The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the County Antrim region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 22 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 County Antrim region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 40 41 33
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 8 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 3.101% 0.467% 0.995%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.096% 0.870% 1.869%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
Average salary £25,000 - £32,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,800 - £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £31,000 - £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
County Antrim
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
157 115 107
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 60.85% 53.74% 53.23%
Number of salaries quoted 114 61 66
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
Northern Ireland

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim Ruby Salary Trend

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 County Antrim region over the 3 months to 22 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
Belfast +5 8 £25,000 -
Ruby
Northern Ireland

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
3 4 (50.00%) OO
3 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) QA
4 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Test Management
4 3 (37.50%) Java
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Perl
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
5 2 (25.00%) HTML5
5 2 (25.00%) Puppet
5 2 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (25.00%) jQuery
6 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Social Network
6 1 (12.50%) WATIR
6 1 (12.50%) Selenium
6 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
6 1 (12.50%) JIRA
6 1 (12.50%) Content Management
6 1 (12.50%) Maven
6 1 (12.50%) High Availability
6 1 (12.50%) Facebook

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML5
1 2 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) XHTML
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) WATIR
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 1 (12.50%) Build Forge
1 1 (12.50%) ClearCase
1 1 (12.50%) Ant
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Software Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Junior
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Junior Software Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Junior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Release Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Social Network
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Test Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) YUM
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Facebook
1 1 (12.50%) AccuRev
1 1 (12.50%) IBM
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) JBoss