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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 125 152 156
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +4
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 67 21 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.636% 0.579% 0.354%
As % of the Application Development category 3.143% 1.200% 0.832%
Number of salaries quoted 67 21 14
Average salary £35,000 £33,500 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.47% -2.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £23,000 £29,300
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2132 1750 1682
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 52.06% 48.29% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1954 1598 1559
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby on Rails
North West

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Stockport - 4 £35,000 -
Salford - 1 £57,500 -
Ruby on Rails
North West

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 152 (100.00%) Ruby
2 81 (53.29%) TDD
3 74 (48.68%) JavaScript
4 66 (43.42%) Git (software)
5 62 (40.79%) MySQL
6 61 (40.13%) Java
6 61 (40.13%) Scrum
7 57 (37.50%) SQL
8 46 (30.26%) CSS
9 44 (28.95%) .NET
10 40 (26.32%) PHP
11 36 (23.68%) C#
12 34 (22.37%) Agile Software Development
13 33 (21.71%) HTML
14 32 (21.05%) Linux
15 31 (20.39%) E-Commerce
16 25 (16.45%) Apache
16 25 (16.45%) Pair Programming
17 23 (15.13%) Business Analysis
17 23 (15.13%) Web Development
17 23 (15.13%) Grails
17 23 (15.13%) nginx
17 23 (15.13%) Service Delivery
17 23 (15.13%) MVC
17 23 (15.13%) PostgreSQL
17 23 (15.13%) Microsoft
18 22 (14.47%) XHTML
18 22 (14.47%) ASP.NET
18 22 (14.47%) Back Office
18 22 (14.47%) Kanban

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 46 (30.26%) CSS
2 44 (28.95%) .NET
3 33 (21.71%) HTML
4 23 (15.13%) Grails
5 22 (14.47%) XHTML
5 22 (14.47%) ASP.NET
6 17 (11.18%) jQuery
7 10 (6.579%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 10 (6.579%) XML
8 7 (4.605%) JSP
8 7 (4.605%) Ajax
8 7 (4.605%) Spring
9 6 (3.947%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (3.947%) HTML5
9 6 (3.947%) ASP
9 6 (3.947%) LAMP
10 4 (2.632%) Underscore.js
10 4 (2.632%) Sinatra
10 4 (2.632%) Node.js
11 3 (1.974%) REST
Application Platforms
1 25 (16.45%) Apache
2 23 (15.13%) nginx
3 3 (1.974%) Windows Azure
3 3 (1.974%) CMS
4 2 (1.316%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.974%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (40.79%) MySQL
2 23 (15.13%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (14.47%) Riak
4 10 (6.579%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (43.42%) Git (software)
2 10 (6.579%) Cucumber
3 6 (3.947%) RSpec
3 6 (3.947%) Capistrano
4 4 (2.632%) Subversion
5 1 (0.658%) GitHub
5 1 (0.658%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.658%) Eclipse
General
1 22 (14.47%) Back Office
2 19 (12.50%) Marketing
3 7 (4.605%) Retail
4 3 (1.974%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.974%) Finance
5 2 (1.316%) Games
Job Titles
1 118 (77.63%) Developer
2 38 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 25 (16.45%) Software Engineer
4 23 (15.13%) Business Analyst
4 23 (15.13%) Analyst
5 22 (14.47%) .NET Developer
6 21 (13.82%) Web Developer
7 16 (10.53%) Java Developer
8 15 (9.868%) C# Developer
9 13 (8.553%) PHP Developer
9 13 (8.553%) C# .NET Developer
10 11 (7.237%) Software Developer
11 8 (5.263%) C# Web Developer
11 8 (5.263%) Consultant
11 8 (5.263%) Business Consultant
12 6 (3.947%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 6 (3.947%) .NET Web Developer
12 6 (3.947%) Web Applications Developer
12 6 (3.947%) Applications Developer
12 6 (3.947%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.53%) Open Source
2 12 (7.895%) New Media
3 10 (6.579%) NHS
4 3 (1.974%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.974%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.658%) Video on Demand
5 1 (0.658%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 32 (21.05%) Linux
2 7 (4.605%) Solaris
3 6 (3.947%) UNIX
4 1 (0.658%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.658%) Android
4 1 (0.658%) Windows
4 1 (0.658%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (53.29%) TDD
2 61 (40.13%) Scrum
3 34 (22.37%) Agile Software Development
4 31 (20.39%) E-Commerce
5 25 (16.45%) Pair Programming
6 23 (15.13%) Business Analysis
6 23 (15.13%) Web Development
6 23 (15.13%) Service Delivery
6 23 (15.13%) MVC
7 22 (14.47%) Kanban
8 19 (12.50%) Unit Testing
8 19 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
9 18 (11.84%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (7.895%) Data Management
11 11 (7.237%) Software Engineering
11 11 (7.237%) Technical Architecture
11 11 (7.237%) OO
12 7 (4.605%) Online Marketing
12 7 (4.605%) User Stories
13 4 (2.632%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 152 (100.00%) Ruby
2 74 (48.68%) JavaScript
3 61 (40.13%) Java
4 57 (37.50%) SQL
5 40 (26.32%) PHP
6 36 (23.68%) C#
7 7 (4.605%) Python
8 6 (3.947%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.289%) VB.NET
9 5 (3.289%) C++
10 3 (1.974%) XAML
11 1 (0.658%) Scala
11 1 (0.658%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 9 (5.921%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.605%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.579%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.237%) Twitter
3 6 (3.947%) Oracle
4 4 (2.632%) Apple
5 2 (1.316%) Adobe
6 1 (0.658%) Zend
6 1 (0.658%) Google
6 1 (0.658%) JBoss
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