Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Yorkshire region.

 Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank7380-
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7New entry-
Matching contract IT job ads530
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire0.328 %0.198 %-
As % of the Application Development category1.437 %0.820 %-
Daily rates quoted200
Average daily rate£218--
UK excluding London average daily rate£225£475£290
% change year-on-year
-52.63 %+63.79 %
Hourly rates quoted230
Average hourly rate£17.50£12.00-
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.83 %-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£9.50£12.00£31.75
% change year-on-year
-20.83 %-62.20 %
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
348366730
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire22.82 %24.14 %20.74 %
Daily rates quoted14780145
Average daily rate£275£300£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.330 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£180£200£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£373£350£350
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted383372
Average hourly rate£24.00£22.50£25.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-11.76 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£12.00£22.40
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.00£33.80£30.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
Ruby on Rails EnglandRuby on Rails
England

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.

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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Yorkshire Ruby on Rails Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Ruby on Rails Daily Rate Trend

Ruby on Rails
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
West YorkshireNew entry-2--
South YorkshireUp+31£175-
Ruby on Rails EnglandRuby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

113 (100.00 %)Ruby
26 (46.15 %)CSS
35 (38.46 %)MySQL
44 (30.77 %)HTML
44 (30.77 %)JavaScript
44 (30.77 %)ActionScript
44 (30.77 %)Flash
52 (15.38 %)E-Commerce
52 (15.38 %)Linux
52 (15.38 %)jQuery
61 (7.692 %)C#
61 (7.692 %)AJAX
61 (7.692 %)Marketing
61 (7.692 %).NET Framework
61 (7.692 %)Retail
61 (7.692 %).NET
61 (7.692 %)W3C
61 (7.692 %)XHTML
61 (7.692 %)Perl
61 (7.692 %)PHP
61 (7.692 %)SQL
61 (7.692 %)SQL Server
61 (7.692 %)Photoshop
61 (7.692 %)IIS
61 (7.692 %)ASP.NET

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16 (46.15 %)CSS
24 (30.77 %)HTML
24 (30.77 %)Flash
32 (15.38 %)jQuery
41 (7.692 %)AJAX
41 (7.692 %).NET Framework
41 (7.692 %).NET
41 (7.692 %)XHTML
41 (7.692 %)ASP.NET
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (7.692 %)IIS
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (7.692 %)Photoshop
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (38.46 %)MySQL
21 (7.692 %)SQL Server
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (7.692 %)Marketing
11 (7.692 %)Retail
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
113 (100.00 %)Developer
211 (84.62 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
31 (7.692 %)Web Developer
31 (7.692 %)Flash Developer
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (7.692 %)W3C
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12 (15.38 %)Linux
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (15.38 %)E-Commerce
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
113 (100.00 %)Ruby
24 (30.77 %)JavaScript
24 (30.77 %)ActionScript
31 (7.692 %)C#
31 (7.692 %)Perl
31 (7.692 %)PHP
31 (7.692 %)SQL