The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby 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 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 65 97 98
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +1
Contract jobs citing Ruby 15 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.304% 0.062% 0.107%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.538% 0.156% 0.303%
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 £323 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.85% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -27.27%
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
424 639 660
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 36.87% 39.69% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 338 357
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £494 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 50 32
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £22.50 £23.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.60 £42.50
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 Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Ruby Daily Rate Trend

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ruby across the Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey 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
Guildford - 6 £350 -
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 17 (80.95%) JavaScript
2 13 (61.90%) Ruby on Rails
3 10 (47.62%) Scrum
4 9 (42.86%) HTML
4 9 (42.86%) .NET
4 9 (42.86%) CSS
5 8 (38.10%) Python
5 8 (38.10%) MS Excel
5 8 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
5 8 (38.10%) C#
5 8 (38.10%) Games
5 8 (38.10%) Release Management
5 8 (38.10%) Online Games
5 8 (38.10%) SCOM
5 8 (38.10%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (38.10%) Windows Azure
6 6 (28.57%) BDD
6 6 (28.57%) jQuery
7 5 (23.81%) RSpec
7 5 (23.81%) Git (software)
7 5 (23.81%) Cucumber
8 4 (19.05%) Digital Media
8 4 (19.05%) RESTful
8 4 (19.05%) Heroku
8 4 (19.05%) Workflow
9 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (14.29%) Linux
9 3 (14.29%) MySQL
9 3 (14.29%) Java

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 13 (61.90%) Ruby on Rails
2 9 (42.86%) HTML
2 9 (42.86%) .NET
2 9 (42.86%) CSS
3 6 (28.57%) jQuery
4 4 (19.05%) RESTful
5 3 (14.29%) Sinatra
6 2 (9.524%) Spring
7 1 (4.762%) LAMP
7 1 (4.762%) XHTML
7 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET
7 1 (4.762%) Pylons
7 1 (4.762%) Django
7 1 (4.762%) Spring MVC
7 1 (4.762%) REST
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (38.10%) Windows Azure
2 2 (9.524%) Facebook Platform
2 2 (9.524%) Apache
2 2 (9.524%) Tomcat
2 2 (9.524%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 8 (38.10%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (14.29%) MySQL
2 2 (9.524%) Redis
2 2 (9.524%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.762%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) RSpec
1 5 (23.81%) Git (software)
1 5 (23.81%) Cucumber
2 2 (9.524%) TestNG
3 1 (4.762%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.762%) Hudson
3 1 (4.762%) Capistrano
3 1 (4.762%) Maven
3 1 (4.762%) Jasmine
3 1 (4.762%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (38.10%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Ruby Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.524%) ColdFusion Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Web Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Online Games
2 4 (19.05%) Digital Media
2 4 (19.05%) Heroku
3 2 (9.524%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.524%) iPhone
3 2 (9.524%) Social Network
3 2 (9.524%) iPad
4 1 (4.762%) Open Source
4 1 (4.762%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.524%) Android
2 2 (9.524%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Scrum
2 8 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (38.10%) Release Management
3 6 (28.57%) BDD
4 4 (19.05%) Workflow
5 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (9.524%) TDD
5 2 (9.524%) MVC
6 1 (4.762%) OO
6 1 (4.762%) Pair Programming
6 1 (4.762%) Web Development
6 1 (4.762%) Build Automation
6 1 (4.762%) Web Application Development
6 1 (4.762%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) JavaScript
2 8 (38.10%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (9.524%) PHP
5 1 (4.762%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.524%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) SCOM
2 1 (4.762%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.524%) Facebook
2 2 (9.524%) Twitter
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle