The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Hounslow 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 12 15 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Ruby 7 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 11.86% 1.299% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.42% 4.545% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £475 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.71% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -27.27%
All Programming Languages
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
38 22 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 64.41% 28.57% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 12
Average daily rate £450 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £330 £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £463 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
London

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby across the Hounslow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Hounslow Ruby Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hounslow Ruby Daily Rate Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 10 (83.33%) TDD
1 10 (83.33%) BDD
2 8 (66.67%) HTML
3 7 (58.33%) Java
3 7 (58.33%) Scrum
3 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (50.00%) Pair Programming
5 5 (41.67%) JSON
5 5 (41.67%) Selenium
5 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
6 4 (33.33%) HTTP
6 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 4 (33.33%) CSS
6 4 (33.33%) Web Services
6 4 (33.33%) XML
6 4 (33.33%) Python
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (33.33%) RESTful
7 3 (25.00%) TeamCity
7 3 (25.00%) WebDriver
7 3 (25.00%) WATIR
7 3 (25.00%) CruiseControl
7 3 (25.00%) XSLT
7 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
7 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
7 3 (25.00%) HTML5
8 2 (16.67%) CSS3
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 8 (66.67%) HTML
2 5 (41.67%) JSON
3 4 (33.33%) CSS
3 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) XML
3 4 (33.33%) RESTful
4 3 (25.00%) XSLT
4 3 (25.00%) HTML5
5 2 (16.67%) CSS3
5 2 (16.67%) Cocoa Touch
5 2 (16.67%) Cocoa
5 2 (16.67%) Grails
6 1 (8.333%) Spring
6 1 (8.333%) SOAP
6 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
6 1 (8.333%) REST
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.333%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
1 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (25.00%) WebDriver
2 3 (25.00%) WATIR
2 3 (25.00%) CruiseControl
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (8.333%) Mockito
General
1 2 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Tester
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Agile Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Automation Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Agile Tester
4 1 (8.333%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) DBA
4 1 (8.333%) Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (16.67%) IPTV
1 2 (16.67%) STB
1 2 (16.67%) Open Source
1 2 (16.67%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (8.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) TDD
1 10 (83.33%) BDD
2 7 (58.33%) Scrum
2 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (50.00%) Pair Programming
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) User Stories
5 2 (16.67%) Automation Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 2 (16.67%) DRM
5 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Release Management
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 1 (8.333%) Web Development
6 1 (8.333%) OO
6 1 (8.333%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 7 (58.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (16.67%) Objective-C
5 2 (16.67%) Perl
5 2 (16.67%) Groovy
6 1 (8.333%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISEB
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle
1 1 (8.333%) Red Hat