The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Portsmouth region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 0.327% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.588% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £25,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
170 134 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 55.56% 61.75% 55.02%
Number of salaries quoted 149 132 113
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
Hampshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) C#
2 8 (88.89%) MVC
3 7 (77.78%) Java
3 7 (77.78%) Python
3 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
4 6 (66.67%) Visual Studio
4 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 6 (66.67%) MySQL
4 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 6 (66.67%) Linux
4 6 (66.67%) OO
4 6 (66.67%) VB.NET
4 6 (66.67%) Scrum
4 6 (66.67%) Open Source
4 6 (66.67%) NHibernate
5 4 (44.44%) BDD
5 4 (44.44%) Social Network
5 4 (44.44%) Selenium
5 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (44.44%) TDD
5 4 (44.44%) Pair Programming
5 4 (44.44%) Ajax
5 4 (44.44%) Web 2.0
5 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
5 4 (44.44%) Oracle
5 4 (44.44%) ERP
6 3 (33.33%) PHP
6 3 (33.33%) Web Development

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 6 (66.67%) NHibernate
3 4 (44.44%) Ajax
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) iOS SDK
5 1 (11.11%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 4 (44.44%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) Bugzilla
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) ReSharper
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
4 1 (11.11%) Xcode
4 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (22.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (44.44%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (44.44%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (44.44%) C# Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Open Source
2 4 (44.44%) Social Network
2 4 (44.44%) Web 2.0
3 1 (11.11%) iPhone
3 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) MVC
2 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
3 6 (66.67%) OO
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) BDD
4 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (44.44%) TDD
4 4 (44.44%) Pair Programming
4 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (44.44%) ERP
5 3 (33.33%) Web Development
6 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Refactoring
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Management
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) Python
3 6 (66.67%) VB.NET
4 3 (33.33%) PHP
5 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) Perl
5 2 (22.22%) Clojure
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Apple