The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales 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 21 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 Wales 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank - 52 56
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 0 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - 0.537% 0.778%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.128% 3.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+62.50% -27.27%
All Application Development
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
88 141 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 20.75% 25.22% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 61 64
Average daily rate £325 £320 £349
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -8.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £397 £440 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
Average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ruby on Rails
UK

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales Ruby on Rails Daily Rate Trend

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 across the Wales region.

Wales Ruby on Rails Hourly Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) REST

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft