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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 155 150 252
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +102
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 1824 1927 1090
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.803% 1.700% 0.925%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.380% 3.122% 1.741%
Number of salaries quoted 1598 1654 984
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +2.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £66,000 £73,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
53970 61717 62590
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 53.36% 54.44% 53.13%
Number of salaries quoted 46892 54625 54597
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Ruby Salary Histogram

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 England 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
London +9 1313 £52,500 +5.00%
South East -11 218 £40,000 -6.43%
North West +59 137 £35,000 -
East of England +26 80 £40,000 +6.66%
South West +11 38 £40,000 +5.26%
West Midlands -66 19 £45,000 -10.00%
Yorkshire -82 11 £35,000 -
East Midlands -10 3 £34,000 -15.00%
North East -31 1 £60,000 +71.42%
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 1994 (51.02%) Java
2 1533 (39.23%) JavaScript
3 1473 (37.69%) Python
4 1420 (36.34%) PHP
5 1401 (35.85%) Ruby on Rails
6 1321 (33.80%) CSS
7 1282 (32.80%) Linux
8 1244 (31.83%) TDD
9 1082 (27.69%) HTML
10 1052 (26.92%) MySQL
11 1019 (26.07%) Agile Software Development
12 939 (24.03%) C#
13 927 (23.72%) SQL
14 845 (21.62%) Perl
15 819 (20.96%) OO
16 798 (20.42%) Scrum
17 797 (20.39%) .NET
18 755 (19.32%) Web Services
19 717 (18.35%) E-Commerce
20 689 (17.63%) Degree
21 642 (16.43%) jQuery
22 626 (16.02%) Git (software)
23 618 (15.81%) Open Source
24 604 (15.46%) HTML5
25 555 (14.20%) BDD
26 544 (13.92%) Apache
27 523 (13.38%) MVC
28 517 (13.23%) NoSQL
29 512 (13.10%) Cucumber
30 508 (13.00%) C++

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 1401 (35.85%) Ruby on Rails
2 1321 (33.80%) CSS
3 1082 (27.69%) HTML
4 797 (20.39%) .NET
5 755 (19.32%) Web Services
6 642 (16.43%) jQuery
7 604 (15.46%) HTML5
8 469 (12.00%) XML
9 404 (10.34%) CSS3
10 386 (9.877%) Ajax
11 315 (8.060%) Node.js
12 309 (7.907%) Spring
13 308 (7.881%) REST
14 301 (7.702%) RESTful
15 298 (7.625%) JSON
16 291 (7.446%) ASP.NET
17 197 (5.041%) LAMP
18 193 (4.939%) Hibernate
19 192 (4.913%) J2EE
20 184 (4.708%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 544 (13.92%) Apache
2 336 (8.598%) Amazon AWS
3 237 (6.064%) nginx
4 156 (3.992%) Tomcat
5 136 (3.480%) CMS
6 111 (2.840%) WordPress
7 108 (2.764%) RabbitMQ
8 102 (2.610%) Force.com
9 98 (2.508%) Amazon EC2
10 83 (2.124%) Windows Azure
11 69 (1.766%) Drupal
12 50 (1.279%) IIS
13 39 (0.998%) Apache Pig
14 34 (0.870%) MSMQ
15 31 (0.793%) Apache Solr
16 30 (0.768%) Rackspace Cloud
17 28 (0.716%) ActiveMQ
18 25 (0.640%) Amazon S3
18 25 (0.640%) Magento
18 25 (0.640%) Mule
Applications
1 89 (2.277%) Photoshop
2 55 (1.407%) MS Excel
3 25 (0.640%) Google Apps
4 17 (0.435%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.256%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.128%) MS Office
6 5 (0.128%) SPSS
7 4 (0.102%) GIMP
7 4 (0.102%) 3ds Max
7 4 (0.102%) ZBrush
7 4 (0.102%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.026%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.026%) Maya
8 1 (0.026%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.026%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.026%) Doxygen
8 1 (0.026%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.230%) SAP LE
2 7 (0.179%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.179%) Google Analytics
3 2 (0.051%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.051%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.051%) Bond Adapt
3 2 (0.051%) Summit
4 1 (0.026%) Optimost
4 1 (0.026%) SiteCatalyst
4 1 (0.026%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.026%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.026%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 308 (7.881%) Internet
2 210 (5.374%) HTTP
3 135 (3.454%) TCP/IP
4 109 (2.789%) Firewall
5 96 (2.456%) DNS
6 89 (2.277%) SAN
7 51 (1.305%) iSCSI
8 48 (1.228%) LDAP
9 39 (0.998%) tcpdump
10 38 (0.972%) DHCP
11 35 (0.896%) Wireshark
12 30 (0.768%) AMQP
13 22 (0.563%) BIG-IP
14 19 (0.486%) Intranet
14 19 (0.486%) SSL
15 16 (0.409%) Network Security
15 16 (0.409%) Kerberos
15 16 (0.409%) SNMP
16 15 (0.384%) Modbus
16 15 (0.384%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1052 (26.92%) MySQL
2 517 (13.23%) NoSQL
3 444 (11.36%) MongoDB
4 407 (10.41%) SQL Server
5 258 (6.602%) PostgreSQL
6 224 (5.732%) Big Data
7 207 (5.297%) Redis
8 202 (5.169%) Hadoop
9 147 (3.762%) Apache Cassandra
10 87 (2.226%) CouchDB
11 74 (1.894%) RDBMS
12 61 (1.561%) SQL Server 2008
13 53 (1.356%) SQL Server 2005
14 49 (1.254%) SQL Server 2012
15 42 (1.075%) Apache Hive
16 40 (1.024%) Neo4j
17 37 (0.947%) SQL Server 2000
18 25 (0.640%) Riak
19 23 (0.589%) MarkLogic
20 21 (0.537%) Jackrabbit
Development Applications
1 626 (16.02%) Git (software)
2 512 (13.10%) Cucumber
3 492 (12.59%) Selenium
4 365 (9.340%) Subversion
5 251 (6.423%) RSpec
6 223 (5.706%) Jenkins
7 175 (4.478%) Maven
8 171 (4.376%) WebDriver
9 101 (2.584%) JUnit
10 100 (2.559%) JIRA
11 99 (2.533%) Hudson
12 85 (2.175%) Visual Studio
13 83 (2.124%) GitHub
14 75 (1.919%) NUnit
15 74 (1.894%) FitNesse
16 68 (1.740%) WATIR
17 66 (1.689%) TeamCity
17 66 (1.689%) Capistrano
18 61 (1.561%) JMeter
19 52 (1.331%) JBehave
General
1 355 (9.084%) Finance
2 177 (4.529%) Games
3 159 (4.069%) Banking
4 143 (3.659%) Marketing
5 126 (3.224%) Publishing
6 110 (2.815%) Investment Banking
7 85 (2.175%) Telecoms
8 78 (1.996%) Law
9 75 (1.919%) Retail
10 73 (1.868%) Back Office
11 47 (1.203%) Music
12 43 (1.100%) Advertising
13 36 (0.921%) Front Office
14 29 (0.742%) Billing
15 27 (0.691%) Online Betting
16 24 (0.614%) Financial Institution
17 22 (0.563%) Legal
18 17 (0.435%) Music Industry
19 14 (0.358%) Pharmaceutical
20 13 (0.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2272 (58.14%) Developer
2 521 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 381 (9.749%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 370 (9.468%) Web Developer
5 247 (6.320%) Software Engineer
6 246 (6.295%) Ruby Developer
7 240 (6.141%) Administrator
8 238 (6.090%) Java Developer
9 224 (5.732%) Systems Administrator
10 206 (5.271%) Analyst
11 184 (4.708%) Software Developer
12 176 (4.504%) .NET Developer
13 162 (4.145%) PHP Developer
14 152 (3.889%) Linux Administrator
15 149 (3.813%) Front-End Developer
15 149 (3.813%) Tester
16 146 (3.736%) Linux Systems Administrator
17 144 (3.685%) Test Analyst
18 112 (2.866%) Architect
19 109 (2.789%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 618 (15.81%) Open Source
2 431 (11.03%) Computer Science
3 242 (6.192%) Mobile App
4 163 (4.171%) Digital Media
5 136 (3.480%) SaaS
6 135 (3.454%) Cloud Computing
7 113 (2.892%) PaaS
8 94 (2.405%) Social Network
8 94 (2.405%) Social Media
9 83 (2.124%) Web 2.0
9 83 (2.124%) Enterprise Software
10 78 (1.996%) W3C
11 77 (1.970%) Blog
12 76 (1.945%) iPhone
13 74 (1.894%) Mathematics
14 67 (1.714%) Client/Server
15 65 (1.663%) Heroku
16 63 (1.612%) BBC
17 56 (1.433%) Online Games
18 55 (1.407%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1282 (32.80%) Linux
2 456 (11.67%) Windows
3 439 (11.23%) UNIX
4 224 (5.732%) Android
5 195 (4.990%) Apple iOS
6 182 (4.657%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 181 (4.632%) Ubuntu
8 175 (4.478%) CentOS
9 123 (3.147%) Debian
10 75 (1.919%) Windows Server 2008
11 55 (1.407%) Solaris
12 46 (1.177%) Mac OS X
13 21 (0.537%) FreeBSD
13 21 (0.537%) Mac OS
13 21 (0.537%) Windows 7
14 20 (0.512%) Windows XP
15 12 (0.307%) Gentoo
16 8 (0.205%) Fedora
17 6 (0.154%) Windows Vista
17 6 (0.154%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1244 (31.83%) TDD
2 1019 (26.07%) Agile Software Development
3 819 (20.96%) OO
4 798 (20.42%) Scrum
5 717 (18.35%) E-Commerce
6 555 (14.20%) BDD
7 523 (13.38%) MVC
8 494 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
9 434 (11.11%) OOP
10 421 (10.77%) Web Development
11 235 (6.013%) Kanban
12 229 (5.860%) Automated Testing
13 206 (5.271%) Test Automation
14 205 (5.246%) Test Scripting
15 176 (4.504%) Software Engineering
16 172 (4.401%) Unit Testing
16 172 (4.401%) Pair Programming
17 134 (3.429%) Configuration Management
18 117 (2.994%) SOA
19 115 (2.943%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1994 (51.02%) Java
2 1533 (39.23%) JavaScript
3 1473 (37.69%) Python
4 1420 (36.34%) PHP
5 939 (24.03%) C#
6 927 (23.72%) SQL
7 845 (21.62%) Perl
8 508 (13.00%) C++
9 406 (10.39%) Bash shell
10 282 (7.216%) C
11 263 (6.730%) Scala
12 181 (4.632%) Clojure
13 137 (3.506%) Groovy
14 112 (2.866%) Shell Script
15 102 (2.610%) PowerShell
16 87 (2.226%) Erlang
17 83 (2.124%) ActionScript
18 80 (2.047%) Objective-C
19 75 (1.919%) Apex Code
20 49 (1.254%) R
Qualifications
1 689 (17.63%) Degree
2 78 (1.996%) ISEB
3 64 (1.638%) ISTQB
4 31 (0.793%) Security Cleared
5 30 (0.768%) PhD
6 29 (0.742%) RHCE
7 22 (0.563%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (0.461%) CISSP
9 16 (0.409%) OCA
9 16 (0.409%) Oracle Certification
10 15 (0.384%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 12 (0.307%) MCSE
12 11 (0.281%) GIAC
13 10 (0.256%) SSCP
14 9 (0.230%) MCP
14 9 (0.230%) CCNP
14 9 (0.230%) CNA
14 9 (0.230%) Novell Certification
14 9 (0.230%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.230%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (9.340%) QA
2 39 (0.998%) WAI
3 24 (0.614%) PCI DSS
4 19 (0.486%) SLA
5 14 (0.358%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.333%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.307%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.179%) JTAG
9 3 (0.077%) Data Quality
System Software
1 145 (3.710%) VMware Infrastructure
2 58 (1.484%) Varnish
3 46 (1.177%) vSphere
4 45 (1.151%) Xen
5 27 (0.691%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (0.665%) Active Directory
7 22 (0.563%) NFS
8 20 (0.512%) VirtualBox
9 17 (0.435%) Postfix
10 12 (0.307%) VMware ESX
11 11 (0.281%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.179%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 7 (0.179%) Sendmail
13 6 (0.154%) Snort
14 5 (0.128%) Gluster
14 5 (0.128%) Squid
14 5 (0.128%) qmail
15 4 (0.102%) Samba
15 4 (0.102%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
16 3 (0.077%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 477 (12.21%) Puppet
2 128 (3.275%) Nagios
3 45 (1.151%) CFEngine
4 37 (0.947%) ZABBIX
4 37 (0.947%) Cacti
5 28 (0.716%) SCCM
5 28 (0.716%) Opalis
5 28 (0.716%) AppManager
6 15 (0.384%) YUM
6 15 (0.384%) Zenoss
7 14 (0.358%) Splunk
8 13 (0.333%) SolarWinds Orion
9 12 (0.307%) OSSEC
10 10 (0.256%) Munin
11 9 (0.230%) WSUS
11 9 (0.230%) HP Quality Center
12 8 (0.205%) Ganglia
12 8 (0.205%) SCOM
12 8 (0.205%) Nessus
12 8 (0.205%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 248 (6.346%) Red Hat
2 233 (5.962%) Oracle
3 228 (5.834%) VMware
4 227 (5.809%) Microsoft
5 148 (3.787%) Zend
6 137 (3.506%) Google
7 121 (3.096%) Rackspace
8 89 (2.277%) Facebook
9 85 (2.175%) Salesforce.com
10 81 (2.073%) HP
11 71 (1.817%) JBoss
12 68 (1.740%) Juniper
13 67 (1.714%) Cisco
14 46 (1.177%) Twitter
15 42 (1.075%) NetApp
16 41 (1.049%) SolarWinds
17 31 (0.793%) Apple
18 28 (0.716%) NetIQ
19 25 (0.640%) IBM
20 23 (0.589%) Joyent
West Midlands
Ruby Developer x2 (NEW ROLE) Can provide sponsorship! Commutable from: Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Northampton, Warwick, West Midlands. Key words: Ruby on Rails, PHP, Javascript, HTML, Perl/Python.
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
The successful candidate will be working with a team of engineers in developing their JavaScript based web front end. By "JavaScript Expert" they actually mean it, not only...
bridgenoble
Salary: 55000 - 70000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Extensive experience with HTML and CSS... Desired Skills: Experience in developing server-side code in Java, PHP, Python, Scala or Ruby. Experience in developing with HTML5, CSS3 and...
Bridge Noble
Salary: £47151.50 - £60011 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Midlands
Ruby on Rails Developer Contract - West Midlands. Fantastic opportunity to work on a long-term, large scale Ruby on Rails web development project.
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
Key Skills* Comprehensive Ruby on Rails web development experience* Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix platforms* Java or C++ programming ability* UI Design with HTML, CSS & Javascript* Experience delivering...
greywood
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Warwickshire
Key Skills * Comprehensive Ruby on Rails web development experience * Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix platforms * Java or C++ programming ability * UI Design with HTML, CSS & Javascript * Experience delivering...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Java Developer required to grow the expanding team of this well known media company in London.
ISL
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
South West London
Skills required for the Ruby Developer: Development experience using Ruby (Rails/RoR) Experience of an Agile or Scrum environment... Any experience of test driven development (cucumber, Selenium etc.),...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £45000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
The successful candidate will have solid experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Agile/TDD/BDD methodologies, and a general passion for technology and the web. If you have...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent
Posted: 19 May 2013
City, London
The ruby on rails developer will be working on a range of high profile data driven consumer facing web applications! An ideal candidate would probably have either 3...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £55 - £70 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
North West London
You should possess the below capabilities: * First rate technical skills - technology/language isn't too important - the calibre of your work is * An outstanding academic background - a strong...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + be - bonus, health, pens +
Posted: 19 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
You should possess the below capabilities: * First rate technical skills - technology/language isn't too important - the calibre of your work is * An outstanding academic background - a strong...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + be - bonus, health, pens +
Posted: 19 May 2013
West London
Web Application Development. Leading a team. Working in Agile Environment. What's in it for you? Working for a global, blue chip organisation. Excellent benefits package including. 30...
Links Resourcing
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Keywords - .Net Developer, C#, .net, MVC, Ruby on Rails, ROR, JavaScript, UNIT TESTING, Agile, TDD, SQL, Web Applications, We are seeking a .Net Developer of Graduate calibre for...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Skills/Experience required: ** 1+ Year experience with Ruby On Rails ** 2+ Years experience with Object Oriented language (python/ruby) ** Knowledge of PostgreSQL or MySQL ** Experienced with at leasdt...
Gregory James
Salary: £40000 to £50000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
The successful Ruby Developer on Rails candidates will be joining a digital team of 5 talented developers... Essential Skills: - Ruby on Rails direct experience - Web Development Experience (HTML,...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
UK North West
Front End Developer - £28,000 - £32,000A talented Front End Developer is required to join a fast growing Web Development team within a unique South Manchester business.We...
Premier Group
Salary: £28000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
North West
We are looking for a specialist front-end web developer to translate designs created by the in-house design team into HTML, CSS and Javascript. You will be...
Premier Group Recruitment
Salary: £28000.00 - £30000.00
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
The Ruby Developer/Ruby on Rails developer should be interested in solving problems and growing with the company. The jey skills used in the stack are Ruby and...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £30 - £35 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Ideally but not essentially, you will also have commercial exposure to Apache (Apache Tomcat/ Apache HTTP Server), AJAX, Linux, C or C ++ and MySQL... If you are looking...
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + 20% performance related bonus
Posted: 4 May 2013
London
If you have experience with open source technologies such as Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Clojure, HTML, CSS, etc and want to be part of a highly skilled...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Excellent
Posted: 19 May 2013
London
Job Role: Ruby DeveloperLocation: London, South WestSalary: £40k to £65k + benefitsRuby Developer / Software Engineer - Multiple Roles (Ruby / RoR / Rails / JavaScript / Apache / MySQL). Skilled Ruby Developer sought by award...
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £65k + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Ruby Developer London to £65k. Ruby Developer / Software Engineer - Multiple Roles (Ruby / RoR / Rails / JavaScript / Apache / MySQL)... Good knowledge of JavaScript (ExtJS) Ability to take ownership of a...
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £65k + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Software Developers - ASP.Net, C#, JSP, Spring, PHP, MVC... You will ideally have commercial experience in several areas such as ASP.Net, C#, MVC, Java, JSP, JavaScript, Spring,...
LA International
Salary: £30000 - £42000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Requirements: Deep understanding of Ruby, PHP or Java Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails or Sinatra 3rd Party API experience with Facebook, Twitter or Youtube a bonus! Strong...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013