20 19 (11.45%) Grails
20 19 (11.45%) PHP
20 19 (11.45%) Hibernate

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 46 (27.71%) CSS
2 42 (25.30%) HTML
3 36 (21.69%) Ruby on Rails
4 35 (21.08%) Web Services
5 27 (16.27%) Spring
6 23 (13.86%) .NET
7 21 (12.65%) jQuery
7 21 (12.65%) J2EE
8 19 (11.45%) Grails
8 19 (11.45%) Hibernate
8 19 (11.45%) HTML5
9 15 (9.036%) XML
10 13 (7.831%) CSS3
11 10 (6.024%) SOAP
11 10 (6.024%) RESTful
12 8 (4.819%) Ajax
13 7 (4.217%) REST
14 6 (3.614%) Node.js
14 6 (3.614%) JSON
14 6 (3.614%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.614%) Apache
2 5 (3.012%) Amazon AWS
3 4 (2.410%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.807%) Drupal
5 2 (1.205%) Adobe CQ
5 2 (1.205%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.205%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.205%) nginx
5 2 (1.205%) CMS
6 1 (0.602%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.602%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.602%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.602%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.602%) Facebook Platform
6 1 (0.602%) Rackspace Cloud
Applications
1 2 (1.205%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.602%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 2 (1.205%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (1.205%) Summit
1 2 (1.205%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.627%) HTTP
2 10 (6.024%) Internet
3 2 (1.205%) tcpdump
3 2 (1.205%) AMQP
3 2 (1.205%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.205%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.205%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.205%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.205%) DNS
3 2 (1.205%) LDAP
3 2 (1.205%) SAN
4 1 (0.602%) Wireless
4 1 (0.602%) VPN
4 1 (0.602%) SNMP
4 1 (0.602%) SSH
4 1 (0.602%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.831%) MySQL
2 10 (6.024%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.024%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.024%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.614%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.012%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (3.012%) Redis
5 3 (1.807%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.807%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.807%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.205%) Big Data
6 2 (1.205%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.205%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (0.602%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.602%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.602%) SimpleDB
7 1 (0.602%) HBase
7 1 (0.602%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.602%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.602%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 77 (46.39%) Cucumber
2 60 (36.14%) Selenium
3 23 (13.86%) WebDriver
4 20 (12.05%) Git (software)
5 18 (10.84%) Jenkins
6 13 (7.831%) WATIR
7 11 (6.627%) RSpec
8 9 (5.422%) FitNesse
8 9 (5.422%) JUnit
9 8 (4.819%) Concordion
9 8 (4.819%) Visual Studio
10 7 (4.217%) Subversion
11 6 (3.614%) Maven
11 6 (3.614%) QuickTest Pro
12 5 (3.012%) SilkTest
12 5 (3.012%) TeamCity
12 5 (3.012%) Hudson
12 5 (3.012%) Capybara
13 4 (2.410%) JIRA
14 3 (1.807%) TestNG
General
1 36 (21.69%) Finance
2 14 (8.434%) Banking
3 11 (6.627%) Investment Banking
4 7 (4.217%) Marketing
5 6 (3.614%) Retail
5 6 (3.614%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.410%) Front Office
6 4 (2.410%) Games
7 2 (1.205%) Music
7 2 (1.205%) Back Office
7 2 (1.205%) Electronics
7 2 (1.205%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.602%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.602%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 89 (53.61%) Developer
2 25 (15.06%) Java Developer
3 21 (12.65%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 16 (9.639%) Ruby Developer
5 15 (9.036%) Analyst
5 15 (9.036%) QA Engineer
6 14 (8.434%) Agile Java Developer
6 14 (8.434%) Test Analyst
7 13 (7.831%) Tester
8 9 (5.422%) Automation Tester
9 8 (4.819%) Automation Analyst
9 8 (4.819%) Automation Test Analyst
10 6 (3.614%) Front-End Developer
10 6 (3.614%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.012%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.012%) Automation Engineer
12 4 (2.410%) QA Automation Engineer
12 4 (2.410%) Test Engineer
12 4 (2.410%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 4 (2.410%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.434%) Open Source
