The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby 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 over the 3 months to 18 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 90 149 164
Rank change year-on-year
+59 +15
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 116 28 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 2.719% 0.750% 0.248%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.369% 1.221% 0.508%
Number of salaries quoted 94 28 10
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +19.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,250 £29,650 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £48,500 £37,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2655 2294 1967
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 62.22% 61.47% 48.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2365 2084 1851
Average salary £35,000 £33,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.47% +6.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
North West

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 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
Bolton - 7 £27,500 - 1
Salford - 7 £45,000 -
Stockport - 3 £35,000 -
Ruby
North West

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 156 (62.15%) Ruby on Rails
2 153 (60.96%) JavaScript
3 117 (46.61%) TDD
4 112 (44.62%) Java
5 98 (39.04%) CSS
5 98 (39.04%) .NET
5 98 (39.04%) Scrum
6 95 (37.85%) C#
7 92 (36.65%) MySQL
8 86 (34.26%) PHP
9 85 (33.86%) SQL
10 75 (29.88%) HTML
11 74 (29.48%) Agile Software Development
12 70 (27.89%) Git (software)
13 56 (22.31%) Linux
14 55 (21.91%) MVC
15 47 (18.73%) Apache
15 47 (18.73%) E-Commerce
16 46 (18.33%) Kanban
17 38 (15.14%) Degree
18 35 (13.94%) Web Development
19 33 (13.15%) Vagrant
20 32 (12.75%) jQuery
20 32 (12.75%) ASP.NET
21 30 (11.95%) Computer Science
22 29 (11.55%) Open Source
23 28 (11.16%) REST
23 28 (11.16%) XHTML
24 27 (10.76%) PRINCE2
24 27 (10.76%) Extreme Programming

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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
1 156 (62.15%) Ruby on Rails
2 98 (39.04%) .NET
2 98 (39.04%) CSS
3 75 (29.88%) HTML
4 32 (12.75%) ASP.NET
4 32 (12.75%) jQuery
5 28 (11.16%) XHTML
5 28 (11.16%) REST
6 25 (9.960%) HTML5
7 22 (8.765%) LAMP
8 20 (7.968%) Web Services
9 16 (6.375%) ASP
9 16 (6.375%) CSS3
10 15 (5.976%) XML
10 15 (5.976%) Spring
11 14 (5.578%) Grails
12 12 (4.781%) Sass
12 12 (4.781%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (4.382%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 11 (4.382%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 47 (18.73%) Apache
2 21 (8.367%) nginx
3 8 (3.187%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (3.187%) Windows Azure
3 8 (3.187%) Amazon AWS
3 8 (3.187%) Amazon ELB
4 5 (1.992%) CMS
5 2 (0.797%) WordPress
6 1 (0.398%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.195%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.187%) DNS
1 8 (3.187%) Firewall
2 6 (2.390%) HTTP
3 5 (1.992%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (36.65%) MySQL
2 18 (7.171%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.773%) Riak
4 16 (6.375%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.187%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (3.187%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.187%) Redis
6 6 (2.390%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (27.89%) Git (software)
2 16 (6.375%) RSpec
3 13 (5.179%) Capistrano
4 8 (3.187%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.187%) Hudson
4 8 (3.187%) Selenium
4 8 (3.187%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.992%) Ant
5 5 (1.992%) Maven
6 4 (1.594%) WATIR
6 4 (1.594%) Subversion
6 4 (1.594%) FitNesse
7 2 (0.797%) QUnit
7 2 (0.797%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.797%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.797%) Mocha
8 1 (0.398%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.398%) NetBeans
8 1 (0.398%) GitHub
General
1 20 (7.968%) Back Office
2 18 (7.171%) Games
3 16 (6.375%) Marketing
4 8 (3.187%) Retail
5 6 (2.390%) Finance
6 1 (0.398%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.398%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 195 (77.69%) Developer
2 51 (20.32%) Software Developer
3 37 (14.74%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 36 (14.34%) Software Engineer
5 24 (9.562%) .NET Developer
6 23 (9.163%) Web Developer
7 22 (8.765%) Java Developer
7 22 (8.765%) PHP Developer
8 17 (6.773%) C# Developer
9 14 (5.578%) Analyst
9 14 (5.578%) Business Analyst
9 14 (5.578%) C# .NET Developer
10 11 (4.382%) Team Leader
10 11 (4.382%) Development Team Leader
11 10 (3.984%) Principal Software Developer
12 9 (3.586%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.187%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (3.187%) ASP.NET Developer
13 8 (3.187%) C# Web Developer
14 7 (2.789%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.95%) Computer Science
2 29 (11.55%) Open Source
3 16 (6.375%) BBC
4 13 (5.179%) Semantic Web
5 12 (4.781%) Ontologies
6 11 (4.382%) NHS
7 10 (3.984%) New Media
7 10 (3.984%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.187%) Social Network
9 7 (2.789%) iPhone
10 5 (1.992%) MHEG
10 5 (1.992%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.594%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.594%) Interactive TV
12 3 (1.195%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.797%) Social Media
13 2 (0.797%) iPad
14 1 (0.398%) Video on Demand
14 1 (0.398%) SaaS
14 1 (0.398%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 56 (22.31%) Linux
2 22 (8.765%) UNIX
3 10 (3.984%) Android
4 9 (3.586%) Windows
5 8 (3.187%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.789%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.594%) Solaris
7 4 (1.594%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (46.61%) TDD
2 98 (39.04%) Scrum
3 74 (29.48%) Agile Software Development
4 55 (21.91%) MVC
5 47 (18.73%) E-Commerce
6 46 (18.33%) Kanban
7 35 (13.94%) Web Development
8 27 (10.76%) Pair Programming
8 27 (10.76%) PRINCE2
8 27 (10.76%) Extreme Programming
9 25 (9.960%) B2C
10 24 (9.562%) OO
10 24 (9.562%) Unit Testing
11 21 (8.367%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (7.171%) OOP
13 17 (6.773%) UML
14 16 (6.375%) Business Analysis
15 14 (5.578%) Service Delivery
16 13 (5.179%) OOD
16 13 (5.179%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 153 (60.96%) JavaScript
2 112 (44.62%) Java
3 95 (37.85%) C#
4 86 (34.26%) PHP
5 85 (33.86%) SQL
6 22 (8.765%) C++
7 20 (7.968%) Python
8 18 (7.171%) ActionScript
9 9 (3.586%) C
9 9 (3.586%) Bash shell
10 6 (2.390%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.992%) VBA
12 4 (1.594%) Perl
13 3 (1.195%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.195%) XAML
13 3 (1.195%) Scala
14 1 (0.398%) ActionScript 3.0
14 1 (0.398%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.398%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.398%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (15.14%) Degree
2 11 (4.382%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.976%) QA
2 3 (1.195%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (3.187%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (3.187%) Postfix
1 8 (3.187%) Varnish
1 8 (3.187%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 33 (13.15%) Vagrant
2 10 (3.984%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (6.375%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.781%) Apple
2 12 (4.781%) Twitter
3 11 (4.382%) Oracle
4 8 (3.187%) VMware
5 6 (2.390%) JBoss
6 5 (1.992%) Rackspace
7 4 (1.594%) Zend
8 3 (1.195%) Google
9 2 (0.797%) Facebook
9 2 (0.797%) Adobe
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Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
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Salary: £40000.00 per annum + Benfits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Salary: Competitive + bonus + benefits
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Salary: Competitive + Bonus + Benefits
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Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Benefits and Bonus
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Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Benefits + Bonus
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