Ruby Contracts in the South West
 
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 South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 22 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 South 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 103 129 -
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -
Contract jobs citing Ruby 8 10 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.388% 0.303% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.072% 0.796% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
Average daily rate £283 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.71% +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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 746 1257 959
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 36.20% 38.06% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 725 426
Average daily rate £325 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 77 91
Average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £17.30 £20.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £48.20 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Ruby
England

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bristol +14 4 £265 +39.47%
Gloucestershire +30 3 £550 +62.96%
Dorset - 1 - -
Ruby
England

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (43.75%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) Scrum
3 5 (31.25%) Linux
3 5 (31.25%) C
3 5 (31.25%) TDD
3 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) BDD
4 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) jQuery
5 3 (18.75%) WATIR
5 3 (18.75%) Selenium
5 3 (18.75%) FitNesse
5 3 (18.75%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (18.75%) IronRuby
5 3 (18.75%) MacRuby
5 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
5 3 (18.75%) JRuby
5 3 (18.75%) WebDriver
5 3 (18.75%) C#
5 3 (18.75%) HTML
5 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) Web Services
5 3 (18.75%) Python
5 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
5 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (18.75%) Perl
6 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (12.50%) Finance

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 3 (18.75%) jQuery
1 3 (18.75%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (18.75%) MacRuby
1 3 (18.75%) JRuby
1 3 (18.75%) HTML
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) WinForms
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) NHibernate
3 1 (6.250%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.250%) MySQL
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) WATIR
1 3 (18.75%) Selenium
1 3 (18.75%) FitNesse
1 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
1 3 (18.75%) WebDriver
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
2 2 (12.50%) Hudson
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Ruby Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Tester
4 1 (6.250%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Open Source
1 2 (12.50%) Social Media
2 1 (6.250%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) CentOS
2 2 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.250%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Scrum
2 5 (31.25%) TDD
2 5 (31.25%) BDD
3 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
5 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (12.50%) SOA
5 2 (12.50%) Web Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Kanban
5 2 (12.50%) Agile Testing
6 1 (6.250%) User Stories
6 1 (6.250%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) C
3 3 (18.75%) IronRuby
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Perl
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (12.50%) PHP
4 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
5 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
5 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (6.250%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) JBoss
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