The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby 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 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 Programming Languages category for the Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 54 53 58
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 7 29 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.566% 4.309% 1.512%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.555% 6.840% 2.857%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 7
Average salary £45,000 £36,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+24.13% -9.37%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
274 424 245
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 61.30% 63.00% 52.92%
Number of salaries quoted 237 379 203
Average salary £32,764 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.63% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £28,800 £27,050
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool 0 7 £45,000 +28.57%
Ruby
North West

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 12 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (73.33%) Java
2 11 (73.33%) C#
3 10 (66.67%) Python
4 9 (60.00%) C++
4 9 (60.00%) SQL
4 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (60.00%) Open Source
5 8 (53.33%) Groovy
5 8 (53.33%) Degree
5 8 (53.33%) HTML
5 8 (53.33%) CSS
6 7 (46.67%) .NET
6 7 (46.67%) Web Development
7 5 (33.33%) MVC
7 5 (33.33%) TDD
7 5 (33.33%) JUnit
7 5 (33.33%) Struts
7 5 (33.33%) Flash
7 5 (33.33%) Physics
7 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (33.33%) Spring
8 4 (26.67%) AOP
8 4 (26.67%) EJB 3.0
8 4 (26.67%) Spring Web Flow
8 4 (26.67%) jQuery
8 4 (26.67%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (26.67%) ZBrush

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 8 (53.33%) HTML
1 8 (53.33%) CSS
2 7 (46.67%) .NET
3 5 (33.33%) Struts
3 5 (33.33%) Flash
3 5 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
3 5 (33.33%) Spring
4 4 (26.67%) EJB 3.0
4 4 (26.67%) Spring Web Flow
4 4 (26.67%) jQuery
4 4 (26.67%) HTML5
4 4 (26.67%) EJB
4 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
4 4 (26.67%) JMS
5 3 (20.00%) Web Services
6 2 (13.33%) JSON
6 2 (13.33%) Sass
6 2 (13.33%) XHTML
7 1 (6.667%) Middleware
7 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) ESB
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.667%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) ZBrush
1 4 (26.67%) Photoshop
1 4 (26.67%) 3ds Max
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Internet
2 1 (6.667%) VoIP
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
2 1 (6.667%) SNMP
2 1 (6.667%) VPN
2 1 (6.667%) DNS
2 1 (6.667%) SSL
2 1 (6.667%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JUnit
2 3 (20.00%) Maven
3 2 (13.33%) Ant
4 1 (6.667%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.667%) Git (software)
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (6.667%) CruiseControl
4 1 (6.667%) Subversion
General
1 4 (26.67%) Games
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Senior Games Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Games Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Ruby Developer
6 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Penetration Tester
6 1 (6.667%) Tester
6 1 (6.667%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Graduate
6 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Open Source
2 5 (33.33%) Physics
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (26.67%) Streaming Video
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (6.667%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.667%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Solaris
2 1 (6.667%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.667%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (46.67%) Web Development
3 5 (33.33%) MVC
3 5 (33.33%) TDD
3 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 4 (26.67%) AOP
4 4 (26.67%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (26.67%) E-Commerce
4 4 (26.67%) SOA
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Multithreading
6 2 (13.33%) User Stories
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
7 1 (6.667%) Information Security
7 1 (6.667%) Pair Programming
7 1 (6.667%) Service Management
7 1 (6.667%) OOP
7 1 (6.667%) OO
7 1 (6.667%) Kanban
7 1 (6.667%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Java
1 11 (73.33%) C#
2 10 (66.67%) Python
3 9 (60.00%) C++
3 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (53.33%) Groovy
5 2 (13.33%) Scala
6 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
6 1 (6.667%) VB
6 1 (6.667%) Perl
6 1 (6.667%) PHP
6 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
6 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) JBoss
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
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