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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Scotland region.

 Ruby
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank9093145
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Up+52
Matching permanent IT job ads122333
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland0.644 %1.119 %0.620 %
As % of the Programming Languages category1.481 %2.302 %1.427 %
Salaries quoted112218
Average salary£38,000£27,500£30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.18 %-9.830 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£23,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£35,700£31,750
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£35,000£30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %+16.66 %
Scotland IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
8109992313
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland43.50 %48.61 %43.45 %
Salaries quoted4977511438
Average salary£35,000£35,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+7.690 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£50,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
Ruby UKRuby
UK

Ruby
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Ruby across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Scotland Ruby Demand Trend

Ruby
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ruby across the Scotland region.

Scotland Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
GlasgowDown-39£42,500+28.78 %
FifeDown-82£26,500+6.00 %
EdinburghNew entry-1£28,000-
Ruby UKRuby
UK

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

116 (88.89 %)Ruby on Rails
26 (33.33 %)AJAX
26 (33.33 %)Git (software)
26 (33.33 %)XHTML
35 (27.78 %)MySQL
35 (27.78 %)Python
35 (27.78 %)Cocoa
44 (22.22 %)Agile Software Development
44 (22.22 %)OAuth
44 (22.22 %)RSpec
44 (22.22 %)CSS
44 (22.22 %)Linux
44 (22.22 %)JavaScript
44 (22.22 %)HTML
53 (16.67 %)Java
53 (16.67 %)Haml
62 (11.11 %)TDD
62 (11.11 %)Software Testing
62 (11.11 %)Automated Testing
62 (11.11 %)Performance Testing
62 (11.11 %)Manual Testing
62 (11.11 %)JRuby
62 (11.11 %)VBA
62 (11.11 %)Perl
62 (11.11 %)PHP
62 (11.11 %)VBScript
62 (11.11 %)CMS
62 (11.11 %)Project Management
62 (11.11 %)RDBMS
71 (5.556 %)Firmware

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

Scotland IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
116 (88.89 %)Ruby on Rails
26 (33.33 %)AJAX
26 (33.33 %)XHTML
35 (27.78 %)Cocoa
44 (22.22 %)HTML
44 (22.22 %)CSS
44 (22.22 %)OAuth
53 (16.67 %)Haml
62 (11.11 %)JRuby
71 (5.556 %)CakePHP
71 (5.556 %)jQuery
71 (5.556 %)Flash
Scotland IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (11.11 %)CMS
Scotland IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (5.556 %)Photoshop
11 (5.556 %)Fireworks
Scotland IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (5.556 %)Internet
Scotland IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (27.78 %)MySQL
22 (11.11 %)RDBMS
Scotland IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
16 (33.33 %)Git (software)
24 (22.22 %)RSpec
31 (5.556 %)Subversion
Scotland IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (5.556 %)Government
11 (5.556 %)Pensions
Scotland IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
113 (72.22 %)Developer
29 (50.00 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
34 (22.22 %)Senior Developer
42 (11.11 %)Technical Solutions Architect
42 (11.11 %)Software Test Analyst
42 (11.11 %)Analyst
42 (11.11 %)Test Analyst
42 (11.11 %)Technical Architect
42 (11.11 %)Architect
42 (11.11 %)Solutions Architect
51 (5.556 %)User Experience Designer
51 (5.556 %)Designer
51 (5.556 %)Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
51 (5.556 %)Web Developer
51 (5.556 %)Java Architect
Scotland IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (5.556 %)Firmware
11 (5.556 %)Clustering
11 (5.556 %)CCTV
11 (5.556 %)RIA
11 (5.556 %)Cloud Computing
11 (5.556 %)Visualisation
11 (5.556 %)Open Source
Scotland IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14 (22.22 %)Linux
21 (5.556 %)UNIX
Scotland IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14 (22.22 %)Agile Software Development
22 (11.11 %)TDD
22 (11.11 %)Automated Testing
22 (11.11 %)Software Testing
22 (11.11 %)Project Management
22 (11.11 %)Performance Testing
22 (11.11 %)Manual Testing
31 (5.556 %)MVC
31 (5.556 %)Scrum
31 (5.556 %)OO
31 (5.556 %)E-Commerce
31 (5.556 %)Web Development
Scotland IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (27.78 %)Python
24 (22.22 %)JavaScript
33 (16.67 %)Java
42 (11.11 %)VBA
42 (11.11 %)Perl
42 (11.11 %)PHP
42 (11.11 %)VBScript
51 (5.556 %)ActionScript
51 (5.556 %)C#
Scotland IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (5.556 %)Zend