The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the London region.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank235380353
Rank change year-on-year
Up+145Down-27
Matching permanent IT job ads577254193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London1.072 %0.447 %0.433 %
As % of the Application Development category2.618 %1.125 %1.119 %
Number of salaries quoted545229174
Average salary£50,000£45,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£35,000£32,500£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£66,000£59,400
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£36,750
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %+2.04 %
London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
220362257817250
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London40.93 %39.70 %38.67 %
Number of salaries quoted196441976414738
Average salary£47,500£50,000£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£33,500£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-
Ruby on Rails EnglandRuby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Demand Trend

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

London Ruby on Rails Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend

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

London Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

London Ruby on Rails Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonUp+5685£55,000+29.41 %
UxbridgeNew entry-9£50,000-
Ruby on Rails EnglandRuby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs across the London 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.

11035 (99.04 %)Ruby
2614 (58.76 %)JavaScript
3515 (49.28 %)CSS
4449 (42.97 %)HTML
5325 (31.10 %)MySQL
6324 (31.00 %)jQuery
7303 (29.00 %)TDD
8302 (28.90 %)PHP
9242 (23.16 %)OO
10236 (22.58 %)Java
11232 (22.20 %)HTML5
12209 (20.00 %)Python
13205 (19.62 %)Agile Software Development
14201 (19.23 %)Linux
15200 (19.14 %)SQL
16182 (17.42 %)Git (software)
17176 (16.84 %)MVC
18175 (16.75 %)Web Services
19166 (15.89 %)Open Source
20164 (15.69 %)Scrum
20164 (15.69 %).NET
21159 (15.22 %)Cucumber
22145 (13.88 %)E-Commerce
23142 (13.59 %)BDD
24130 (12.44 %)Ajax
25128 (12.25 %)C#
26126 (12.06 %)Android
27124 (11.87 %)XML
28123 (11.77 %)Apple iOS
29119 (11.39 %)RSpec

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1515 (49.28 %)CSS
2449 (42.97 %)HTML
3324 (31.00 %)jQuery
4232 (22.20 %)HTML5
5175 (16.75 %)Web Services
6164 (15.69 %).NET
7130 (12.44 %)Ajax
8124 (11.87 %)XML
980 (7.656 %)Django
1077 (7.368 %)ASP.NET
1175 (7.177 %)CSS3
1274 (7.081 %)Spring
1368 (6.507 %)RESTful
1465 (6.220 %)REST
1559 (5.646 %)Hibernate
1655 (5.263 %)Memcached
1754 (5.167 %)SOAP
1754 (5.167 %)Struts
1853 (5.072 %)Haml
1951 (4.880 %)XHTML
London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1108 (10.33 %)Apache
248 (4.593 %)CMS
338 (3.636 %)nginx
436 (3.445 %)Amazon S3
535 (3.349 %)Amazon EC2
634 (3.254 %)Tomcat
733 (3.158 %)WordPress
832 (3.062 %)Force.com
929 (2.775 %)Apache Solr
1025 (2.392 %)Drupal
1118 (1.722 %)GlassFish
1118 (1.722 %)Facebook Platform
1216 (1.531 %)BizTalk Server
1315 (1.435 %)Umbraco
1412 (1.148 %)ColdFusion
1511 (1.053 %)Amazon AWS
169 (0.861 %)Joomla!
177 (0.670 %)Magento
186 (0.574 %)IIS
186 (0.574 %)RabbitMQ
London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
152 (4.976 %)MS Visio
215 (1.435 %)Photoshop
310 (0.957 %)Adobe Illustrator
310 (0.957 %)InDesign
47 (0.670 %)Adobe Premiere
47 (0.670 %)Adobe After Effects
56 (0.574 %)MS Excel
64 (0.383 %)SketchUp
London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (0.766 %)Google Analytics
24 (0.383 %)Optimost
24 (0.383 %)SiteCatalyst
London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
161 (5.837 %)Internet
234 (3.254 %)HTTP
319 (1.818 %)SSL
45 (0.478 %)HTTPS
45 (0.478 %)VPN
45 (0.478 %)DNS
45 (0.478 %)SSH
54 (0.383 %)Reverse Proxy
62 (0.191 %)DSL
62 (0.191 %)RIP
62 (0.191 %)Broadband
62 (0.191 %)SMS
71 (0.096 %)Intranet
71 (0.096 %)BIG-IP
London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1325 (31.10 %)MySQL
295 (9.091 %)MongoDB
367 (6.411 %)PostgreSQL
457 (5.455 %)NoSQL
552 (4.976 %)Redis
639 (3.732 %)SQL Server
735 (3.349 %)Apache Cassandra
833 (3.158 %)Hadoop
913 (1.244 %)RDBMS
1010 (0.957 %)CouchDB
119 (0.861 %)HBase
125 (0.478 %)SQL Server 2005
134 (0.383 %)SQL Server 2008
London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1182 (17.42 %)Git (software)
2159 (15.22 %)Cucumber
3119 (11.39 %)RSpec
491 (8.708 %)Subversion
547 (4.498 %)Selenium
635 (3.349 %)TeamCity
734 (3.254 %)ReSharper
734 (3.254 %)NUnit
833 (3.158 %)Eclipse
833 (3.158 %)Rhino Mocks
833 (3.158 %)NDepend
923 (2.201 %)Maven
1022 (2.105 %)WatiN
1022 (2.105 %)NCover
1022 (2.105 %)FxCop
1022 (2.105 %)FitNesse
1120 (1.914 %)JUnit
1219 (1.818 %)PHPUnit
1219 (1.818 %)IntelliJ
1316 (1.531 %)CruiseControl
London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
175 (7.177 %)Marketing
259 (5.646 %)Publishing
259 (5.646 %)Finance
354 (5.167 %)Games
438 (3.636 %)Retail
518 (1.722 %)Pharmaceutical
69 (0.861 %)Music
78 (0.766 %)Advertising
86 (0.574 %)Multimedia
94 (0.383 %)Banking
94 (0.383 %)Investment Banking
94 (0.383 %)Telecoms
94 (0.383 %)French Language
London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1837 (80.10 %)Developer
2292 (27.94 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
3169 (16.17 %)Senior Developer
4128 (12.25 %)Ruby Developer
5113 (10.81 %)Lead Developer
6101 (9.665 %)Web Developer
778 (7.464 %)Mobile Developer
872 (6.890 %)PHP Developer
960 (5.742 %).NET Developer
1057 (5.455 %)Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
1155 (5.263 %)Java Developer
1253 (5.072 %)Software Engineer
1352 (4.976 %)Front-End Developer
1433 (3.158 %)Junior
1525 (2.392 %)Salesforce.com Developer
1623 (2.201 %)Agile .NET Developer
1623 (2.201 %)Graduate
1623 (2.201 %)Software Developer
1623 (2.201 %)Junior Developer
1623 (2.201 %)PHP Web Developer
London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1166 (15.89 %)Open Source
297 (9.282 %)Computer Science
383 (7.943 %)Social Network
448 (4.593 %)Social Media
543 (4.115 %)SaaS
641 (3.923 %)iPhone
737 (3.541 %)Web 2.0
832 (3.062 %)Digital Media
929 (2.775 %)Big Data
1026 (2.488 %)Mathematics
1125 (2.392 %)Online Games
1220 (1.914 %)Blog
1314 (1.340 %)Mainframe
1314 (1.340 %)Blackberry
1314 (1.340 %)Heroku
1413 (1.244 %)Firmware
1510 (0.957 %)W3C
1510 (0.957 %)Cloud Computing
1510 (0.957 %)iPad
169 (0.861 %)Engine Yard
London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1201 (19.23 %)Linux
2126 (12.06 %)Android
3123 (11.77 %)Apple iOS
469 (6.603 %)UNIX
536 (3.445 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
625 (2.392 %)Windows
718 (1.722 %)Ubuntu
811 (1.053 %)CentOS
97 (0.670 %)Mac OS X
106 (0.574 %)Windows Mobile
114 (0.383 %)Windows Server 2008
123 (0.287 %)Mac OS
131 (0.096 %)Solaris
131 (0.096 %)Windows Server 2003
London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1303 (29.00 %)TDD
2242 (23.16 %)OO
3205 (19.62 %)Agile Software Development
4176 (16.84 %)MVC
5164 (15.69 %)Scrum
6145 (13.88 %)E-Commerce
7142 (13.59 %)BDD
899 (9.474 %)OOP
974 (7.081 %)Web Development
1069 (6.603 %)Pair Programming
1165 (6.220 %)Refactoring
1259 (5.646 %)Unit Testing
1352 (4.976 %)SEO
1445 (4.306 %)Continuous Integration
1543 (4.115 %)Content Management
1639 (3.732 %)SOA
1738 (3.636 %)UML
1836 (3.445 %)Kanban
1928 (2.679 %)Load Balancing
2024 (2.297 %)EDA
London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11035 (99.04 %)Ruby
2614 (58.76 %)JavaScript
3302 (28.90 %)PHP
4236 (22.58 %)Java
5209 (20.00 %)Python
6200 (19.14 %)SQL
7128 (12.25 %)C#
866 (6.316 %)Groovy
962 (5.933 %)Perl
1055 (5.263 %)PHP5
1150 (4.785 %)ActionScript
1246 (4.402 %)C++
1340 (3.828 %)Scala
1433 (3.158 %)PL/SQL
1532 (3.062 %)Apex Code
1628 (2.679 %)CoffeeScript
1727 (2.584 %)Tcl
1727 (2.584 %)Objective-C
1821 (2.010 %)Erlang
1918 (1.722 %)ActionScript 3.0
London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
193 (8.900 %)Degree
21 (0.096 %)ISEB
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
140 (3.828 %)QA
London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (0.766 %)Varnish
23 (0.287 %)VMware Infrastructure
31 (0.096 %)VMware ESXi
31 (0.096 %)Postfix
31 (0.096 %)NFS
31 (0.096 %)Active Directory
31 (0.096 %)VMware ESX
London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
125 (2.392 %)Puppet
23 (0.287 %)ZABBIX
31 (0.096 %)Backup Exec
London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
188 (8.421 %)Facebook
283 (7.943 %)Apple
367 (6.411 %)Google
367 (6.411 %)Zend
463 (6.029 %)Oracle
538 (3.636 %)Twitter
632 (3.062 %)Salesforce.com
731 (2.967 %)Red Hat
819 (1.818 %)Adobe
915 (1.435 %)Symbian
915 (1.435 %)Sony
915 (1.435 %)Appcelerator
1014 (1.340 %)SAP
116 (0.574 %)Mercator
125 (0.478 %)Microsoft
134 (0.383 %)ATG
134 (0.383 %)Vignette
134 (0.383 %)Omniture
134 (0.383 %)Yahoo!
134 (0.383 %)Rackspace