The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 185 119 166
Rank change year-on-year
-66 +47
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 19 69 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.378% 1.514% 0.240%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.770% 2.806% 0.519%
Number of salaries quoted 18 39 10
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +42.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,250 £35,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £70,000 £36,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2469 2459 1926
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 49.11% 53.95% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2154 2212 1735
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
England

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham -13 11 £45,000 -37.93%
Warwickshire -24 5 £40,000 -20.00%
Staffordshire -13 1 - -
Coventry -26 1 £47,500 -
Ruby
England

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 59 (63.44%) Java
1 59 (63.44%) PHP
2 55 (59.14%) Linux
3 52 (55.91%) HTML
4 51 (54.84%) CSS
5 46 (49.46%) Ruby on Rails
6 44 (47.31%) JavaScript
7 43 (46.24%) C++
7 43 (46.24%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (46.24%) Subversion
8 33 (35.48%) Apache
9 31 (33.33%) Perl
9 31 (33.33%) ActionScript
10 29 (31.18%) Open Source
11 27 (29.03%) UNIX
12 26 (27.96%) Web Services
12 26 (27.96%) Ajax
13 21 (22.58%) LAMP
14 20 (21.51%) MySQL
14 20 (21.51%) SQL
15 18 (19.35%) Degree
15 18 (19.35%) Selenium
16 17 (18.28%) Python
16 17 (18.28%) DHCP
17 16 (17.20%) Agile Software Development
18 15 (16.13%) Maven
18 15 (16.13%) Modbus
19 13 (13.98%) Web Application Development
19 13 (13.98%) Jenkins
19 13 (13.98%) HTML5

