Oxfordshire Ruby on Rails Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails (RoR) skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East of England England Glasgow Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Midlands North West Oxfordshire Scotland South East South West Stevenage Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	48
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.645 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£250
% change on same period last year	+13.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.25	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-10.71 %
Application Development Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	119	155
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.240 %	0.190 %
Daily rates quoted	36	28
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£296
Average daily rate	£291	£322
% change on same period last year	-9.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£334
% change on same period last year	-4.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.91	£20.97
Average hourly rate	£22.67	£26.60
% change on same period last year	-14.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£32.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.38	£31.41
% change on same period last year	-9.62 %
Ruby on Rails South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Ruby on Rails
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.