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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 241 169
Rank change year-on-year -285 -72 +35
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 419 1,465 4,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 1.50% 2.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 3.50% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 304 616 1,096
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,015 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,400
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.53% +17.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,810 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.42% +16.67% +4.35%

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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -288 299 £75,000 - 116
UK excluding London -299 225 £57,810 -17.42% 46
Work from Home -240 172 £65,000 -13.33% 87
London -97 153 £85,000 +9.68% 74
Scotland -86 58 £52,500 +8.54% 4
North of England -123 49 £55,000 -21.43% 16
South West -94 41 £70,000 -4.44% 8
North West -72 32 £60,000 -11.11% 9
South East -79 31 £55,000 -18.52% 10
Northern Ireland -13 19 £55,000 -24.14%
Midlands -73 14 £55,500 -19.27% 6
Yorkshire -15 13 £45,000 -35.71% 5
East of England -56 10 £85,000 +13.33% 3
East Midlands -58 8 £55,500 -11.20% 2
West Midlands -17 6 £58,750 -16.07% 4
Wales -27 4 £48,052 +17.91%
North East -34 4 £42,750 -51.14% 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 19 (4.53%) Camunda
2 17 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.34%) Apache
4 13 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.15%) Confluence
6 6 (1.43%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (4.06%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (41.77%) AWS
2 104 (24.82%) Azure
3 53 (12.65%) Serverless
4 50 (11.93%) SaaS
5 46 (10.98%) GCP
6 40 (9.55%) GitHub
7 32 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (3.58%) IaaS
10 13 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (3.10%) dbt
11 11 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (2.39%) PaaS
12 10 (2.39%) Pulumi
13 9 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.15%) Datadog
14 8 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.91%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.73%) DNS
2 22 (5.25%) TCP/IP
3 21 (5.01%) Firewall
4 17 (4.06%) DHCP
4 17 (4.06%) FIX Connectivity
5 7 (1.67%) HTTP
6 4 (0.95%) Internet
6 4 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.72%) MQTT
7 3 (0.72%) SSL
7 3 (0.72%) VPN
8 1 (0.24%) 5G
8 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (9.55%) MySQL
3 39 (9.31%) SQL Server
4 36 (8.59%) Relational Database
5 28 (6.68%) Oracle Database
6 25 (5.97%) NoSQL
7 24 (5.73%) RDBMS
8 21 (5.01%) MongoDB
9 14 (3.34%) Redis
10 13 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (3.10%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (3.10%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (3.10%) Dremio
11 10 (2.39%) Power BI
12 9 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.91%) Big Data
13 8 (1.91%) MariaDB
14 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (16.95%) Git
2 60 (14.32%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.92%) JIRA
4 27 (6.44%) GitLab
5 24 (5.73%) JDeveloper
6 21 (5.01%) Gradle
6 21 (5.01%) Maven
7 20 (4.77%) CircleCI
7 20 (4.77%) Travis CI
8 8 (1.91%) Appium
8 8 (1.91%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (1.43%) JUnit
10 6 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (1.43%) RSpec
10 6 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.19%) Subversion
12 4 (0.95%) JMeter
12 4 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 77 (18.38%) Finance
2 58 (13.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 58 (13.84%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.31%) Banking
4 37 (8.83%) Legal
5 31 (7.40%) Tech for Good
6 24 (5.73%) Retail
7 22 (5.25%) Investment Banking
8 19 (4.53%) Law
9 18 (4.30%) Public Sector
10 17 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (3.10%) Front Office
11 13 (3.10%) Health Technology
12 9 (2.15%) Local Government
13 5 (1.19%) Marketing
14 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.48%) Billing
16 1 (0.24%) Automotive
16 1 (0.24%) Electronics
16 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 163 (38.90%) Developer
2 127 (30.31%) Senior
3 98 (23.39%) Software Engineer
4 73 (17.42%) Senior Developer
5 51 (12.17%) Ruby Developer
6 50 (11.93%) Software Developer
