The first table below looks at the demand for the Ruby Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby Developer
Rank 745 770 824
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Ruby Developer 117 128 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.109% 0.106% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.115% 0.112% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 103 120 46
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101523 114414 118763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.78% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84418 98091 100446
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Ruby Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Ruby Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Ruby Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Ruby Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ruby Developer within the UK.

Ruby Developer Salary Trend

Ruby Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby Developer over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Ruby Developer Salary Histogram

Ruby Developer
Top 27 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby Developer within the UK 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
England +17 114 £51,250 +24.24%
London +25 87 £56,250 +25.00%
City of London +7 19 £57,500 -17.85%
South East +4 16 £47,500 +26.66%
Kent - 8 £47,500 -
East of England +10 5 £45,000 +20.00%
Surrey +16 4 £42,500 -5.55%
Hertfordshire +3 3 £50,000 +33.33%
Scotland -7 3 £35,000 +6.06%
North West -11 3 £35,000 -27.83%
Manchester -12 3 £35,000 -27.83%
Glasgow -18 3 £35,000 +6.06%
Stevenage +9 2 £50,000 +33.33%
Cambridge +8 2 £42,000 +12.00%
Hampshire +5 2 £42,500 +30.76%
Cambridgeshire +5 2 £42,000 +12.00%
Farnborough - 2 £42,500 -
West Midlands - 2 £43,750 -
South West +4 1 £30,000 +20.00%
Oxfordshire -13 1 - -
Oxford -20 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £40,000 -
Stockport - 1 £35,000 -
Leamington Spa - 1 £40,000 -
Farnham - 1 £40,000 -
Coventry - 1 £47,500 -
Bristol - 1 £30,000 -

Ruby Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Ruby 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 Developer in their job title.

1 253 (100.00%) Ruby
2 219 (86.56%) Ruby on Rails
3 171 (67.59%) JavaScript
4 117 (46.25%) CSS
5 114 (45.06%) TDD
6 90 (35.57%) HTML
7 84 (33.20%) Java
8 66 (26.09%) MySQL
9 59 (23.32%) jQuery
10 58 (22.92%) Git (software)
11 55 (21.74%) Ajax
12 54 (21.34%) BDD
13 53 (20.95%) Cucumber
13 53 (20.95%) Linux
14 50 (19.76%) SQL
14 50 (19.76%) Agile Software Development
15 49 (19.37%) OO
16 48 (18.97%) RSpec
17 43 (17.00%) Apache
18 42 (16.60%) E-Commerce
18 42 (16.60%) JSON
18 42 (16.60%) HTML5
19 41 (16.21%) PHP
20 40 (15.81%) Open Source
21 39 (15.42%) Scrum
22 37 (14.62%) Test Scripting
23 36 (14.23%) Continuous Integration
23 36 (14.23%) CSS3
24 34 (13.44%) NoSQL
24 34 (13.44%) Python

Ruby Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Ruby 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 219 (86.56%) Ruby on Rails
2 117 (46.25%) CSS
3 90 (35.57%) HTML
4 59 (23.32%) jQuery
5 55 (21.74%) Ajax
6 42 (16.60%) JSON
6 42 (16.60%) HTML5
7 36 (14.23%) CSS3
8 33 (13.04%) Web Services
9 32 (12.65%) .NET
9 32 (12.65%) XML
10 29 (11.46%) Sinatra
11 20 (7.905%) Sass
12 19 (7.510%) JSP
13 15 (5.929%) RESTful
14 14 (5.534%) J2EE
15 13 (5.138%) Memcached
16 12 (4.743%) Haml
17 11 (4.348%) Node.js
18 10 (3.953%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 43 (17.00%) Apache
2 25 (9.881%) WordPress
3 24 (9.486%) nginx
4 19 (7.510%) Amazon AWS
5 18 (7.115%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (3.162%) Force.com
7 6 (2.372%) CMS
7 6 (2.372%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (1.976%) Drupal
9 2 (0.791%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.395%) Rackspace Cloud
10 1 (0.395%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.395%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.395%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.557%) Internet
1 9 (3.557%) HTTP
2 2 (0.791%) LDAP
3 1 (0.395%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (26.09%) MySQL
2 34 (13.44%) NoSQL
3 32 (12.65%) Redis
4 30 (11.86%) MongoDB
5 27 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (5.534%) Oracle 10g
7 13 (5.138%) Big Data
8 9 (3.557%) CouchDB
9 8 (3.162%) Neo4j
10 6 (2.372%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.186%) MarkLogic
12 2 (0.791%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.395%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.395%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.395%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.395%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 58 (22.92%) Git (software)
2 53 (20.95%) Cucumber
3 48 (18.97%) RSpec
4 23 (9.091%) Subversion
5 17 (6.719%) Jenkins
6 11 (4.348%) Capybara
7 8 (3.162%) Capistrano
8 6 (2.372%) Selenium
9 3 (1.186%) RubyGems
9 3 (1.186%) CruiseControl
10 2 (0.791%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.791%) Hudson
11 1 (0.395%) Mocha
11 1 (0.395%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.395%) PhoneGap
11 1 (0.395%) Redmine
General
1 32 (12.65%) Finance
2 15 (5.929%) Banking
3 14 (5.534%) Investment Banking
4 11 (4.348%) Marketing
5 10 (3.953%) Games
6 5 (1.976%) Retail
7 3 (1.186%) Law
7 3 (1.186%) Advertising
8 2 (0.791%) Automotive
8 2 (0.791%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.791%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.395%) Back Office
9 1 (0.395%) Billing
9 1 (0.395%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.81%) Open Source
2 30 (11.86%) Computer Science
3 16 (6.324%) SaaS
3 16 (6.324%) PaaS
3 16 (6.324%) Heroku
4 15 (5.929%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (5.534%) Data Integration
6 8 (3.162%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.767%) Web 2.0
8 6 (2.372%) W3C
8 6 (2.372%) Online Games
9 5 (1.976%) Social Network
10 4 (1.581%) Social Media
11 3 (1.186%) Blog
12 2 (0.791%) Mathematics
12 2 (0.791%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.791%) Online Gambling
13 1 (0.395%) iPad
13 1 (0.395%) FMCG
13 1 (0.395%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 53 (20.95%) Linux
2 9 (3.557%) Mac OS X
3 6 (2.372%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.186%) CentOS
5 2 (0.791%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.791%) UNIX
6 1 (0.395%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.395%) Windows
6 1 (0.395%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (45.06%) TDD
2 54 (21.34%) BDD
3 50 (19.76%) Agile Software Development
4 49 (19.37%) OO
5 42 (16.60%) E-Commerce
6 39 (15.42%) Scrum
7 37 (14.62%) Test Scripting
8 36 (14.23%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (11.07%) MVC
10 25 (9.881%) Web Development
11 21 (8.300%) Pair Programming
12 14 (5.534%) OOD
13 12 (4.743%) Metaprogramming
14 9 (3.557%) OOP
14 9 (3.557%) Refactoring
15 6 (2.372%) Unit Testing
16 4 (1.581%) Software Engineering
16 4 (1.581%) Kanban
16 4 (1.581%) Digital Marketing
17 3 (1.186%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 253 (100.00%) Ruby
2 171 (67.59%) JavaScript
3 84 (33.20%) Java
4 50 (19.76%) SQL
5 41 (16.21%) PHP
6 34 (13.44%) Python
7 33 (13.04%) C#
8 31 (12.25%) C++
9 17 (6.719%) Perl
10 13 (5.138%) Bash shell
11 11 (4.348%) Erlang
11 11 (4.348%) PL/SQL
12 8 (3.162%) ActionScript
12 8 (3.162%) Apex Code
13 7 (2.767%) ECMAScript
14 5 (1.976%) CoffeeScript
15 4 (1.581%) C
15 4 (1.581%) Scala
15 4 (1.581%) Clojure
16 3 (1.186%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 28 (11.07%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.976%) WAI
2 1 (0.395%) QA
System Software
1 12 (4.743%) Varnish
2 1 (0.395%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.557%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (11.86%) Oracle
2 7 (2.767%) Facebook
3 6 (2.372%) Salesforce.com
4 4 (1.581%) Google
4 4 (1.581%) Twitter
5 3 (1.186%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.791%) VMware
7 1 (0.395%) Sencha
7 1 (0.395%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.395%) Siemens
7 1 (0.395%) Apple
7 1 (0.395%) SAP
7 1 (0.395%) BT
West Midlands
Ruby Developer x2 (NEW ROLE) Can provide sponsorship! Commutable from: Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Northampton, Warwick, West Midlands. Key words: Ruby on Rails, PHP, Javascript, HTML, Perl/Python.
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Ruby/Ruby on- rails Developer- London - Permanent - c£50k plus benefits.Skills: Ruby, Ruby-on Rails, Sinatra, Grape, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, API, Amazon, No-SQL, Mongo.A high...
Salt
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Ideally the Senior Ruby Developer/Ruby on Rails Developer/Software Developer/Ruby Engineer will ideally be based in London although there is possibility for some remote work... Essential...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £55 - £65 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
The successful candidate will have solid experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Agile/TDD/BDD methodologies, and a general passion for technology and the web. If you have...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent
Posted: 19 May 2013
London
Want to work for a leading online gaming company? Still work in an English environment, pay lower tax, enjoy the lifestyle of Gibraltar and what Southern Spain has...
Rock Consultancy
Salary: Unspecified Excellent salary & Relocation packages available.
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
An opportunity has arisen for a Lead Ruby Developer to join an expanding organisation that operates in the technology industry. The Lead Ruby Developer shall be a vital...
ISL
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Ruby Developer - Ruby / Rails / Javascript / RESTful / Web Services / OOP / OOD /Agile / TDD / CI - London - £60,000 per annum plus benefits. A leading online gaming client are looking for...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Farnham, Surrey
Ruby on Rails, HAML, NGINX, Unicorn, Capistrano Job Description My clients are seeking a motivated Senior Ruby developer to join their team... Skills Required 3 years Ruby on...
Parker White Consulting Ltd
Salary: From £40 to £45,000 per annum Plus benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Any experience with other Ruby related technologies such as Cucumber / RSpec, Sinatra, Capistrano, Puppet / Chef, Backbone.js, Coffeescript, MongoDB / CouchDB / Redis, and RabbitMQ with be viewed favourably... Agile...
bridgenoble
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + share options
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Any experience with other Ruby related technologies such as Cucumber / RSpec, Sinatra, Capistrano, Puppet / Chef, Backbone.js, Coffeescript, MongoDB / CouchDB / Redis, and RabbitMQ with be viewed favourably... Agile...
Bridge Noble
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + share options
Posted: 17 May 2013