Ruby on Rails Contracts
 
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 on Rails skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 20 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.

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 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 341 441 499
Rank change year-on-year
+100 +58
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 201 134 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.432% 0.230% 0.148%
As % of the Application Development category 1.579% 0.897% 0.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 101 54
Average daily rate £400 £350 £311
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £251 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £382
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £32.50 £26.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -5.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+62.50% -27.27%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12726 14946 16543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.35% 25.62% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7952 8777 9622
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 376 569
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Ruby on Rails Daily Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Ruby on Rails Daily Rate Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the UK.

Ruby on Rails Hourly Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +113 187 £400 +14.28%
London +55 136 £400 +6.66%
City of London +5 23 £400 -5.88%
South East +25 20 £400 +23.07%
Scotland -1 11 £338 -
West Midlands - 10 £425 -
East of England +24 7 £400 +39.13%
Surrey +25 6 £400 -
North West +20 5 £350 +33.07%
Manchester +13 5 £350 +33.07%
Berkshire +13 5 £550 +69.23%
Glasgow -17 5 £338 -
Warwickshire - 5 £294 -
Oxfordshire +4 4 £275 -
Yorkshire +2 4 £300 +71.42%
Slough -10 4 - -
Warwick - 4 £313 -
Hertfordshire +11 3 £325 +13.04%
Kent - 3 - -
Stirling - 3 £475 -
Cambridgeshire +13 2 £413 -
Cambridge +10 2 £413 -
Oxford +2 2 £275 -
Leeds +1 2 £300 +71.42%
West Yorkshire -3 2 £300 +71.42%
Bedfordshire - 2 £400 -
Stirlingshire - 2 £475 -
Westminster - 2 £500 -
Cheshunt - 2 £325 -
Guildford - 2 £350 -

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 371 (97.63%) Ruby
2 202 (53.16%) JavaScript
3 191 (50.26%) CSS
4 156 (41.05%) HTML
5 124 (32.63%) TDD
6 119 (31.32%) MySQL
7 108 (28.42%) jQuery
8 97 (25.53%) Git (software)
8 97 (25.53%) HTML5
9 95 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
10 90 (23.68%) Linux
11 88 (23.16%) CSS3
12 82 (21.58%) Scrum
13 78 (20.53%) Java
14 75 (19.74%) Ajax
15 61 (16.05%) Cucumber
16 60 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
17 56 (14.74%) Open Source
18 52 (13.68%) OO
19 49 (12.89%) Web Services
20 48 (12.63%) MVC
21 47 (12.37%) PHP
21 47 (12.37%) SQL Server
21 47 (12.37%) JSON
21 47 (12.37%) RSpec
21 47 (12.37%) BDD
22 46 (12.11%) Oracle
23 44 (11.58%) Apache
23 44 (11.58%) NoSQL
24 40 (10.53%) MongoDB

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 191 (50.26%) CSS
2 156 (41.05%) HTML
3 108 (28.42%) jQuery
4 97 (25.53%) HTML5
5 88 (23.16%) CSS3
6 75 (19.74%) Ajax
7 49 (12.89%) Web Services
8 47 (12.37%) JSON
9 39 (10.26%) RESTful
10 33 (8.684%) Django
11 29 (7.632%) .NET
12 23 (6.053%) Spring
12 23 (6.053%) REST
13 22 (5.789%) XHTML
14 20 (5.263%) Sinatra
15 17 (4.474%) XML
16 15 (3.947%) J2EE
17 14 (3.684%) SOAP
17 14 (3.684%) Hibernate
18 13 (3.421%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 44 (11.58%) Apache
2 24 (6.316%) nginx
3 16 (4.211%) Tomcat
3 16 (4.211%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (2.895%) ActiveMQ
5 10 (2.632%) ColdFusion
6 9 (2.368%) Apache Solr
7 7 (1.842%) WordPress
8 5 (1.316%) Amazon AWS
8 5 (1.316%) ESB
8 5 (1.316%) Oracle Coherence
8 5 (1.316%) Drupal
9 3 (0.789%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.789%) ExpressionEngine
9 3 (0.789%) Lotus Notes
9 3 (0.789%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.789%) Orchard CMS
10 2 (0.526%) Facebook Platform
10 2 (0.526%) CMS
11 1 (0.263%) Jetty
Applications
1 5 (1.316%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.526%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.263%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.263%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.263%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.579%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.263%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.947%) Internet
2 12 (3.158%) LDAP
3 11 (2.895%) HTTP
3 11 (2.895%) Intranet
4 4 (1.053%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.053%) Wireless
4 4 (1.053%) Broadband
4 4 (1.053%) DNS
5 3 (0.789%) SMTP
5 3 (0.789%) TACACS
6 1 (0.263%) SMS
6 1 (0.263%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (31.32%) MySQL
2 47 (12.37%) SQL Server
3 44 (11.58%) NoSQL
4 40 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 35 (9.211%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (8.684%) Redis
7 26 (6.842%) RDBMS
8 12 (3.158%) Big Data
9 8 (2.105%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.579%) Riak
11 5 (1.316%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.053%) RavenDB
12 4 (1.053%) SQL Server 2005
12 4 (1.053%) SQL Server 2008
12 4 (1.053%) Oracle 8/8i
12 4 (1.053%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.789%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.526%) CouchDB
15 1 (0.263%) SimpleDB
15 1 (0.263%) DB2
Development Applications
1 97 (25.53%) Git (software)
2 61 (16.05%) Cucumber
3 47 (12.37%) RSpec
4 40 (10.53%) Subversion
5 17 (4.474%) Jenkins
6 16 (4.211%) Selenium
7 15 (3.947%) Capistrano
8 13 (3.421%) Visual Studio
9 9 (2.368%) Mercurial
10 8 (2.105%) GitHub
11 7 (1.842%) Maven
12 6 (1.579%) WebDriver
13 5 (1.316%) Jasmine
13 5 (1.316%) Capybara
13 5 (1.316%) Hudson
14 4 (1.053%) JUnit
15 2 (0.526%) TestNG
15 2 (0.526%) WATIR
15 2 (0.526%) Eclipse
16 1 (0.263%) Xcode
General
1 38 (10.00%) Finance
2 33 (8.684%) Games
3 14 (3.684%) Retail
4 9 (2.368%) Telecoms
5 7 (1.842%) Publishing
6 6 (1.579%) Marketing
6 6 (1.579%) Electronics
6 6 (1.579%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.789%) Music
8 1 (0.263%) Music Industry
8 1 (0.263%) Banking
8 1 (0.263%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 318 (83.68%) Developer
2 186 (48.95%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 59 (15.53%) Ruby Developer
4 44 (11.58%) Senior Developer
5 36 (9.474%) Web Developer
6 27 (7.105%) Java Developer
7 15 (3.947%) Architect
8 10 (2.632%) Software Developer
8 10 (2.632%) .NET Developer
9 8 (2.105%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (1.842%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
10 7 (1.842%) Analyst
11 6 (1.579%) Agile .NET Developer
11 6 (1.579%) Senior .NET Developer
12 5 (1.316%) Front-End Developer
12 5 (1.316%) Software Engineer
12 5 (1.316%) Business Analyst
13 4 (1.053%) Tester
13 4 (1.053%) Systems Engineer
13 4 (1.053%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.74%) Open Source
2 27 (7.105%) Computer Science
3 17 (4.474%) Streaming Video
4 14 (3.684%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.421%) Social Media
6 12 (3.158%) W3C
7 11 (2.895%) Online Games
8 10 (2.632%) iPhone
8 10 (2.632%) Heroku
9 9 (2.368%) Digital Media
10 8 (2.105%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.105%) iPad
11 6 (1.579%) PaaS
11 6 (1.579%) Social Network
11 6 (1.579%) DTV
11 6 (1.579%) IaaS
12 5 (1.316%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.316%) SaaS
13 4 (1.053%) Visualisation
13 4 (1.053%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 90 (23.68%) Linux
2 10 (2.632%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.105%) Ubuntu
4 7 (1.842%) UNIX
5 6 (1.579%) Windows
5 6 (1.579%) Android
5 6 (1.579%) Mac OS X
6 5 (1.316%) Gentoo
7 3 (0.789%) Solaris
8 1 (0.263%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.263%) Debian
8 1 (0.263%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.263%) Windows Phone 8
8 1 (0.263%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (32.63%) TDD
2 95 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 82 (21.58%) Scrum
4 60 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 52 (13.68%) OO
6 48 (12.63%) MVC
7 47 (12.37%) BDD
8 36 (9.474%) Web Development
9 23 (6.053%) Kanban
10 22 (5.789%) Web Application Development
10 22 (5.789%) E-Commerce
11 13 (3.421%) OOD
12 12 (3.158%) Metaprogramming
13 11 (2.895%) Automated Testing
14 9 (2.368%) Software Engineering
14 9 (2.368%) Workflow
14 9 (2.368%) Configuration Management
14 9 (2.368%) OOP
14 9 (2.368%) Test Scripting
15 8 (2.105%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 371 (97.63%) Ruby
2 202 (53.16%) JavaScript
3 78 (20.53%) Java
4 47 (12.37%) PHP
5 39 (10.26%) SQL
6 31 (8.158%) Python
7 26 (6.842%) C#
8 20 (5.263%) Scala
9 12 (3.158%) Groovy
10 11 (2.895%) Perl
11 8 (2.105%) VB.NET
11 8 (2.105%) Haskell
11 8 (2.105%) CoffeeScript
12 6 (1.579%) Clojure
12 6 (1.579%) Erlang
13 5 (1.316%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.316%) C++
14 4 (1.053%) Lisp
14 4 (1.053%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.789%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (6.053%) Degree
2 4 (1.053%) PhD
2 4 (1.053%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.526%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.263%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.632%) QA
System Software
1 18 (4.737%) Varnish
2 4 (1.053%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.526%) Shibboleth
4 1 (0.263%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.579%) Puppet
2 2 (0.526%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.263%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 46 (12.11%) Oracle
2 15 (3.947%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.105%) Twitter
4 7 (1.842%) Facebook
4 7 (1.842%) SAP
5 6 (1.579%) Zend
6 5 (1.316%) Informatica
6 5 (1.316%) Google
7 4 (1.053%) Apple
7 4 (1.053%) VMware
8 3 (0.789%) Lotus
9 2 (0.526%) Teradata
9 2 (0.526%) Adobe
10 1 (0.263%) Citrix
10 1 (0.263%) JBoss
10 1 (0.263%) Alterian
10 1 (0.263%) i-GRasp
10 1 (0.263%) Omniture
10 1 (0.263%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.263%) Joyent
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