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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 33 24 -
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 2 12 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 1.205% 6.000% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.175% 9.375% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 0
Average salary £20,000 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.46% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
63 128 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 37.95% 64.00% 55.36%
Number of salaries quoted 44 101 57
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,600 £20,500 £22,450
10% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
West Yorkshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) SEO
1 2 (100.00%) Advertising
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) WordPress
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Social Media
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) PhoneGap
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Phone

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
1 2 (100.00%) WordPress
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) PhoneGap
General
1 2 (100.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP