The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 195 205 177
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -28
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 13 22 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.245% 0.354% 0.557%
As % of the Application Development category 0.749% 0.907% 1.401%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 28
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £47,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £45,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-14.44% +18.42%
All Application Development
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1735 2426 2141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 32.68% 39.08% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1567 2175 1916
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Ruby on Rails
South East

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Ruby on Rails Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire Ruby on Rails Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading - 6 £56,250 - 1
Ascot - 1 - -
Ruby on Rails
South East

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Ruby on Rails.

1 15 (100.00%) Ruby
2 10 (66.67%) MySQL
3 8 (53.33%) Java
3 8 (53.33%) Open Source
4 7 (46.67%) Linux
4 7 (46.67%) TDD
5 6 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (40.00%) CSS
6 5 (33.33%) PHP
6 5 (33.33%) Mac OS X
6 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 5 (33.33%) HTML5
6 5 (33.33%) Puppet
6 5 (33.33%) CSS3
7 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
7 4 (26.67%) Redis
7 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
7 4 (26.67%) Scala
7 4 (26.67%) REST
7 4 (26.67%) Apache
7 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (26.67%) Perl
7 4 (26.67%) Web Services
7 4 (26.67%) UNIX
7 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (26.67%) Scrum
7 4 (26.67%) Ajax
7 4 (26.67%) JSON
7 4 (26.67%) Django

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Ruby on Rails. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (40.00%) CSS
2 5 (33.33%) HTML5
2 5 (33.33%) CSS3
3 4 (26.67%) REST
3 4 (26.67%) Web Services
3 4 (26.67%) Ajax
3 4 (26.67%) JSON
3 4 (26.67%) Django
3 4 (26.67%) jQuery
4 3 (20.00%) Zend Framework
4 3 (20.00%) J2EE
5 2 (13.33%) Sass
5 2 (13.33%) Haml
5 2 (13.33%) JRuby
5 2 (13.33%) HTML
6 1 (6.667%) Ext JS
6 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
6 1 (6.667%) .NET
6 1 (6.667%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Apache
2 3 (20.00%) nginx
3 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
3 2 (13.33%) Jetty
4 1 (6.667%) WordPress
4 1 (6.667%) ElasticSearch
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (6.667%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) VLAN
1 1 (6.667%) Firewall
1 1 (6.667%) DHCP
1 1 (6.667%) SNMP
1 1 (6.667%) DNS
1 1 (6.667%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) MySQL
2 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (26.67%) Redis
2 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (6.667%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
2 3 (20.00%) PHPUnit
2 3 (20.00%) RSpec
2 3 (20.00%) Phing
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Capistrano
2 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (13.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (13.33%) Advertising
2 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Open Source
2 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
2 1 (6.667%) Social Media
2 1 (6.667%) SaaS
2 1 (6.667%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Mac OS X
3 4 (26.67%) UNIX
4 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (20.00%) Gentoo
5 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
5 2 (13.33%) Windows XP
5 2 (13.33%) Windows
5 2 (13.33%) Solaris
5 2 (13.33%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) TDD
2 6 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
3 4 (26.67%) Kanban
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Active Record
5 2 (13.33%) OO
5 2 (13.33%) Refactoring
6 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
6 1 (6.667%) Web Development
6 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.667%) MVC
6 1 (6.667%) SEO
6 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
6 1 (6.667%) Web Accessibility
6 1 (6.667%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Ruby
2 8 (53.33%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) PHP
3 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 4 (26.67%) Scala
4 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (26.67%) Perl
5 3 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) Bash shell
6 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Zend
2 2 (13.33%) Joyent
2 2 (13.33%) Rackspace
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.667%) Akamai
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