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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 140 98 104
Rank change year-on-year
-42 +6
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 8 36 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.308% 1.726% 0.865%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.543% 3.077% 1.521%
Number of salaries quoted 6 36 14
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £57,500 £39,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1474 1170 1052
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 56.74% 56.09% 56.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1199 1055 909
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
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 Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

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

Leeds Ruby Salary Histogram

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 26 (86.67%) PHP
2 15 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 14 (46.67%) Symfony
4 13 (43.33%) Python
5 11 (36.67%) CSS
5 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
6 10 (33.33%) Magento
7 9 (30.00%) Git (software)
7 9 (30.00%) jQuery
7 9 (30.00%) Java
8 8 (26.67%) HTML
8 8 (26.67%) .NET
8 8 (26.67%) Struts
8 8 (26.67%) Spring
8 8 (26.67%) Apache
9 7 (23.33%) CMS
9 7 (23.33%) SQL
9 7 (23.33%) Django
10 6 (20.00%) Perl
10 6 (20.00%) MySQL
10 6 (20.00%) Tomcat
11 5 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (16.67%) ASP
11 5 (16.67%) Linux
11 5 (16.67%) JSP
11 5 (16.67%) B2C
11 5 (16.67%) HTML5
12 4 (13.33%) JDBC
12 4 (13.33%) Maven
13 3 (10.00%) Information Management

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 15 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (46.67%) Symfony
3 11 (36.67%) CSS
4 9 (30.00%) jQuery
5 8 (26.67%) HTML
5 8 (26.67%) .NET
5 8 (26.67%) Struts
5 8 (26.67%) Spring
6 7 (23.33%) Django
7 5 (16.67%) ASP
7 5 (16.67%) JSP
7 5 (16.67%) HTML5
8 4 (13.33%) JDBC
9 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
9 3 (10.00%) Node.js
9 3 (10.00%) JPA
10 2 (6.667%) Memcached
10 2 (6.667%) J2EE
10 2 (6.667%) Web Services
10 2 (6.667%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 10 (33.33%) Magento
2 8 (26.67%) Apache
3 7 (23.33%) CMS
4 6 (20.00%) Tomcat
5 3 (10.00%) WebLogic
5 3 (10.00%) WordPress
6 2 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
6 2 (6.667%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.333%) ActiveMQ
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Broadband
2 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.333%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (6.667%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.667%) Redis
2 2 (6.667%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git (software)
2 4 (13.33%) Maven
3 3 (10.00%) Ant
4 1 (3.333%) JUnit
General
1 2 (6.667%) Games
2 1 (3.333%) Retail
2 1 (3.333%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.333%) Automotive
2 1 (3.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (93.33%) Developer
2 15 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Senior Developer
4 7 (23.33%) Senior PHP Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.667%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.667%) Web Developer
7 2 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (6.667%) Systems Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Senior J2EE Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) J2EE Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Cloud Software Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Cloud Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Online Games
1 2 (6.667%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.667%) CentOS
2 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (16.67%) B2C
2 3 (10.00%) Information Management
2 3 (10.00%) MVC
2 3 (10.00%) OOP
2 3 (10.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (10.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (10.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (6.667%) Data Management
4 1 (3.333%) TDD
4 1 (3.333%) Load Balancing
4 1 (3.333%) PLM
4 1 (3.333%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 26 (86.67%) PHP
2 13 (43.33%) Python
3 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
4 9 (30.00%) Java
5 7 (23.33%) SQL
6 6 (20.00%) Perl
7 3 (10.00%) Objective-C
7 3 (10.00%) Bash shell
7 3 (10.00%) PHP5
8 2 (6.667%) C++
9 1 (3.333%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (3.333%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Nagios
2 2 (6.667%) Splunk
2 2 (6.667%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) JBoss
1 3 (10.00%) Remedy
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
1 3 (10.00%) Zend
2 2 (6.667%) Riverbed
2 2 (6.667%) Tealeaf
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