The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 17 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank - 81 67
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 0 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 0.148% 1.073%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.295% 2.336%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 5
Average salary - £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
226 339 214
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 50.67% 50.30% 45.92%
Number of salaries quoted 195 303 172
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
3 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Retail
4 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) CSS
4 3 (50.00%) Web Services
4 3 (50.00%) Scala
4 3 (50.00%) Sass
4 3 (50.00%) User Stories
5 2 (33.33%) Open Source
5 2 (33.33%) Kanban
5 2 (33.33%) Java EE
5 2 (33.33%) JSTL
5 2 (33.33%) UNIX
5 2 (33.33%) Linux
5 2 (33.33%) Apache
5 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
5 2 (33.33%) JDBC
5 2 (33.33%) Servlets
5 2 (33.33%) Struts
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) J2EE
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Sass
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) JDBC
3 2 (33.33%) Servlets
3 2 (33.33%) Struts
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Java EE
3 2 (33.33%) JSTL
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) XHTML
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Ruby Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
2 3 (50.00%) Scala
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) C#