The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 81 131 114
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -17
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 60 20 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 2.336% 0.695% 1.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.519% 0.978% 1.408%
Number of salaries quoted 58 14 30
Average salary £40,000 £37,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.96% +7.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,400 £32,500 £29,950
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,500 £42,950
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1705 2045 2202
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 66.39% 71.11% 73.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1564 1746 1976
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
East of England

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Ruby Salary Histogram

Ruby
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Cambridge +37 55 £40,000 +13.47%
Peterborough - 3 £45,000 -
Ruby
East of England

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 66 (60.00%) Perl
2 64 (58.18%) Python
3 56 (50.91%) Linux
4 53 (48.18%) Automated Testing
5 45 (40.91%) Windows
6 43 (39.09%) Test Scripting
7 42 (38.18%) Software Testing
8 39 (35.45%) ISTQB
8 39 (35.45%) QA
8 39 (35.45%) Selenium
8 39 (35.45%) ISEB
9 35 (31.82%) HTML
10 34 (30.91%) Java
10 34 (30.91%) JavaScript
10 34 (30.91%) CSS
11 31 (28.18%) Degree
12 29 (26.36%) jQuery
13 27 (24.55%) Bash shell
14 26 (23.64%) Computer Science
14 26 (23.64%) Ruby on Rails
14 26 (23.64%) UNIX
15 24 (21.82%) PHP
16 23 (20.91%) C#
16 23 (20.91%) Agile Software Development
17 20 (18.18%) Ajax
17 20 (18.18%) Manual Testing
17 20 (18.18%) FitNesse
18 19 (17.27%) MySQL
18 19 (17.27%) Mac OS
19 16 (14.55%) Automation Testing

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 35 (31.82%) HTML
2 34 (30.91%) CSS
3 29 (26.36%) jQuery
4 26 (23.64%) Ruby on Rails
5 20 (18.18%) Ajax
6 14 (12.73%) RESTful
7 13 (11.82%) Web Services
7 13 (11.82%) XML
7 13 (11.82%) .NET
7 13 (11.82%) WPF
8 9 (8.182%) Spring
9 6 (5.455%) D3.js
9 6 (5.455%) JSON
9 6 (5.455%) Hibernate
10 5 (4.545%) Backbone.js
10 5 (4.545%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.636%) Sencha Touch
11 4 (3.636%) J2EE
11 4 (3.636%) Swing
12 3 (2.727%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 8 (7.273%) Apache
1 8 (7.273%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.636%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.727%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (12.73%) Photoshop
2 6 (5.455%) MS Excel
3 4 (3.636%) GIMP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.545%) DNS
2 4 (3.636%) Internet
3 3 (2.727%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.818%) SMTP
4 2 (1.818%) DHCP
4 2 (1.818%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) MySQL
2 10 (9.091%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.364%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.636%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.636%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (2.727%) Redis
5 3 (2.727%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.818%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.909%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.909%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (35.45%) Selenium
2 20 (18.18%) FitNesse
3 11 (10.00%) Subversion
4 10 (9.091%) Git (software)
5 5 (4.545%) Visual Studio
5 5 (4.545%) JUnit
5 5 (4.545%) Maven
6 4 (3.636%) GitHub
6 4 (3.636%) PhoneGap
6 4 (3.636%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 3 (2.727%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (2.727%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 53 (48.18%) Developer
2 25 (22.73%) Software Engineer
2 25 (22.73%) Test Engineer
3 20 (18.18%) Software Test Engineer
4 19 (17.27%) Software Tester
4 19 (17.27%) Tester
5 14 (12.73%) Senior Developer
6 13 (11.82%) Web Developer
7 12 (10.91%) UI Developer
7 12 (10.91%) UI Programmer
8 11 (10.00%) Ruby Developer
9 10 (9.091%) Web Applications Developer
9 10 (9.091%) Applications Developer
10 7 (6.364%) Software Developer
10 7 (6.364%) JavaScript Developer
10 7 (6.364%) WPF Developer
11 6 (5.455%) Java Developer
12 5 (4.545%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.545%) Front-End Developer
13 3 (2.727%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.64%) Computer Science
2 10 (9.091%) Handset
2 10 (9.091%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.545%) Open Source
4 4 (3.636%) Informatics
5 3 (2.727%) Device Driver
5 3 (2.727%) Firmware
5 3 (2.727%) Blog
6 2 (1.818%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.909%) Biology
7 1 (0.909%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 56 (50.91%) Linux
2 45 (40.91%) Windows
3 26 (23.64%) UNIX
4 19 (17.27%) Mac OS
5 9 (8.182%) Android
5 9 (8.182%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.727%) Windows XP
6 3 (2.727%) Windows Vista
6 3 (2.727%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.727%) CentOS
7 1 (0.909%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (48.18%) Automated Testing
2 43 (39.09%) Test Scripting
3 42 (38.18%) Software Testing
4 23 (20.91%) Agile Software Development
5 20 (18.18%) Manual Testing
6 16 (14.55%) Automation Testing
6 16 (14.55%) TDD
7 14 (12.73%) Unit Testing
8 13 (11.82%) MVC
9 8 (7.273%) Scrum
10 7 (6.364%) Information Management
10 7 (6.364%) MVVM
11 6 (5.455%) Test Automation
12 4 (3.636%) Usability Testing
12 4 (3.636%) Performance Testing
12 4 (3.636%) Configuration Management
12 4 (3.636%) OOP
13 3 (2.727%) Regression Testing
13 3 (2.727%) E-Commerce
13 3 (2.727%) Compatibility Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (60.00%) Perl
2 64 (58.18%) Python
3 34 (30.91%) Java
3 34 (30.91%) JavaScript
4 27 (24.55%) Bash shell
5 24 (21.82%) PHP
6 23 (20.91%) C#
7 12 (10.91%) C
8 9 (8.182%) SQL
9 7 (6.364%) C++
10 5 (4.545%) Lisp
11 3 (2.727%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.818%) ECMAScript
13 1 (0.909%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 39 (35.45%) ISTQB
1 39 (35.45%) ISEB
2 31 (28.18%) Degree
3 4 (3.636%) PhD
4 3 (2.727%) Postgraduate
5 2 (1.818%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.818%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (35.45%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.636%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.545%) Puppet
2 3 (2.727%) ZABBIX
2 3 (2.727%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 10 (9.091%) Adobe
2 6 (5.455%) Oracle
3 5 (4.545%) Salesforce.com
3 5 (4.545%) Google
3 5 (4.545%) Twitter
4 4 (3.636%) Sencha
4 4 (3.636%) VMware
5 3 (2.727%) JBoss
5 3 (2.727%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.818%) Microsoft
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