The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 19 June 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 Edinburgh 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 61 - 70
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.110% - 0.150%
As % of the Application Development category 0.571% - 1.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £294 £308
% change year-on-year
+14.89% -4.47%
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
175 121 185
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 19.27% 11.35% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 42 78
Average daily rate £325 £314 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.58% -10.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £190 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £368 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £24.00 £16.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -49.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Ruby on Rails
Scotland

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Edinburgh Ruby on Rails Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Alterian
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) RSpec
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (25.00%) CoffeeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Ember.js
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) CMS
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Perl

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (25.00%) Ember.js
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) RSpec
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Solaris
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (25.00%) CoffeeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Alterian
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle