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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 59 56 76
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +20
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 31 39 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 3.395% 4.050% 0.295%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.740% 6.019% 0.539%
Number of salaries quoted 29 36 0
Average salary £32,000 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
East Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
654 648 371
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 71.63% 67.29% 54.80%
Number of salaries quoted 582 598 355
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,200 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex 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
Brighton +1 30 £31,250 -24.69%
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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 23 (57.50%) MVC
1 23 (57.50%) JavaScript
2 22 (55.00%) CMS
2 22 (55.00%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (50.00%) MySQL
4 19 (47.50%) CSS
4 19 (47.50%) PHP
4 19 (47.50%) HTML
4 19 (47.50%) OOP
4 19 (47.50%) jQuery
5 18 (45.00%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (45.00%) GitHub
5 18 (45.00%) LAMP
6 13 (32.50%) Linux
6 13 (32.50%) SQL
6 13 (32.50%) WebDriver
6 13 (32.50%) QA
6 13 (32.50%) Selenium
6 13 (32.50%) Test Scripting
7 12 (30.00%) Cucumber
7 12 (30.00%) Degree
8 11 (27.50%) Scrum
8 11 (27.50%) Social Media
9 10 (25.00%) Automated Testing
9 10 (25.00%) Windows
10 8 (20.00%) Java
10 8 (20.00%) Marketing
10 8 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
11 6 (15.00%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (15.00%) OO

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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 19 (47.50%) CSS
1 19 (47.50%) HTML
1 19 (47.50%) jQuery
2 18 (45.00%) LAMP
3 6 (15.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (7.500%) Spring
5 2 (5.000%) Struts
5 2 (5.000%) JSF
5 2 (5.000%) Visualforce
6 1 (2.500%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 22 (55.00%) CMS
2 2 (5.000%) Force.com
3 1 (2.500%) Moodle
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.000%) BGP
1 2 (5.000%) SMTP
1 2 (5.000%) HTTP
1 2 (5.000%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.000%) DNS
1 2 (5.000%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.000%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.500%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 18 (45.00%) GitHub
2 13 (32.50%) WebDriver
2 13 (32.50%) Selenium
3 12 (30.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (12.50%) JIRA
4 5 (12.50%) Git (software)
5 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (20.00%) Marketing
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Developer
2 18 (45.00%) LAMP Developer
2 18 (45.00%) Programmer
2 18 (45.00%) PHP Developer
2 18 (45.00%) PHP Programmer
2 18 (45.00%) Web Programmer
3 8 (20.00%) Tester
4 7 (17.50%) Web Tester
5 5 (12.50%) Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Test Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Automated Tester
7 3 (7.500%) Automation Tester
7 3 (7.500%) Java Software Developer
7 3 (7.500%) Java Developer
7 3 (7.500%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (5.000%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.000%) Administrator
8 2 (5.000%) UNIX Administrator
8 2 (5.000%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 18 (45.00%) Cloud Computing
2 11 (27.50%) Social Media
3 2 (5.000%) Mathematics
3 2 (5.000%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.500%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Windows
3 5 (12.50%) UNIX
4 2 (5.000%) Debian
4 2 (5.000%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) MVC
2 22 (55.00%) Continuous Integration
3 19 (47.50%) OOP
4 13 (32.50%) Test Scripting
5 11 (27.50%) Scrum
6 10 (25.00%) Automated Testing
7 8 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
8 6 (15.00%) OO
9 3 (7.500%) Agile Software Development
10 2 (5.000%) Regression Testing
10 2 (5.000%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (5.000%) Web Testing
11 1 (2.500%) Test Automation
11 1 (2.500%) BDD
11 1 (2.500%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) JavaScript
2 19 (47.50%) PHP
3 13 (32.50%) SQL
4 8 (20.00%) Java
5 5 (12.50%) Perl
6 3 (7.500%) Python
7 2 (5.000%) C#
7 2 (5.000%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.500%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.500%) ECMAScript
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) ISEB
2 5 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (32.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.000%) Xen
1 2 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.000%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (5.000%) Salesforce.com
1 2 (5.000%) VMware
East Sussex
Create and execute manual and automated test plans - Use of a combination of web browsers and operating systems - Maintain the regression suite of test scripts and the automated...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 - 38000 Per Annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
In addition you will require the following: -DNS, SMTP, HTTP -Scripting: Either Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python -PostgreSQL or MySQL Working in a Java environment Additional experience of Puppet,...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £32000 Per Annum £32,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Brighton, South East
Main duties will be:Work with the product team leads, technical leads and product managers to understandthe new functionality being developedCreate and execute manual and automated test plans,...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: Negotiable + Monthly and yearly bonuses
Posted: 30 April 2013