The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Ruby on Rails skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank336502435
Rank change year-on-year
Up+166Down-67
Matching permanent IT job ads831410355
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.689 %0.334 %0.372 %
As % of the Application Development category1.649 %0.835 %0.975 %
Number of salaries quoted765368300
Average salary£45,000£42,500£41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88 %+2.40 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£29,500£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£60,000£58,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
504084911936413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.80 %40.06 %38.14 %
Number of salaries quoted447934339731363
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Ruby on Rails
Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Ruby on Rails Salary Trend

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Ruby on Rails Salary Histogram

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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
EnglandUp+169801£45,000+5.88 %
LondonUp+150573£50,000+11.11 %
South EastUp+893£45,000+5.88 %
City of LondonUp+6086£55,000+29.41 %
YorkshireUp+433£35,000+7.69 %
BerkshireDown-2033£45,000+12.50 %
East of EnglandUp+1732£37,500+7.14 %
North WestDown-1626£34,250-2.14 %
West YorkshireUp+521£25,000-28.57 %
ManchesterDown-321£33,500-4.28 %
HertfordshireUp+3520£37,500+7.14 %
North EastUp+819£32,500-34.01 %
SurreyDown-618£40,500+65.30 %
GuildfordNew entry-15£40,500-
BracknellNew entry-15£40,000-
West MidlandsNew entry-15£48,125-
LeedsDown-914£25,000-28.57 %
CambridgeshireDown-1212£47,500+35.71 %
South YorkshireNew entry-12£35,000-
ScotlandDown-111£42,000+41.17 %
SloughDown-211£47,500-26.92 %
StevenageNew entry-11£37,500-
CambridgeDown-310£47,500+26.66 %
HampshireDown-1910£53,000+11.57 %
Tyne and WearUp+99£37,500-2.59 %
Newcastle upon TyneUp+59£37,500-2.59 %
UxbridgeNew entry-9£50,000-
WarwickshireNew entry-9--
SheffieldNew entry-8£32,500-
MiddlesexNew entry-8£43,750-

Ruby on Rails
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11490 (99.07 %)Ruby
2844 (56.12 %)JavaScript
3724 (48.14 %)CSS
4639 (42.49 %)HTML
5493 (32.78 %)PHP
6477 (31.72 %)MySQL
7445 (29.59 %)jQuery
8425 (28.26 %)Java
9388 (25.80 %)TDD
10333 (22.14 %)Linux
11323 (21.48 %)SQL
12322 (21.41 %)OO
13317 (21.08 %)Python
14314 (20.88 %)HTML5
15298 (19.81 %)Open Source
16292 (19.41 %)Agile Software Development
17266 (17.69 %).NET
18241 (16.02 %)MVC
19238 (15.82 %)Git (software)
20220 (14.63 %)Web Services
21217 (14.43 %)Scrum
22199 (13.23 %)C#
23192 (12.77 %)Cucumber
24187 (12.43 %)Apache
25183 (12.17 %)Ajax
26182 (12.10 %)XML
27180 (11.97 %)Degree
28171 (11.37 %)E-Commerce
29162 (10.77 %)Computer Science
30160 (10.64 %)BDD

Ruby on Rails
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1724 (48.14 %)CSS
2639 (42.49 %)HTML
3445 (29.59 %)jQuery
4314 (20.88 %)HTML5
5266 (17.69 %).NET
6220 (14.63 %)Web Services
7183 (12.17 %)Ajax
8182 (12.10 %)XML
9149 (9.907 %)Django
10137 (9.109 %)Spring
11125 (8.311 %)ASP.NET
12119 (7.912 %)CSS3
13113 (7.513 %)Hibernate
1494 (6.250 %)LAMP
1587 (5.785 %)XHTML
1685 (5.652 %)RESTful
1777 (5.120 %)Struts
1869 (4.588 %)REST
1961 (4.056 %)Haml
2058 (3.856 %)JSON
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1187 (12.43 %)Apache
260 (3.989 %)WordPress
355 (3.657 %)Drupal
452 (3.457 %)CMS
549 (3.258 %)Tomcat
638 (2.527 %)nginx
736 (2.394 %)Amazon S3
835 (2.327 %)Amazon EC2
835 (2.327 %)ColdFusion
934 (2.261 %)Force.com
1028 (1.862 %)Apache Solr
1122 (1.463 %)Documentum
1220 (1.330 %)Umbraco
1318 (1.197 %)GlassFish
1318 (1.197 %)Facebook Platform
1416 (1.064 %)BizTalk Server
1512 (0.798 %)Joomla!
1611 (0.731 %)Amazon AWS
179 (0.598 %)IIS
187 (0.465 %)Liferay
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
151 (3.391 %)MS Visio
231 (2.061 %)Photoshop
327 (1.795 %)MS Excel
421 (1.396 %)Adobe Illustrator
59 (0.598 %)InDesign
68 (0.532 %)MS Office
77 (0.465 %)Adobe Premiere
77 (0.465 %)Adobe After Effects
84 (0.266 %)SketchUp
93 (0.199 %)Fireworks
93 (0.199 %)MATLAB
101 (0.066 %)OmniGraffle
101 (0.066 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
122 (1.463 %)Optimost
122 (1.463 %)SiteCatalyst
29 (0.598 %)Google Analytics
33 (0.199 %)WebTrends
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
197 (6.449 %)Internet
241 (2.726 %)HTTP
331 (2.061 %)DNS
423 (1.529 %)SSL
512 (0.798 %)Kerberos
66 (0.399 %)TCP/IP
66 (0.399 %)Firewall
66 (0.399 %)Wireless
66 (0.399 %)Asterisk PBX
75 (0.332 %)SSH
75 (0.332 %)VPN
75 (0.332 %)HTTPS
84 (0.266 %)Intranet
84 (0.266 %)Reverse Proxy
93 (0.199 %)FTP
102 (0.133 %)DSL
102 (0.133 %)RIP
102 (0.133 %)Broadband
102 (0.133 %)SMS
111 (0.066 %)DHCP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1477 (31.72 %)MySQL
2128 (8.511 %)PostgreSQL
399 (6.582 %)MongoDB
477 (5.120 %)SQL Server
566 (4.388 %)NoSQL
663 (4.189 %)Redis
748 (3.191 %)Hadoop
847 (3.125 %)Apache Cassandra
917 (1.130 %)RDBMS
109 (0.598 %)HBase
118 (0.532 %)CouchDB
126 (0.399 %)SQL Server 2005
126 (0.399 %)SQL Server 2008
133 (0.199 %)MS Access
142 (0.133 %)JasperReports
142 (0.133 %)SQL Server Integration Services
151 (0.066 %)Data Warehouse
151 (0.066 %)Data Mining
151 (0.066 %)Crystal Reports
151 (0.066 %)SQL Server 2000
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1238 (15.82 %)Git (software)
2192 (12.77 %)Cucumber
3144 (9.574 %)RSpec
4138 (9.176 %)Subversion
569 (4.588 %)Selenium
650 (3.324 %)Eclipse
746 (3.059 %)TeamCity
834 (2.261 %)Maven
933 (2.194 %)ReSharper
933 (2.194 %)NUnit
1032 (2.128 %)NDepend
1032 (2.128 %)Rhino Mocks
1128 (1.862 %)Visual Studio
1128 (1.862 %)JIRA
1225 (1.662 %)Hudson
1323 (1.529 %)IntelliJ
1422 (1.463 %)JUnit
1422 (1.463 %)FitNesse
1422 (1.463 %)WatiN
1422 (1.463 %)NCover
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1102 (6.782 %)Marketing
272 (4.787 %)Finance
367 (4.455 %)Games
460 (3.989 %)Publishing
542 (2.793 %)Retail
627 (1.795 %)Pharmaceutical
714 (0.931 %)Advertising
813 (0.864 %)Multimedia
910 (0.665 %)Back Office
108 (0.532 %)Music
116 (0.399 %)Telecoms
125 (0.332 %)Legal
134 (0.266 %)Automotive
134 (0.266 %)French Language
134 (0.266 %)Investment Banking
134 (0.266 %)Banking
143 (0.199 %)Front Office
151 (0.066 %)Japanese Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11148 (76.33 %)Developer
2368 (24.47 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
3215 (14.30 %)Senior Developer
4169 (11.24 %)Web Developer
5152 (10.11 %)Ruby Developer
6122 (8.112 %)Lead Developer
7108 (7.181 %)Java Developer
899 (6.582 %)PHP Developer
985 (5.652 %)Software Engineer
1078 (5.186 %)Mobile Developer
1164 (4.255 %)Front-End Developer
1262 (4.122 %).NET Developer
1262 (4.122 %)Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
1355 (3.657 %)Architect
1454 (3.590 %)Software Developer
1541 (2.726 %)Junior
1639 (2.593 %)Administrator
1738 (2.527 %)Systems Administrator
1836 (2.394 %)Web Architect
1934 (2.261 %)Linux Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1298 (19.81 %)Open Source
2162 (10.77 %)Computer Science
3123 (8.178 %)Social Network
483 (5.519 %)Social Media
562 (4.122 %)iPhone
562 (4.122 %)Web 2.0
657 (3.790 %)SaaS
740 (2.660 %)Digital Media
832 (2.128 %)Management Information System
930 (1.995 %)Mathematics
1029 (1.928 %)Big Data
1127 (1.795 %)Blog
1226 (1.729 %)Online Games
1325 (1.662 %)iPad
1423 (1.529 %)Replication
1521 (1.396 %)Cloud Computing
1618 (1.197 %)Heroku
1715 (0.997 %)W3C
1814 (0.931 %)Blackberry
1814 (0.931 %)Mainframe
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1333 (22.14 %)Linux
2144 (9.574 %)Android
2144 (9.574 %)Apple iOS
3105 (6.981 %)UNIX
462 (4.122 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
546 (3.059 %)Windows
634 (2.261 %)Ubuntu
723 (1.529 %)Mac OS X
813 (0.864 %)Mac OS
912 (0.798 %)CentOS
106 (0.399 %)Windows Mobile
114 (0.266 %)Windows Server 2008
121 (0.066 %)Windows Server 2003
121 (0.066 %)Debian
121 (0.066 %)Solaris
121 (0.066 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1388 (25.80 %)TDD
2322 (21.41 %)OO
3292 (19.41 %)Agile Software Development
4241 (16.02 %)MVC
5217 (14.43 %)Scrum
6171 (11.37 %)E-Commerce
7160 (10.64 %)BDD
8154 (10.24 %)Web Development
9112 (7.447 %)OOP
1099 (6.582 %)SEO
1181 (5.386 %)Content Management
1280 (5.319 %)Pair Programming
1373 (4.854 %)Refactoring
1471 (4.721 %)Unit Testing
1558 (3.856 %)Web Design
1651 (3.391 %)Kanban
1750 (3.324 %)Continuous Integration
1847 (3.125 %)SOA
1946 (3.059 %)UML
2034 (2.261 %)Project Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11490 (99.07 %)Ruby
2844 (56.12 %)JavaScript
3493 (32.78 %)PHP
4425 (28.26 %)Java
5323 (21.48 %)SQL
6317 (21.08 %)Python
7199 (13.23 %)C#
8139 (9.242 %)Perl
997 (6.449 %)C++
1077 (5.120 %)Groovy
1160 (3.989 %)PHP5
1254 (3.590 %)ActionScript
1349 (3.258 %)Scala
1436 (2.394 %)Bash shell
1436 (2.394 %)CoffeeScript
1535 (2.327 %)PL/SQL
1633 (2.194 %)Apex Code
1731 (2.061 %)Erlang
1830 (1.995 %)Objective-C
1927 (1.795 %)Tcl
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1180 (11.97 %)Degree
24 (0.266 %)PhD
32 (0.133 %)Postgraduate
32 (0.133 %)PRINCE2 Certification
41 (0.066 %)ISEB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
156 (3.723 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
112 (0.798 %)UAG
28 (0.532 %)Varnish
37 (0.465 %)VMware Infrastructure
41 (0.066 %)Postfix
41 (0.066 %)VMware ESXi
41 (0.066 %)NFS
41 (0.066 %)Active Directory
41 (0.066 %)VMware ESX
41 (0.066 %)VMware Workstation
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
130 (1.995 %)Puppet
23 (0.199 %)ZABBIX
31 (0.066 %)Backup Exec
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
190 (5.984 %)Apple
190 (5.984 %)Facebook
287 (5.785 %)Oracle
384 (5.585 %)Google
468 (4.521 %)Zend
557 (3.790 %)Red Hat
638 (2.527 %)Twitter
734 (2.261 %)Salesforce.com
832 (2.128 %)ATG
929 (1.928 %)Microsoft
1022 (1.463 %)Vignette
1022 (1.463 %)Omniture
1121 (1.396 %)Adobe
1218 (1.197 %)SAP
1315 (0.997 %)Symbian
1315 (0.997 %)Sony
1315 (0.997 %)Appcelerator
1414 (0.931 %)Cisco
1513 (0.864 %)Juniper
1612 (0.798 %)Citrix