The first table below looks at the demand for the Ruby on Rails Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 313 372 418
Rank change year-on-year
+59 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Ruby on Rails Developer 72 34 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.333% 0.127% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.361% 0.137% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 28 13
Average daily rate £400 £363 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £415
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Ruby on Rails Developer
England

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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London 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
City of London +11 12 £363 -13.69%
Ruby on Rails Developer
England

Ruby on Rails Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 137 (100.00%) Ruby
1 137 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 90 (65.69%) JavaScript
3 79 (57.66%) CSS
4 70 (51.09%) TDD
5 68 (49.64%) HTML
6 58 (42.34%) MySQL
7 56 (40.88%) jQuery
8 48 (35.04%) HTML5
9 47 (34.31%) Linux
10 45 (32.85%) CSS3
11 40 (29.20%) Scrum
12 39 (28.47%) Agile Software Development
13 37 (27.01%) Git (software)
13 37 (27.01%) Ajax
14 34 (24.82%) Cucumber
15 32 (23.36%) Continuous Integration
16 29 (21.17%) Open Source
17 26 (18.98%) OO
18 23 (16.79%) SQL Server
18 23 (16.79%) RDBMS
18 23 (16.79%) RSpec
19 20 (14.60%) Oracle
20 19 (13.87%) Java
21 17 (12.41%) Python
21 17 (12.41%) Subversion
21 17 (12.41%) BDD
22 16 (11.68%) Streaming Video
22 16 (11.68%) Finance
23 15 (10.95%) E-Commerce

Ruby on Rails Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 137 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 79 (57.66%) CSS
3 68 (49.64%) HTML
4 56 (40.88%) jQuery
5 48 (35.04%) HTML5
6 45 (32.85%) CSS3
7 37 (27.01%) Ajax
8 15 (10.95%) Django
9 12 (8.759%) Web Services
9 12 (8.759%) XHTML
10 9 (6.569%) RESTful
10 9 (6.569%) Mustache
11 7 (5.109%) Haml
12 6 (4.380%) Node.js
12 6 (4.380%) REST
12 6 (4.380%) Sass
13 4 (2.920%) JRuby
13 4 (2.920%) JSON
14 3 (2.190%) Dojo
14 3 (2.190%) OAuth
Application Platforms
1 13 (9.489%) Apache
2 12 (8.759%) nginx
3 4 (2.920%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (0.730%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.920%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.109%) HTTP
2 5 (3.650%) Intranet
3 4 (2.920%) Internet
4 1 (0.730%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (42.34%) MySQL
2 23 (16.79%) SQL Server
2 23 (16.79%) RDBMS
3 13 (9.489%) NoSQL
4 12 (8.759%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (8.029%) MongoDB
6 9 (6.569%) Redis
7 4 (2.920%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.190%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.460%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.730%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 37 (27.01%) Git (software)
2 34 (24.82%) Cucumber
3 23 (16.79%) RSpec
4 17 (12.41%) Subversion
5 6 (4.380%) Selenium
5 6 (4.380%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.650%) Capistrano
7 4 (2.920%) Capybara
7 4 (2.920%) JUnit
8 3 (2.190%) Hudson
8 3 (2.190%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.460%) GitHub
10 1 (0.730%) JBehave
10 1 (0.730%) CruiseControl
10 1 (0.730%) Flash Builder
10 1 (0.730%) jMock
10 1 (0.730%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (11.68%) Finance
2 14 (10.22%) Games
3 8 (5.839%) Retail
4 7 (5.109%) Publishing
5 4 (2.920%) Marketing
5 4 (2.920%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.920%) Electronics
5 4 (2.920%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.730%) Music
6 1 (0.730%) Music Industry
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.17%) Open Source
2 16 (11.68%) Streaming Video
3 10 (7.299%) Computer Science
4 9 (6.569%) Online Games
4 9 (6.569%) W3C
5 8 (5.839%) Social Media
6 4 (2.920%) DTV
7 3 (2.190%) SaaS
8 2 (1.460%) iPad
8 2 (1.460%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.460%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.460%) Social Network
8 2 (1.460%) iPhone
9 1 (0.730%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.730%) Podcast
9 1 (0.730%) BBC
9 1 (0.730%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.730%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 47 (34.31%) Linux
2 4 (2.920%) UNIX
3 3 (2.190%) Windows
4 2 (1.460%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.730%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (51.09%) TDD
2 40 (29.20%) Scrum
3 39 (28.47%) Agile Software Development
4 32 (23.36%) Continuous Integration
5 26 (18.98%) OO
6 17 (12.41%) BDD
7 15 (10.95%) E-Commerce
8 11 (8.029%) Web Development
9 6 (4.380%) OOP
9 6 (4.380%) OOD
10 5 (3.650%) Software Engineering
10 5 (3.650%) Kanban
10 5 (3.650%) Web Application Development
11 4 (2.920%) Test Scripting
11 4 (2.920%) Refactoring
11 4 (2.920%) Digital Marketing
11 4 (2.920%) Programme Management
11 4 (2.920%) Business Intelligence
12 3 (2.190%) Automated Testing
12 3 (2.190%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 137 (100.00%) Ruby
2 90 (65.69%) JavaScript
3 19 (13.87%) Java
4 17 (12.41%) Python
5 8 (5.839%) PHP
5 8 (5.839%) SQL
6 4 (2.920%) Perl
6 4 (2.920%) CoffeeScript
7 2 (1.460%) Groovy
7 2 (1.460%) C++
8 1 (0.730%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.730%) ECMAScript
8 1 (0.730%) Scala
8 1 (0.730%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 10 (7.299%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (6.569%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (1.460%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (14.60%) Oracle
2 4 (2.920%) SAP
3 1 (0.730%) Adobe
London
You will be an accomplished developer with at least 1 years commerical Ruby on Rails development experience. In return the client offers an excellent working environment, competitive rates...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
It would be beneficial if the Ruby Developer has worked for a social/media company previously but this is not an essential requirement. The Ruby on rails developer...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £300 - £450 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
This Top Digital Agency is looking for a highly technical Ruby on Rails developer with Frontend knowledge... It is essential that you are confident with Ruby on Rails...
Purple Consultancy
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
This Top Digital Agency is looking for a highly technical Ruby on Rails developer with Frontend knowledge... It is essential that you are confident with Ruby on Rails...
Purple Consultancy
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Esential Skills Commercial Ruby on Rails experience. HTML / CSS / JS skills. Experience building web applications using MVC frameworks. Modern RESTful API approach to Ruby on Rails development... Postgres...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Essential Skills Commercial Ruby on Rails experience. HTML / CSS / JS skills. Experience building web applications using MVC frameworks. Modern RESTful API approach to Ruby on Rails development. Agile...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
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...
Bridge Noble
Rate: £350 - £500 per day + (dependant on experience) + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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...
People Source Consulting
Rate: £400 - £500 per day + Extensions, Flexibility
Posted: 10 May 2013