Ruby on Rails Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly 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 West Yorkshire 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 17 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 West Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 89 91 72
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -19
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.158% 0.185% 0.178%
As % of the Application Development category 0.535% 0.822% 0.847%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £300 £175 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+71.42% -23.91%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+8.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+62.50% -27.27%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 374 365 236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 29.47% 22.56% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 215 122
Average daily rate £300 £310 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +12.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
Average hourly rate £33.00 £13.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+140.00% -67.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ruby on Rails
Yorkshire

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Ruby on Rails Hourly 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leeds -9 2 £300 +71.42%
Ruby on Rails
Yorkshire

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
1 4 (100.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Lucene
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Solr
2 2 (50.00%) CouchDB
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Heroku
2 2 (50.00%) Capistrano
2 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Sinatra
2 2 (50.00%) RavenDB
2 2 (50.00%) Regular Expression
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) BREW
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) LINQ
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) XHTML
1 2 (50.00%) Lucene
1 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) BREW
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) LINQ
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Sinatra
1 2 (50.00%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) CouchDB
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (50.00%) Capistrano
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
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