The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Warwickshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 77 40 -
Rank change year-on-year
-37 -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 4 39 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 0.502% 5.105% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.930% 8.316% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 27 0
Average salary £37,500 £50,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Warwickshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
430 469 301
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 53.95% 61.39% 50.76%
Number of salaries quoted 385 437 284
Average salary £33,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
West Midlands

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ruby across the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Warwickshire Ruby Salary Histogram

Ruby
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Warwick -15 2 £45,000 -14.28%
Leamington Spa -15 1 £29,500 -41.00%
Ruby
West Midlands

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 40 (78.43%) Linux
1 40 (78.43%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (76.47%) PHP
3 37 (72.55%) CSS
4 36 (70.59%) Java
5 35 (68.63%) HTML
6 33 (64.71%) C++
7 31 (60.78%) JavaScript
8 30 (58.82%) Ruby on Rails
9 26 (50.98%) Perl
10 25 (49.02%) UNIX
11 23 (45.10%) Apache
12 22 (43.14%) ActionScript
13 19 (37.25%) Subversion
14 18 (35.29%) LAMP
15 17 (33.33%) Ajax
15 17 (33.33%) Selenium
16 16 (31.37%) DHCP
16 16 (31.37%) Web Services
16 16 (31.37%) Open Source
17 14 (27.45%) Modbus
18 13 (25.49%) Web Application Development
19 9 (17.65%) Unit Testing
20 8 (15.69%) Device Driver
20 8 (15.69%) SQL
21 7 (13.73%) Python
21 7 (13.73%) SOA
22 6 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
22 6 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
22 6 (11.76%) TDD

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 37 (72.55%) CSS
2 35 (68.63%) HTML
3 30 (58.82%) Ruby on Rails
4 18 (35.29%) LAMP
5 17 (33.33%) Ajax
6 16 (31.37%) Web Services
7 6 (11.76%) RESTful
7 6 (11.76%) HTML5
7 6 (11.76%) Yii
7 6 (11.76%) REST
7 6 (11.76%) CSS3
8 5 (9.804%) Grails
9 1 (1.961%) .NET
9 1 (1.961%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 23 (45.10%) Apache
2 2 (3.922%) CMS
2 2 (3.922%) Drupal
3 1 (1.961%) WordPress
3 1 (1.961%) Joomla!
Applications
1 1 (1.961%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.961%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (31.37%) DHCP
2 14 (27.45%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (78.43%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.76%) MySQL
3 1 (1.961%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (37.25%) Subversion
2 17 (33.33%) Selenium
3 6 (11.76%) Hudson
3 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.882%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.882%) RSpec
4 3 (5.882%) WATIR
5 1 (1.961%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (7.843%) Retail
2 2 (3.922%) Billing
3 1 (1.961%) Marketing
3 1 (1.961%) Finance
3 1 (1.961%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 48 (94.12%) Developer
2 21 (41.18%) Applications Developer
3 15 (29.41%) Senior Developer
4 11 (21.57%) Lead Developer
5 10 (19.61%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 8 (15.69%) PHP Developer
7 7 (13.73%) Ruby Developer
8 5 (9.804%) Software Developer
9 4 (7.843%) Lead PHP Developer
9 4 (7.843%) Senior Applications Developer
10 3 (5.882%) Senior PHP Developer
10 3 (5.882%) Web Developer
10 3 (5.882%) Team Leader
10 3 (5.882%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.922%) Lead Web Developer
11 2 (3.922%) Web Team Leader
12 1 (1.961%) PHP Web Developer
12 1 (1.961%) Front-End Developer
12 1 (1.961%) Test Leader
12 1 (1.961%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Open Source
2 8 (15.69%) Device Driver
3 5 (9.804%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.961%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 40 (78.43%) Linux
2 25 (49.02%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Web Application Development
2 9 (17.65%) Unit Testing
3 7 (13.73%) SOA
4 6 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (11.76%) TDD
4 6 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (9.804%) Scrum
5 5 (9.804%) DSDM
6 4 (7.843%) Web Development
7 3 (5.882%) BDD
7 3 (5.882%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (3.922%) Automated Testing
9 1 (1.961%) Data Management
9 1 (1.961%) OO
9 1 (1.961%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 39 (76.47%) PHP
2 36 (70.59%) Java
3 33 (64.71%) C++
4 31 (60.78%) JavaScript
5 26 (50.98%) Perl
6 22 (43.14%) ActionScript
7 8 (15.69%) SQL
8 7 (13.73%) Python
9 1 (1.961%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.961%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (9.804%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (1.961%) JBoss
1 1 (1.961%) IBM
1 1 (1.961%) Zend
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