The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills 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 over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 121 186 279
Rank change year-on-year
+65 +93
Contract jobs citing Ruby 364 264 169
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.681% 0.980% 0.544%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.101% 2.600% 1.281%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 205 94
Average daily rate £400 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £270 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 £32.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +48.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -27.27%
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
8875 10154 13197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 40.98% 37.69% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6378 6878 8900
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 £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 157 180
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.85 £18.00 £18.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
England

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Ruby Daily Rate Trend

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ruby across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Ruby Daily Rate Histogram

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Ruby Hourly Rate Trend

Ruby
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ruby across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Ruby Hourly Rate Histogram

Ruby
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +17 69 £400 -5.88%
Hounslow +2 6 £500 -
Brentford - 3 £475 -
Docklands, London - 2 £488 -
Westminster - 2 £500 -
Canary Wharf - 1 £500 -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Ruby
England

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 332 (42.56%) JavaScript
2 325 (41.67%) Java
3 284 (36.41%) TDD
4 252 (32.31%) Agile Software Development
5 249 (31.92%) Ruby on Rails
6 241 (30.90%) CSS
7 235 (30.13%) Cucumber
8 204 (26.15%) HTML
9 199 (25.51%) BDD
10 197 (25.26%) Linux
11 167 (21.41%) Scrum
12 162 (20.77%) Python
13 158 (20.26%) Selenium
14 146 (18.72%) Continuous Integration
15 141 (18.08%) HTML5
15 141 (18.08%) Web Services
16 138 (17.69%) MySQL
17 132 (16.92%) Open Source
18 121 (15.51%) QA
19 118 (15.13%) OO
20 114 (14.62%) CSS3
21 109 (13.97%) jQuery
22 106 (13.59%) Git (software)
23 103 (13.21%) Perl
24 101 (12.95%) Finance
24 101 (12.95%) PHP
25 94 (12.05%) E-Commerce
25 94 (12.05%) WebDriver
26 90 (11.54%) Spring
27 86 (11.03%) XML

