The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby 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 Programming Languages category for the Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 72 60 59
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 9 3 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.888% 0.467% 1.877%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.596% 0.759% 2.879%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 15
Average salary £55,250 £30,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+84.16% +9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-8.75% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
564 395 521
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 55.62% 61.53% 65.21%
Number of salaries quoted 500 343 499
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
Oxfordshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxford Ruby Salary Histogram

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 44 (88.00%) JavaScript
2 43 (86.00%) Linux
3 40 (80.00%) C
4 36 (72.00%) C#
4 36 (72.00%) .NET
5 35 (70.00%) SQL Server
5 35 (70.00%) Microsoft
6 33 (66.00%) WCF
6 33 (66.00%) WPF
7 31 (62.00%) AMQP
7 31 (62.00%) SQL
8 29 (58.00%) T-SQL
8 29 (58.00%) LINQ
8 29 (58.00%) .NET Framework
9 22 (44.00%) OO
10 21 (42.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 18 (36.00%) CRM
12 17 (34.00%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (30.00%) Python
14 11 (22.00%) Finance
14 11 (22.00%) Perl
15 9 (18.00%) CSS
15 9 (18.00%) HTML5
15 9 (18.00%) Web Development
16 6 (12.00%) Puppet
16 6 (12.00%) ASP.NET
16 6 (12.00%) Windows
16 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 5 (10.00%) MVC
17 5 (10.00%) Agile Software Development

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 36 (72.00%) .NET
2 33 (66.00%) WCF
2 33 (66.00%) WPF
3 29 (58.00%) LINQ
3 29 (58.00%) .NET Framework
4 9 (18.00%) CSS
4 9 (18.00%) HTML5
5 6 (12.00%) ASP.NET
6 5 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (10.00%) CSS3
6 5 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 4 (8.000%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (8.000%) Memcached
7 4 (8.000%) Django
8 3 (6.000%) HTML
8 3 (6.000%) Ext JS
8 3 (6.000%) Sinatra
9 2 (4.000%) REST
9 2 (4.000%) XMPP
9 2 (4.000%) XML
Application Platforms
1 17 (34.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (6.000%) Apache
2 3 (6.000%) nginx
3 2 (4.000%) Mathematica
4 1 (2.000%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (62.00%) AMQP
2 4 (8.000%) NAS
2 4 (8.000%) SAN
3 2 (4.000%) SSH
3 2 (4.000%) LDAP
3 2 (4.000%) DHCP
3 2 (4.000%) Kerberos
3 2 (4.000%) DNS
3 2 (4.000%) SSL
4 1 (2.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (42.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.000%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.000%) SQLite
5 2 (4.000%) Big Data
5 2 (4.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.000%) Selenium
1 4 (8.000%) WebDriver
2 2 (4.000%) GCC
2 2 (4.000%) GDB
2 2 (4.000%) Subversion
2 2 (4.000%) Git (software)
3 1 (2.000%) Ant
3 1 (2.000%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.000%) MSI
General
1 11 (22.00%) Finance
2 1 (2.000%) Publishing
2 1 (2.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (74.00%) Developer
2 21 (42.00%) .NET Developer
3 12 (24.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.000%) UI Programmer
6 3 (6.000%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.000%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (4.000%) Administrator
7 2 (4.000%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (4.000%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.000%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.000%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.000%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.000%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.000%) Linux Administrator
8 1 (2.000%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.000%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.000%) Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) SaaS
2 3 (6.000%) Mathematics
3 2 (4.000%) Replication
3 2 (4.000%) PKI
3 2 (4.000%) Statistics
4 1 (2.000%) PaaS
4 1 (2.000%) IaaS
4 1 (2.000%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.000%) Blog
4 1 (2.000%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 43 (86.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Windows
3 3 (6.000%) UNIX
4 1 (2.000%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) OO
2 18 (36.00%) CRM
3 9 (18.00%) Web Development
4 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (10.00%) Time Management
5 5 (10.00%) MVC
5 5 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (8.000%) Regression Testing
6 4 (8.000%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (8.000%) Pair Programming
6 4 (8.000%) Investment Management
7 3 (6.000%) Analytics
8 2 (4.000%) User Stories
8 2 (4.000%) Web Application Development
8 2 (4.000%) Product Management
8 2 (4.000%) Software Engineering
8 2 (4.000%) Refactoring
8 2 (4.000%) Load Balancing
8 2 (4.000%) Configuration Management
9 1 (2.000%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 44 (88.00%) JavaScript
2 40 (80.00%) C
3 36 (72.00%) C#
4 31 (62.00%) SQL
5 29 (58.00%) T-SQL
6 15 (30.00%) Python
7 11 (22.00%) Perl
8 3 (6.000%) C++
8 3 (6.000%) Bash shell
9 2 (4.000%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.000%) MATLAB
9 2 (4.000%) Java
9 2 (4.000%) PHP
9 2 (4.000%) tcsh
10 1 (2.000%) VB.NET
10 1 (2.000%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.000%) Scala
10 1 (2.000%) CoffeeScript
10 1 (2.000%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1 (2.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.000%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.000%) Xen
1 2 (4.000%) qmail
1 2 (4.000%) Postfix
1 2 (4.000%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Puppet
2 2 (4.000%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 2 (4.000%) Cobbler
2 2 (4.000%) YUM
Vendors
1 35 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.000%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.000%) Altiris
3 1 (2.000%) EMC
3 1 (2.000%) Citrix
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