Ruby on Rails Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby on Rails 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 Application Development category for the North West 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 on Rails (RoR)
Rank 113 130 120
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -10
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 5 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.215% 0.064% 0.197%
As % of the Application Development category 0.784% 0.225% 0.802%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £350 £263 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.07% -2.59%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+23.07% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+62.50% -27.27%
Search 11 Ruby on Rails jobs in the North West
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 638 889 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.37% 28.58% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 476 428
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ruby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West Ruby on Rails Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Ruby on Rails Daily Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Ruby on Rails Hourly Rate Trend

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 North West 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
Manchester +11 5 £350 +33.07%
Ruby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 9 (100.00%) Ruby
2 7 (77.78%) CSS
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) HTML
4 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 4 (44.44%) Apache
4 4 (44.44%) Tomcat
4 4 (44.44%) MVC
4 4 (44.44%) Open Source
5 3 (33.33%) Scala
5 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (33.33%) Ajax
5 3 (33.33%) Subversion
5 3 (33.33%) Finance
5 3 (33.33%) LDAP
5 3 (33.33%) Java
6 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
6 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
6 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) Web Services
6 2 (22.22%) XML
6 2 (22.22%) ITIL
6 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
6 2 (22.22%) XHTML
6 2 (22.22%) C#
6 2 (22.22%) NHS
6 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) Lucene

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) XML
4 2 (22.22%) XHTML
4 2 (22.22%) Lucene
4 2 (22.22%) Grails
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (22.22%) LINQ
4 2 (22.22%) Sinatra
4 2 (22.22%) Regular Expression
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) Spring Security
5 1 (11.11%) Spring
5 1 (11.11%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Apache
1 4 (44.44%) Tomcat
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Solr
3 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (22.22%) RavenDB
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 3 (33.33%) Subversion
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Programmer
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Scala Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Open Source
2 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) MVC
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
2 2 (22.22%) TDD
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Ruby
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) Scala
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
4 2 (22.22%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) Haskell
5 1 (11.11%) Objective-C
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Shibboleth
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