Edinburgh Ruby Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Ruby
Location Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Havant High Wycombe Lancashire Leeds London Manchester North West Northern Ireland Portsmouth Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wimbledon Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.435 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£463	£235
% change on same period last year	+96.80 %
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	£35.42	£28.33
% change on same period last year	+24.99 %
Programming Languages Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	209	363
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.297 %	0.367 %
Daily rates quoted	42	48
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£303
Average daily rate	£343	£314
% change on same period last year	+9.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.80	£34.86
Average hourly rate	£29.80	£35.89
% change on same period last year	-16.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.80	£36.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.32	£32.74
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Ruby Scotland

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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Ruby
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00 %) Ruby on Rails 2 2 (66.67 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00 %) Ruby on Rails 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Ruby On Rails Developer
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java