The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 66 87 71
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -16
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 26 7 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.222% 0.530% 1.789%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.963% 1.124% 4.328%
Number of salaries quoted 19 3 22
Average salary £35,000 £41,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.66% +10.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £41,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £44,300 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
656 623 670
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 56.07% 47.16% 41.33%
Number of salaries quoted 411 468 497
Average salary £37,750 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.86% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
Scotland

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Edinburgh Ruby Salary Histogram

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 29 (78.38%) Python
2 24 (64.86%) Linux
3 20 (54.05%) MySQL
4 18 (48.65%) HTML
4 18 (48.65%) PHP
4 18 (48.65%) CSS
5 17 (45.95%) Perl
6 14 (37.84%) Java
6 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
6 14 (37.84%) Ruby on Rails
7 9 (24.32%) LAMP
7 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (21.62%) SQL
9 7 (18.92%) Web Services
9 7 (18.92%) Apache
9 7 (18.92%) Amazon AWS
10 6 (16.22%) Windows
10 6 (16.22%) C++
10 6 (16.22%) .NET
11 5 (13.51%) Nagios
11 5 (13.51%) Replication
11 5 (13.51%) Finance
11 5 (13.51%) Hadoop
11 5 (13.51%) Puppet
11 5 (13.51%) Munin
11 5 (13.51%) Django
11 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (13.51%) Network Security
11 5 (13.51%) Web Development
11 5 (13.51%) Penetration Testing

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 18 (48.65%) HTML
1 18 (48.65%) CSS
2 14 (37.84%) Ruby on Rails
3 9 (24.32%) LAMP
4 7 (18.92%) Web Services
5 6 (16.22%) .NET
6 5 (13.51%) Django
7 4 (10.81%) XML
8 3 (8.108%) J2EE
8 3 (8.108%) Servlets
8 3 (8.108%) SOAP
9 2 (5.405%) EJB
9 2 (5.405%) XSLT
9 2 (5.405%) jQuery
9 2 (5.405%) soapUI
9 2 (5.405%) Grails
10 1 (2.703%) REST
10 1 (2.703%) JPA
10 1 (2.703%) RESTful
10 1 (2.703%) RabbitMQ
Application Platforms
1 7 (18.92%) Apache
1 7 (18.92%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (5.405%) GlassFish
2 2 (5.405%) CMS
3 1 (2.703%) Drupal
3 1 (2.703%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Network Security
2 4 (10.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (54.05%) MySQL
2 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.51%) Hadoop
3 5 (13.51%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.51%) Redis
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.703%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (8.108%) Subversion
1 3 (8.108%) Git (software)
1 3 (8.108%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (5.405%) Hudson
2 2 (5.405%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.405%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.703%) MSBuild
3 1 (2.703%) Gradle
3 1 (2.703%) HttpUnit
3 1 (2.703%) JIRA
3 1 (2.703%) JUnit
3 1 (2.703%) JMeter
3 1 (2.703%) CruiseControl
General
1 5 (13.51%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Billing
3 3 (8.108%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.108%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (62.16%) Developer
2 6 (16.22%) Software Developer
2 6 (16.22%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Python Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Systems Developer
4 3 (8.108%) Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Web Developer
4 3 (8.108%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.108%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.108%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Development Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.405%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.405%) Administrator
5 2 (5.405%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.703%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (2.703%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Replication
2 3 (8.108%) Computer Science
3 2 (5.405%) Open Source
3 2 (5.405%) Mathematics
3 2 (5.405%) Physics
3 2 (5.405%) EPoS
3 2 (5.405%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.703%) W3C
4 1 (2.703%) Web 2.0
4 1 (2.703%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (64.86%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Windows
3 2 (5.405%) UNIX
4 1 (2.703%) Solaris
4 1 (2.703%) Android
4 1 (2.703%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.51%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (13.51%) Web Development
1 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (10.81%) Network Management
2 4 (10.81%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (5.405%) Unit Testing
3 2 (5.405%) Web Testing
3 2 (5.405%) OO
3 2 (5.405%) System Testing
3 2 (5.405%) Performance Management
4 1 (2.703%) Enterprise Content Management
4 1 (2.703%) Software Architecture
4 1 (2.703%) Web Application Development
4 1 (2.703%) OOP
4 1 (2.703%) E-Commerce
4 1 (2.703%) OOD
4 1 (2.703%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (2.703%) Configuration Management
4 1 (2.703%) Workflow
4 1 (2.703%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (78.38%) Python
2 18 (48.65%) PHP
3 17 (45.95%) Perl
4 14 (37.84%) Java
4 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
5 8 (21.62%) SQL
6 6 (16.22%) C++
7 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
7 4 (10.81%) C#
8 3 (8.108%) Groovy
9 2 (5.405%) Bash shell
9 2 (5.405%) C
10 1 (2.703%) T-SQL
10 1 (2.703%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.703%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (5.405%) ISEB
1 2 (5.405%) ISTQB
1 2 (5.405%) Degree
2 1 (2.703%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.405%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.405%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Nagios
1 5 (13.51%) Munin
1 5 (13.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (5.405%) Cisco
1 2 (5.405%) Juniper
1 2 (5.405%) VMware
2 1 (2.703%) Alterian
2 1 (2.703%) Facebook
2 1 (2.703%) Twitter
2 1 (2.703%) Oracle
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