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 249 (31.92%) Ruby on Rails
2 241 (30.90%) CSS
3 204 (26.15%) HTML
4 141 (18.08%) HTML5
4 141 (18.08%) Web Services
5 114 (14.62%) CSS3
6 109 (13.97%) jQuery
7 90 (11.54%) Spring
8 86 (11.03%) XML
9 71 (9.103%) JSON
10 70 (8.974%) RESTful
11 69 (8.846%) Ajax
12 64 (8.205%) .NET
13 51 (6.538%) REST
14 50 (6.410%) J2EE
14 50 (6.410%) SOAP
15 48 (6.154%) Hibernate
16 46 (5.897%) Grails
17 33 (4.231%) Node.js
18 26 (3.333%) Django
Application Platforms
1 49 (6.282%) Apache
2 44 (5.641%) Amazon AWS
3 42 (5.385%) Tomcat
4 26 (3.333%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (2.436%) nginx
6 17 (2.179%) CMS
7 11 (1.410%) Adobe CQ
8 10 (1.282%) Apache Solr
9 9 (1.154%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (1.154%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (0.897%) Apache Pig
11 6 (0.769%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.769%) WordPress
11 6 (0.769%) Drupal
12 4 (0.513%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.513%) Windows Azure
13 2 (0.256%) IIS
13 2 (0.256%) Confluence
13 2 (0.256%) Google App Engine
13 2 (0.256%) Alfresco
Applications
1 3 (0.385%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.256%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.128%) Google Apps
3 1 (0.128%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.154%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (0.256%) Summit
2 2 (0.256%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.128%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.385%) HTTP
2 28 (3.590%) Internet
3 22 (2.821%) DNS
4 12 (1.538%) SAN
5 9 (1.154%) LDAP
6 7 (0.897%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.769%) Kerberos
7 6 (0.769%) AMQP
8 5 (0.641%) Wireshark
8 5 (0.641%) Intranet
9 3 (0.385%) SSH
9 3 (0.385%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.256%) SNMP
10 2 (0.256%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.128%) Junos
11 1 (0.128%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.128%) NAS
11 1 (0.128%) ATM
11 1 (0.128%) SMTP
11 1 (0.128%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (17.69%) MySQL
2 56 (7.179%) NoSQL
3 54 (6.923%) RDBMS
4 48 (6.154%) MongoDB
5 47 (6.026%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.385%) Apache Cassandra
7 38 (4.872%) Hadoop
8 33 (4.231%) Big Data
9 32 (4.103%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (3.333%) Redis
11 18 (2.308%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.538%) Amazon DynamoDB
13 6 (0.769%) CouchDB
13 6 (0.769%) Apache Hive
14 5 (0.641%) Riak
15 4 (0.513%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.513%) Neo4j
16 3 (0.385%) Couchbase
16 3 (0.385%) SQL Server 2005
16 3 (0.385%) SimpleDB
Development Applications
1 235 (30.13%) Cucumber
2 158 (20.26%) Selenium
3 106 (13.59%) Git (software)
4 94 (12.05%) WebDriver
5 73 (9.359%) Subversion
6 69 (8.846%) Jenkins
7 49 (6.282%) RSpec
8 43 (5.513%) WATIR
9 38 (4.872%) Hudson
10 32 (4.103%) Maven
11 22 (2.821%) TeamCity
11 22 (2.821%) JUnit
12 18 (2.308%) FitNesse
13 17 (2.179%) CruiseControl
14 14 (1.795%) Capistrano
15 13 (1.667%) Mercurial
16 12 (1.538%) Visual Studio
16 12 (1.538%) JIRA
16 12 (1.538%) Capybara
17 11 (1.410%) Jasmine
General
1 101 (12.95%) Finance
2 41 (5.256%) Games
3 38 (4.872%) Publishing
4 30 (3.846%) Banking
5 22 (2.821%) Investment Banking
6 21 (2.692%) Marketing
7 18 (2.308%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.179%) Front Office
9 14 (1.795%) Retail
10 9 (1.154%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.154%) Electronics
11 6 (0.769%) French Language
11 6 (0.769%) German Language
11 6 (0.769%) Music
12 5 (0.641%) Law
12 5 (0.641%) Back Office
12 5 (0.641%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.385%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.256%) Legal
14 2 (0.256%) Billing
Job Titles
1 449 (57.56%) Developer
2 138 (17.69%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 103 (13.21%) Java Developer
4 72 (9.231%) Ruby Developer
5 55 (7.051%) DevOps Engineer
6 50 (6.410%) Tester
7 44 (5.641%) Analyst
8 43 (5.513%) Senior Developer
9 39 (5.000%) Test Analyst
10 37 (4.744%) Web Developer
11 36 (4.615%) Software Engineer
12 33 (4.231%) QA Engineer
13 24 (3.077%) Automation Tester
14 21 (2.692%) Test Engineer
15 20 (2.564%) Architect
16 19 (2.436%) Linux Engineer
16 19 (2.436%) Agile Java Developer
17 18 (2.308%) Front-End Developer
18 15 (1.923%) Automation Analyst
18 15 (1.923%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 132 (16.92%) Open Source
2 40 (5.128%) Computer Science
3 34 (4.359%) Mobile App
4 33 (4.231%) Digital Media
5 24 (3.077%) Social Media
6 23 (2.949%) Derivative
7 20 (2.564%) Streaming Video
8 19 (2.436%) iPhone
9 17 (2.179%) Video on Demand
10 14 (1.795%) W3C
10 14 (1.795%) Online Games
10 14 (1.795%) SaaS
11 13 (1.667%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.538%) IPTV
12 12 (1.538%) Mathematics
13 11 (1.410%) PaaS
14 9 (1.154%) IaaS
14 9 (1.154%) Blog
14 9 (1.154%) DTV
15 8 (1.026%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 197 (25.26%) Linux
2 62 (7.949%) UNIX
3 41 (5.256%) Windows
4 39 (5.000%) Android
5 32 (4.103%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.923%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (1.538%) Solaris
8 11 (1.410%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.282%) CentOS
10 6 (0.769%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.641%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.513%) SUSE
12 4 (0.513%) Debian
13 3 (0.385%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.256%) Gentoo
14 2 (0.256%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.256%) VMS
14 2 (0.256%) Windows Phone
15 1 (0.128%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.128%) Windows Phone 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (36.41%) TDD
2 252 (32.31%) Agile Software Development
