Ruby Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 103 104 112
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +8
Contract jobs citing Ruby 17 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.696% 0.152% 0.142%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.610% 0.624% 0.484%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 2
Average daily rate £344 £101 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+242.03% -69.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.85% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -27.27%
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 1056 641 827
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.26% 24.29% 29.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 289 413
Average daily rate £360 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.20% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 29 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £18.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £33.90 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Ruby Hourly 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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 9 £395 -
Glasgow -22 7 £338 +235.82%
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 20 (58.82%) Ruby on Rails
2 19 (55.88%) Java
2 19 (55.88%) JavaScript
3 18 (52.94%) CSS
4 16 (47.06%) HTML
5 11 (32.35%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (29.41%) Scrum
6 10 (29.41%) PHP
6 10 (29.41%) SOA
6 10 (29.41%) HTML5
7 9 (26.47%) MVC
8 8 (23.53%) Hibernate
8 8 (23.53%) JMS
8 8 (23.53%) SQL
8 8 (23.53%) MySQL
8 8 (23.53%) Linux
8 8 (23.53%) Spring
9 7 (20.59%) Oracle
9 7 (20.59%) SOAP
9 7 (20.59%) Web Services
9 7 (20.59%) XML
9 7 (20.59%) UNIX
9 7 (20.59%) TDD
10 6 (17.65%) C#
10 6 (17.65%) Apache
10 6 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (17.65%) Web Application Development
10 6 (17.65%) Git (software)
11 5 (14.71%) RSpec
11 5 (14.71%) CSS3

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 20 (58.82%) Ruby on Rails
2 18 (52.94%) CSS
3 16 (47.06%) HTML
4 10 (29.41%) HTML5
5 8 (23.53%) Hibernate
5 8 (23.53%) JMS
5 8 (23.53%) Spring
6 7 (20.59%) SOAP
6 7 (20.59%) Web Services
6 7 (20.59%) XML
7 5 (14.71%) CSS3
7 5 (14.71%) XML Schema
7 5 (14.71%) .NET
8 4 (11.76%) J2EE
8 4 (11.76%) XHTML
8 4 (11.76%) Flash
8 4 (11.76%) Ajax
8 4 (11.76%) jQuery
9 3 (8.824%) RESTful
9 3 (8.824%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.65%) Apache
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle Coherence
2 5 (14.71%) ESB
2 5 (14.71%) Tomcat
3 3 (8.824%) GlassFish
4 2 (5.882%) Drupal
5 1 (2.941%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Internet
1 4 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (11.76%) Wireless
1 4 (11.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) MySQL
2 5 (14.71%) MongoDB
2 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.941%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git (software)
2 5 (14.71%) RSpec
2 5 (14.71%) Selenium
3 4 (11.76%) CruiseControl
3 4 (11.76%) Maven
3 4 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.824%) WATIR
4 3 (8.824%) Hudson
4 3 (8.824%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.824%) JIRA
5 2 (5.882%) Subversion
5 2 (5.882%) JBehave
5 2 (5.882%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.941%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.941%) Ant
6 1 (2.941%) NetBeans
General
1 4 (11.76%) Retail
2 1 (2.941%) Advertising
2 1 (2.941%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (67.65%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Web Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Software Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Applications Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Lead Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Web Applications Developer
4 3 (8.824%) Build Engineer
4 3 (8.824%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (8.824%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Drupal Developer
5 2 (5.882%) PHP Drupal Developer
6 1 (2.941%) Designer
6 1 (2.941%) Web Engineer
6 1 (2.941%) Automation Analyst
6 1 (2.941%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Smartphone
2 4 (11.76%) IPTV
2 4 (11.76%) Interactive TV
2 4 (11.76%) Video on Demand
3 2 (5.882%) W3C
3 2 (5.882%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.941%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) UNIX
3 2 (5.882%) Solaris
4 1 (2.941%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (29.41%) Scrum
2 10 (29.41%) SOA
3 9 (26.47%) MVC
4 7 (20.59%) TDD
5 6 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (17.65%) Web Application Development
6 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.824%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (8.824%) Web Development
7 3 (8.824%) DSDM
7 3 (8.824%) Extreme Programming
7 3 (8.824%) Workflow
8 2 (5.882%) SEO
8 2 (5.882%) OOP
8 2 (5.882%) Information Architecture
8 2 (5.882%) Test Automation
9 1 (2.941%) Data Architecture
9 1 (2.941%) Analytics
9 1 (2.941%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Java
1 19 (55.88%) JavaScript
2 10 (29.41%) PHP
3 8 (23.53%) SQL
4 6 (17.65%) C#
5 5 (14.71%) Python
6 3 (8.824%) Perl
7 2 (5.882%) PHP5
7 2 (5.882%) Groovy
7 2 (5.882%) CoffeeScript
8 1 (2.941%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.941%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) WAI
Systems Management
1 3 (8.824%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) Informatica
3 4 (11.76%) JBoss
4 3 (8.824%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.882%) Google
5 2 (5.882%) Zend
5 2 (5.882%) Twitter
6 1 (2.941%) Adobe
6 1 (2.941%) Alterian
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