Hertfordshire Ruby Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills within the Hertfordshire 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cirencester City of London Coventry Cowes Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Feltham Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Lincolnshire London Manchester Marlow Middlesex Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stamford Stevenage Surrey Sutton Coldfield UK Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	149	180
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching permanent IT job ads	13	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.778 %	0.141 %
Salaries quoted	10	0
Average minimum salary	£36,923	-
Average salary	£37,500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£38,077	-
UK excluding London average salary	£35,799	£32,555
% change on same period last year	+9.96 %
Programming Languages Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1671	2126
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.971 %	0.915 %
Salaries quoted	1475	1825
Average minimum salary	£36,721	£35,143
Average salary	£40,361	£38,753
% change on same period last year	+4.14 %
Average maximum salary	£44,001	£42,363
UK excluding London average salary	£35,513	£35,793
% change on same period last year	-0.78 %
Ruby East of England

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
St Albans	-	4	£35,000	-
Stevenage	-	3	£42,500	-
Welwyn Garden City	-	3	£35,000	-

Ruby East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 34 (87.18 %) Ruby on Rails 2 29 (74.36 %) Python 3 26 (66.67 %) PHP 3 26 (66.67 %) MySQL 4 23 (58.97 %) OO 5 22 (56.41 %) XML 5 22 (56.41 %) XSLT 5 22 (56.41 %) .NET 5 22 (56.41 %) ASP 5 22 (56.41 %) ASP.NET 5 22 (56.41 %) HTML 5 22 (56.41 %) Web 2.0 6 21 (53.85 %) Bugzilla 6 21 (53.85 %) ClearCase 6 21 (53.85 %) VSS/SourceSafe

7 20 (51.28 %) AJAX 8 19 (48.72 %) C# 9 18 (46.15 %) JavaScript 10 16 (41.03 %) VB.NET 10 16 (41.03 %) Visual Studio 10 16 (41.03 %) SQL Server 10 16 (41.03 %) DOM 10 16 (41.03 %) Apache 10 16 (41.03 %) Web Development 10 16 (41.03 %) .NET Framework 11 13 (33.33 %) SQL 12 12 (30.77 %) Linux 13 7 (17.95 %) UML 13 7 (17.95 %) Java 14 6 (15.38 %) CSS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 34 (87.18 %) Ruby on Rails 2 22 (56.41 %) HTML 2 22 (56.41 %) .NET 2 22 (56.41 %) ASP 2 22 (56.41 %) ASP.NET 2 22 (56.41 %) XML 2 22 (56.41 %) XSLT 3 20 (51.28 %) AJAX 4 16 (41.03 %) DOM 4 16 (41.03 %) .NET Framework 5 6 (15.38 %) CSS 6 4 (10.26 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 16 (41.03 %) Apache 2 6 (15.38 %) CMS 3 4 (10.26 %) ColdFusion
Communications & Networking 1 4 (10.26 %) Internet 2 2 (5.128 %) HTTP 2 2 (5.128 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (66.67 %) MySQL 2 16 (41.03 %) SQL Server 3 6 (15.38 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 21 (53.85 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 21 (53.85 %) ClearCase 1 21 (53.85 %) Bugzilla 2 16 (41.03 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (10.26 %) Subversion 4 1 (2.564 %) Ant 4 1 (2.564 %) Eclipse	General 1 2 (5.128 %) Multimedia 1 2 (5.128 %) Music 2 1 (2.564 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 21 (53.85 %) Developer 2 12 (30.77 %) Development Manager 2 12 (30.77 %) Web Development Manager 2 12 (30.77 %) Web Manager 3 11 (28.21 %) Web Developer 4 6 (15.38 %) Software Engineer 5 4 (10.26 %) Lead Developer 5 4 (10.26 %) Ruby On Rails Developer 6 2 (5.128 %) Java Software Engineer 7 1 (2.564 %) Junior Software Engineer 7 1 (2.564 %) Ruby Developer 7 1 (2.564 %) Java Developer 7 1 (2.564 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (2.564 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 22 (56.41 %) Web 2.0 2 3 (7.692 %) IPTV 2 3 (7.692 %) Client/Server 3 2 (5.128 %) STB
Operating Systems 1 12 (30.77 %) Linux 2 5 (12.82 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (58.97 %) OO 2 16 (41.03 %) Web Development 3 7 (17.95 %) UML 4 6 (15.38 %) Agile Software Development 4 6 (15.38 %) Content Management 5 4 (10.26 %) Requirements Analysis 5 4 (10.26 %) TDD 5 4 (10.26 %) Scrum 6 3 (7.692 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 29 (74.36 %) Python 2 26 (66.67 %) PHP 3 19 (48.72 %) C# 4 18 (46.15 %) JavaScript 5 16 (41.03 %) VB.NET 6 13 (33.33 %) SQL 7 7 (17.95 %) Java 8 3 (7.692 %) C++