The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 22 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 91 94 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 2 11 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.228% 0.868% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.313% 1.333% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 10 0
Average salary - £38,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
639 825 626
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 72.78% 65.11% 55.40%
Number of salaries quoted 567 713 565
Average salary £35,000 £38,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +11.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
South West

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Gloucester +11 2 - -
Ruby
South West

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 10 (100.00%) C++
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Scrum
1 10 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) JTAG
2 8 (80.00%) Android
2 8 (80.00%) iPhone
2 8 (80.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (80.00%) Kanban
2 8 (80.00%) DV Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (80.00%) Handset
2 8 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 8 (80.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 8 (80.00%) JSF
2 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) SMS
2 8 (80.00%) Symbian
2 8 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 8 (80.00%) UML
2 8 (80.00%) JBoss
2 8 (80.00%) C#
2 8 (80.00%) Web Services
2 8 (80.00%) XML
2 8 (80.00%) UNIX
2 8 (80.00%) HTML
2 8 (80.00%) Java
2 8 (80.00%) SQL

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (80.00%) Hibernate
1 8 (80.00%) JSF
1 8 (80.00%) Web Services
1 8 (80.00%) XML
1 8 (80.00%) HTML
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) J2EE
1 8 (80.00%) EJB
2 2 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (20.00%) STL
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) SMS
2 2 (20.00%) IPv4
2 2 (20.00%) IPv6
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GCC
1 2 (20.00%) GDB
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) iPhone
1 8 (80.00%) Handset
2 2 (20.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Android
2 8 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (80.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Scrum
1 10 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 8 (80.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Kanban
2 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (80.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 8 (80.00%) UML
3 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (60.00%) Software Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Business Development
4 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C++
2 8 (80.00%) C#
2 8 (80.00%) Java
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) VB.NET
3 6 (60.00%) C
4 2 (20.00%) Bash shell
4 2 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Symbian
1 8 (80.00%) JBoss
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle