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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank 166 108 131
Rank change year-on-year
-58 +23
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 7 65 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.189% 2.016% 0.745%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.346% 3.751% 1.374%
Number of salaries quoted 7 51 15
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £41,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-8.75% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2025 1733 1601
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 54.82% 53.74% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1663 1553 1394
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ruby
Yorkshire

Ruby
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Salary Histogram

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leeds -46 5 £35,000 -
Halifax -9 2 £20,000 -38.46%
Ruby
Yorkshire

Ruby
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 31 (88.57%) PHP
2 18 (51.43%) Ruby on Rails
2 18 (51.43%) Symfony
3 13 (37.14%) CSS
4 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
4 12 (34.29%) Magento
5 11 (31.43%) jQuery
5 11 (31.43%) HTML
5 11 (31.43%) .NET
5 11 (31.43%) Python
5 11 (31.43%) CMS
6 10 (28.57%) Spring
6 10 (28.57%) Apache
6 10 (28.57%) Java
7 9 (25.71%) Struts
7 9 (25.71%) Django
7 9 (25.71%) Git (software)
8 8 (22.86%) HTML5
9 7 (20.00%) Perl
10 6 (17.14%) SQL
10 6 (17.14%) ASP
10 6 (17.14%) MySQL
10 6 (17.14%) JSP
10 6 (17.14%) Linux
10 6 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (17.14%) B2C
11 5 (14.29%) WordPress
11 5 (14.29%) MVC
11 5 (14.29%) E-Commerce
12 4 (11.43%) Hibernate

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 18 (51.43%) Ruby on Rails
1 18 (51.43%) Symfony
2 13 (37.14%) CSS
3 11 (31.43%) HTML
3 11 (31.43%) .NET
3 11 (31.43%) jQuery
4 10 (28.57%) Spring
5 9 (25.71%) Django
5 9 (25.71%) Struts
6 8 (22.86%) HTML5
7 6 (17.14%) ASP
7 6 (17.14%) JSP
8 4 (11.43%) Hibernate
9 3 (8.571%) JDBC
9 3 (8.571%) Web Services
9 3 (8.571%) JPA
10 2 (5.714%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (5.714%) CSS3
10 2 (5.714%) ASP.NET
11 1 (2.857%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 12 (34.29%) Magento
2 11 (31.43%) CMS
3 10 (28.57%) Apache
4 5 (14.29%) WordPress
5 3 (8.571%) WebLogic
5 3 (8.571%) Tomcat
6 2 (5.714%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (2.857%) CICS
7 1 (2.857%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.857%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.857%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Git (software)
2 3 (8.571%) Ant
2 3 (8.571%) Maven
3 2 (5.714%) Subversion
3 2 (5.714%) PhoneGap
4 1 (2.857%) JUnit
General
1 2 (5.714%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 33 (94.29%) Developer
2 21 (60.00%) PHP Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 9 (25.71%) Senior PHP Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Front-End Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Web Developer
7 3 (8.571%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.714%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.714%) PHP Web Developer
9 1 (2.857%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
9 1 (2.857%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 1 (2.857%) Java Engineer
9 1 (2.857%) Senior Java Engineer
9 1 (2.857%) Cloud Software Developer
9 1 (2.857%) Cloud Developer
9 1 (2.857%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 1 (2.857%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.857%) J2EE Developer
9 1 (2.857%) Senior J2EE Developer
9 1 (2.857%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.714%) Client/Server
1 2 (5.714%) Blackberry
1 2 (5.714%) iPhone
1 2 (5.714%) Social Media
2 1 (2.857%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.857%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 2 (5.714%) Windows
2 2 (5.714%) Android
2 2 (5.714%) Windows Phone
3 1 (2.857%) Solaris
3 1 (2.857%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) B2C
1 6 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (14.29%) MVC
2 5 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 3 (8.571%) OOP
3 3 (8.571%) Information Management
3 3 (8.571%) Problem Management
3 3 (8.571%) Manual Testing
4 2 (5.714%) SEO
5 1 (2.857%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.857%) TDD
5 1 (2.857%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.857%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 31 (88.57%) PHP
2 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
3 11 (31.43%) Python
4 10 (28.57%) Java
5 7 (20.00%) Perl
6 6 (17.14%) SQL
7 3 (8.571%) Objective-C
7 3 (8.571%) PHP5
8 2 (5.714%) C++
9 1 (2.857%) C#
9 1 (2.857%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.857%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (8.571%) Oracle
1 3 (8.571%) JBoss
1 3 (8.571%) Remedy
1 3 (8.571%) Zend