Ruby Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 54 77 71
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -6
Contract jobs citing Ruby 19 12 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 2.013% 0.923% 0.297%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.638% 2.505% 1.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 1
Average daily rate £311 £350 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.07% +34.61%
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 337 479 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 35.70% 36.85% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 284 169
Average daily rate £290 £301 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.49% +9.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £226 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 30 16
Average hourly rate £27.75 £27.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.90% +22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.58 £14.73 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £126.90 £37.00 £35.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
North West

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Ruby Daily Rate Trend

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 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
Salford -1 2 £323 +3.20%
Ruby
North West

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 18 (64.29%) Java
2 12 (42.86%) TDD
2 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 10 (35.71%) CSS
4 9 (32.14%) XML
4 9 (32.14%) Apache
4 9 (32.14%) Ruby on Rails
5 8 (28.57%) Web Services
6 7 (25.00%) Linux
6 7 (25.00%) LDAP
6 7 (25.00%) RESTful
6 7 (25.00%) Cucumber
6 7 (25.00%) REST
7 6 (21.43%) Bash shell
7 6 (21.43%) Subversion
7 6 (21.43%) Spring
7 6 (21.43%) Ajax
7 6 (21.43%) JSON
7 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
7 6 (21.43%) UNIX
8 5 (17.86%) MS Visio
8 5 (17.86%) .NET
8 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
8 5 (17.86%) C#
8 5 (17.86%) HTML
8 5 (17.86%) SQL
8 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
8 5 (17.86%) Degree
8 5 (17.86%) .NET Framework
8 5 (17.86%) jQuery

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 10 (35.71%) CSS
2 9 (32.14%) XML
2 9 (32.14%) Ruby on Rails
3 8 (28.57%) Web Services
4 7 (25.00%) RESTful
4 7 (25.00%) REST
5 6 (21.43%) Spring
5 6 (21.43%) Ajax
5 6 (21.43%) JSON
6 5 (17.86%) .NET
6 5 (17.86%) HTML
6 5 (17.86%) .NET Framework
6 5 (17.86%) jQuery
7 4 (14.29%) J2EE
7 4 (14.29%) XSLT
8 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
8 3 (10.71%) SOAP
8 3 (10.71%) CSS3
8 3 (10.71%) JAX-RS
8 3 (10.71%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 9 (32.14%) Apache
2 4 (14.29%) Tomcat
3 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
4 2 (7.143%) Apache Solr
5 1 (3.571%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) MySQL
2 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.143%) MarkLogic
3 2 (7.143%) RavenDB
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (21.43%) Subversion
3 2 (7.143%) GitHub
3 2 (7.143%) Git (software)
3 2 (7.143%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.571%) Maven
General
1 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 2 (7.143%) Publishing
4 1 (3.571%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Systems Support Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Systems Support
3 5 (17.86%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Designer
4 3 (10.71%) UI Designer
5 2 (7.143%) Scala Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Agile .NET Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Programmer
5 2 (7.143%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Interface Designer
6 1 (3.571%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Open Source
1 4 (14.29%) Wiki
2 2 (7.143%) Semantic Web
2 2 (7.143%) Computer Science
2 2 (7.143%) Interactive TV
2 2 (7.143%) NHS
2 2 (7.143%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (21.43%) UNIX
3 1 (3.571%) Windows
3 1 (3.571%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) TDD
2 5 (17.86%) BDD
3 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (14.29%) MVC
3 4 (14.29%) Pair Programming
3 4 (14.29%) RDF
4 3 (10.71%) OO
4 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (10.71%) Web Design
4 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (7.143%) Test Automation
5 2 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (7.143%) Content Management
5 2 (7.143%) Benchmarking
5 2 (7.143%) Scrum
5 2 (7.143%) ITIL
5 2 (7.143%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.571%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Java
2 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 6 (21.43%) Bash shell
4 5 (17.86%) C#
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 5 (17.86%) Groovy
5 4 (14.29%) SPARQL
5 4 (14.29%) XPath
5 4 (14.29%) Perl
5 4 (14.29%) C
5 4 (14.29%) XQuery
6 3 (10.71%) Scala
6 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
7 2 (7.143%) Haskell
7 2 (7.143%) PHP
7 2 (7.143%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.571%) Python
8 1 (3.571%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.143%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Puppet
2 4 (14.29%) Netcool
2 4 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
2 4 (14.29%) IBM
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
JAVA Developer with Camel or Spring experience
Salford, Lancashire
Main skills required : Software Design and Enterprise Architecture patterns, indepth knowledge of Java - J2EE, S XML, XQuery, XSLT, XPath for XML content store manipulation, with Spring and REST...
Rullion IT Plus
Rate: £300.00 - £345.00 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
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