The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails 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 Application Development category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 218 240 292
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +52
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 104 84 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.892% 0.643% 0.253%
As % of the Application Development category 2.317% 1.718% 0.694%
Number of salaries quoted 87 82 36
Average salary £55,000 £53,750 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.32% +22.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £37,500 £40,750
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £74,500 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4488 4889 5623
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.47% 37.42% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3945 4578 5183
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby on Rails
London

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Ruby on Rails Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 216 (91.14%) Ruby
2 113 (47.68%) JavaScript
3 109 (45.99%) Java
4 108 (45.57%) TDD
5 92 (38.82%) CSS
6 81 (34.18%) HTML
7 79 (33.33%) Degree
8 70 (29.54%) C#
9 67 (28.27%) Continuous Integration
10 66 (27.85%) jQuery
11 63 (26.58%) Agile Software Development
12 61 (25.74%) Git (software)
13 56 (23.63%) Banking
14 54 (22.78%) .NET
15 53 (22.36%) Investment Banking
16 52 (21.94%) PHP
17 51 (21.52%) Python
18 48 (20.25%) JSP
19 46 (19.41%) SQL
20 45 (18.99%) Computer Science
20 45 (18.99%) Open Source
21 43 (18.14%) RSpec
22 42 (17.72%) PaaS
22 42 (17.72%) Force.com
23 40 (16.88%) HTML5
23 40 (16.88%) Node.js
24 38 (16.03%) C++
25 37 (15.61%) Scrum
26 36 (15.19%) Finance
26 36 (15.19%) Web Services

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 92 (38.82%) CSS
2 81 (34.18%) HTML
3 66 (27.85%) jQuery
4 54 (22.78%) .NET
5 48 (20.25%) JSP
6 40 (16.88%) HTML5
6 40 (16.88%) Node.js
7 36 (15.19%) Web Services
8 33 (13.92%) J2EE
9 31 (13.08%) Backbone.js
10 28 (11.81%) CSS3
11 24 (10.13%) Underscore.js
12 23 (9.705%) Visualforce
13 22 (9.283%) Django
14 16 (6.751%) XML
15 12 (5.063%) Servlets
15 12 (5.063%) RESTful
15 12 (5.063%) Sinatra
16 11 (4.641%) REST
17 10 (4.219%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 42 (17.72%) Force.com
2 23 (9.705%) Amazon AWS
3 19 (8.017%) Confluence
4 14 (5.907%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (3.797%) CMS
6 8 (3.376%) nginx
7 7 (2.954%) Drupal
7 7 (2.954%) WordPress
7 7 (2.954%) Apache
8 4 (1.688%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.844%) Jetty
10 1 (0.422%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.422%) Rackspace Cloud
10 1 (0.422%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.422%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (0.422%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.422%) Documentum
Applications
1 8 (3.376%) Photoshop
2 5 (2.110%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.422%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.422%) SiteCatalyst
1 1 (0.422%) Optimost
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.329%) Internet
2 9 (3.797%) HTTP
3 2 (0.844%) SAN
4 1 (0.422%) VLAN
4 1 (0.422%) Firewall
4 1 (0.422%) LDAP
4 1 (0.422%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.422%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.24%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.861%) MySQL
3 17 (7.173%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.063%) Oracle 10g
5 8 (3.376%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.376%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.954%) Hadoop
7 6 (2.532%) Redis
8 5 (2.110%) CouchDB
9 4 (1.688%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.844%) Big Data
10 2 (0.844%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.422%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.422%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.422%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 61 (25.74%) Git (software)
2 43 (18.14%) RSpec
3 30 (12.66%) Cucumber
4 23 (9.705%) Subversion
5 20 (8.439%) Ant
6 19 (8.017%) JIRA
7 10 (4.219%) Selenium
8 7 (2.954%) Jenkins
9 6 (2.532%) CruiseControl
9 6 (2.532%) Capistrano
9 6 (2.532%) Hudson
10 3 (1.266%) Maven
11 2 (0.844%) Mockito
11 2 (0.844%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.844%) GitHub
11 2 (0.844%) Capybara
11 2 (0.844%) Gradle
12 1 (0.422%) Mocha
12 1 (0.422%) Mercurial
12 1 (0.422%) Optimizeit
General
1 56 (23.63%) Banking
2 53 (22.36%) Investment Banking
3 36 (15.19%) Finance
4 7 (2.954%) Marketing
5 3 (1.266%) Games
5 3 (1.266%) Publishing
6 2 (0.844%) Retail
7 1 (0.422%) Music
7 1 (0.422%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 217 (91.56%) Developer
2 98 (41.35%) Senior Developer
3 58 (24.47%) Ruby Developer
4 51 (21.52%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 29 (12.24%) Graduate
6 25 (10.55%) Junior
6 25 (10.55%) Junior Developer
7 23 (9.705%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
8 21 (8.861%) Graduate Developer
9 19 (8.017%) JavaScript Developer
10 18 (7.595%) Senior JavaScript Developer
11 11 (4.641%) Front-End Developer
12 10 (4.219%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.797%) Tester
14 8 (3.376%) Lead Developer
14 8 (3.376%) Java Developer
15 5 (2.110%) Designer
15 5 (2.110%) Agile Java Developer
15 5 (2.110%) C# Developer
16 4 (1.688%) Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.99%) Computer Science
1 45 (18.99%) Open Source
2 42 (17.72%) PaaS
3 22 (9.283%) Digital Media
4 16 (6.751%) SaaS
4 16 (6.751%) Heroku
5 14 (5.907%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (5.063%) Data Integration
7 6 (2.532%) Web 2.0
8 4 (1.688%) Social Media
8 4 (1.688%) iPad
8 4 (1.688%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.266%) iPhone
9 3 (1.266%) Social Network
10 1 (0.422%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.422%) Inversion of Control
10 1 (0.422%) Blog
10 1 (0.422%) Podcast
10 1 (0.422%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.422%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.13%) Android
2 21 (8.861%) Apple iOS
3 13 (5.485%) Linux
4 10 (4.219%) Windows
5 5 (2.110%) UNIX
6 1 (0.422%) CentOS
6 1 (0.422%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.422%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (45.57%) TDD
2 67 (28.27%) Continuous Integration
3 63 (26.58%) Agile Software Development
4 37 (15.61%) Scrum
5 35 (14.77%) OO
6 31 (13.08%) E-Commerce
7 29 (12.24%) BDD
8 26 (10.97%) Unit Testing
9 23 (9.705%) OOP
10 17 (7.173%) Web Development
11 16 (6.751%) Pair Programming
12 15 (6.329%) Test Scripting
13 11 (4.641%) Workflow
14 9 (3.797%) MVC
14 9 (3.797%) UML
15 8 (3.376%) SOA
16 7 (2.954%) CQRS
16 7 (2.954%) Software Engineering
16 7 (2.954%) Multithreading
17 5 (2.110%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 216 (91.14%) Ruby
2 113 (47.68%) JavaScript
3 109 (45.99%) Java
4 70 (29.54%) C#
5 52 (21.94%) PHP
6 51 (21.52%) Python
7 46 (19.41%) SQL
8 38 (16.03%) C++
9 24 (10.13%) Apex Code
10 12 (5.063%) Perl
10 12 (5.063%) Bash shell
11 11 (4.641%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.688%) Groovy
13 3 (1.266%) CoffeeScript
13 3 (1.266%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.266%) ECMAScript
13 3 (1.266%) VB
13 3 (1.266%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.844%) Erlang
15 1 (0.422%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 79 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.110%) WAI
2 2 (0.844%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.688%) Varnish
2 2 (0.844%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.422%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.422%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.063%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (12.66%) Oracle
2 16 (6.751%) Salesforce.com
3 6 (2.532%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.532%) Yahoo!
4 4 (1.688%) Adobe
4 4 (1.688%) Google
5 3 (1.266%) Rackspace
5 3 (1.266%) Facebook
6 2 (0.844%) Cisco
6 2 (0.844%) NetApp
6 2 (0.844%) VMware
6 2 (0.844%) Twitter
7 1 (0.422%) Omniture
7 1 (0.422%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.422%) Sun
7 1 (0.422%) ATG
7 1 (0.422%) JBoss
7 1 (0.422%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.422%) Vignette
7 1 (0.422%) SAP
City, London
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Infinitium Recruitment
Salary: From £70,000 to £80,000 per annum 25-30 days holiday etc.
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
The ruby on rails developer will be working on a range of high profile data driven consumer facing web applications! An ideal candidate would probably have either 3...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £55 - £70 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Ruby on Rails developer required by International travel organisation that have developed a name for themselves over the last 10 years of pure class and excellence both in...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Ruby on Rails developer required by International travel organisation that have developed a name for themselves over the last 10 years of pure class and excellence both in...
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
This new online community is driven wholly by the technology staff of this firm and as such they are seeking new Senior Ruby on Rails Developers (Open source,...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £38000 - £60000 per annum + bonus and benefits and training
Posted: 19 May 2013
City, London
This new online community is driven wholly by the technology staff of this firm and as such they are seeking new Senior Ruby on Rails Developers (Open source,...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £38000 - £60000 per annum + bonus and benefits and training
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Technologies and skills we currently work with are:- Object orientated programming, SOLID principles, etc- Ruby- Ruby on Rails- Cross browser HTML5- Cross browser Javascript- MongoDB - MySQL- Amazon Web...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
City, London
You will join a technology driven firm that is committed to the Open Source community; As a Ruby Developer you will design and develop new features of their...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £100000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Class Degree in Computer Science... Ideally proven software development in one or more of: Python, Java, C, C++, Python, Shell (we are language agnostic)... We were the first...
Truphone
Salary: £25,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Skilled in at least 2 of the following languages: JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby on rails, HTML5, SVG... JQuery, node.js, HipHop Coffeescript, Mootools to make bigger leaps faster.
RBW Consulting
Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Computer Science, OOP, PHP, Java, Graduate, Digital Media, Junior, ProgrammerLeading international software house in Central London are currently hiring for brilliant Graduate/Junior Developers with a strong educational...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + excellent benefits + bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Computer Science, OOP, PHP, Java, Graduate, Digital Media, Junior, ProgrammerLeading international software house in Central London are currently hiring for brilliant Graduate/Junior Developers with a strong educational...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 27 April 2013
City, London
Computer Science, OOP, PHP, Java, Graduate, Digital Media, Junior, Programmer... Candidates for this must have the following; Strong educational background (2:1 or higher in Computer Science or...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + excellent benefits + bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
A leading software company is looking for an exceptional Javascript Developer to join their highly skilled team as they start a major 2 year project to rewrite their...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Should be hands-on on all the latest technologies like HTML5, CSS3, JS, JS MVC frameworks and micro-libraries. Should have good experience of using server-side frameworks...
Brightred Resourcing
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 8 May 2013
City, London
As the Systems administrator within the company the day to day responsibilities will include supporting VMware ESX cluster of 3 ~ hosts running about 100 servers, supporting and managing...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
Should be hands-on on all the latest technologies line HTML5, CSS3, JS, JS MVC frameworks and micro-libraries. Should have good experience of using server-side frameworks...
Brightred Resourcing
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 8 May 2013