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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 63 52 50
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 2 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 0.333% 0.280% 0.262%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.694% 0.508% 0.645%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Average salary £47,500 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-8.75% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
288 197 155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 47.92% 55.18% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 266 175 152
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% -9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,600 £24,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,400 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
West Midlands

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 14 (100.00%) HTML
2 9 (64.29%) CSS
2 9 (64.29%) PHP
2 9 (64.29%) SQL
3 8 (57.14%) ActionScript
3 8 (57.14%) Web Services
3 8 (57.14%) Java
3 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 8 (57.14%) Linux
3 8 (57.14%) Apache
3 8 (57.14%) C++
3 8 (57.14%) Subversion
3 8 (57.14%) Ajax
3 8 (57.14%) Ruby on Rails
3 8 (57.14%) Open Source
4 5 (35.71%) Mobile App
4 5 (35.71%) HTML5
4 5 (35.71%) Android
4 5 (35.71%) iPhone
4 5 (35.71%) Windows Mobile
4 5 (35.71%) Objective-C
4 5 (35.71%) Back Office
4 5 (35.71%) Windows
5 1 (7.143%) MySQL
5 1 (7.143%) Scrum
5 1 (7.143%) SOA
5 1 (7.143%) Degree
5 1 (7.143%) Hudson
5 1 (7.143%) Yii
5 1 (7.143%) REST

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 14 (100.00%) HTML
2 9 (64.29%) CSS
3 8 (57.14%) Web Services
3 8 (57.14%) Ajax
3 8 (57.14%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (35.71%) HTML5
5 1 (7.143%) Yii
5 1 (7.143%) REST
5 1 (7.143%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 8 (57.14%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Subversion
2 1 (7.143%) Hudson
2 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Senior Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Team Leader
2 8 (57.14%) Ruby Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (7.143%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Open Source
2 5 (35.71%) Mobile App
2 5 (35.71%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Mobile
2 5 (35.71%) Android
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.143%) SOA
1 1 (7.143%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PHP
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) ActionScript
2 8 (57.14%) C++
2 8 (57.14%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) Degree