Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills 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 over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the England region.

 Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank412355512
Rank change year-on-year
Down-57Up+157
Matching contract IT job ads587777
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England0.130 %0.210 %0.100 %
As % of the Application Development category0.478 %0.941 %0.409 %
Daily rates quoted152210
Average daily rate£265£318£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.53 %-9.280 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£185£220£290
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£225£475£290
% change year-on-year
-52.63 %+63.79 %
Hourly rates quoted539
Average hourly rate£9.50£12.00£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83 %-65.71 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£9.50£12.00£31.75
% change year-on-year
-20.83 %-62.20 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12124818718828
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England27.24 %22.33 %24.53 %
Daily rates quoted629329026221
Average daily rate£388£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4064621223
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.00£15.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-8.330 %-7.690 %
Ruby on Rails UKRuby on Rails
UK

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.

Ruby on Rails
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England Ruby on Rails Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Ruby on Rails Daily Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the England region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

England Ruby on Rails Daily Rate Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 England region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-9926£283-8.87 %
North WestUp+718£225-
YorkshireUp+105£218-
West MidlandsUp+94--
East MidlandsDown-33--
South EastDown-72--
Ruby on Rails UKRuby on Rails
UK

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1112 (100.00 %)Ruby
264 (57.14 %)CSS
362 (55.36 %)JavaScript
446 (41.07 %)HTML
544 (39.29 %)MySQL
639 (34.82 %)PHP
737 (33.04 %)SQL
836 (32.14 %)XHTML
932 (28.57 %)Perl
1025 (22.32 %)Linux
1121 (18.75 %)OO
1219 (16.96 %)jQuery
1313 (11.61 %)Open Source
1313 (11.61 %)AJAX
1313 (11.61 %)Web Development
1313 (11.61 %)Agile Software Development
1313 (11.61 %)TDD
1412 (10.71 %)Flash
1412 (10.71 %)Web Services
1511 (9.821 %)ActionScript
1511 (9.821 %)CMS
1610 (8.929 %)XML
1610 (8.929 %)MVC
179 (8.036 %)HTTP
179 (8.036 %)Java
188 (7.143 %)Internet
188 (7.143 %)Subversion
197 (6.250 %)C#
206 (5.357 %)UNIX
215 (4.464 %)Spring

