The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby 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 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 108 102 87
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 15 3 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.813% 0.208% 1.233%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.452% 0.361% 1.916%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 20
Average salary £47,750 £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+59.16% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,750 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £38,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1033 830 1044
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 55.96% 57.56% 64.36%
Number of salaries quoted 918 742 971
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
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 Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -20 8 £60,000 +100.00%
Bicester - 5 £32,750 -
Abingdon - 2 £60,000 -
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 48 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 41 (73.21%) Linux
3 37 (66.07%) C
3 37 (66.07%) SQL Server
4 36 (64.29%) .NET
4 36 (64.29%) C#
5 35 (62.50%) Microsoft
6 33 (58.93%) SQL
6 33 (58.93%) WCF
7 31 (55.36%) WPF
8 29 (51.79%) AMQP
8 29 (51.79%) .NET Framework
9 27 (48.21%) LINQ
9 27 (48.21%) T-SQL
10 24 (42.86%) OO
11 19 (33.93%) Python
12 18 (32.14%) SQL Server 2008
13 16 (28.57%) CRM
13 16 (28.57%) CSS
14 14 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (21.43%) Perl
16 11 (19.64%) Finance
16 11 (19.64%) HTML5
17 9 (16.07%) MVC
18 8 (14.29%) HTML
18 8 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
18 8 (14.29%) Web Development
19 7 (12.50%) Git (software)
19 7 (12.50%) PHP
19 7 (12.50%) ASP.NET

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (64.29%) .NET
2 33 (58.93%) WCF
3 31 (55.36%) WPF
4 29 (51.79%) .NET Framework
5 27 (48.21%) LINQ
6 16 (28.57%) CSS
7 11 (19.64%) HTML5
8 8 (14.29%) HTML
9 7 (12.50%) ASP.NET
9 7 (12.50%) CSS3
10 6 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (8.929%) jQuery
11 5 (8.929%) Ruby on Rails
12 4 (7.143%) Memcached
12 4 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 4 (7.143%) REST
12 4 (7.143%) Django
13 3 (5.357%) Ext JS
13 3 (5.357%) ASP
13 3 (5.357%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 14 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (7.143%) Apache
2 4 (7.143%) nginx
3 3 (5.357%) IIS
4 2 (3.571%) Mathematica
5 1 (1.786%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.786%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.786%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (51.79%) AMQP
2 4 (7.143%) SAN
2 4 (7.143%) NAS
3 2 (3.571%) LDAP
3 2 (3.571%) SSL
3 2 (3.571%) DHCP
3 2 (3.571%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.571%) DNS
3 2 (3.571%) SSH
4 1 (1.786%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (66.07%) SQL Server
2 18 (32.14%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (8.929%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.357%) MySQL
5 3 (5.357%) Big Data
6 2 (3.571%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.571%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (3.571%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Git (software)
2 5 (8.929%) Subversion
3 4 (7.143%) Selenium
3 4 (7.143%) WebDriver
4 2 (3.571%) GCC
4 2 (3.571%) GDB
5 1 (1.786%) RSpec
5 1 (1.786%) MSI
5 1 (1.786%) Ant
5 1 (1.786%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (19.64%) Finance
2 2 (3.571%) Advertising
2 2 (3.571%) Publishing
3 1 (1.786%) Japanese Language
3 1 (1.786%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (71.43%) Developer
2 21 (37.50%) .NET Developer
3 11 (19.64%) Senior Developer
4 6 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (8.929%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.357%) UI Developer
6 3 (5.357%) PHP Developer
6 3 (5.357%) UI Programmer
7 2 (3.571%) Scala Developer
7 2 (3.571%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (3.571%) .NET Software Developer
7 2 (3.571%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.571%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.571%) Administrator
7 2 (3.571%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.571%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (3.571%) C# Developer
7 2 (3.571%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.571%) Web Designer
7 2 (3.571%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.929%) SaaS
2 3 (5.357%) Mathematics
2 3 (5.357%) Computer Science
3 2 (3.571%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.571%) PKI
3 2 (3.571%) Statistics
3 2 (3.571%) Replication
3 2 (3.571%) Semantic Web
4 1 (1.786%) PaaS
4 1 (1.786%) Open Source
4 1 (1.786%) Blog
4 1 (1.786%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 41 (73.21%) Linux
2 5 (8.929%) Windows
3 3 (5.357%) UNIX
4 1 (1.786%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) OO
2 16 (28.57%) CRM
3 9 (16.07%) MVC
4 8 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (14.29%) Web Development
5 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (7.143%) Web Application Development
6 4 (7.143%) Regression Testing
6 4 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (7.143%) Pair Programming
6 4 (7.143%) Unit Testing
6 4 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (7.143%) Investment Management
6 4 (7.143%) Time Management
7 3 (5.357%) TDD
7 3 (5.357%) Analytics
8 2 (3.571%) User Stories
8 2 (3.571%) BDD
8 2 (3.571%) Configuration Management
8 2 (3.571%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 37 (66.07%) C
3 36 (64.29%) C#
4 33 (58.93%) SQL
5 27 (48.21%) T-SQL
6 19 (33.93%) Python
7 12 (21.43%) Perl
8 7 (12.50%) PHP
9 4 (7.143%) Java
9 4 (7.143%) C++
10 3 (5.357%) Bash shell
11 2 (3.571%) MATLAB
11 2 (3.571%) Shell Script
11 2 (3.571%) XQuery
11 2 (3.571%) Scala
11 2 (3.571%) tcsh
12 1 (1.786%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.786%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.786%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.571%) MCP
1 2 (3.571%) MCAD
1 2 (3.571%) MCSD
1 2 (3.571%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (3.571%) MCTS
2 1 (1.786%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.357%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.571%) Xen
1 2 (3.571%) qmail
1 2 (3.571%) Postfix
1 2 (3.571%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Puppet
2 2 (3.571%) YUM
2 2 (3.571%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 2 (3.571%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 35 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.571%) Facebook
2 2 (3.571%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.786%) Altiris
3 1 (1.786%) EMC
3 1 (1.786%) Citrix
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Posted: 1 May 2013
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Salary: From £20,000 to £30,000 per annum
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Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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