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This section looks at the demand for Ruby skills within the England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkRuby
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank364539
Rank change on same period last yearUp+175
Matching permanent IT job ads830505
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.438 %0.207 %
As % of the category below0.993 %0.467 %
Salaries quoted731359
Average minimum salary£38,796£32,467
Average salary£43,496£36,728
% change on same period last year+18.42 %
Average maximum salary£48,195£40,989
UK excluding London average salary£34,779£31,743
% change on same period last year+9.56 %
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
England
Matching permanent IT job ads83578108117
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled44.12 %44.27 %
Salaries quoted7112687660
Average minimum salary£37,418£39,349
Average salary£41,066£43,189
% change on same period last year-4.91 %
Average maximum salary£44,714£47,028
UK excluding London average salary£35,180£35,575
% change on same period last year-1.10 %
Ruby UKRuby
UK

Ruby
Demand Trend

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

England Ruby Demand Trend

Ruby
Salary Trend

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

England Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

England Ruby Salary Histogram

Ruby
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+142492£50,317+25.67 %
South EastUp+80121£39,256+24.03 %
YorkshireUp+7592£33,878+27.24 %
East of EnglandUp+4447£32,754+2.75 %
North WestUp+2534£31,012+7.40 %
South WestDown-1129£31,882-11.04 %
West MidlandsDown-217£29,438+16.77 %
East MidlandsUp+157£33,429+6.68 %
North EastDown-22£30,000-
Ruby UKRuby
UK

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

1971 (57.63 %)Ruby on Rails
2830 (49.26 %)Java
3664 (39.41 %)PHP
4588 (34.90 %)Linux
5587 (34.84 %)MySQL
6573 (34.01 %)Perl
7523 (31.04 %)Python
8472 (28.01 %)JavaScript
9413 (24.51 %)AJAX
10355 (21.07 %)CSS
11352 (20.89 %)SQL
12326 (19.35 %)UNIX
13324 (19.23 %)XML
14321 (19.05 %)OO
15320 (18.99 %)HTML
16283 (16.80 %)Apache
17279 (16.56 %).NET
18256 (15.19 %)C++
18256 (15.19 %)Web Development
19255 (15.13 %)SQL Server
20242 (14.36 %)Oracle
21231 (13.71 %)J2EE
22209 (12.40 %)C#
23191 (11.34 %)Finance
24188 (11.16 %)Internet
25183 (10.86 %)Scrum
26173 (10.27 %)E-Commerce
27170 (10.09 %)Agile Software Development
28169 (10.03 %)XHTML
29164 (9.733 %)Degree

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1971 (57.63 %)Ruby on Rails
2413 (24.51 %)AJAX
3355 (21.07 %)CSS
4324 (19.23 %)XML
5320 (18.99 %)HTML
6279 (16.56 %).NET
7231 (13.71 %)J2EE
8169 (10.03 %)XHTML
9153 (9.080 %)MVC
10106 (6.291 %)LAMP
1198 (5.816 %)ASP.NET
1293 (5.519 %)JSP
1389 (5.282 %)Spring
1389 (5.282 %)Hibernate
1473 (4.332 %)WebServices
1557 (3.383 %)Struts
1655 (3.264 %)SOAP
1754 (3.205 %)ASP
1844 (2.611 %)XSLT
1941 (2.433 %)Velocity
England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1283 (16.80 %)Apache
2113 (6.706 %)Tomcat
3106 (6.291 %)JBoss
450 (2.967 %)ColdFusion
537 (2.196 %)CMS
626 (1.543 %)WebLogic
626 (1.543 %)SharePoint
723 (1.365 %)Resin
812 (0.712 %)ColdFusion MX
812 (0.712 %)MS Exchange
97 (0.415 %)OpenCms
106 (0.356 %)Zope
106 (0.356 %)BizTalk Server
115 (0.297 %)WebLogic Portal
115 (0.297 %)Smallworld
115 (0.297 %)Movable Type
115 (0.297 %)Mambo
124 (0.237 %)WordPress
124 (0.237 %)Mathematica
124 (0.237 %)IIS
England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
126 (1.543 %)Photoshop
224 (1.424 %)MS Visio
314 (0.831 %)MS Excel
411 (0.653 %)MS Project
55 (0.297 %)MATLAB
64 (0.237 %)ImageReady
64 (0.237 %)Adobe Illustrator
64 (0.237 %)MS PowerPoint
64 (0.237 %)Spreadsheet
72 (0.119 %)InDesign
72 (0.119 %)PageMaker
81 (0.059 %)MS Office
81 (0.059 %)RoboHelp
81 (0.059 %)Fireworks
England IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
11 (0.059 %)WebTrends
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1188 (11.16 %)Internet
291 (5.401 %)TCP/IP
380 (4.748 %)Firewall
460 (3.561 %)DNS
539 (2.315 %)HTTP
633 (1.958 %)SAN
633 (1.958 %)Intranet
727 (1.602 %)VLAN
824 (1.424 %)iSCSI
921 (1.246 %)LDAP
1019 (1.128 %)Extranet
1118 (1.068 %)SSH
1118 (1.068 %)DHCP
1217 (1.009 %)FTP
1315 (0.890 %)Network Security
149 (0.534 %)SSL
158 (0.475 %)SMTP
167 (0.415 %)Broadband
167 (0.415 %)SMS
176 (0.356 %)Wireless
England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1587 (34.84 %)MySQL
2255 (15.13 %)SQL Server
383 (4.926 %)RDBMS
454 (3.205 %)DB2
539 (2.315 %)SQL Server 2005
623 (1.365 %)SQL Server 2000
713 (0.772 %)PostgreSQL
89 (0.534 %)GIS
97 (0.415 %)Oracle 10g
97 (0.415 %)OLAP
104 (0.237 %)MS Access
113 (0.178 %)SQL Server 7
122 (0.119 %)Oracle Reports
122 (0.119 %)Oracle 8/8i
122 (0.119 %)Datawarehouse
122 (0.119 %)ETL
131 (0.059 %)TOAD
131 (0.059 %)Crystal Reports
England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1138 (8.190 %)Subversion
284 (4.985 %)Flash
374 (4.392 %)Ant
469 (4.095 %)Eclipse
529 (1.721 %)JUnit
529 (1.721 %)WATIR
628 (1.662 %)Bugzilla
727 (1.602 %)Visual Studio
825 (1.484 %)ClearCase
825 (1.484 %)QuickTest Pro
917 (1.009 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1015 (0.890 %)WinRunner
1112 (0.712 %)Selenium
1210 (0.593 %)TestDirector
1210 (0.593 %)LoadRunner
137 (0.415 %)FitNesse
146 (0.356 %)NUnit
146 (0.356 %)CruiseControl
155 (0.297 %)PVCS
164 (0.237 %)JMeter
England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1191 (11.34 %)Finance
289 (5.282 %)Banking
380 (4.748 %)Telecoms
472 (4.273 %)Marketing
552 (3.086 %)Pensions
633 (1.958 %)Health
725 (1.484 %)Games
823 (1.365 %)Retail
921 (1.246 %)Advertising
1020 (1.187 %)Investment Banking
1117 (1.009 %)Online Banking
1117 (1.009 %)Education
1117 (1.009 %)Back Office
1216 (0.950 %)Front Office
1216 (0.950 %)Publishing
1312 (0.712 %)Government
1410 (0.593 %)Insurance
158 (0.475 %)Music
158 (0.475 %)Multimedia
165 (0.297 %)Billing
England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11201 (71.28 %)Developer
2316 (18.75 %)Ruby On Rails Developer
3282 (16.74 %)Senior Developer
4235 (13.95 %)Java Developer
5218 (12.94 %)Web Developer
6119 (7.062 %)PHP Developer
7114 (6.766 %)Software Developer
887 (5.163 %)Software Engineer
887 (5.163 %)Ruby Developer
970 (4.154 %)Administrator
1068 (4.036 %)Analyst
1155 (3.264 %)Senior Web Developer
1250 (2.967 %)J2EE Developer
1348 (2.849 %)Linux Administrator
1447 (2.789 %)Junior
1447 (2.789 %)Linux Engineer
1545 (2.671 %)Perl Developer
1643 (2.552 %)Senior Software Developer
1643 (2.552 %)C++ Developer
1742 (2.493 %)Systems Developer
England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1134 (7.953 %)Web 2.0
273 (4.332 %)Social Network
365 (3.858 %)Derivative
452 (3.086 %)Computer Science
548 (2.849 %)Client/Server
635 (2.077 %)W3C
729 (1.721 %)Multithreading
826 (1.543 %)Clustering
924 (1.424 %)Equity Derivative
1017 (1.009 %)Blog
1017 (1.009 %)Equities
1116 (0.950 %)Mathematics
1215 (0.890 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1314 (0.831 %)IPTV
149 (0.534 %)DTV
157 (0.415 %)PKI
157 (0.415 %)Cryptography
166 (0.356 %)STB
166 (0.356 %)Thin Client
166 (0.356 %)Fat Client
England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1588 (34.90 %)Linux
2326 (19.35 %)UNIX
3160 (9.496 %)Windows
4111 (6.588 %)Solaris
525 (1.484 %)Debian
619 (1.128 %)Ubuntu
714 (0.831 %)Fedora
813 (0.772 %)Windows 2000
813 (0.772 %)FreeBSD
99 (0.534 %)SUSE
105 (0.297 %)AIX
113 (0.178 %)Windows XP
113 (0.178 %)Mac OS X
113 (0.178 %)Symbian OS
122 (0.119 %)Windows Mobile
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1321 (19.05 %)OO
2256 (15.19 %)Web Development
3183 (10.86 %)Scrum
4173 (10.27 %)E-Commerce
5170 (10.09 %)Agile Software Development
6158 (9.377 %)TDD
765 (3.858 %)OOP
856 (3.323 %)Load Balancing
947 (2.789 %)Software Engineering
1042 (2.493 %)UML
1138 (2.255 %)E-business
1235 (2.077 %)Data Modelling
1331 (1.840 %)Pair Programming
1428 (1.662 %)Content Management
1527 (1.602 %)Web Design
1626 (1.543 %)Continuous Integration
1725 (1.484 %)Internet Marketing
1725 (1.484 %)OOD
1821 (1.246 %)OOA/OOD
1821 (1.246 %)DSDM
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1830 (49.26 %)Java
2664 (39.41 %)PHP
3573 (34.01 %)Perl
4523 (31.04 %)Python
5472 (28.01 %)JavaScript
6352 (20.89 %)SQL
7256 (15.19 %)C++
8209 (12.40 %)C#
9158 (9.377 %)C
1085 (5.045 %)PHP5
1148 (2.849 %)Haskell
1246 (2.730 %)VB
1342 (2.493 %)PL/SQL
1441 (2.433 %)Lisp
1540 (2.374 %)Groovy
1638 (2.255 %)Tcl
1736 (2.136 %)Shell Script
1832 (1.899 %)ActionScript
1931 (1.840 %)PHP4
2030 (1.780 %)Erlang
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1164 (9.733 %)Degree
217 (1.009 %)RHCE
314 (0.831 %)ISEB
410 (0.593 %)PhD
59 (0.534 %)Microsoft Certification
59 (0.534 %)MCSE
61 (0.059 %)PRINCE2 Certification
61 (0.059 %)Sun Certification
61 (0.059 %)CCSP
61 (0.059 %)Cisco Certification
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
147 (2.789 %)QA
25 (0.297 %)WCAG
32 (0.119 %)WAI
32 (0.119 %)PCI DSS
32 (0.119 %)ISO9001
England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
128 (1.662 %)NFS
216 (0.950 %)Squid
315 (0.890 %)VMware Infrastructure
43 (0.178 %)Active Directory
51 (0.059 %)MSMQ
England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
19 (0.534 %)SCOM
24 (0.237 %)AutoSys
31 (0.059 %)Nagios
England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1242 (14.36 %)Oracle
269 (4.095 %)Microsoft
367 (3.976 %)Red Hat
427 (1.602 %)Zend
523 (1.365 %)IBM
621 (1.246 %)Sun
717 (1.009 %)Sybase
815 (0.890 %)VMware
914 (0.831 %)Adobe
1010 (0.593 %)Macromedia
117 (0.415 %)Yahoo!
126 (0.356 %)Google
126 (0.356 %)Perforce
135 (0.297 %)FatWire
135 (0.297 %)Mapinfo
135 (0.297 %)Autodesk
135 (0.297 %)ESRI
135 (0.297 %)Cisco
135 (0.297 %)Fidessa
144 (0.237 %)HP
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