Ruby Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
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 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 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 Programming Languages 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 41 89 69
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -20
Contract jobs citing Ruby 51 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 3.972% 0.374% 0.274%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.28% 1.186% 0.888%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 2 2
Average daily rate £275 £300 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +39.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £200 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £400 £227
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.71% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -27.27%
All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 452 506 338
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 35.20% 31.55% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 302 171
Average daily rate £285 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.30% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £203 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 14
Average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -30.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.94 £12.00 £11.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £37.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
Yorkshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Ruby Daily Rate Trend

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ruby across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Ruby Daily Rate Histogram

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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 +35 49 £275 -8.33%
Ruby
Yorkshire

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 49 (89.09%) C++
1 49 (89.09%) Web Services
1 49 (89.09%) Python
2 47 (85.45%) Linux
3 46 (83.64%) Amazon AWS
3 46 (83.64%) Node.js
4 44 (80.00%) PHP
5 43 (78.18%) Bash shell
6 42 (76.36%) MySQL
6 42 (76.36%) Apache
7 41 (74.55%) DNS
7 41 (74.55%) MongoDB
8 40 (72.73%) nginx
9 39 (70.91%) Amazon EC2
9 39 (70.91%) Amazon S3
9 39 (70.91%) Kanban
9 39 (70.91%) Redis
9 39 (70.91%) Route 53
9 39 (70.91%) Amazon RDS
10 36 (65.45%) Configuration Management
11 34 (61.82%) Internet
11 34 (61.82%) Puppet
12 28 (50.91%) Client/Server
12 28 (50.91%) Oracle
13 27 (49.09%) Telecoms
13 27 (49.09%) TDD
14 25 (45.45%) Java
14 25 (45.45%) Test Automation
15 23 (41.82%) Perl
15 23 (41.82%) HTTP

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 49 (89.09%) Web Services
2 46 (83.64%) Node.js
3 16 (29.09%) POSIX
4 9 (16.36%) jQuery
4 9 (16.36%) CSS
5 7 (12.73%) SOAP
5 7 (12.73%) J2EE
5 7 (12.73%) Spring
5 7 (12.73%) Hibernate
5 7 (12.73%) HTML5
5 7 (12.73%) CSS3
5 7 (12.73%) REST
6 5 (9.091%) LAMP
7 4 (7.273%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (7.273%) .NET
8 2 (3.636%) Lucene
8 2 (3.636%) BREW
8 2 (3.636%) Ajax
8 2 (3.636%) ASP
8 2 (3.636%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 46 (83.64%) Amazon AWS
2 42 (76.36%) Apache
3 40 (72.73%) nginx
4 39 (70.91%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (70.91%) Amazon S3
4 39 (70.91%) Route 53
5 9 (16.36%) Apache Solr
6 7 (12.73%) Tomcat
6 7 (12.73%) Adobe CQ
Business Applications
1 13 (23.64%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (74.55%) DNS
2 34 (61.82%) Internet
3 23 (41.82%) HTTP
4 20 (36.36%) DHCP
4 20 (36.36%) SSL
4 20 (36.36%) TCP/IP
5 12 (21.82%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (5.455%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (76.36%) MySQL
2 41 (74.55%) MongoDB
3 39 (70.91%) Redis
3 39 (70.91%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (34.55%) NoSQL
5 18 (32.73%) RDBMS
6 16 (29.09%) Couchbase
6 16 (29.09%) SimpleDB
7 2 (3.636%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (3.636%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.636%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.636%) RavenDB
7 2 (3.636%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (3.636%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Git (software)
2 7 (12.73%) Maven
2 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.636%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.636%) Capistrano
General
1 27 (49.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 15 (27.27%) Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Operations Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.273%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Cloud Software Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (3.636%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (3.636%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.636%) Senior Technical Architect
7 2 (3.636%) Architect
7 2 (3.636%) Administrator
7 2 (3.636%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.636%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 2 (3.636%) Agile .NET Developer
7 2 (3.636%) Senior Architect
8 1 (1.818%) Graduate
8 1 (1.818%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Python Developer
8 1 (1.818%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (50.91%) Client/Server
2 5 (9.091%) Open Source
3 2 (3.636%) NHS
3 2 (3.636%) Computer Science
3 2 (3.636%) Heroku
3 2 (3.636%) Social Media
4 1 (1.818%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 47 (85.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (70.91%) Kanban
2 36 (65.45%) Configuration Management
3 27 (49.09%) TDD
4 25 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 23 (41.82%) Scrum
6 19 (34.55%) Security Testing
7 18 (32.73%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (32.73%) Load Balancing
8 16 (29.09%) Capacity Management
8 16 (29.09%) Incident Management
9 7 (12.73%) SOA
9 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering
9 7 (12.73%) BDD
10 6 (10.91%) Performance Testing
11 2 (3.636%) Network Design
11 2 (3.636%) Change Management
11 2 (3.636%) ITIL
11 2 (3.636%) PRINCE2
11 2 (3.636%) Refactoring
12 1 (1.818%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 49 (89.09%) C++
1 49 (89.09%) Python
2 44 (80.00%) PHP
3 43 (78.18%) Bash shell
4 25 (45.45%) Java
5 23 (41.82%) Perl
6 11 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.636%) C#
7 2 (3.636%) SQL
7 2 (3.636%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.273%) Degree
Systems Management
1 34 (61.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (50.91%) Oracle
2 17 (30.91%) Percona
3 7 (12.73%) Adobe
3 7 (12.73%) hybris
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