West Yorkshire Ruby on Rails Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails (RoR) skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location Belfast Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Doncaster East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gatwick High Wycombe Lancashire London Manchester North West Northern Ireland Rotherham Scotland Sheffield South East South Yorkshire UK Wales West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	98
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.176 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£237
% change on same period last year	+26.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.50	£26.25
% change on same period last year	+23.80 %
Application Development West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	562	569
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.760 %	0.561 %
Daily rates quoted	99	93
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£324
Average daily rate	£311	£347
% change on same period last year	-10.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.77	£28.80
Average hourly rate	£30.78	£29.67
% change on same period last year	+3.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.80	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
Ruby on Rails Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Ruby on Rails
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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.