The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby 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 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 93 102 176
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +74
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 1313 1350 840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 2.967% 2.538% 1.403%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.562% 4.666% 2.588%
Number of salaries quoted 1143 1169 750
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £32,500 £34,650
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
23608 28935 32462
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 53.34% 54.39% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 20263 25675 27889
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
England

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Ruby Salary Histogram

Ruby
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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +4 265 £52,500 +5.00% 34
Docklands, London - 9 £55,000 -
Osterley - 9 - - 1
Canary Wharf +13 5 £75,000 +30.43%
Hackney - 1 - -
Ruby
England

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 1404 (52.76%) Java
2 978 (36.75%) Python
3 958 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 938 (35.25%) Ruby on Rails
5 937 (35.21%) TDD
6 886 (33.30%) PHP
7 879 (33.03%) CSS
8 765 (28.75%) Linux
9 728 (27.36%) Agile Software Development
10 687 (25.82%) HTML
11 673 (25.29%) MySQL
12 640 (24.05%) C#
13 636 (23.90%) OO
14 614 (23.07%) SQL
15 601 (22.59%) Web Services
16 551 (20.71%) E-Commerce
17 540 (20.29%) Scrum
18 476 (17.89%) HTML5
19 473 (17.78%) .NET
20 468 (17.59%) Perl
21 465 (17.47%) BDD
22 464 (17.44%) NoSQL
23 458 (17.21%) Open Source
24 435 (16.35%) Cucumber
25 428 (16.08%) Degree
26 424 (15.93%) jQuery
27 414 (15.56%) Git (software)
28 407 (15.30%) MongoDB
29 384 (14.43%) Puppet
30 365 (13.72%) Continuous Integration

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London 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
1 938 (35.25%) Ruby on Rails
2 879 (33.03%) CSS
3 687 (25.82%) HTML
4 601 (22.59%) Web Services
5 476 (17.89%) HTML5
6 473 (17.78%) .NET
7 424 (15.93%) jQuery
8 342 (12.85%) XML
9 329 (12.36%) CSS3
10 257 (9.658%) Ajax
11 255 (9.583%) Node.js
12 237 (8.906%) JSON
13 236 (8.869%) RESTful
14 232 (8.719%) REST
15 221 (8.305%) Spring
16 191 (7.178%) ASP.NET
17 142 (5.336%) J2EE
17 142 (5.336%) Hibernate
18 134 (5.036%) ASP.NET MVC
19 128 (4.810%) Django
Application Platforms
1 351 (13.19%) Apache
2 334 (12.55%) Amazon AWS
3 159 (5.975%) nginx
4 109 (4.096%) Tomcat
5 87 (3.269%) CMS
6 83 (3.119%) WordPress
7 80 (3.006%) Windows Azure
7 80 (3.006%) Amazon EC2
8 74 (2.781%) Force.com
9 54 (2.029%) Drupal
10 43 (1.616%) IIS
11 37 (1.390%) Apache Pig
12 32 (1.203%) ElasticSearch
13 27 (1.015%) Mule
14 25 (0.939%) Apache Solr
15 22 (0.827%) Sitecore CMS
16 21 (0.789%) OpenStack
17 18 (0.676%) Amazon S3
18 17 (0.639%) Rackspace Cloud
19 15 (0.564%) Umbraco
Applications
1 47 (1.766%) Photoshop
2 33 (1.240%) MS Excel
3 11 (0.413%) Google Apps
4 10 (0.376%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (0.263%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.150%) SPSS
7 3 (0.113%) MS Office
8 1 (0.038%) Maya
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.038%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 4 (0.150%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.113%) Tridion
2 3 (0.113%) Google Analytics
3 2 (0.075%) SiteCatalyst
3 2 (0.075%) Optimost
3 2 (0.075%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.038%) Summit
4 1 (0.038%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 241 (9.057%) Internet
2 153 (5.750%) HTTP
3 109 (4.096%) TCP/IP
4 64 (2.405%) SAN
5 63 (2.368%) Firewall
6 61 (2.292%) DNS
7 38 (1.428%) iSCSI
8 30 (1.127%) tcpdump
9 26 (0.977%) Wireshark
10 16 (0.601%) BIG-IP
11 13 (0.489%) Broadband
11 13 (0.489%) SSL
11 13 (0.489%) LDAP
12 12 (0.451%) SNMP
13 10 (0.376%) Extranet
13 10 (0.376%) Intranet
13 10 (0.376%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.263%) BSS
14 7 (0.263%) DHCP
15 6 (0.225%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 673 (25.29%) MySQL
2 464 (17.44%) NoSQL
3 407 (15.30%) MongoDB
4 233 (8.756%) SQL Server
5 204 (7.666%) Big Data
6 187 (7.027%) Hadoop
7 148 (5.562%) Redis
8 135 (5.073%) PostgreSQL
9 133 (4.998%) Apache Cassandra
10 74 (2.781%) RDBMS
11 68 (2.555%) CouchDB
12 48 (1.804%) SQL Server 2012
12 48 (1.804%) SQL Server 2005
13 44 (1.654%) SQL Server 2008
14 40 (1.503%) Neo4j
15 37 (1.390%) Apache Hive
16 24 (0.902%) MarkLogic
17 14 (0.526%) Data Mining
18 12 (0.451%) HBase
19 9 (0.338%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 435 (16.35%) Cucumber
2 414 (15.56%) Git (software)
3 358 (13.45%) Selenium
4 218 (8.192%) Subversion
5 195 (7.328%) RSpec
6 188 (7.065%) Jenkins
7 137 (5.148%) WebDriver
8 132 (4.961%) Maven
9 88 (3.307%) JUnit
9 88 (3.307%) NUnit
10 68 (2.555%) Hudson
11 61 (2.292%) JMeter
12 59 (2.217%) JIRA
13 58 (2.180%) Visual Studio
13 58 (2.180%) GitHub
14 56 (2.104%) SpecFlow
15 54 (2.029%) TeamCity
16 50 (1.879%) JBehave
17 48 (1.804%) CruiseControl
18 42 (1.578%) Moq
General
1 280 (10.52%) Finance
2 142 (5.336%) Banking
3 139 (5.224%) Games
4 105 (3.946%) Investment Banking
4 105 (3.946%) Publishing
5 93 (3.495%) Marketing
6 51 (1.917%) Telecoms
7 50 (1.879%) Law
7 50 (1.879%) Retail
8 39 (1.466%) Front Office
9 30 (1.127%) Advertising
10 29 (1.090%) Financial Institution
11 26 (0.977%) Back Office
12 25 (0.939%) Online Betting
13 24 (0.902%) Legal
14 11 (0.413%) Music Industry
15 8 (0.301%) Billing
16 7 (0.263%) German Language
17 6 (0.225%) French Language
17 6 (0.225%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1513 (56.86%) Developer
2 392 (14.73%) Senior Developer
3 305 (11.46%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 241 (9.057%) Web Developer
5 174 (6.539%) Ruby Developer
6 171 (6.426%) Java Developer
7 162 (6.088%) Administrator
8 147 (5.524%) Systems Administrator
9 130 (4.885%) Analyst
10 115 (4.322%) Software Engineer
10 115 (4.322%) .NET Developer
11 114 (4.284%) Front-End Developer
12 104 (3.908%) DevOps Engineer
13 102 (3.833%) Test Analyst
14 101 (3.796%) Tester
15 94 (3.533%) Linux Administrator
16 92 (3.457%) Linux Systems Administrator
17 91 (3.420%) Architect
18 82 (3.082%) Software Developer
19 76 (2.856%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 458 (17.21%) Open Source
2 277 (10.41%) Computer Science
3 135 (5.073%) Digital Media
4 130 (4.885%) Mobile App
5 110 (4.134%) SaaS
6 92 (3.457%) PaaS
7 91 (3.420%) Cloud Computing
8 76 (2.856%) Social Network
9 68 (2.555%) W3C
10 66 (2.480%) Blog
11 61 (2.292%) Heroku
11 61 (2.292%) Enterprise Software
12 56 (2.104%) Social Media
13 55 (2.067%) Online Games
14 48 (1.804%) Hedge funds
15 45 (1.691%) Statistics
15 45 (1.691%) Mathematics
16 43 (1.616%) Web 2.0
17 40 (1.503%) iPhone
18 38 (1.428%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 765 (28.75%) Linux
2 277 (10.41%) UNIX
3 266 (9.996%) Windows
4 165 (6.201%) Android
5 163 (6.126%) Apple iOS
6 136 (5.111%) CentOS
7 131 (4.923%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 91 (3.420%) Ubuntu
9 78 (2.931%) Debian
10 61 (2.292%) Windows Server 2008
11 45 (1.691%) Solaris
12 19 (0.714%) FreeBSD
13 17 (0.639%) Mac OS X
14 15 (0.564%) Windows 7
15 13 (0.489%) Windows XP
16 5 (0.188%) Fedora
17 3 (0.113%) Gentoo
17 3 (0.113%) Scientific Linux
18 2 (0.075%) Windows Server 2003
19 1 (0.038%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 937 (35.21%) TDD
2 728 (27.36%) Agile Software Development
3 636 (23.90%) OO
4 551 (20.71%) E-Commerce
5 540 (20.29%) Scrum
6 465 (17.47%) BDD
7 365 (13.72%) Continuous Integration
8 281 (10.56%) Web Development
8 281 (10.56%) OOP
8 281 (10.56%) MVC
9 165 (6.201%) Kanban
10 162 (6.088%) Test Automation
11 127 (4.773%) Automated Testing
12 125 (4.697%) Test Scripting
13 114 (4.284%) Pair Programming
14 110 (4.134%) Software Engineering
15 95 (3.570%) User Stories
16 93 (3.495%) SOA
17 86 (3.232%) Configuration Management
18 75 (2.818%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1404 (52.76%) Java
2 978 (36.75%) Python
3 958 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 886 (33.30%) PHP
5 640 (24.05%) C#
6 614 (23.07%) SQL
7 468 (17.59%) Perl
8 301 (11.31%) Bash shell
9 247 (9.282%) C++
10 238 (8.944%) Scala
11 183 (6.877%) Clojure
12 169 (6.351%) C
13 115 (4.322%) Groovy
14 89 (3.345%) Erlang
15 73 (2.743%) Shell Script
16 62 (2.330%) Objective-C
17 58 (2.180%) R
18 47 (1.766%) Apex Code
19 45 (1.691%) F#
20 43 (1.616%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 428 (16.08%) Degree
2 30 (1.127%) ISEB
3 20 (0.752%) PhD
4 19 (0.714%) OCA
4 19 (0.714%) Oracle Certification
5 16 (0.601%) RHCE
6 13 (0.489%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 13 (0.489%) ISTQB
7 11 (0.413%) CISSP
8 9 (0.338%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.301%) Postgraduate
9 8 (0.301%) MCSE
10 7 (0.263%) GIAC
10 7 (0.263%) JNCIA
10 7 (0.263%) SSCP
11 5 (0.188%) RHCT
