Ruby on Rails Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby on Rails 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 Application Development category for the East of England 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 on Rails (RoR)
Rank 107 127 123
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -4
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 7 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.327% 0.169% 0.151%
As % of the Application Development category 1.146% 0.592% 0.517%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
Average daily rate £400 £288 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.13% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £258 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £318 £309
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+23.07% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+62.50% -27.27%
Search 3 Ruby on Rails jobs in the East of England
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 611 844 774
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 28.56% 28.56% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 436 355
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 59 60
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.40 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ruby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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.

East of England Ruby on Rails Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend

This 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.

East of England Ruby on Rails Daily Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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.

East of England Ruby on Rails Hourly Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails
Contract Locations

The table below 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 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire +8 3 £325 +13.04%
Cambridgeshire +11 2 £413 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £400 -
Ruby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 25 (96.15%) Ruby
2 11 (42.31%) Games
3 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 9 (34.62%) Web Development
4 7 (26.92%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (26.92%) TDD
4 7 (26.92%) Subversion
4 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
4 7 (26.92%) Git (software)
4 7 (26.92%) RESTful
4 7 (26.92%) Java
4 7 (26.92%) MySQL
4 7 (26.92%) Web Services
4 7 (26.92%) Linux
5 6 (23.08%) Apache
5 6 (23.08%) PHP
5 6 (23.08%) Python
5 6 (23.08%) Degree
6 5 (19.23%) Information Management
6 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
6 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
6 5 (19.23%) C#
6 5 (19.23%) HTML
6 5 (19.23%) Oracle
6 5 (19.23%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (19.23%) CSS
7 4 (15.38%) OO
7 4 (15.38%) Swing
7 4 (15.38%) Tomcat
7 4 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 7 (26.92%) RESTful
1 7 (26.92%) Web Services
2 5 (19.23%) HTML
2 5 (19.23%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) Swing
3 4 (15.38%) J2EE
3 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 4 (15.38%) Spring
3 4 (15.38%) JSON
4 3 (11.54%) .NET
5 2 (7.692%) Symfony
5 2 (7.692%) jQuery
5 2 (7.692%) Ajax
5 2 (7.692%) CSS3
5 2 (7.692%) HTML5
6 1 (3.846%) Mustache
6 1 (3.846%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) Apache
2 5 (19.23%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (15.38%) Tomcat
4 2 (7.692%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.846%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) MySQL
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (7.692%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.846%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Subversion
1 7 (26.92%) Git (software)
2 4 (15.38%) Maven
General
1 11 (42.31%) Games
2 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (92.31%) Developer
2 12 (46.15%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) PHP Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) Teradata Developer
5 2 (7.692%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.846%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) WPF Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Junior Developer
6 1 (3.846%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.846%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Agile C# Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Ruby Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Junior
6 1 (3.846%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
2 4 (15.38%) Informatics
3 2 (7.692%) W3C
3 2 (7.692%) LIMS
3 2 (7.692%) Online Games
3 2 (7.692%) iPhone
3 2 (7.692%) Biology
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 2 (7.692%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Web Development
2 7 (26.92%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (26.92%) TDD
3 5 (19.23%) Information Management
3 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
4 4 (15.38%) OO
4 4 (15.38%) MVC
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.846%) MVVM
6 1 (3.846%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Ruby
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) Java
4 6 (23.08%) PHP
4 6 (23.08%) Python
5 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 5 (19.23%) C#
6 4 (15.38%) Perl
6 4 (15.38%) Lisp
7 2 (7.692%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.692%) Varnish
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (7.692%) Teradata
4 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
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