The first 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 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 99 141 113
Rank change year-on-year
+42 -28
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 54 14 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.716% 0.405% 1.320%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.956% 0.877% 2.843%
Number of salaries quoted 38 11 30
Average salary £32,000 £41,500 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.89% +22.96%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,500 £27,400
10% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £60,000 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1827 1597 1618
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 58.06% 46.22% 46.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1115 1237 1177
Average salary £39,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £48,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

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

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 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
Edinburgh +24 23 £35,000 -15.66%
Glasgow -4 23 £30,000 -50.00%
Dundee 0 7 £24,000 -23.80%
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 58 (61.05%) Linux
2 53 (55.79%) Python
3 51 (53.68%) Java
4 49 (51.58%) HTML
4 49 (51.58%) CSS
5 47 (49.47%) Ruby on Rails
6 42 (44.21%) JavaScript
6 42 (44.21%) SQL
7 37 (38.95%) MySQL
8 27 (28.42%) Agile Software Development
9 26 (27.37%) Apache
10 25 (26.32%) PHP
11 23 (24.21%) Perl
12 20 (21.05%) C++
13 19 (20.00%) .NET
13 19 (20.00%) Web Services
14 18 (18.95%) C#
15 17 (17.89%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (17.89%) Degree
16 16 (16.84%) Windows
17 13 (13.68%) TDD
17 13 (13.68%) jQuery
18 12 (12.63%) OO
19 11 (11.58%) Internet
19 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
19 11 (11.58%) Computer Science
20 10 (10.53%) XML
20 10 (10.53%) Shell Script
20 10 (10.53%) Finance
20 10 (10.53%) Scrum

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 49 (51.58%) HTML
1 49 (51.58%) CSS
2 47 (49.47%) Ruby on Rails
3 19 (20.00%) .NET
3 19 (20.00%) Web Services
4 13 (13.68%) jQuery
5 10 (10.53%) XML
6 8 (8.421%) Hibernate
6 8 (8.421%) LAMP
6 8 (8.421%) Spring
7 7 (7.368%) SOAP
7 7 (7.368%) WCF
8 6 (6.316%) Django
9 5 (5.263%) JMS
9 5 (5.263%) XML Schema
10 4 (4.211%) Servlets
10 4 (4.211%) J2EE
11 3 (3.158%) JSP
11 3 (3.158%) Middleware
12 2 (2.105%) iBATIS
Application Platforms
1 26 (27.37%) Apache
2 8 (8.421%) Tomcat
3 7 (7.368%) Amazon AWS
4 5 (5.263%) ESB
4 5 (5.263%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (2.105%) Confluence
5 2 (2.105%) CMS
5 2 (2.105%) MQSeries
5 2 (2.105%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (2.105%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.053%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.053%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.053%) Drupal
6 1 (1.053%) GlassFish
Applications
1 3 (3.158%) MS Office
2 1 (1.053%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.58%) Internet
2 5 (5.263%) Network Security
3 4 (4.211%) Firewall
4 3 (3.158%) CDMA
4 3 (3.158%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.158%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (38.95%) MySQL
2 17 (17.89%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.368%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.368%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (5.263%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.263%) Redis
6 3 (3.158%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.105%) BigTable
7 2 (2.105%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.105%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.105%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (7.368%) Git (software)
2 6 (6.316%) JIRA
3 4 (4.211%) Subversion
4 3 (3.158%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.158%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.105%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.105%) Hudson
5 2 (2.105%) Gradle
5 2 (2.105%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.105%) Mercurial
5 2 (2.105%) CruiseControl
5 2 (2.105%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.053%) JUnit
6 1 (1.053%) JMeter
6 1 (1.053%) NUnit
6 1 (1.053%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.053%) JBehave
6 1 (1.053%) Capybara
6 1 (1.053%) Selenium
6 1 (1.053%) HttpUnit
General
1 10 (10.53%) Finance
2 7 (7.368%) Games
2 7 (7.368%) Marketing
3 5 (5.263%) Telecoms
3 5 (5.263%) Banking
4 4 (4.211%) Billing
4 4 (4.211%) Electronics
5 3 (3.158%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.105%) Back Office
7 1 (1.053%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 59 (62.11%) Developer
2 17 (17.89%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Software Engineer
4 9 (9.474%) Web Developer
5 8 (8.421%) Software Developer
5 8 (8.421%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (6.316%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (5.263%) Test Engineer
7 5 (5.263%) Systems Developer
8 4 (4.211%) Ruby Developer
8 4 (4.211%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.211%) Designer
8 4 (4.211%) Web Designer
8 4 (4.211%) Tester
9 3 (3.158%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.158%) Administrator
9 3 (3.158%) Senior Operations Engineer
10 2 (2.105%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (2.105%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (2.105%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Computer Science
2 7 (7.368%) Web 2.0
3 5 (5.263%) Replication
4 4 (4.211%) Open Source
5 3 (3.158%) VHDL
5 3 (3.158%) Mathematics
5 3 (3.158%) Physics
5 3 (3.158%) SCADA
6 2 (2.105%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.105%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.105%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.105%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.053%) EPoS
7 1 (1.053%) W3C
7 1 (1.053%) BBC
7 1 (1.053%) Interactive TV
7 1 (1.053%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.053%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.053%) RIA
7 1 (1.053%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 58 (61.05%) Linux
2 16 (16.84%) Windows
3 9 (9.474%) UNIX
4 4 (4.211%) Android
4 4 (4.211%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.158%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (2.105%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.105%) AIX
7 1 (1.053%) Solaris
7 1 (1.053%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.053%) Debian
7 1 (1.053%) Windows Phone
7 1 (1.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.42%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (13.68%) TDD
3 12 (12.63%) OO
4 10 (10.53%) Scrum
5 8 (8.421%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (8.421%) BDD
5 8 (8.421%) OOP
6 7 (7.368%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (7.368%) Software Architecture
6 7 (7.368%) Integration Testing
6 7 (7.368%) Kanban
6 7 (7.368%) Web Development
6 7 (7.368%) Software Engineering
7 6 (6.316%) SOA
8 5 (5.263%) Automated Testing
8 5 (5.263%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (5.263%) Unit Testing
8 5 (5.263%) System Testing
9 4 (4.211%) Network Management
9 4 (4.211%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (55.79%) Python
2 51 (53.68%) Java
3 42 (44.21%) JavaScript
3 42 (44.21%) SQL
4 25 (26.32%) PHP
5 23 (24.21%) Perl
6 20 (21.05%) C++
7 18 (18.95%) C#
8 10 (10.53%) Shell Script
9 9 (9.474%) C
10 5 (5.263%) Bash shell
11 3 (3.158%) VB
11 3 (3.158%) XPath
11 3 (3.158%) Groovy
12 1 (1.053%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.053%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.053%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.053%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (17.89%) Degree
2 1 (1.053%) PhD
2 1 (1.053%) ISEB
2 1 (1.053%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.474%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.105%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (6.316%) Puppet
2 5 (5.263%) Nagios
2 5 (5.263%) Munin
Vendors
1 9 (9.474%) Oracle
2 5 (5.263%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.263%) Informatica
3 4 (4.211%) VMware
4 2 (2.105%) Cisco
4 2 (2.105%) Juniper
4 2 (2.105%) Sybase
5 1 (1.053%) Alterian
5 1 (1.053%) Facebook
5 1 (1.053%) Twitter
5 1 (1.053%) Google
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + bonus + excellent bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
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Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Posted: 22 May 2013
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Salary: £15000 - £40000 per annum + Good benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
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