The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Rank 30 32 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 5 12 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 3.448% 6.091% -
As % of the Application Development category 18.52% 10.91% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 0
Average salary £47,500 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
All Application Development
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
27 110 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 18.62% 55.84% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10 108 47
Average salary £35,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £36,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby on Rails
Hertfordshire

Ruby on Rails
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram

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

Stevenage Ruby on Rails Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 10 (100.00%) Ruby
2 8 (80.00%) Selenium
2 8 (80.00%) Scrum
2 8 (80.00%) TDD
2 8 (80.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (60.00%) Linux
3 6 (60.00%) MySQL
3 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (60.00%) Internet
4 5 (50.00%) Mac OS X
4 5 (50.00%) CSS
4 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (50.00%) RSpec
4 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (40.00%) HTML5
5 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
5 4 (40.00%) Java
5 4 (40.00%) Ajax
6 3 (30.00%) CodeIgniter
6 3 (30.00%) CakePHP
6 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (30.00%) Games
6 3 (30.00%) HTML
6 3 (30.00%) PHP
6 3 (30.00%) OO
6 3 (30.00%) Python
6 3 (30.00%) MVC
7 2 (20.00%) Multimedia
7 2 (20.00%) Subversion
7 2 (20.00%) Information Architecture

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 5 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) HTML5
2 4 (40.00%) Ajax
3 3 (30.00%) CodeIgniter
3 3 (30.00%) CakePHP
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) CSS3
4 2 (20.00%) XHTML
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Selenium
1 8 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (50.00%) RSpec
3 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
4 2 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (30.00%) Games
2 2 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Ruby Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Web Designer
3 3 (30.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Scrum
1 8 (80.00%) TDD
2 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (30.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Information Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) SEO
4 2 (20.00%) UML
4 2 (20.00%) Web Design
4 2 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Ruby
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) PHP
4 3 (30.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA