East of England Ruby on Rails Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails (RoR) skills within the East of England 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location Belfast Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire 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 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	137	156
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	1	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.109 %	0.370 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
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 East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1352
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.215 %	1.347 %
Daily rates quoted	313	401
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£341
Average daily rate	£375	£360
% change on same period last year	+3.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	167
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.32	£30.17
Average hourly rate	£31.85	£31.31
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.38	£32.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
Ruby on Rails England

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.

Ruby on Rails
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the East of England region.

Ruby on Rails
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the East of England region.

Ruby on Rails
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridgeshire	-	1	£300	-

Ruby on Rails England

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails.

1 7 (100.00 %) Ruby 2 6 (85.71 %) FitNesse 2 6 (85.71 %) SQL 3 5 (71.43 %) Pharmaceutical 4 4 (57.14 %) Java 5 3 (42.86 %) Log4j 5 3 (42.86 %) Extreme Programming 5 3 (42.86 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (42.86 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 5 3 (42.86 %) Ant 5 3 (42.86 %) JUnit 5 3 (42.86 %) WebServices 5 3 (42.86 %) Windows 5 3 (42.86 %) OO

5 3 (42.86 %) JBoss 5 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 9i 5 3 (42.86 %) Client/Server 5 3 (42.86 %) Eclipse 5 3 (42.86 %) TestDirector 5 3 (42.86 %) JSF 5 3 (42.86 %) Selenium 5 3 (42.86 %) Software Testing 6 2 (28.57 %) Java EE 6 2 (28.57 %) Degree 7 1 (14.29 %) Scrum 7 1 (14.29 %) TDD 7 1 (14.29 %) Subversion 7 1 (14.29 %) Delphi

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (42.86 %) WebServices 1 3 (42.86 %) JSF 2 2 (28.57 %) Java EE 3 1 (14.29 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 3 (42.86 %) JBoss
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 6 (85.71 %) FitNesse 2 3 (42.86 %) Log4j 2 3 (42.86 %) Ant 2 3 (42.86 %) JUnit 2 3 (42.86 %) Eclipse 2 3 (42.86 %) TestDirector 2 3 (42.86 %) Selenium 3 1 (14.29 %) Subversion
General 1 5 (71.43 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) Java Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) Software Engineer 3 2 (28.57 %) Test Engineer 3 2 (28.57 %) Software Test Engineer 3 2 (28.57 %) Systems Test Engineer 3 2 (28.57 %) Systems Engineer 4 1 (14.29 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (14.29 %) Programmer 4 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Java Analyst Programmer 4 1 (14.29 %) Java Programmer 4 1 (14.29 %) Developer Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Systems Tester 4 1 (14.29 %) Tester 4 1 (14.29 %) Ruby On Rails Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (42.86 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Extreme Programming 1 3 (42.86 %) Agile Software Development 1 3 (42.86 %) OO 1 3 (42.86 %) Software Testing 2 1 (14.29 %) Scrum 2 1 (14.29 %) TDD 2 1 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (14.29 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 7 (100.00 %) Ruby 2 6 (85.71 %) SQL 3 4 (57.14 %) Java 4 3 (42.86 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (14.29 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle