Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails 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 Application Development category for the South Yorkshire region.

 Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank534695
Rank change year-on-year
Down-7Up+49
Matching permanent IT job ads163436
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire2.116 %3.799 %1.527 %
As % of the Application Development category5.096 %8.924 %4.220 %
Salaries quoted162935
Average salary£35,000£35,000£32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+9.370 %
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£35,000£30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %+16.66 %
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
314381853
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire41.53 %42.57 %36.17 %
Salaries quoted296343768
Average salary£33,500£32,500£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.070 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£22,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£40,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Ruby on Rails YorkshireRuby on Rails
Yorkshire

Ruby on Rails
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South Yorkshire Ruby on Rails Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend

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

South Yorkshire Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram

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

South Yorkshire Ruby on Rails Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails
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 within the South Yorkshire 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
SheffieldDown-315£35,000-3.44 %
RotherhamUp+31£45,000+28.57 %
Ruby on Rails YorkshireRuby on Rails
Yorkshire

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails.

121 (100.00 %)Ruby
219 (90.48 %)C#
219 (90.48 %).NET
219 (90.48 %)ASP.NET
318 (85.71 %)SQL Server
318 (85.71 %)MVC
318 (85.71 %)ASP.NET MVC
417 (80.95 %)Marketing
515 (71.43 %)NUnit
515 (71.43 %)Banking
515 (71.43 %)SQL Server 2005
515 (71.43 %)NHibernate
515 (71.43 %)Online Banking
515 (71.43 %)Open Source
515 (71.43 %)ASP.NET 2.0
515 (71.43 %)Online Marketing
515 (71.43 %)E-business
515 (71.43 %)Microsoft
515 (71.43 %)Intranet
515 (71.43 %)Internet
515 (71.43 %)Extranet
515 (71.43 %)SQL Server 2000
515 (71.43 %)OO
515 (71.43 %)SharePoint
515 (71.43 %)E-Commerce
611 (52.38 %)Windows
75 (23.81 %)HTML
84 (19.05 %)CSS
93 (14.29 %)TDD
102 (9.524 %)Advertising

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Ruby on Rails 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 on Rails. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
119 (90.48 %)ASP.NET
119 (90.48 %).NET
218 (85.71 %)ASP.NET MVC
315 (71.43 %)ASP.NET 2.0
315 (71.43 %)NHibernate
45 (23.81 %)HTML
54 (19.05 %)CSS
62 (9.524 %)JSP
62 (9.524 %)XHTML
62 (9.524 %)J2EE
62 (9.524 %)ASP
71 (4.762 %).NET Framework
71 (4.762 %)jQuery
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
115 (71.43 %)SharePoint
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (4.762 %)Photoshop
11 (4.762 %)MS Visio
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
115 (71.43 %)Intranet
115 (71.43 %)Internet
115 (71.43 %)Extranet
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
118 (85.71 %)SQL Server
215 (71.43 %)SQL Server 2000
215 (71.43 %)SQL Server 2005
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
115 (71.43 %)NUnit
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
117 (80.95 %)Marketing
215 (71.43 %)Banking
215 (71.43 %)Online Banking
32 (9.524 %)Advertising
41 (4.762 %)Graphic Design
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
121 (100.00 %)Developer
213 (61.90 %).NET Developer
311 (52.38 %)C# Developer
311 (52.38 %)ASP.NET Developer
311 (52.38 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
47 (33.33 %)Web Developer
53 (14.29 %)Senior Developer
62 (9.524 %)Lead Developer
62 (9.524 %)PHP Developer
62 (9.524 %).NET Web Developer
62 (9.524 %)Senior PHP Developer
62 (9.524 %)Lead .NET Developer
62 (9.524 %)Lead Web Developer
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
115 (71.43 %)Open Source
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
111 (52.38 %)Windows
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
118 (85.71 %)MVC
215 (71.43 %)OO
215 (71.43 %)E-Commerce
215 (71.43 %)E-business
215 (71.43 %)Online Marketing
33 (14.29 %)TDD
42 (9.524 %)Agile Software Development
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
121 (100.00 %)Ruby
219 (90.48 %)C#
32 (9.524 %)Java
32 (9.524 %)JavaScript
32 (9.524 %)PHP
South Yorkshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
115 (71.43 %)Microsoft