7 41 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 38 (9.07%) Ruby Engineer
9 33 (7.88%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 32 (7.64%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (6.92%) Lead
12 26 (6.21%) Full Stack Developer
12 26 (6.21%) Senior Software Developer
13 23 (5.49%) Senior Ruby Developer
14 22 (5.25%) React Developer
15 20 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (4.53%) Senior React Developer
17 18 (4.30%) Lead Developer
18 17 (4.06%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (27.68%) Ruby on Rails
2 78 (18.62%) React
3 77 (18.38%) Node.js
4 44 (10.50%) HTML
5 43 (10.26%) CSS
6 31 (7.40%) Spring
7 29 (6.92%) Spring Boot
8 23 (5.49%) .NET
8 23 (5.49%) RESTful
9 20 (4.77%) Vue
10 17 (4.06%) FIX Protocol
11 15 (3.58%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.58%) JSON
12 14 (3.34%) Laravel
12 14 (3.34%) Web Services
13 13 (3.10%) NumPy
13 13 (3.10%) Pandas
13 13 (3.10%) Protocol Buffers
13 13 (3.10%) SciPy
13 13 (3.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.16%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (4.30%) Algorithms
3 17 (4.06%) Eurex
4 14 (3.34%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (3.10%) Hedge funds
6 12 (2.86%) Derivative
6 12 (2.86%) Equities
6 12 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.39%) Educational Technology
7 10 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.91%) Life Science
9 6 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.43%) IoT
10 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (0.95%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.96%) Linux
2 52 (12.41%) Windows
3 41 (9.79%) Unix
4 17 (4.06%) CentOS
5 13 (3.10%) Ubuntu
6 12 (2.86%) Solaris
7 10 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (2.15%) Apple iOS
8 9 (2.15%) Windows Server
9 8 (1.91%) Android
10 6 (1.43%) Windows 10
11 5 (1.19%) VMS
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (36.52%) Software Engineering
2 140 (33.41%) DevOps
3 136 (32.46%) Agile
4 102 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
5 97 (23.15%) CI/CD
6 78 (18.62%) Full Stack Development
7 68 (16.23%) Containerisation
8 58 (13.84%) Mentoring
9 48 (11.46%) Microservices
9 48 (11.46%) Open Source
10 47 (11.22%) Design Patterns
11 46 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 44 (10.50%) Continuous Integration
13 37 (8.83%) Computer Science
14 35 (8.35%) Front End Development
15 34 (8.11%) SDLC
16 33 (7.88%) Artificial Intelligence
16 33 (7.88%) Configuration Management
16 33 (7.88%) TDD
16 33 (7.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 243 (58.00%) Python
2 171 (40.81%) JavaScript
3 142 (33.89%) Java
4 96 (22.91%) Bash
5 83 (19.81%) PowerShell
6 81 (19.33%) Go
7 80 (19.09%) Perl
8 71 (16.95%) SQL
9 49 (11.69%) C#
10 30 (7.16%) PHP
11 28 (6.68%) TypeScript
12 21 (5.01%) Scala
13 14 (3.34%) C
14 13 (3.10%) C++
15 11 (2.63%) Groovy
16 10 (2.39%) Rust
17 9 (2.15%) Korn
18 5 (1.19%) Kotlin
18 5 (1.19%) Lua
18 5 (1.19%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (9.31%) Degree
2 24 (5.73%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.30%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.35%) QA
2 11 (2.63%) GDPR
3 5 (1.19%) SLA
4 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 76 (18.14%) Docker
2 10 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.95%) XenApp
4 4 (0.95%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.24%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 94 (22.43%) Kubernetes
2 57 (13.60%) Terraform
3 46 (10.98%) Ansible
4 32 (7.64%) Puppet
5 24 (5.73%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.10%) Grafana
6 13 (3.10%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.15%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (1.43%) SCCM
9 5 (1.19%) Packer
10 4 (0.95%) vRealize
11 3 (0.72%) Consul
12 2 (0.48%) Podman
12 2 (0.48%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.24%) CFEngine
13 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.24%) Nagios
13 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (12.17%) Oracle
2 32 (7.64%) Red Hat
3 24 (5.73%) Microsoft
4 19 (4.53%) Pega
5 17 (4.06%) Bloomberg
5 17 (4.06%) CQG
5 17 (4.06%) ION Trading
5 17 (4.06%) Patsystems
5 17 (4.06%) Reuters
5 17 (4.06%) Trayport
6 11 (2.63%) SaltStack
7 10 (2.39%) VMware
8 9 (2.15%) Facebook
8 9 (2.15%) TOWER Software
9 8 (1.91%) Google
9 8 (1.91%) New Relic
10 5 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
10 5 (1.19%) Sun
11 4 (0.95%) Cisco
11 4 (0.95%) Citrix