The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby 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 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 75 87 70
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -17
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 11 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 1.319% 0.217% 0.160%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.428% 0.371% 0.329%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 1
Average salary £35,000 £36,250 £27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.44% +34.25%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
453 539 304
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 54.32% 58.59% 48.72%
Number of salaries quoted 431 501 279
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
Hampshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

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

Southampton Ruby Salary Histogram

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 13 (86.67%) Perl
2 12 (80.00%) Python
2 12 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (66.67%) ISO 9001
3 10 (66.67%) C
3 10 (66.67%) Linux
3 10 (66.67%) C++
3 10 (66.67%) Degree
4 9 (60.00%) UNIX
5 5 (33.33%) HTML
5 5 (33.33%) Java
6 4 (26.67%) PHP
6 4 (26.67%) Google
6 4 (26.67%) HTML5
7 3 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (20.00%) MySQL
7 3 (20.00%) CSS
7 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (20.00%) LAMP
8 2 (13.33%) XAML
8 2 (13.33%) Migration
8 2 (13.33%) HTTPS
8 2 (13.33%) SSL
8 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
8 2 (13.33%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (13.33%) Middleware
8 2 (13.33%) XML
8 2 (13.33%) DOM
8 2 (13.33%) XSLT
8 2 (13.33%) Apache

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (26.67%) HTML5
3 3 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) LAMP
4 2 (13.33%) Middleware
4 2 (13.33%) XML
4 2 (13.33%) DOM
4 2 (13.33%) XSLT
4 2 (13.33%) CakePHP
4 2 (13.33%) MapReduce
5 1 (6.667%) YUI
5 1 (6.667%) jQuery
5 1 (6.667%) Django
5 1 (6.667%) Ajax
5 1 (6.667%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Force.com
1 2 (13.33%) Google App Engine
2 1 (6.667%) Drupal
2 1 (6.667%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTPS
1 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 1 (6.667%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (13.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Subversion
General
1 2 (13.33%) Retail
2 1 (6.667%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Web Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Applications Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Web Applications Developer
3 3 (20.00%) PHP Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) LAMP Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Kindle
2 1 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 9 (60.00%) UNIX
3 2 (13.33%) SUSE
3 2 (13.33%) Fedora
3 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.667%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) RUP
2 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (13.33%) TDD
2 2 (13.33%) Data Management
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) ICONIX
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (13.33%) Use Case
2 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Perl
2 12 (80.00%) Python
3 10 (66.67%) C
3 10 (66.67%) C++
4 5 (33.33%) Java
5 4 (26.67%) PHP
6 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (13.33%) XAML
7 2 (13.33%) C#
7 2 (13.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce.com
Southampton, South East
Web Application Developer - Southampton/Fareham - up to £35K per annum + excellent benefitsGreat opportunity for a Web Application Developer to join a successful, forward thinking software house... All applications...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £35000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Web Application Developer - Southampton/Fareham - up to £35K per annum + excellent benefitsGreat opportunity for a Web Application Developer to join a successful, forward thinking software house... All applications...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + bens
Posted: 25 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
The Web Application Developer will have knowledge of: *Cloud based development using programming languages *Experience with Python, Ruby, Java, Drupal, PHP, Ruby, Django, ColdFusion *Willingness to learn Perl...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Web Application Developer - Southampton/Fareham - up to £40K PA + excellent benefitsGreat opportunity for a Web Application Developer to join a successful, forward thinking software house... All applications handled...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + bens
Posted: 25 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
We are looking for a dynamic individual with substantial experience of designing and developing applications within a cloud computing environment using Python, Ruby or any other modern development...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + bens
Posted: 24 May 2013