The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 55 55 64
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 26 24 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 3.390% 3.175% 0.207%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.635% 4.554% 0.346%
Number of salaries quoted 24 21 0
Average salary £30,000 £41,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.71% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-8.75% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
561 527 289
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 73.14% 69.71% 59.96%
Number of salaries quoted 519 483 279
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
East Sussex

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 21 (67.74%) JavaScript
2 20 (64.52%) CMS
2 20 (64.52%) Continuous Integration
3 18 (58.06%) jQuery
3 18 (58.06%) MVC
3 18 (58.06%) MySQL
4 17 (54.84%) CSS
4 17 (54.84%) HTML
4 17 (54.84%) OOP
4 17 (54.84%) PHP
4 17 (54.84%) LAMP
4 17 (54.84%) Cloud Computing
4 17 (54.84%) GitHub
5 10 (32.26%) WebDriver
5 10 (32.26%) Test Scripting
5 10 (32.26%) Degree
5 10 (32.26%) QA
5 10 (32.26%) Selenium
5 10 (32.26%) Linux
6 9 (29.03%) SQL
6 9 (29.03%) Scrum
6 9 (29.03%) Social Media
6 9 (29.03%) Cucumber
7 8 (25.81%) Automated Testing
7 8 (25.81%) Windows
8 7 (22.58%) Marketing
8 7 (22.58%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (16.13%) Finance
10 4 (12.90%) ISTQB
10 4 (12.90%) Git (software)

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 18 (58.06%) jQuery
2 17 (54.84%) HTML
2 17 (54.84%) CSS
2 17 (54.84%) LAMP
3 3 (9.677%) Spring
3 3 (9.677%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (6.452%) JSF
4 2 (6.452%) Visualforce
4 2 (6.452%) Struts
5 1 (3.226%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 20 (64.52%) CMS
2 2 (6.452%) Force.com
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) SMTP
1 1 (3.226%) HTTP
1 1 (3.226%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.226%) DNS
1 1 (3.226%) BGP
1 1 (3.226%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (58.06%) MySQL
2 1 (3.226%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.226%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 17 (54.84%) GitHub
2 10 (32.26%) Selenium
2 10 (32.26%) WebDriver
3 9 (29.03%) Cucumber
4 4 (12.90%) Git (software)
4 4 (12.90%) JIRA
5 3 (9.677%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (22.58%) Marketing
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (64.52%) Developer
2 17 (54.84%) Programmer
2 17 (54.84%) PHP Developer
2 17 (54.84%) PHP Programmer
2 17 (54.84%) Web Programmer
2 17 (54.84%) LAMP Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Tester
4 5 (16.13%) Web Tester
5 4 (12.90%) Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Test Analyst
6 3 (9.677%) Automated Tester
7 2 (6.452%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.452%) Salesforce.com Developer
7 2 (6.452%) Automation Tester
8 1 (3.226%) Ruby Developer
8 1 (3.226%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.226%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.226%) Administrator
8 1 (3.226%) Manual Tester
8 1 (3.226%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 17 (54.84%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (29.03%) Social Media
3 2 (6.452%) Mathematics
3 2 (6.452%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Windows
3 1 (3.226%) UNIX
3 1 (3.226%) Debian
3 1 (3.226%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Continuous Integration
2 18 (58.06%) MVC
3 17 (54.84%) OOP
4 10 (32.26%) Test Scripting
5 9 (29.03%) Scrum
6 8 (25.81%) Automated Testing
7 7 (22.58%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (6.452%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (6.452%) OO
8 2 (6.452%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (3.226%) TDD
9 1 (3.226%) Regression Testing
9 1 (3.226%) Web Testing
9 1 (3.226%) Test Automation
9 1 (3.226%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) JavaScript
2 17 (54.84%) PHP
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 3 (9.677%) Perl
4 3 (9.677%) Java
5 2 (6.452%) C#
5 2 (6.452%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.226%) Bash shell
6 1 (3.226%) Python
6 1 (3.226%) ECMAScript
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) ISEB
2 4 (12.90%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.226%) Xen
1 1 (3.226%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.226%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (6.452%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (3.226%) VMware
Brighton, East Sussex
As such we are looking for excellent team players and good communicators with solid PHP Developer / Web Developer exposure, incorporating the following technologies: -PHP / OOP (Ruby or other...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - 35000 Per Annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
In addition you will require the following: -DNS, SMTP, HTTP -Scripting: Either Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python -PostgreSQL or MySQL Working in a Java environment Additional experience of Puppet,...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £32000 Per Annum £32,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Hands-on experience of Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber or similar automated testing software... Experience with JIRA. Selenium RC. Continuous Integration utilising Jenkins or similar. ISEB\ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate.
Hydrogen Group
Salary: £30000.00 - £38000.00 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Brighton, South East
Main duties will be:Work with the product team leads, technical leads and product managers to understandthe new functionality being developedCreate and execute manual and automated test plans,...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: Negotiable + Monthly and yearly bonuses
Posted: 30 April 2013