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
164 (57.14 %)CSS
246 (41.07 %)HTML
336 (32.14 %)XHTML
419 (16.96 %)jQuery
513 (11.61 %)AJAX
612 (10.71 %)Flash
612 (10.71 %)Web Services
710 (8.929 %)XML
85 (4.464 %)Spring
85 (4.464 %).NET
85 (4.464 %)ASP.NET
94 (3.571 %)RESTful
94 (3.571 %).NET Framework
103 (2.679 %)NHibernate
103 (2.679 %)Hibernate
103 (2.679 %)JSP
103 (2.679 %)XSD
103 (2.679 %)DOM
103 (2.679 %)XSL
103 (2.679 %)ASP.NET MVC
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (9.821 %)CMS
23 (2.679 %)Tomcat
31 (0.893 %)Flash Media Server
31 (0.893 %)ActiveMQ
31 (0.893 %)BizTalk Server
31 (0.893 %)SharePoint
31 (0.893 %)IIS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (1.786 %)Photoshop
21 (0.893 %)Adobe Illustrator
21 (0.893 %)MS Office
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (8.036 %)HTTP
28 (7.143 %)Internet
32 (1.786 %)Intranet
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
144 (39.29 %)MySQL
25 (4.464 %)SQL Server
34 (3.571 %)SQL Server 2005
42 (1.786 %)Oracle 10g
42 (1.786 %)PostgreSQL
51 (0.893 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
51 (0.893 %)SQL Server 2000
51 (0.893 %)Oracle 8/8i
51 (0.893 %)Crystal Reports
51 (0.893 %)SQL Server 2008
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (7.143 %)Subversion
23 (2.679 %)Selenium
23 (2.679 %)RSpec
23 (2.679 %)swfmill
23 (2.679 %)NCover
32 (1.786 %)Eclipse
32 (1.786 %)Maven
41 (0.893 %)WATIR
41 (0.893 %)FitNesse
41 (0.893 %)ReSharper
41 (0.893 %)NUnit
41 (0.893 %)WebObjects
41 (0.893 %)VSS/SourceSafe
41 (0.893 %)csUnit
41 (0.893 %)TeamCity
41 (0.893 %)Git (software)
41 (0.893 %)Team Foundation Server
41 (0.893 %)WatiN
41 (0.893 %)NDepend
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (4.464 %)Marketing
23 (2.679 %)Banking
23 (2.679 %)Retail
32 (1.786 %)Advertising
32 (1.786 %)Publishing
32 (1.786 %)Online Banking
41 (0.893 %)Investment Banking
41 (0.893 %)Finance
41 (0.893 %)Education
41 (0.893 %)Government
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1104 (92.86 %)Developer
259 (52.68 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
341 (36.61 %)Web Developer
47 (6.250 %)Perl Developer
56 (5.357 %)Perl Web Developer
64 (3.571 %)Architect
64 (3.571 %)Applications Developer
64 (3.571 %)Web Applications Developer
73 (2.679 %)Java Developer
73 (2.679 %)Software Developer
73 (2.679 %)iPhone Developer
82 (1.786 %)ScrumMaster
82 (1.786 %)Project Manager
82 (1.786 %)Junior
82 (1.786 %)Systems Developer
82 (1.786 %)Junior Developer
82 (1.786 %)Flash Developer
82 (1.786 %)ActionScript Developer
91 (0.893 %)Web Manager
91 (0.893 %)Web Project Manager
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
113 (11.61 %)Open Source
23 (2.679 %)iPhone
32 (1.786 %)W3C
32 (1.786 %)Web 2.0
41 (0.893 %)Wiki
41 (0.893 %)Social Network
41 (0.893 %)N-Tier
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
125 (22.32 %)Linux
26 (5.357 %)UNIX
32 (1.786 %)CentOS
41 (0.893 %)Ubuntu
41 (0.893 %)Mac OS X
41 (0.893 %)Windows
41 (0.893 %)Mac OS X Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
121 (18.75 %)OO
213 (11.61 %)Web Development
213 (11.61 %)Agile Software Development
213 (11.61 %)TDD
310 (8.929 %)MVC
45 (4.464 %)Scrum
45 (4.464 %)E-Commerce
45 (4.464 %)OOP
45 (4.464 %)Performance Testing
54 (3.571 %)Unit Testing
54 (3.571 %)SEO
63 (2.679 %)Refactoring
63 (2.679 %)Pair Programming
72 (1.786 %)Requirements Analysis
81 (0.893 %)Business Desktop Deployment
81 (0.893 %)Content Management
81 (0.893 %)OOA/OOD
81 (0.893 %)UML
81 (0.893 %)Reverse Engineering
81 (0.893 %)Continuous Integration
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1112 (100.00 %)Ruby
262 (55.36 %)JavaScript
339 (34.82 %)PHP
437 (33.04 %)SQL
532 (28.57 %)Perl
611 (9.821 %)ActionScript
79 (8.036 %)Java
87 (6.250 %)C#
93 (2.679 %)Objective-C
93 (2.679 %)Scala
102 (1.786 %)ActionScript 3.0
102 (1.786 %)Groovy
102 (1.786 %)C
102 (1.786 %)Python
102 (1.786 %)XPath
111 (0.893 %)VB6
111 (0.893 %)C++
111 (0.893 %)PL/SQL
111 (0.893 %)VBA
111 (0.893 %)VB
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (1.786 %)CTC Cleared
12 (1.786 %)Security Cleared
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (2.679 %)WCAG
13 (2.679 %)WAI
England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.893 %)MSMQ
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (4.464 %)Oracle
22 (1.786 %)Microsoft
22 (1.786 %)Google
22 (1.786 %)Zend
31 (0.893 %)Apple
31 (0.893 %)Adobe