The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex 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 21 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 Sussex 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 0.877% - -
As % of the Application Development category 2.564% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +4.16%
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%
All Application Development
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
78 98 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 34.21% 30.43% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 37 39
Average daily rate £315 £303 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.13% +0.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £206 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +18.51%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ruby on Rails
South East

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 Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex Ruby on Rails Daily 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 21 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
Brighton - 2 - -
Ruby on Rails
South East

Ruby on Rails
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) RSpec
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Heroku
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) RSpec
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Heroku
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL