The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 21 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 101 112 89
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -23
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 31 21 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.445% 0.923% 1.610%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.899% 1.756% 3.191%
Number of salaries quoted 26 21 29
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £37,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-8.75% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
795 1196 940
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 37.05% 52.57% 50.46%
Number of salaries quoted 704 1077 787
Average salary £42,500 £38,000 £37,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.84% +0.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
Berkshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading Ruby Salary Histogram

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 70 (97.22%) Python
2 69 (95.83%) PHP
3 56 (77.78%) Java
4 51 (70.83%) MySQL
5 48 (66.67%) JavaScript
6 44 (61.11%) Perl
6 44 (61.11%) CSS
7 43 (59.72%) SQL Server
7 43 (59.72%) SQL
8 42 (58.33%) HTML
8 42 (58.33%) OOP
9 38 (52.78%) OO
10 35 (48.61%) Client/Server
10 35 (48.61%) SQL Server 2000
10 35 (48.61%) Zend
11 34 (47.22%) MVC
12 33 (45.83%) .NET
13 28 (38.89%) Zend Framework
13 28 (38.89%) .NET Framework
14 25 (34.72%) Degree
15 23 (31.94%) Linux
16 18 (25.00%) Scala
17 16 (22.22%) Software Engineering
17 16 (22.22%) Computer Science
18 15 (20.83%) C++
19 14 (19.44%) LAMP
19 14 (19.44%) Node.js
20 13 (18.06%) Big Data
21 10 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
22 9 (12.50%) Debian

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 44 (61.11%) CSS
2 42 (58.33%) HTML
3 33 (45.83%) .NET
4 28 (38.89%) Zend Framework
4 28 (38.89%) .NET Framework
5 14 (19.44%) LAMP
5 14 (19.44%) Node.js
6 9 (12.50%) Web Services
6 9 (12.50%) Django
7 7 (9.722%) RESTful
7 7 (9.722%) XML
7 7 (9.722%) XSLT
7 7 (9.722%) Symfony
7 7 (9.722%) jQuery
7 7 (9.722%) CodeIgniter
7 7 (9.722%) CakePHP
8 5 (6.944%) COM
8 5 (6.944%) Memcached
9 4 (5.556%) REST
10 2 (2.778%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 9 (12.50%) Apache
2 8 (11.11%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) SAN
1 8 (11.11%) Firewall
2 5 (6.944%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.556%) HTTP
4 1 (1.389%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (70.83%) MySQL
2 43 (59.72%) SQL Server
3 35 (48.61%) SQL Server 2000
4 13 (18.06%) Big Data
5 10 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (8.333%) Hadoop
7 5 (6.944%) Redis
8 2 (2.778%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.778%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.778%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.778%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.389%) Subversion
1 1 (1.389%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (5.556%) Finance
2 2 (2.778%) Billing
3 1 (1.389%) Games
Job Titles
1 46 (63.89%) Developer
2 19 (26.39%) Junior
3 18 (25.00%) Junior Developer
4 17 (23.61%) Web Developer
5 15 (20.83%) Graduate
6 12 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
6 12 (16.67%) Administrator
6 12 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
6 12 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 11 (15.28%) PHP Developer
8 8 (11.11%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 8 (11.11%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 8 (11.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 8 (11.11%) Software Engineer
9 7 (9.722%) Software Developer
10 5 (6.944%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (4.167%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.167%) Technical Support
11 3 (4.167%) Support Engineer
11 3 (4.167%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (48.61%) Client/Server
2 16 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 8 (11.11%) Clustering
4 2 (2.778%) SaaS
4 2 (2.778%) Social Media
4 2 (2.778%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.94%) Linux
2 9 (12.50%) Debian
2 9 (12.50%) CentOS
3 8 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 8 (11.11%) Windows
4 7 (9.722%) Mac OS X
4 7 (9.722%) UNIX
5 1 (1.389%) OpenBSD
5 1 (1.389%) SUSE
5 1 (1.389%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (58.33%) OOP
2 38 (52.78%) OO
3 34 (47.22%) MVC
4 16 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 9 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (11.11%) ITIL
6 8 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 7 (9.722%) Unit Testing
8 4 (5.556%) Automation Testing
9 2 (2.778%) Test Automation
9 2 (2.778%) Kanban
9 2 (2.778%) TDD
9 2 (2.778%) Data Analysis
9 2 (2.778%) Automated Testing
9 2 (2.778%) Scrum
9 2 (2.778%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 70 (97.22%) Python
2 69 (95.83%) PHP
3 56 (77.78%) Java
4 48 (66.67%) JavaScript
5 44 (61.11%) Perl
6 43 (59.72%) SQL
7 18 (25.00%) Scala
8 15 (20.83%) C++
9 9 (12.50%) Bash shell
10 6 (8.333%) Shell Script
11 3 (4.167%) C
12 2 (2.778%) C#
13 1 (1.389%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 25 (34.72%) Degree
2 8 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) SLA
2 6 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) vSphere
1 8 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (11.11%) VMware ESX
1 8 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (6.944%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (9.722%) Puppet
2 3 (4.167%) Ganglia
2 3 (4.167%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 35 (48.61%) Zend
2 9 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 8 (11.11%) JBoss
3 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.11%) VMware
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