Ruby on Rails Developer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Ruby on Rails Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR) Developer
Rank 412 508 540
Rank change year-on-year
+96 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Ruby on Rails Developer 98 50 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.236% 0.094% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.255% 0.101% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 41 23
Average daily rate £400 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
+23.07% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.00
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Ruby on Rails Developer
UK

Ruby on Rails Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Ruby on Rails Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Ruby on Rails Developer Daily Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Ruby on Rails Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Ruby on Rails Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Ruby on Rails Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +59 72 £400 +10.34%
West Midlands - 9 £438 -
South East +19 8 £338 +3.92%
East of England - 4 £325 -
Yorkshire -1 2 £300 -
North West - 2 - -
South West +24 1 - -
Ruby on Rails Developer
UK

Ruby on Rails Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title 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 with Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title.

1 181 (100.00%) Ruby
1 181 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 102 (56.35%) JavaScript
3 91 (50.28%) CSS
4 82 (45.30%) HTML
5 75 (41.44%) TDD
6 65 (35.91%) jQuery
7 63 (34.81%) MySQL
8 56 (30.94%) Linux
9 51 (28.18%) Agile Software Development
10 50 (27.62%) HTML5
11 47 (25.97%) CSS3
12 43 (23.76%) Git (software)
12 43 (23.76%) Scrum
13 40 (22.10%) Ajax
14 36 (19.89%) Cucumber
15 34 (18.78%) Continuous Integration
16 32 (17.68%) Open Source
17 31 (17.13%) Games
17 31 (17.13%) OO
18 25 (13.81%) Java
18 25 (13.81%) RDBMS
18 25 (13.81%) RSpec
19 24 (13.26%) SQL Server
20 22 (12.15%) Oracle
21 21 (11.60%) Subversion
21 21 (11.60%) Web Development
22 19 (10.50%) BDD
23 17 (9.392%) Python
24 16 (8.840%) Apache

Ruby on Rails Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title 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 with Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 181 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 91 (50.28%) CSS
3 82 (45.30%) HTML
4 65 (35.91%) jQuery
5 50 (27.62%) HTML5
6 47 (25.97%) CSS3
7 40 (22.10%) Ajax
8 15 (8.287%) Django
9 14 (7.735%) Web Services
10 13 (7.182%) XHTML
11 11 (6.077%) RESTful
12 10 (5.525%) Mustache
13 9 (4.972%) OpenID
13 9 (4.972%) SAML
13 9 (4.972%) Middleware
14 7 (3.867%) Haml
14 7 (3.867%) OAuth
15 6 (3.315%) Sass
15 6 (3.315%) Node.js
15 6 (3.315%) REST
Application Platforms
1 16 (8.840%) Apache
2 14 (7.735%) nginx
3 4 (2.210%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.552%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.552%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.210%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.077%) Intranet
2 10 (5.525%) LDAP
3 7 (3.867%) HTTP
4 4 (2.210%) Internet
5 1 (0.552%) DNS
5 1 (0.552%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (34.81%) MySQL
2 25 (13.81%) RDBMS
3 24 (13.26%) SQL Server
4 16 (8.840%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (8.287%) MongoDB
6 14 (7.735%) NoSQL
7 11 (6.077%) Redis
8 5 (2.762%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.657%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.105%) CouchDB
10 2 (1.105%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.552%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 43 (23.76%) Git (software)
2 36 (19.89%) Cucumber
3 25 (13.81%) RSpec
4 21 (11.60%) Subversion
5 8 (4.420%) Capistrano
6 7 (3.867%) Selenium
6 7 (3.867%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.210%) JUnit
7 4 (2.210%) Capybara
7 4 (2.210%) Hudson
7 4 (2.210%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.105%) GitHub
9 1 (0.552%) JBehave
9 1 (0.552%) CruiseControl
9 1 (0.552%) Flash Builder
9 1 (0.552%) jMock
9 1 (0.552%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 31 (17.13%) Games
2 16 (8.840%) Finance
3 8 (4.420%) Retail
4 7 (3.867%) Publishing
5 4 (2.210%) Marketing
5 4 (2.210%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.210%) Electronics
5 4 (2.210%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.552%) Music
6 1 (0.552%) Music Industry
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.68%) Open Source
2 16 (8.840%) Streaming Video
3 13 (7.182%) Computer Science
4 11 (6.077%) Online Games
4 11 (6.077%) W3C
5 8 (4.420%) Social Media
6 4 (2.210%) DTV
7 3 (1.657%) SaaS
8 2 (1.105%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.105%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.105%) iPad
8 2 (1.105%) Heroku
8 2 (1.105%) iPhone
8 2 (1.105%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.105%) Social Network
9 1 (0.552%) Podcast
9 1 (0.552%) BBC
9 1 (0.552%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.552%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 56 (30.94%) Linux
2 4 (2.210%) UNIX
3 3 (1.657%) Windows
3 3 (1.657%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.552%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (41.44%) TDD
2 51 (28.18%) Agile Software Development
3 43 (23.76%) Scrum
4 34 (18.78%) Continuous Integration
5 31 (17.13%) OO
6 21 (11.60%) Web Development
7 19 (10.50%) BDD
8 16 (8.840%) E-Commerce
9 11 (6.077%) Web Application Development
10 7 (3.867%) OOD
11 6 (3.315%) OOP
11 6 (3.315%) Refactoring
12 5 (2.762%) Kanban
12 5 (2.762%) Software Engineering
13 4 (2.210%) Test Scripting
13 4 (2.210%) Digital Marketing
13 4 (2.210%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (2.210%) MVC
13 4 (2.210%) Programme Management
14 3 (1.657%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 181 (100.00%) Ruby
2 102 (56.35%) JavaScript
3 25 (13.81%) Java
4 17 (9.392%) Python
5 13 (7.182%) SQL
6 9 (4.972%) PHP
7 4 (2.210%) CoffeeScript
7 4 (2.210%) Perl
8 3 (1.657%) C++
9 2 (1.105%) Groovy
10 1 (0.552%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.552%) Scala
10 1 (0.552%) ActionScript 3.0
10 1 (0.552%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.552%) ECMAScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.630%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (6.077%) Varnish
2 1 (0.552%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 2 (1.105%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (12.15%) Oracle
2 4 (2.210%) SAP
3 1 (0.552%) Adobe
3 1 (0.552%) Twitter
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Posted: 14 May 2013
Ruby On Rails Developer
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London
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Rate: £350 per day
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Ruby on Rails Developer
London
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Rate: £350 per day
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London
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Rate: £350 - £450 per day
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London
X2 Ruby on Rails Developers are required for my market leading client. As the Ruby on Rails Developer, you will have strong technical development and testing skills. As...
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Rate: £300 - £400 per day
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London
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Rate: £350 - £450 per day
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PostgreSQL or MySQL. Familiarity with Agile Methodology (TDD/BDD/XP/Scrum) JavaScript / jQuery. HTML/XHTML/CSS. Linux... Testing (Cucumber/Rspec) Deployment (Chef/Capistrano) - CI (Hudson/CC/Jenkins) Experience...
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Agile (Scrum), TDD and Continuous Integration will be the norm... Ideally, you will have a combination of the following skills/experience: * Excellent hands-on Ruby coding ability * Deep...
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Rate: £400 - £500 per day + Extensions, Flexibility
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Youll need the following skills/attributes: * Ruby on Rails (solid, commercial experience) * MySQL (or equivalent RDBMS) * Knowledge of Javascript using jQuery or Prototype... * Proficiency with Linux/Unix server...
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Rate: Up to UKP 550 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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