Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ruby on Rails skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 778 482 361
Rank change year-on-year -296 -121 +135
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 136 608 1,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.59% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 1.95% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 106 208 272
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,779 £38,337
25th Percentile £55,625 £53,750 £49,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Ruby on Rails is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,033 31,146 63,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.35% 30.11% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,718 19,186 30,317
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,898 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 -210 96 £78,138 +0.82% 41
UK excluding London -279 64 £60,000 +4.35% 11
London +3 56 £85,000 - 33
Work from Home -244 50 £65,000 - 30
Northern Ireland +3 15 £55,000 -
South West -41 15 £60,000 -4.00% 3
North of England -36 9 £65,000 +13.04% 1
South East -30 8 £52,500 -1.87% 3
North West -26 7 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Scotland -104 7 £65,000 +73.33% 2
Midlands -8 6 £67,500 +28.57% 1
West Midlands +17 5 £67,500 +14.89%
Yorkshire +68 2 - -
Wales +3 2 £36,103 -11.41%
East of England -41 2 £65,000 -13.33% 1
East Midlands -33 1 - - 1

Ruby on Rails
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:

Cloud Services
1 59 (43.38%) AWS
2 25 (18.38%) Serverless
3 15 (11.03%) GitHub
3 15 (11.03%) SaaS
4 13 (9.56%) Azure
5 12 (8.82%) GCP
6 11 (8.09%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.74%) Linode
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.68%) HTTP
2 3 (2.21%) MQTT
3 2 (1.47%) DNS
3 2 (1.47%) Internet
3 2 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.44%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.35%) MySQL
3 7 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (4.41%) Redis
5 5 (3.68%) Oracle Database
5 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.94%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.74%) GIS
9 1 (0.74%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (26.47%) Git
2 6 (4.41%) RSpec
3 5 (3.68%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (2.21%) Subversion
5 1 (0.74%) Capybara
5 1 (0.74%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) Phabricator
General
1 15 (11.03%) Social Skills
1 15 (11.03%) Tech for Good
2 13 (9.56%) Finance
3 12 (8.82%) Legal
4 11 (8.09%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.62%) Local Government
6 6 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.94%) Marketing
8 2 (1.47%) Billing
9 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (61.76%) Developer
2 53 (38.97%) Senior
3 40 (29.41%) Senior Developer
4 39 (28.68%) Ruby Developer
5 29 (21.32%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 26 (19.12%) Full Stack Developer
6 26 (19.12%) Software Engineer
7 24 (17.65%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 21 (15.44%) Java Engineer
8 21 (15.44%) Java Software Engineer
8 21 (15.44%) Lead
9 13 (9.56%) Lead Developer
10 12 (8.82%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
11 11 (8.09%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (5.88%) Senior Full Stack Developer
13 6 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (3.68%) Oracle Developer
14 5 (3.68%) PL/SQL Developer
14 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
14 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (39.71%) React
2 27 (19.85%) Node.js
3 26 (19.12%) CSS
3 26 (19.12%) HTML
4 25 (18.38%) Spring
5 21 (15.44%) J2EE
6 15 (11.03%) Vue
7 12 (8.82%) Web Services
8 10 (7.35%) Laravel
8 10 (7.35%) XML
9 9 (6.62%) Sidekiq
10 8 (5.88%) JSON
11 6 (4.41%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.41%) CakePHP
11 6 (4.41%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.41%) REST
12 5 (3.68%) Django
12 5 (3.68%) Redux
12 5 (3.68%) SOAP
13 4 (2.94%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.41%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.94%) BBC
3 4 (2.94%) Housing Association
4 3 (2.21%) IoT
4 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.21%) NHS
4 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.47%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.74%) 3D Printing
6 1 (0.74%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.74%) Blog
6 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.74%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (33.09%) Full Stack Development
1 45 (33.09%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (31.62%) Mentoring
3 40 (29.41%) Agile
4 34 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 31 (22.79%) Coaching
6 27 (19.85%) Clean Code
6 27 (19.85%) Containerisation
7 25 (18.38%) Microservices
8 24 (17.65%) Design Patterns
9 22 (16.18%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (16.18%) DevOps
10 21 (15.44%) Actionable Insight
10 21 (15.44%) Code Quality
10 21 (15.44%) Unit Testing
11 19 (13.97%) TDD
12 17 (12.50%) CI/CD
13 13 (9.56%) Open Source
14 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (7.35%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 135 (99.26%) Ruby
2 51 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 44 (32.35%) Python
4 36 (26.47%) Java
5 28 (20.59%) C#
6 15 (11.03%) Go
7 12 (8.82%) SQL
8 7 (5.15%) PHP
8 7 (5.15%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.41%) Rust
10 5 (3.68%) C
10 5 (3.68%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.94%) Scala
12 2 (1.47%) C++
12 2 (1.47%) Elixir
13 1 (0.74%) Perl
13 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (8.09%) Degree
2 8 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 8 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (7.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.82%) Ansible
3 11 (8.09%) Terraform
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (3.68%) Oracle
2 4 (2.94%) Google
3 2 (1.47%) Apple