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 52 (55.91%) HTML
2 51 (54.84%) CSS
3 46 (49.46%) Ruby on Rails
4 26 (27.96%) Web Services
4 26 (27.96%) Ajax
5 21 (22.58%) LAMP
6 13 (13.98%) HTML5
7 10 (10.75%) Hibernate
7 10 (10.75%) Spring
7 10 (10.75%) Java EE
8 8 (8.602%) CSS3
9 7 (7.527%) REST
9 7 (7.527%) Yii
10 6 (6.452%) .NET
10 6 (6.452%) RESTful
11 5 (5.376%) Grails
12 3 (3.226%) Node.js
13 2 (2.151%) jQuery
14 1 (1.075%) Memcached
14 1 (1.075%) Haml
Application Platforms
1 33 (35.48%) Apache
2 10 (10.75%) Alfresco
3 2 (2.151%) Drupal
3 2 (2.151%) CMS
3 2 (2.151%) nginx
4 1 (1.075%) WordPress
4 1 (1.075%) Joomla!
Applications
1 1 (1.075%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.075%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.075%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.28%) DHCP
2 15 (16.13%) Modbus
3 2 (2.151%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (46.24%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (21.51%) MySQL
3 13 (13.98%) NoSQL
4 12 (12.90%) MongoDB
5 10 (10.75%) CouchDB
5 10 (10.75%) Jackrabbit
6 3 (3.226%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.226%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.151%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.075%) Redis
8 1 (1.075%) Big Data
8 1 (1.075%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 43 (46.24%) Subversion
2 18 (19.35%) Selenium
3 15 (16.13%) Maven
4 13 (13.98%) Jenkins
5 12 (12.90%) Hudson
6 10 (10.75%) Eclipse
7 8 (8.602%) Git (software)
8 6 (6.452%) RSpec
8 6 (6.452%) Cucumber
9 5 (5.376%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (5.376%) Ant
9 5 (5.376%) CruiseControl
9 5 (5.376%) JIRA
10 4 (4.301%) WATIR
11 3 (3.226%) Mercurial
12 2 (2.151%) TeamCity
12 2 (2.151%) Capistrano
13 1 (1.075%) PHPUnit
13 1 (1.075%) WebDriver
13 1 (1.075%) Phing
General
1 5 (5.376%) Back Office
2 4 (4.301%) Retail
3 2 (2.151%) Billing
4 1 (1.075%) Electronics
4 1 (1.075%) Finance
4 1 (1.075%) Advertising
4 1 (1.075%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 79 (84.95%) Developer
2 26 (27.96%) Senior Developer
3 23 (24.73%) Applications Developer
4 15 (16.13%) Ruby Developer
5 11 (11.83%) Team Leader
5 11 (11.83%) Lead Developer
6 10 (10.75%) Java Developer
6 10 (10.75%) PHP Developer
6 10 (10.75%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 6 (6.452%) Senior Applications Developer
7 6 (6.452%) Software Developer
8 5 (5.376%) Mobile Developer
8 5 (5.376%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.301%) Lead PHP Developer
9 4 (4.301%) Web Developer
10 3 (3.226%) Systems Administrator
10 3 (3.226%) Administrator
10 3 (3.226%) Release Engineer
10 3 (3.226%) Senior PHP Developer
11 2 (2.151%) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.18%) Open Source
2 12 (12.90%) Computer Science
3 10 (10.75%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (10.75%) Social Media
4 8 (8.602%) Device Driver
4 8 (8.602%) Mobile App
5 6 (6.452%) iPhone
6 5 (5.376%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.151%) IaaS
8 1 (1.075%) SaaS
8 1 (1.075%) Digital Media
8 1 (1.075%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 55 (59.14%) Linux
2 27 (29.03%) UNIX
3 7 (7.527%) Android
4 5 (5.376%) Windows
4 5 (5.376%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (2.151%) CentOS
6 1 (1.075%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.075%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.075%) Gentoo
6 1 (1.075%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (17.20%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (13.98%) Web Application Development
3 12 (12.90%) Unit Testing
4 10 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (8.602%) SOA
5 8 (8.602%) Configuration Management
6 7 (7.527%) Web Development
6 7 (7.527%) TDD
7 6 (6.452%) Scrum
8 5 (5.376%) DSDM
8 5 (5.376%) MVC
8 5 (5.376%) Automated Testing
9 4 (4.301%) BDD
10 3 (3.226%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (3.226%) Change Control
11 2 (2.151%) Refactoring
11 2 (2.151%) Change Management
11 2 (2.151%) E-Commerce
11 2 (2.151%) OO
11 2 (2.151%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 59 (63.44%) Java
1 59 (63.44%) PHP
2 44 (47.31%) JavaScript
3 43 (46.24%) C++
4 31 (33.33%) Perl
4 31 (33.33%) ActionScript
5 20 (21.51%) SQL
6 17 (18.28%) Python
7 11 (11.83%) Scala
8 10 (10.75%) Clojure
8 10 (10.75%) Erlang
9 5 (5.376%) Objective-C
10 4 (4.301%) VB.NET
11 3 (3.226%) T-SQL
11 3 (3.226%) C#
11 3 (3.226%) Shell Script
11 3 (3.226%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.075%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) Degree
2 1 (1.075%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (2.151%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.226%) Puppet
2 2 (2.151%) Nagios
2 2 (2.151%) OpenNMS
Vendors
1 10 (10.75%) Oracle
2 5 (5.376%) AccuRev
3 3 (3.226%) Remedy
3 3 (3.226%) Zend
4 2 (2.151%) VMware
4 2 (2.151%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.151%) Cisco
5 1 (1.075%) Facebook
5 1 (1.075%) Twitter
5 1 (1.075%) IBM
5 1 (1.075%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.075%) JBoss
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
West Midlands
Ruby on Rails Developer Contract - West Midlands. Fantastic opportunity to work on a long-term, large scale Ruby on Rails web development project.
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
Key Skills* Comprehensive Ruby on Rails web development experience* Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix platforms* Java or C++ programming ability* UI Design with HTML, CSS & Javascript* Experience delivering...
greywood
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Warwickshire
Key Skills * Comprehensive Ruby on Rails web development experience * Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix platforms * Java or C++ programming ability * UI Design with HTML, CSS & Javascript * Experience delivering...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Midlands
WEB DEVELOPER - XHTML, HTML5, PHP, CSS, JAVASCRIPT WEB DEVELOPER - XHTML, HTML5, PHP, CSS, JAVASCRIPT ESSENTIAL SKILLS: (X)HTML and CSS JavaScript PHP Apache UNIX, Linux or Mac OS...
Satigo
Salary: £25000.00 per annum + 20 Days Holiday, Pension, Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
OOP, MVC, Node.JS, NoSQL, MongoDB, Ruby... OOP, MVC, Node.JS, NoSQL, MongoDB, Ruby A software developer / PHP Developer is required by my client an exciting new venture...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £50000 to £60000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
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OPUS
Salary: GBP50000 to GBP60000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Ideally you'll have knowledge of Ruby, JavaScript, CSS, XML, HTML, Apache, Linux and WML... - Zend Smarty, Symfony MVC framework exposure - Knowledge of PHP 5 Object Orientated PHP,...
BTR Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: From £18,000 to £22,000 per annum plus bens
Posted: 20 May 2013