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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 103 115 113
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 16 11 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.938% 0.543% 0.477%
As % of the Application Development category 1.860% 1.009% 0.945%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 10
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +13.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £35,700 £33,850
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £48,500 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £45,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-14.44% +18.42%
All Application Development
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
860 1090 1058
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 50.44% 53.77% 50.43%
Number of salaries quoted 806 949 956
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Ruby on Rails
Cambridgeshire

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridge Ruby on Rails Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 27 (100.00%) Ruby
2 16 (59.26%) C#
3 15 (55.56%) CSS
4 14 (51.85%) JavaScript
4 14 (51.85%) RESTful
5 13 (48.15%) Web Services
5 13 (48.15%) TDD
6 12 (44.44%) .NET
6 12 (44.44%) MySQL
6 12 (44.44%) PHP
6 12 (44.44%) HTML
6 12 (44.44%) Linux
7 11 (40.74%) jQuery
7 11 (40.74%) Unit Testing
8 10 (37.04%) Java
9 9 (33.33%) Spring
9 9 (33.33%) MVC
9 9 (33.33%) WPF
9 9 (33.33%) Android
9 9 (33.33%) Git (software)
9 9 (33.33%) Apple iOS
10 7 (25.93%) MVVM
10 7 (25.93%) Subversion
10 7 (25.93%) Information Management
10 7 (25.93%) Degree
10 7 (25.93%) Computer Science
10 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
10 7 (25.93%) Python
11 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
11 6 (22.22%) Perl

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 15 (55.56%) CSS
2 14 (51.85%) RESTful
3 13 (48.15%) Web Services
4 12 (44.44%) .NET
4 12 (44.44%) HTML
5 11 (40.74%) jQuery
6 9 (33.33%) Spring
6 9 (33.33%) WPF
7 6 (22.22%) JSON
7 6 (22.22%) Hibernate
8 4 (14.81%) J2EE
8 4 (14.81%) Swing
8 4 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (14.81%) JAX-RS
9 3 (11.11%) Sass
9 3 (11.11%) HTML5
9 3 (11.11%) Node.js
9 3 (11.11%) CSS3
9 3 (11.11%) D3.js
9 3 (11.11%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) Apache
1 4 (14.81%) Tomcat
2 3 (11.11%) Zope
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.704%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) MySQL
2 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (11.11%) Big Data
4 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.407%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 7 (25.93%) Subversion
3 4 (14.81%) Maven
Job Titles
1 23 (85.19%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) WPF Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Senior Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
4 5 (18.52%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Ruby Developer
5 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 1 (3.704%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Computer Science
2 4 (14.81%) Informatics
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (11.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Linux
2 9 (33.33%) Android
2 9 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (11.11%) UNIX
3 3 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) TDD
2 11 (40.74%) Unit Testing
3 9 (33.33%) MVC
4 7 (25.93%) MVVM
4 7 (25.93%) Information Management
5 6 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (22.22%) Automated Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Web Development
7 3 (11.11%) Web Application Development
7 3 (11.11%) OOP
7 3 (11.11%) DNA
7 3 (11.11%) Bioinformatics
7 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.407%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Ruby
2 16 (59.26%) C#
3 14 (51.85%) JavaScript
4 12 (44.44%) PHP
5 10 (37.04%) Java
6 7 (25.93%) Python
7 6 (22.22%) Perl
8 4 (14.81%) SQL
8 4 (14.81%) Lisp
9 3 (11.11%) C++
10 2 (7.407%) Objective-C
10 2 (7.407%) ECMAScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) VMware
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Twitter
2 3 (11.11%) Salesforce.com
2 3 (11.11%) Google
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