Ruby
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ruby skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 286 167
Rank change year-on-year -254 -119 +34
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 400 1,213 4,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 1.28% 2.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 3.03% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 310 623 1,096
10th Percentile £44,750 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,505 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £67,500 £61,040
% change year-on-year -12.59% +10.58% +6.16%

All Programming Languages
UK

Ruby is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby.

Salary trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -258 292 £75,000 - 123
UK excluding London -260 207 £59,000 -12.59% 50
London -98 154 £85,000 +9.68% 84
Work from Home -226 147 £65,000 -10.34% 84
Scotland -81 52 £52,500 +2.97% 6
North of England -115 46 £55,000 -21.43% 11
South West -86 41 £70,000 -1.06% 9
North West -81 31 £65,000 - 6
South East -61 28 £55,000 -18.52% 13
Northern Ireland +6 17 £55,000 -24.14% 1
Midlands -64 12 £55,500 -19.27% 7
Yorkshire -21 11 £45,000 -35.71% 3
East of England -11 10 £85,000 +13.33% 2
West Midlands -34 6 £58,750 -16.07% 4
East Midlands -44 6 £55,500 -11.20% 3
North East -18 4 £42,750 -47.38% 2
Wales -24 2 £48,052 +17.91% 2

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (4.50%) Camunda
2 17 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.25%) Apache
4 12 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.25%) Confluence
6 6 (1.50%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (4.25%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (43.00%) AWS
2 103 (25.75%) Azure
3 51 (12.75%) SaaS
4 45 (11.25%) GCP
5 40 (10.00%) GitHub
6 32 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (7.25%) Serverless
8 18 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (3.75%) IaaS
10 13 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (3.00%) dbt
12 10 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (2.50%) PaaS
12 10 (2.50%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.50%) Pulumi
13 9 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.25%) Datadog
14 8 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.00%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.00%) DNS
2 22 (5.50%) TCP/IP
3 21 (5.25%) Firewall
4 17 (4.25%) DHCP
4 17 (4.25%) FIX Connectivity
5 7 (1.75%) HTTP
6 6 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (1.00%) Internet
8 3 (0.75%) MQTT
8 3 (0.75%) SSL
8 3 (0.75%) VPN
9 1 (0.25%) 5G
9 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.50%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (10.00%) MySQL
3 39 (9.75%) SQL Server
4 25 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.25%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.50%) Redis
7 12 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (3.00%) Apache Arrow
7 12 (3.00%) Apache Ignite
7 12 (3.00%) Dremio
7 12 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.25%) Power BI
9 8 (2.00%) Big Data
9 8 (2.00%) MariaDB
10 7 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.50%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (1.50%) Tableau
12 5 (1.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 61 (15.25%) Jenkins
2 47 (11.75%) Git
3 29 (7.25%) GitLab
3 29 (7.25%) JIRA
4 20 (5.00%) Gradle
4 20 (5.00%) Maven
5 19 (4.75%) CircleCI
5 19 (4.75%) Travis CI
6 8 (2.00%) Appium
6 8 (2.00%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (1.50%) JUnit
8 6 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.50%) RSpec
8 6 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.25%) Subversion
10 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.00%) JBehave
10 4 (1.00%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 77 (19.25%) Finance
2 58 (14.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 58 (14.50%) Social Skills
3 40 (10.00%) Banking
4 38 (9.50%) Legal
5 32 (8.00%) Tech for Good
6 24 (6.00%) Retail
7 23 (5.75%) Investment Banking
8 18 (4.50%) Law
8 18 (4.50%) Public Sector
9 17 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (3.25%) Health Technology
11 12 (3.00%) Front Office
12 9 (2.25%) Local Government
13 5 (1.25%) Marketing
14 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.50%) Billing
16 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 165 (41.25%) Developer
2 131 (32.75%) Senior
3 75 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 70 (17.50%) Software Engineer
5 54 (13.50%) Ruby Developer
6 49 (12.25%) Software Developer