12 4 (0.150%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.150%) CCIE
12 4 (0.150%) CCSP
12 4 (0.150%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (8.643%) QA
2 32 (1.203%) WAI
3 10 (0.376%) PCI DSS
4 8 (0.301%) SLA
5 6 (0.225%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.113%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.038%) GxP
7 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 86 (3.232%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (1.804%) Varnish
3 28 (1.052%) Xen
4 14 (0.526%) vSphere
5 12 (0.451%) VirtualBox
5 12 (0.451%) NFS
6 11 (0.413%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.413%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.225%) Active Directory
7 6 (0.225%) Snort
8 5 (0.188%) VMware ESX
9 4 (0.150%) Squid
10 3 (0.113%) Gluster
10 3 (0.113%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.075%) Postfix
12 1 (0.038%) Samba
12 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.038%) Xsan
Systems Management
1 384 (14.43%) Puppet
2 91 (3.420%) Nagios
3 56 (2.104%) CFEngine
4 43 (1.616%) ZABBIX
5 27 (1.015%) Cacti
6 22 (0.827%) Vagrant
7 13 (0.489%) Zenoss
7 13 (0.489%) YUM
8 10 (0.376%) Splunk
9 9 (0.338%) SCOM
9 9 (0.338%) OSSEC
9 9 (0.338%) HP SIM
10 8 (0.301%) SolarWinds Orion
10 8 (0.301%) HP Quality Center
10 8 (0.301%) Munin
11 7 (0.263%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.188%) Ganglia
12 5 (0.188%) Sysprep
13 4 (0.150%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 4 (0.150%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 180 (6.764%) Red Hat
2 135 (5.073%) VMware
3 132 (4.961%) Oracle
4 130 (4.885%) Microsoft
5 109 (4.096%) Rackspace
6 108 (4.059%) Google
7 74 (2.781%) Facebook
8 73 (2.743%) Zend
9 67 (2.518%) HP
10 57 (2.142%) Cisco
11 52 (1.954%) Juniper
12 50 (1.879%) Salesforce.com
13 33 (1.240%) JBoss
14 30 (1.127%) NetApp
15 24 (0.902%) Joyent
16 22 (0.827%) Sitecore
17 21 (0.789%) Twitter
17 21 (0.789%) Talend
17 21 (0.789%) hybris
18 19 (0.714%) Sybase
West London
A leading online digital picture service requires a Software Developer who is passionate about new technology to tackle writing code using the best tool for the job. The...
Blue Glue
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum 15% performance related bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
Having successfully established themselves as a leading digital photo service within Europe, a Front End Software Developer with experience in back end technologies such as Perl, Java, PHP,...
Blue Glue
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum 15% performance related bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
The Senior Developer (Perl, Java, PHP, Ruby or .NET) will join a leading online digital photo service that is rapidly growing and developing innovative new products... Essential Skills...
Blue Glue
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum 15% performance related bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Java Developer required to grow the expanding team of this well known media company in London.
ISL
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
My client is looking for a PHP Web Application Developer to join the team to work on the company's customer web portal. Responsibilities: - To accurately identify the...
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
South East London
Blue Glue
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum 20 days holiday
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £38000 - £60000 per annum + bonus and benefits and training
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £38000 - £60000 per annum + bonus and benefits and training
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits package
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
bridgenoble
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 9 June 2013
London
Prism Digital
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Resource Partners Limited
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
The Myers Group
Salary: From £45,000 to £60,000 per annum Pension, Health Care, Life Assurance
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
The Myers Group
Salary: From £45,000 to £65,000 per annum Pension, Health Care,Life assurance,
Posted: 18 June 2013
North West London
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £50000 - £57000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
MINT Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Prism Digital
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013