The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 22 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 48 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 10 23 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.908% 4.501% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.051% 11.06% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 23 0
Average salary - £45,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
198 208 327
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 37.79% 40.70% 46.71%
Number of salaries quoted 141 168 247
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Apache
1 10 (100.00%) MySQL
2 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 7 (70.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) nginx
2 7 (70.00%) Open Source
2 7 (70.00%) Git (software)
2 7 (70.00%) UNIX
3 6 (60.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) Perl
3 6 (60.00%) PHP
4 4 (40.00%) Citrix
4 4 (40.00%) Xen
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
5 3 (30.00%) JSON
5 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
5 3 (30.00%) jQuery
5 3 (30.00%) SCOM
5 3 (30.00%) CentOS
5 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (30.00%) HTML5
5 3 (30.00%) HP SIM
5 3 (30.00%) Rackspace Cloud
5 3 (30.00%) OpenStack
5 3 (30.00%) Rackspace
5 3 (30.00%) Big Data
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) sed
5 3 (30.00%) Cacti

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (30.00%) JSON
1 3 (30.00%) jQuery
1 3 (30.00%) HTML5
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) XML
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) Apache
2 7 (70.00%) nginx
3 3 (30.00%) Rackspace Cloud
3 3 (30.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) SSH
2 3 (30.00%) Broadband
2 3 (30.00%) SMTP
2 3 (30.00%) FTP
2 3 (30.00%) HTTP
2 3 (30.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (30.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (30.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Server Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Open Source
2 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) UNIX
3 3 (30.00%) CentOS
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Analytics
1 3 (30.00%) Web Development
1 3 (30.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Perl
2 6 (60.00%) PHP
3 3 (30.00%) sed
3 3 (30.00%) AWK
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) VBScript
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) C
3 3 (30.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Xen
2 3 (30.00%) qmail
2 3 (30.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCOM
1 3 (30.00%) HP SIM
1 3 (30.00%) Cacti
1 3 (30.00%) Munin
1 3 (30.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) Rackspace
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) HP
Middlesex, South East
Using various Open Source toolsets and technologies such as Nagios, Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP & Perl Using enterprise monitoring technologies such as HP SIM, OEM, HP Operations Manager & SCOM...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: Sky Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Middlesex
Using various Open Source toolsets and technologies such as Nagios, Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP & Perl... Knowledge in one or more of: Perl, PHP, SED, AWK, Java, XML, JSON,...
Sky
Salary: Sky Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013