The first table below looks at the demand for the Ruby on Rails Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR) Developer
Rank 427 434 413
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Ruby on Rails Developer 11 7 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.050% 0.030% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.031% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 18
Average salary £42,500 £34,250 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+24.08% -21.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,500 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £57,750
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20864 22592 21955
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.81% 95.22% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17307 19499 18875
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Ruby on Rails Developer
England

Ruby on Rails Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Ruby on Rails Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer across the South East region.

South East Ruby on Rails Developer Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East Ruby on Rails Developer Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Surrey +20 8 £42,500 +26.86%
Hampshire - 3 £45,000 -
Ruby on Rails Developer
England

Ruby on Rails Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title 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 with Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Ruby
1 17 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 11 (64.71%) TDD
3 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
3 10 (58.82%) CSS
4 9 (52.94%) MySQL
5 8 (47.06%) Linux
5 8 (47.06%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (47.06%) HTML5
5 8 (47.06%) CSS3
6 7 (41.18%) MongoDB
6 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
6 7 (41.18%) Degree
7 5 (29.41%) Web Services
8 4 (23.53%) PHP
8 4 (23.53%) Web Development
9 3 (17.65%) Web 2.0
9 3 (17.65%) Ajax
9 3 (17.65%) VMware
9 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (17.65%) jQuery
9 3 (17.65%) RSpec
9 3 (17.65%) HTML
9 3 (17.65%) Perl
9 3 (17.65%) Python
9 3 (17.65%) LDAP
9 3 (17.65%) MVC
10 2 (11.76%) Finance
10 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (11.76%) Billing

Ruby on Rails Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title 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 with Ruby on Rails Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 10 (58.82%) CSS
3 8 (47.06%) HTML5
3 8 (47.06%) CSS3
4 5 (29.41%) Web Services
5 3 (17.65%) Ajax
5 3 (17.65%) jQuery
5 3 (17.65%) HTML
6 2 (11.76%) SOAP
6 2 (11.76%) XML
6 2 (11.76%) RESTful
6 2 (11.76%) REST
6 2 (11.76%) JSON
7 1 (5.882%) Resque
7 1 (5.882%) PostGIS
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) MySQL
2 7 (41.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.882%) Redis
4 1 (5.882%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.882%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.882%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) RSpec
2 2 (11.76%) Git (software)
2 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 1 (5.882%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.882%) Subversion
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
2 3 (17.65%) Web 2.0
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
4 1 (5.882%) IaaS
4 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.882%) Telematics
4 1 (5.882%) Open Source
4 1 (5.882%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 1 (5.882%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.882%) Android
2 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.882%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) TDD
2 8 (47.06%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (23.53%) Web Development
4 3 (17.65%) MVC
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) OOP
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.882%) OO
6 1 (5.882%) ITIL
6 1 (5.882%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Ruby
2 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) PHP
4 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 3 (17.65%) Perl
4 3 (17.65%) Python
5 2 (11.76%) C
6 1 (5.882%) CoffeeScript
6 1 (5.882%) C++
6 1 (5.882%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
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