Ruby on Rails Contracts in Surrey
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby on Rails 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 Application Development category for the Surrey 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 on Rails (RoR)
Rank 72 96 99
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +3
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 7 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.605% 0.061% 0.110%
As % of the Application Development category 2.141% 0.209% 0.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
Average daily rate £400 - £363
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 - £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 - £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.76% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+62.50% -27.27%
All Application Development
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 327 478 534
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 28.26% 29.04% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 275 294
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £248 £265
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 26 16 15
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.75 £19.00 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ruby on Rails
South East

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Surrey Ruby on Rails Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Surrey region.

Surrey Ruby on Rails Daily Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the Surrey 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
Guildford - 3 £350 -
Ruby on Rails
South East

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails.

1 13 (100.00%) Ruby
2 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
2 9 (69.23%) HTML
2 9 (69.23%) CSS
3 6 (46.15%) jQuery
3 6 (46.15%) BDD
4 5 (38.46%) Git (software)
4 5 (38.46%) RSpec
4 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
5 4 (30.77%) RESTful
5 4 (30.77%) Heroku
5 4 (30.77%) Digital Media
5 4 (30.77%) Workflow
6 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (23.08%) Linux
6 3 (23.08%) Java
6 3 (23.08%) MySQL
6 3 (23.08%) Sinatra
6 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
7 2 (15.38%) Android
7 2 (15.38%) iPhone
7 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
7 2 (15.38%) Social Network
7 2 (15.38%) TestNG
7 2 (15.38%) iPad
7 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (15.38%) Redis
7 2 (15.38%) Facebook
7 2 (15.38%) Facebook Platform

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (69.23%) HTML
1 9 (69.23%) CSS
2 6 (46.15%) jQuery
3 4 (30.77%) RESTful
4 3 (23.08%) Sinatra
5 2 (15.38%) Spring
6 1 (7.692%) Spring MVC
6 1 (7.692%) LAMP
6 1 (7.692%) XHTML
6 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
6 1 (7.692%) .NET
6 1 (7.692%) REST
6 1 (7.692%) Pylons
6 1 (7.692%) Django
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Facebook Platform
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
1 2 (15.38%) ColdFusion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (15.38%) Redis
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.692%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git (software)
1 5 (38.46%) RSpec
1 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
2 2 (15.38%) TestNG
3 1 (7.692%) Maven
3 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.692%) Jasmine
3 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.692%) Hudson
3 1 (7.692%) Capistrano
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Ruby Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) ColdFusion Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Heroku
1 4 (30.77%) Digital Media
2 2 (15.38%) iPhone
2 2 (15.38%) Social Network
2 2 (15.38%) iPad
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.692%) Open Source
3 1 (7.692%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Android
2 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) BDD
2 4 (30.77%) Workflow
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) MVC
3 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (15.38%) TDD
4 1 (7.692%) Web Development
4 1 (7.692%) Pair Programming
4 1 (7.692%) OO
4 1 (7.692%) Build Automation
4 1 (7.692%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Ruby
2 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Facebook
1 2 (15.38%) Twitter
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle
Ruby on Rails - Ruby Heroku Rails - Guildford
Guildford, Surrey
Key Skills - Modern RESTful approach to Ruby on Rails development - Using Git as part of the daily development workflow (or other distributed source control systems) - RSpec/Cucumber with...
Austin Fraser
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 16 May 2013
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