3 199 (25.51%) BDD
4 167 (21.41%) Scrum
5 146 (18.72%) Continuous Integration
6 118 (15.13%) OO
7 94 (12.05%) E-Commerce
8 55 (7.051%) Kanban
9 49 (6.282%) Automated Testing
10 46 (5.897%) Test Automation
11 43 (5.513%) Refactoring
12 41 (5.256%) Automation Testing
13 36 (4.615%) MVC
13 36 (4.615%) Pair Programming
14 28 (3.590%) Regression Testing
15 27 (3.462%) OOP
16 26 (3.333%) Software Engineering
17 22 (2.821%) Software Testing
17 22 (2.821%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (2.692%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 332 (42.56%) JavaScript
2 325 (41.67%) Java
3 162 (20.77%) Python
4 103 (13.21%) Perl
5 101 (12.95%) PHP
6 69 (8.846%) C#
7 66 (8.462%) Scala
8 64 (8.205%) Groovy
9 60 (7.692%) SQL
10 50 (6.410%) C++
11 27 (3.462%) Shell Script
12 22 (2.821%) Bash shell
13 18 (2.308%) C
14 12 (1.538%) ActionScript
15 11 (1.410%) Clojure
15 11 (1.410%) XPath
16 8 (1.026%) Objective-C
17 7 (0.897%) Erlang
17 7 (0.897%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.769%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 56 (7.179%) Degree
2 13 (1.667%) ISEB
3 6 (0.769%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.385%) RHCE
5 1 (0.128%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.128%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.128%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.128%) CISSP
5 1 (0.128%) GIAC
5 1 (0.128%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (15.51%) QA
2 1 (0.128%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (2.051%) Varnish
2 15 (1.923%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.154%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.385%) NFS
5 2 (0.256%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.128%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.128%) Xen
6 1 (0.128%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.128%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 72 (9.231%) Puppet
2 9 (1.154%) Nagios
3 7 (0.897%) Splunk
4 5 (0.641%) YUM
5 4 (0.513%) Cobbler
5 4 (0.513%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 3 (0.385%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (0.385%) SCCM
6 3 (0.385%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.256%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.256%) CFEngine
8 1 (0.128%) Cacti
8 1 (0.128%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.128%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.128%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 55 (7.051%) Oracle
2 22 (2.821%) Red Hat
2 22 (2.821%) Microsoft
3 19 (2.436%) VMware
4 11 (1.410%) Zend
5 10 (1.282%) JBoss
5 10 (1.282%) SAP
6 9 (1.154%) Google
6 9 (1.154%) hybris
6 9 (1.154%) Informatica
7 8 (1.026%) FatWire
7 8 (1.026%) Endeca
8 7 (0.897%) Facebook
9 6 (0.769%) HP
9 6 (0.769%) Twitter
10 5 (0.641%) Apple
11 4 (0.513%) Perforce
12 3 (0.385%) Rackspace
12 3 (0.385%) Sybase
12 3 (0.385%) OpenTV
London
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Redrock Consulting Ltd
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
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Rate: market rates
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
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Rate: £325 - £375 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Rate: From £350 to £400 per day + Toothbrush
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
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Reed Technology
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
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Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
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Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 per day + negotiable
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
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Experis IT
Rate: £300 - £400 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
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People Source Consulting
Rate: £400 - £500 per day + Extensions, Flexibility
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
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Personnel IT
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
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Infinitium Recruitment
Rate: From £35,000 to £70,000 per annum + Benefits etc
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
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Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
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bridgenoble
Rate: £350 - £500 per day + (dependant on experience) + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
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Rate: £350 - £500 per day + (dependant on experience) + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
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Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
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Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
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Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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London
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Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
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NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
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Rate: £400 - £475 per day
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London
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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Rate: £0.00 - £425.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Rate: Market rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
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