The first table below looks at the demand for Ruby skills in IT jobs advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ruby over the 3 months to 22 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 Worcestershire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ruby
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Worcestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
160 211 117
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 74.42% 74.30% 59.09%
Number of salaries quoted 148 194 112
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +3.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
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 Worcestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire Ruby Salary Trend

Ruby
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
1 1 (100.00%) Zend
1 1 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
1 1 (100.00%) Kohana
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Sinatra
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3

Ruby
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
1 1 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Kohana
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Sinatra
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Zend