The first table below looks at the demand for Merb skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Merb over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Development category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Merb
Rank - 868 840
Permanent jobs citing Merb 0 2 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England - 0.002% 0.007%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.004% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 7
Average salary - £63,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +32.63%
UK excluding London average salary - - -
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
40930 48053 46722
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.76% 42.26% 40.54%
Number of salaries quoted 35954 42924 41426
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Merb
UK

Merb
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Merb across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England Merb Jobs Demand Trend

Merb
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Merb across the England region.

England Merb Salary Trend

Merb
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Merb 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 Merb.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) RSpec
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Sinatra
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Backbone.js
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) Capybara
1 1 (100.00%) LESS
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase

Merb
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Merb 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 Merb. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Sinatra
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Backbone.js
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) LESS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) RSpec
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Capybara
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle