The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 20 June 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 South East 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 182 225 213
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -12
Contract jobs citing Ruby 35 17 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.430% 0.173% 0.331%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.302% 0.574% 0.986%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 25
Average daily rate £400 £363 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% +16.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £164 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £518 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -48.38%
All Programming Languages
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2689 2961 3551
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.05% 30.13% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1341 1437 1610
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 213 294
Average hourly rate £35.39 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £21.68 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.10 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Ruby
England

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Surrey +32 17 £400 - 5
Berkshire +17 10 £475 +52.00% 5
Oxfordshire -2 3 - - 7
East Sussex +4 2 - -
Hampshire - 2 £278 - 8
Middlesex +6 1 - - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £350 -
Kent - - - - 1
Ruby
England

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 37 (64.91%) Ruby on Rails
2 36 (63.16%) JavaScript
3 20 (35.09%) CSS
4 19 (33.33%) .NET
4 19 (33.33%) HTML
5 17 (29.82%) C#
5 17 (29.82%) Games
5 17 (29.82%) Scrum
6 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
7 15 (26.32%) jQuery
7 15 (26.32%) MS Excel
8 14 (24.56%) MVC
9 13 (22.81%) Agile Software Development
10 12 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (21.05%) Python
11 11 (19.30%) Java
11 11 (19.30%) Release Management
11 11 (19.30%) Online Games
11 11 (19.30%) SCOM
11 11 (19.30%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (19.30%) Windows Azure
12 10 (17.54%) BDD
13 9 (15.79%) Web Development
13 9 (15.79%) Redis
14 8 (14.04%) Cucumber
14 8 (14.04%) JSON
14 8 (14.04%) TDD
15 7 (12.28%) Ajax
15 7 (12.28%) Linux
15 7 (12.28%) Web Application Development

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 37 (64.91%) Ruby on Rails
2 20 (35.09%) CSS
3 19 (33.33%) .NET
3 19 (33.33%) HTML
4 15 (26.32%) jQuery
5 8 (14.04%) JSON
6 7 (12.28%) Ajax
7 6 (10.53%) XHTML
8 5 (8.772%) ASP.NET
8 5 (8.772%) XML
9 4 (7.018%) XSLT
9 4 (7.018%) RESTful
9 4 (7.018%) .NET Framework
9 4 (7.018%) LINQ
9 4 (7.018%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 3 (5.263%) Node.js
10 3 (5.263%) Sinatra
11 2 (3.509%) Web Services
11 2 (3.509%) Spring
11 2 (3.509%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 11 (19.30%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (19.30%) Windows Azure
2 3 (5.263%) ColdFusion
3 2 (3.509%) CMS
3 2 (3.509%) Apache
3 2 (3.509%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.509%) Facebook Platform
Applications
1 15 (26.32%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.754%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) Intranet
2 1 (1.754%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.754%) HTTP
2 1 (1.754%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Redis
2 7 (12.28%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.53%) Big Data
3 6 (10.53%) MySQL
3 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 5 (8.772%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.509%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.509%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.509%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.754%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Cucumber
2 5 (8.772%) RSpec
3 4 (7.018%) Visual Studio
3 4 (7.018%) Git (software)
3 4 (7.018%) Selenium
4 3 (5.263%) WebDriver
5 2 (3.509%) TestNG
5 2 (3.509%) Maven
5 2 (3.509%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.509%) Hudson
5 2 (3.509%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.754%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.754%) NUnit
6 1 (1.754%) JBehave
6 1 (1.754%) Capistrano
6 1 (1.754%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.754%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 17 (29.82%) Games
2 2 (3.509%) Finance
2 2 (3.509%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.754%) Marketing
3 1 (1.754%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.754%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 35 (61.40%) Developer
2 16 (28.07%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 11 (19.30%) Senior Developer
4 9 (15.79%) Ruby Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Web Developer
6 4 (7.018%) .NET Developer
6 4 (7.018%) Senior Web Developer
6 4 (7.018%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.018%) .NET Web Developer
6 4 (7.018%) Senior .NET Developer
6 4 (7.018%) Senior .NET Web Developer
7 3 (5.263%) QA Engineer
8 2 (3.509%) Java Developer
9 1 (1.754%) Automated Test Engineer
9 1 (1.754%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 1 (1.754%) JavaScript Developer
9 1 (1.754%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (1.754%) Front-End Developer
9 1 (1.754%) Digital Project Manager
9 1 (1.754%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Online Games
2 4 (7.018%) Social Network
3 3 (5.263%) Digital Media
3 3 (5.263%) Heroku
3 3 (5.263%) Open Source
4 2 (3.509%) Blog
4 2 (3.509%) iPad
4 2 (3.509%) iPhone
4 2 (3.509%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.754%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.754%) SaaS
5 1 (1.754%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 2 (3.509%) UNIX
2 2 (3.509%) Android
2 2 (3.509%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.82%) Scrum
2 14 (24.56%) MVC
3 13 (22.81%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (19.30%) Release Management
6 10 (17.54%) BDD
7 9 (15.79%) Web Development
8 8 (14.04%) TDD
9 7 (12.28%) Web Application Development
10 6 (10.53%) Metaprogramming
11 5 (8.772%) PRINCE2
12 4 (7.018%) Kanban
12 4 (7.018%) Game Development
13 3 (5.263%) Workflow
14 2 (3.509%) OOP
14 2 (3.509%) OO
14 2 (3.509%) E-Commerce
14 2 (3.509%) Pair Programming
15 1 (1.754%) Build Automation
15 1 (1.754%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) JavaScript
2 17 (29.82%) C#
3 12 (21.05%) Python
4 11 (19.30%) Java
5 4 (7.018%) SQL
5 4 (7.018%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.509%) Perl
6 2 (3.509%) PHP
6 2 (3.509%) Scala
7 1 (1.754%) Groovy
7 1 (1.754%) Bash shell
7 1 (1.754%) C
7 1 (1.754%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (5.263%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.509%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.018%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) SCOM
2 1 (1.754%) SCCM
2 1 (1.754%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.509%) Oracle
2 2 (3.509%) Facebook
2 2 (3.509%) Twitter
3 1 (1.754%) SAP
3 1 (1.754%) HP
South East
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Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £250.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
UK South East
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Premier Group
Rate: £250.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Guildford, South East
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Rate: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Competitive Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
Richmond, Surrey
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Rate: From £400 to £500 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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