2 10 (6.024%) Derivative
3 8 (4.819%) Computer Science
4 5 (3.012%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.410%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.807%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.205%) Social Media
7 2 (1.205%) Mathematics
7 2 (1.205%) Blog
7 2 (1.205%) DTV
8 1 (0.602%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.602%) Clustering
8 1 (0.602%) Streaming Video
8 1 (0.602%) BBC
8 1 (0.602%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.602%) Podcast
8 1 (0.602%) PKI
8 1 (0.602%) IPTV
8 1 (0.602%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.602%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.29%) Linux
2 16 (9.639%) Windows
3 9 (5.422%) UNIX
4 7 (4.217%) Android
5 6 (3.614%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.614%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.807%) CentOS
7 2 (1.205%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.602%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.602%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.602%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.36%) TDD
2 64 (38.55%) Agile Software Development
3 54 (32.53%) BDD
4 37 (22.29%) Scrum
4 37 (22.29%) Continuous Integration
5 35 (21.08%) OO
6 26 (15.66%) E-Commerce
7 18 (10.84%) Test Automation
7 18 (10.84%) Refactoring
8 14 (8.434%) Automation Testing
9 10 (6.024%) Software Engineering
9 10 (6.024%) Kanban
10 9 (5.422%) OOD
11 8 (4.819%) Web Testing
11 8 (4.819%) Pair Programming
12 7 (4.217%) Automated Testing
12 7 (4.217%) Web Development
13 6 (3.614%) MVC
14 5 (3.012%) Software Testing
14 5 (3.012%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (45.78%) Java
2 72 (43.37%) JavaScript
3 26 (15.66%) Python
4 22 (13.25%) Groovy
5 21 (12.65%) C#
6 19 (11.45%) PHP
7 18 (10.84%) C++
8 16 (9.639%) Perl
9 15 (9.036%) SQL
10 13 (7.831%) Scala
11 6 (3.614%) Bash shell
12 3 (1.807%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.807%) C
13 2 (1.205%) PHP5
13 2 (1.205%) XPath
13 2 (1.205%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.205%) VB
13 2 (1.205%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.205%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.602%) ECMAScript
Qualifications
1 6 (3.614%) Degree
2 3 (1.807%) ISEB
3 2 (1.205%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.205%) RHCE
4 1 (0.602%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.28%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.807%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.807%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.602%) VMware ESX
2 1 (0.602%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (0.602%) Varnish
2 1 (0.602%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 11 (6.627%) Puppet
2 3 (1.807%) Nagios
2 3 (1.807%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.205%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (1.205%) Splunk
3 2 (1.205%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.602%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (5.422%) Oracle
1 9 (5.422%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.614%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.012%) HP
4 4 (2.410%) VMware
5 2 (1.205%) Rackspace
5 2 (1.205%) hybris
5 2 (1.205%) Endeca
5 2 (1.205%) Google
5 2 (1.205%) SAP
5 2 (1.205%) Sybase
5 2 (1.205%) Calypso
5 2 (1.205%) Cisco
5 2 (1.205%) Murex
5 2 (1.205%) FatWire
5 2 (1.205%) Apple
6 1 (0.602%) Juniper
6 1 (0.602%) Perforce
6 1 (0.602%) JBoss
6 1 (0.602%) Citrix
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City, London
Skills: Experience using Ruby on Rails. Knowledge of any Test driven development (cucumber, rspec, selenium) Experience in version control (Subversion, GIT) Front-end development using XHTML, HTML5, CSS2/...
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Rate: £300 - £400 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
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City, London
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Rate: From £35,000 to £70,000 per annum + Benefits etc
Posted: 21 May 2013
java/nosql developer
City, London
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Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £425.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
DevOps Engineer
City, London
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Rate: £300 - £500 per day
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City, London
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