The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 23 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 Oxfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 44 52 44
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -8
Contract jobs citing Ruby 4 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.887% 0.804% 0.862%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.797% 2.016% 1.990%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
Average daily rate £275 £275 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.85% +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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
143 248 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 31.71% 39.87% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 127 105
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -0.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £469 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 7
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% -25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Oxford 0 2 £275 -
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 4 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Redis

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 4 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP