The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT contracts advertised for the Windsor region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 24 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 Windsor 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 14 11 16
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +5
Contract jobs citing Ruby 1 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 2.857% 8.000% 1.563%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.545% 18.18% 5.882%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
Average daily rate £550 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.23% -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +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
Windsor
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
22 33 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 62.86% 44.00% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 26 7
Average daily rate £480 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £282
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £391 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Ruby
Berkshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windsor 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 Windsor region.

Windsor Ruby Daily Rate Trend

Ruby
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) ColdFusion
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Blog
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Sphinx
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Sphinx
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) ColdFusion
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blog
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Windsor, London
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Posted: 21 May 2013