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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank - - 5
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Royston - - 8.333%
As % of the Programming Languages category - - 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Royston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
10 14 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Royston 50.00% 77.78% 83.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 8
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
Hertfordshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Royston 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 Royston region.

Royston Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Royston 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 7 (100.00%) C++
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Ant
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) UNIX
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 7 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 7 (100.00%) JMeter
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 7 (100.00%) QA
1 7 (100.00%) V-Model
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (100.00%) Waterfall

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Royston 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 7 (100.00%) XML
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Ant
1 7 (100.00%) JMeter
General
1 7 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) UNIX
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 7 (100.00%) V-Model
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C++
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA