The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 107 87 91
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +4
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 9 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.537% 0.344% 0.226%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.202% 0.763% 0.565%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 3
Average salary £45,000 £72,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.93% +107.14%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-8.75% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
749 655 531
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 44.69% 45.08% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 651 610 483
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% +18.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,150 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
West Midlands

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Ruby Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Ruby.

1 11 (78.57%) Java
1 11 (78.57%) MySQL
1 11 (78.57%) Scala
1 11 (78.57%) MongoDB
2 10 (71.43%) NoSQL
2 10 (71.43%) Social Media
2 10 (71.43%) Clojure
2 10 (71.43%) CouchDB
2 10 (71.43%) Alfresco
2 10 (71.43%) Jackrabbit
2 10 (71.43%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (71.43%) Eclipse
2 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 10 (71.43%) Hibernate
2 10 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (71.43%) Subversion
2 10 (71.43%) Spring
2 10 (71.43%) Maven
2 10 (71.43%) Java EE
2 10 (71.43%) Degree
2 10 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 10 (71.43%) Erlang
3 3 (21.43%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (21.43%) PHP
4 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) RSpec
4 2 (14.29%) jQuery
4 2 (14.29%) nginx

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Ruby. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (71.43%) Hibernate
1 10 (71.43%) Spring
1 10 (71.43%) Java EE
2 3 (21.43%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (7.143%) Haml
4 1 (7.143%) Memcached
4 1 (7.143%) Node.js
4 1 (7.143%) PostGIS
4 1 (7.143%) HTML
4 1 (7.143%) CSS
4 1 (7.143%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 10 (71.43%) Alfresco
2 2 (14.29%) nginx
3 1 (7.143%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) MySQL
1 11 (78.57%) MongoDB
2 10 (71.43%) NoSQL
2 10 (71.43%) CouchDB
2 10 (71.43%) Jackrabbit
3 1 (7.143%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.143%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Eclipse
1 10 (71.43%) Subversion
1 10 (71.43%) Maven
2 2 (14.29%) Capistrano
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (14.29%) RSpec
3 1 (7.143%) PHPUnit
3 1 (7.143%) Phing
3 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 10 (71.43%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.143%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Head of Development
3 1 (7.143%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Computer Science
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Computing
1 10 (71.43%) Social Media
2 1 (7.143%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.143%) Open Source
2 1 (7.143%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.143%) Mac OS X
2 1 (7.143%) Gentoo
2 1 (7.143%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.143%) Android
2 1 (7.143%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.143%) Active Record
3 1 (7.143%) Static Code Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) TDD
3 1 (7.143%) Automated Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Web Development
3 1 (7.143%) Refactoring
3 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.143%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Java
1 11 (78.57%) Scala
2 10 (71.43%) Clojure
2 10 (71.43%) Erlang
3 3 (21.43%) PHP
4 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) Zend
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Ideally you'll have knowledge of Ruby, JavaScript, CSS, XML, HTML, Apache, Linux and WML... - Zend Smarty, Symfony MVC framework exposure - Knowledge of PHP 5 Object Orientated PHP,...
BTR Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: From £18,000 to £22,000 per annum plus bens
Posted: 13 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Also required is unit testing, automated testing and continuous integration, with an emphasis on refactoring is a key to this role. Tech skills; PHP, node.js, ruby, MangoDB,...
ISL
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013