The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 119 107 -
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 3 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.164% 0.068% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.420% 0.149% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
All Application Development
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
715 671 847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 39.01% 45.58% 52.28%
Number of salaries quoted 629 592 793
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,865 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby on Rails
South East

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Oxford -16 3 £42,500 +41.66%
Ruby on Rails
South East

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) OO
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Sinatra
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (60.00%) Django
4 2 (40.00%) Statistics
4 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) PHP
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (20.00%) .NET
5 1 (20.00%) MySQL
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (20.00%) Apache
5 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) HTML5
1 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 3 (60.00%) Sinatra
2 3 (60.00%) Django
3 2 (40.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Sass
4 1 (20.00%) SCSS
4 1 (20.00%) Node.js
4 1 (20.00%) SciPy
4 1 (20.00%) NumPy
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) JavaBeans
4 1 (20.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
1 1 (20.00%) RSpec
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Ruby Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Statistics
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) CRM
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) PHP
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) CoffeeScript
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) EMC
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix
1 1 (20.00%) Altiris
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