7 41 (10.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (8.25%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 31 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
10 29 (7.25%) Lead
11 27 (6.75%) Full Stack Developer
12 26 (6.50%) Senior Software Developer
13 25 (6.25%) Senior Ruby Developer
14 24 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (5.50%) React Developer
16 19 (4.75%) Senior React Developer
16 19 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
17 18 (4.50%) Lead Developer
18 17 (4.25%) Applications Support
18 17 (4.25%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (30.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 53 (13.25%) Node.js
2 53 (13.25%) React
3 44 (11.00%) HTML
4 43 (10.75%) CSS
5 30 (7.50%) Spring
6 28 (7.00%) Spring Boot
7 23 (5.75%) .NET
7 23 (5.75%) RESTful
8 21 (5.25%) Vue
9 17 (4.25%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (3.75%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.75%) JSON
11 14 (3.50%) Laravel
11 14 (3.50%) Web Services
12 13 (3.25%) XML
13 12 (3.00%) jQuery
13 12 (3.00%) NumPy
13 12 (3.00%) Protocol Buffers
13 12 (3.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.25%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (4.50%) Algorithms
3 17 (4.25%) Eurex
4 14 (3.50%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (3.25%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.00%) Derivative
6 12 (3.00%) Equities
6 12 (3.00%) Fixed Income
6 12 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.50%) Educational Technology
7 10 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.00%) Life Science
9 6 (1.50%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.50%) IoT
10 5 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 94 (23.50%) Linux
2 54 (13.50%) Windows
3 41 (10.25%) Unix
4 17 (4.25%) CentOS
5 13 (3.25%) Ubuntu
6 12 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (3.00%) Solaris
7 11 (2.75%) Windows Server
8 9 (2.25%) Apple iOS
9 8 (2.00%) Android
10 6 (1.50%) Windows 10
11 5 (1.25%) VMS
12 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (33.50%) Agile
2 125 (31.25%) Software Engineering
3 118 (29.50%) DevOps
4 97 (24.25%) CI/CD
5 79 (19.75%) Full Stack Development
6 78 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (14.50%) Mentoring
8 48 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 43 (10.75%) Containerisation
10 36 (9.00%) Computer Science
11 34 (8.50%) Front End Development
11 34 (8.50%) TDD
12 33 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence
12 33 (8.25%) Configuration Management
12 33 (8.25%) SDLC
12 33 (8.25%) Test Automation
13 29 (7.25%) Coaching
14 28 (7.00%) Task Automation
15 27 (6.75%) Analytics
16 26 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 219 (54.75%) Python
2 150 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 115 (28.75%) Java
4 86 (21.50%) PowerShell
5 74 (18.50%) Bash
6 69 (17.25%) SQL
7 58 (14.50%) Go
7 58 (14.50%) Perl
8 48 (12.00%) C#
9 30 (7.50%) PHP
10 28 (7.00%) TypeScript
11 20 (5.00%) Scala
12 15 (3.75%) C++
13 14 (3.50%) C
14 11 (2.75%) Groovy
14 11 (2.75%) Korn
15 10 (2.50%) Rust
16 5 (1.25%) Lua
16 5 (1.25%) Tcl
17 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (9.75%) Degree
2 23 (5.75%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.25%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.75%) GDPR
1 11 (2.75%) QA
2 5 (1.25%) SLA
3 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 78 (19.50%) Docker
2 10 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.50%) XenApp
4 6 (1.50%) XenDesktop
5 4 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.25%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 94 (23.50%) Kubernetes
2 59 (14.75%) Terraform
3 48 (12.00%) Ansible
4 34 (8.50%) Puppet
5 24 (6.00%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.25%) Grafana
6 13 (3.25%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.75%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (1.50%) SCCM
9 5 (1.25%) Packer
10 4 (1.00%) vRealize
11 3 (0.75%) Consul
12 2 (0.50%) Podman
12 2 (0.50%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.25%) CFEngine
13 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Nagios
13 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (8.50%) Red Hat
2 27 (6.75%) Oracle
3 26 (6.50%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.50%) Pega
5 17 (4.25%) Bloomberg
5 17 (4.25%) CQG
5 17 (4.25%) ION Trading
5 17 (4.25%) Patsystems
5 17 (4.25%) Reuters
5 17 (4.25%) Trayport
6 12 (3.00%) VMware
7 11 (2.75%) SaltStack
7 11 (2.75%) TOWER Software
8 9 (2.25%) Facebook
9 8 (2.00%) Google
9 8 (2.00%) New Relic
10 6 (1.50%) Citrix
11 5 (1.25%) PeopleSoft
11 5 (1.25%) Sun
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco