Hertfordshire Ruby on Rails Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails (RoR) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hertfordshire Leeds London Manchester Midlands North West Scotland South East South West Stevenage Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.230 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£242
% change on same period last year	+17.24 %
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	£30.83	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	244	519
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.392 %	0.557 %
Daily rates quoted	92	208
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£274
Average daily rate	£339	£290
% change on same period last year	+17.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£305
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.87	£31.48
Average hourly rate	£29.93	£32.78
% change on same period last year	-8.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£34.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.57	£31.61
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Ruby on Rails East of England

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

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 Hertfordshire region.

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stevenage	-	2	-	-

Ruby on Rails East of England

Ruby on Rails
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00 %) MySQL 1 3 (100.00 %) Linux 1 3 (100.00 %) Ruby 2 2 (66.67 %) Marketing 3 1 (33.33 %) PostgreSQL 3 1 (33.33 %) Scrum 3 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (33.33 %) TDD 3 1 (33.33 %) Subversion

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) MySQL 2 1 (33.33 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Subversion
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) Ruby On Rails Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Scrum 1 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 1 1 (33.33 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) Ruby