Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England 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 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the East of England region.

 Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank170174275
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+101
Matching permanent IT job ads23239
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England0.390 %0.356 %0.069 %
As % of the Application Development category1.061 %0.952 %0.191 %
Salaries quoted13226
Average salary£34,000£37,500£28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.330 %+31.57 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£20,450£28,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£35,000£44,500£44,168
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£35,000£30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %+16.66 %
East of England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
216824164704
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England36.79 %37.38 %36.22 %
Salaries quoted195521293993
Average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£52,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Ruby on Rails EnglandRuby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East of England Ruby on Rails Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the East of England region.

East of England Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East of England Ruby on Rails Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
CambridgeshireDown-511£34,000-12.25 %
SuffolkNew entry-7--
EssexUp+233£18,500-56.47 %
NorfolkNew entry-2£35,000-
HertfordshireDown-21£35,000-3.44 %
Ruby on Rails EnglandRuby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

138 (100.00 %)Ruby
221 (55.26 %)Java
221 (55.26 %)JavaScript
316 (42.11 %)TDD
415 (39.47 %)PHP
514 (36.84 %)C
514 (36.84 %)MySQL
514 (36.84 %)CSS
514 (36.84 %)AJAX
613 (34.21 %)XHTML
711 (28.95 %)SQL
711 (28.95 %)Agile Software Development
810 (26.32 %)Degree
810 (26.32 %)Perl
99 (23.68 %)XML
108 (21.05 %)HTML
108 (21.05 %)OOP
117 (18.42 %)C++
117 (18.42 %)SOAP
117 (18.42 %)Web Services
117 (18.42 %)Migration
117 (18.42 %)Content Management
117 (18.42 %)Automated Testing
117 (18.42 %)Web 2.0
117 (18.42 %)PaaS
126 (15.79 %)Capacity Planning
126 (15.79 %)jQuery
126 (15.79 %)Usability Testing
126 (15.79 %)Adobe Flex
126 (15.79 %)Selenium

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

East of England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
114 (36.84 %)CSS
114 (36.84 %)AJAX
213 (34.21 %)XHTML
39 (23.68 %)XML
48 (21.05 %)HTML
57 (18.42 %)SOAP
57 (18.42 %)Web Services
66 (15.79 %)Adobe Flex
66 (15.79 %)jQuery
74 (10.53 %)Django
74 (10.53 %)Flash
74 (10.53 %)LAMP
83 (7.895 %).NET
83 (7.895 %)J2ME
91 (2.632 %)XMPP
91 (2.632 %).NET Framework
91 (2.632 %)JRuby
91 (2.632 %)J2EE
91 (2.632 %)ASP.NET
East of England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (13.16 %)CMS
24 (10.53 %)WordPress
24 (10.53 %)ExpressionEngine
24 (10.53 %)Apache
31 (2.632 %)ColdFusion
East of England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (10.53 %)Adobe Illustrator
21 (2.632 %)MS Visio
East of England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (13.16 %)Internet
23 (7.895 %)RFID
23 (7.895 %)SMS
23 (7.895 %)HTTP
East of England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
114 (36.84 %)MySQL
21 (2.632 %)PostgreSQL
East of England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
16 (15.79 %)Selenium
23 (7.895 %)Subversion
32 (5.263 %)RSpec
41 (2.632 %)Git (software)
East of England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16 (15.79 %)Finance
24 (10.53 %)Social Media
33 (7.895 %)Banking
33 (7.895 %)Billing
42 (5.263 %)Pensions
42 (5.263 %)Health
East of England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
134 (89.47 %)Developer
214 (36.84 %)Software Developer
311 (28.95 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
311 (28.95 %)Web Developer
410 (26.32 %)Applications Developer
410 (26.32 %)Lead Developer
410 (26.32 %)Web Applications Developer
57 (18.42 %)Lead Java Developer
57 (18.42 %)Java Developer
57 (18.42 %)Java Web Developer
57 (18.42 %)Java Applications Developer
57 (18.42 %)Lead Web Developer
65 (13.16 %)Senior Developer
65 (13.16 %)Senior Software Developer
74 (10.53 %)Web Designer
74 (10.53 %)Designer
83 (7.895 %)Mobile Applications Developer
83 (7.895 %)Mobile Developer
83 (7.895 %)Lead Software Developer
83 (7.895 %)Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
East of England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
17 (18.42 %)Web 2.0
17 (18.42 %)PaaS
24 (10.53 %)Statistics
24 (10.53 %)Social Network
33 (7.895 %)Smartcard
41 (2.632 %)RIA
41 (2.632 %)Open Source
East of England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (15.79 %)Linux
23 (7.895 %)UNIX
East of England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
116 (42.11 %)TDD
211 (28.95 %)Agile Software Development
38 (21.05 %)OOP
47 (18.42 %)Migration
47 (18.42 %)Content Management
47 (18.42 %)Automated Testing
56 (15.79 %)Usability Testing
56 (15.79 %)Capacity Planning
56 (15.79 %)Project Management
56 (15.79 %)DNA
64 (10.53 %)SEO
72 (5.263 %)OO
72 (5.263 %)Scrum
81 (2.632 %)Web Design
81 (2.632 %)MVC
81 (2.632 %)SOA
East of England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
138 (100.00 %)Ruby
221 (55.26 %)Java
221 (55.26 %)JavaScript
315 (39.47 %)PHP
414 (36.84 %)C
511 (28.95 %)SQL
610 (26.32 %)Perl
77 (18.42 %)C++
85 (13.16 %)Python
94 (10.53 %)C#
101 (2.632 %)Scala
East of England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
110 (26.32 %)Degree
East of England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (10.53 %)Adobe
23 (7.895 %)Oracle
31 (2.632 %)Zend