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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.120% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.299% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
All Application Development
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
335 339 255
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 40.26% 36.77% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 311 325 238
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby on Rails
Hampshire

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Southampton Ruby on Rails Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend

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

Southampton Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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.

1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) LAMP
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) SUSE
2 2 (66.67%) Fedora
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) CakePHP
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) DOM
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) HTTPS
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) MapReduce
2 2 (66.67%) XAML
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) FreeBSD
3 1 (33.33%) XHTML

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) LAMP
2 2 (66.67%) CakePHP
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) DOM
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) MapReduce
3 1 (33.33%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) YUI
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTPS
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (66.67%) LAMP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) SUSE
1 2 (66.67%) Fedora
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) FreeBSD
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat