The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 23 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 Application Development category for the Kent region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 8 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.698% - -
As % of the Application Development category 1.802% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £47,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
All Application Development
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
444 309 553
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 38.74% 43.46% 51.44%
Number of salaries quoted 379 278 519
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby on Rails
South East

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Kent Ruby on Rails Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Kent region.

Kent Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Kent Ruby on Rails Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails.

1 13 (100.00%) Ruby
2 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
2 11 (84.62%) MVC
3 8 (61.54%) Redis
4 6 (46.15%) NoSQL
4 6 (46.15%) Metaprogramming
4 6 (46.15%) JSON
4 6 (46.15%) Big Data
5 5 (38.46%) KnockoutJS
5 5 (38.46%) Web Services
5 5 (38.46%) OO
5 5 (38.46%) Ember.js
5 5 (38.46%) Underscore.js
6 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (15.38%) Active Record
6 2 (15.38%) Static Code Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) RSpec
6 2 (15.38%) Open Source
6 2 (15.38%) PHPUnit
6 2 (15.38%) Capistrano
6 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 2 (15.38%) Puppet
6 2 (15.38%) nginx
6 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (15.38%) Apache
6 2 (15.38%) Mac OS X
6 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Linux
6 2 (15.38%) PHP

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (46.15%) JSON
2 5 (38.46%) KnockoutJS
2 5 (38.46%) Web Services
2 5 (38.46%) Ember.js
2 5 (38.46%) Underscore.js
3 2 (15.38%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) nginx
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Redis
2 6 (46.15%) NoSQL
2 6 (46.15%) Big Data
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) RSpec
1 2 (15.38%) PHPUnit
1 2 (15.38%) Capistrano
1 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
1 2 (15.38%) Phing
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Ruby Developer
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
1 2 (15.38%) Mac OS X
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) MVC
2 6 (46.15%) Metaprogramming
3 5 (38.46%) OO
4 2 (15.38%) Active Record
4 2 (15.38%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Ruby
2 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) PHP
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Zend