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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 273 178
Rank change year-on-year -228 -95 +20
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 453 1,334 3,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 1.31% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 3.04% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 314 654 1,135
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,328 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% +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 33,037 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,871 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 7 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 7 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 -244 320 £77,500 +3.33% 108
UK excluding London -222 255 £57,500 -14.81% 43
Work from Home -193 216 £65,000 -13.33% 78
London -100 156 £85,000 +9.68% 70
Scotland -69 66 £52,500 +26.12% 3
North of England -93 54 £54,424 -22.25% 8
South West -71 43 £70,000 - 13
South East -41 38 £55,000 -15.38% 9
North West -36 33 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Northern Ireland +4 22 £55,000 -24.14% 1
Yorkshire +10 17 £45,000 -35.71% 3
Midlands -56 17 £53,500 -23.57% 5
East of England -36 11 £85,000 +13.33% 3
East Midlands -45 11 £53,500 +1.90% 1
Wales -6 6 £48,052 +17.91% 2
West Midlands -11 6 £58,750 -16.07% 4
North East -31 4 £42,750 -51.14%

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 20 (4.42%) Camunda
2 15 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.09%) Apache
4 13 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.99%) Confluence
6 6 (1.32%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.31%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (39.07%) AWS
2 106 (23.40%) Azure
3 82 (18.10%) Serverless
4 49 (10.82%) GitHub
5 46 (10.15%) SaaS
6 45 (9.93%) GCP
7 33 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (3.31%) IaaS
10 13 (2.87%) dbt
11 12 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.21%) PaaS
12 10 (2.21%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.21%) Pulumi
13 9 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.99%) Datadog
14 8 (1.77%) Heroku
15 7 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.86%) DNS
2 19 (4.19%) Firewall
2 19 (4.19%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.31%) DHCP
3 15 (3.31%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.55%) HTTP
5 4 (0.88%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) MQTT
6 3 (0.66%) SSL
6 3 (0.66%) VPN
7 1 (0.22%) 5G
7 1 (0.22%) Network Security
7 1 (0.22%) SNMP
7 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.60%) Relational Database
2 45 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (9.27%) Oracle Database
4 40 (8.83%) MySQL
5 37 (8.17%) SQL Server
6 36 (7.95%) RDBMS
7 22 (4.86%) NoSQL
8 21 (4.64%) MongoDB
9 16 (3.53%) Redis
10 13 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (2.87%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (2.87%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (2.87%) Dremio
11 10 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.21%) Power BI
12 8 (1.77%) Big Data
12 8 (1.77%) MariaDB
13 7 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 110 (24.28%) Git
2 59 (13.02%) Jenkins
3 36 (7.95%) JDeveloper
4 31 (6.84%) GitLab
5 29 (6.40%) JIRA
6 21 (4.64%) Gradle
6 21 (4.64%) Maven
6 21 (4.64%) Travis CI
7 20 (4.42%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.77%) Appium
10 7 (1.55%) JUnit
10 7 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.32%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.32%) RSpec
11 6 (1.32%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (1.10%) Subversion
General
1 78 (17.22%) Finance
2 58 (12.80%) Social Skills
3 56 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (8.39%) Banking
5 35 (7.73%) Legal
6 29 (6.40%) Tech for Good
7 26 (5.74%) Retail
8 23 (5.08%) Investment Banking
9 20 (4.42%) Law
10 19 (4.19%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.87%) Front Office
13 11 (2.43%) Health Technology
14 10 (2.21%) Local Government
15 5 (1.10%) Marketing
16 4 (0.88%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.44%) Billing
17 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
18 1 (0.22%) Police
18 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (35.54%) Developer
2 133 (29.36%) Senior
3 130 (28.70%) Software Engineer
4 74 (16.34%) Senior Developer
5 53 (11.70%) Ruby Developer
6 48 (10.60%) Ruby Engineer
6 48 (10.60%) Software Developer
7 45 (9.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.28%) Platform Engineer
9 32 (7.06%) Lead
10 29 (6.40%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 26 (5.74%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (5.74%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 26 (5.74%) Senior Software Developer
12 25 (5.52%) Java Engineer
12 25 (5.52%) Java Software Engineer
13 22 (4.86%) React Developer
13 22 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (4.19%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (29.58%) Ruby on Rails
2 114 (25.17%) React
3 90 (19.87%) Node.js
4 52 (11.48%) Spring
5 44 (9.71%) HTML
6 43 (9.49%) CSS
7 30 (6.62%) Spring Boot
8 26 (5.74%) .NET
9 23 (5.08%) RESTful
10 21 (4.64%) J2EE
11 19 (4.19%) Vue
12 16 (3.53%) AngularJS
12 16 (3.53%) JSON
13 15 (3.31%) FIX Protocol
13 15 (3.31%) Web Services
14 14 (3.09%) Laravel
14 14 (3.09%) XML
15 13 (2.87%) NumPy
15 13 (2.87%) Protocol Buffers
15 13 (2.87%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.06%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (3.75%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.31%) Eurex
4 14 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.09%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.87%) Derivative
6 12 (2.65%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.65%) Equities
6 12 (2.65%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.21%) Life Science
8 10 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.99%) Educational Technology
10 6 (1.32%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.32%) IoT
11 5 (1.10%) Blog
11 5 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.10%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.88%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 92 (20.31%) Linux
2 53 (11.70%) Windows
3 36 (7.95%) Unix
4 15 (3.31%) CentOS
5 11 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.21%) Solaris
6 10 (2.21%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.99%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.77%) Android
9 6 (1.32%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.10%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (41.94%) Software Engineering
2 156 (34.44%) DevOps
3 141 (31.13%) Agile
4 136 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (22.52%) Containerisation
6 99 (21.85%) CI/CD
7 80 (17.66%) Mentoring
7 80 (17.66%) Microservices
8 77 (17.00%) Design Patterns
9 76 (16.78%) Continuous Integration
10 75 (16.56%) Full Stack Development
11 64 (14.13%) Clean Code
12 61 (13.47%) Open Source
13 60 (13.25%) Unit Testing
14 59 (13.02%) Code Quality
15 57 (12.58%) Actionable Insight
16 47 (10.38%) Coaching
17 42 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 39 (8.61%) Computer Science
19 37 (8.17%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 277 (61.15%) Python
2 181 (39.96%) JavaScript
3 180 (39.74%) Java
4 109 (24.06%) Bash
5 93 (20.53%) Go
6 90 (19.87%) Perl
7 77 (17.00%) PowerShell
8 76 (16.78%) C#
9 70 (15.45%) SQL
10 30 (6.62%) PHP
11 29 (6.40%) TypeScript
12 21 (4.64%) Scala
13 16 (3.53%) Rust
14 15 (3.31%) C
15 12 (2.65%) Groovy
16 10 (2.21%) C++
16 10 (2.21%) Korn
17 8 (1.77%) Kotlin
17 8 (1.77%) Lua
18 5 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (8.39%) Degree
2 27 (5.96%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.22%) OCA
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PhD
9 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.60%) QA
2 11 (2.43%) GDPR
3 5 (1.10%) SLA
4 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) MISRA
System Software
1 73 (16.11%) Docker
2 13 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (20.97%) Kubernetes
2 56 (12.36%) Terraform
3 48 (10.60%) Ansible
4 31 (6.84%) Puppet
5 24 (5.30%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.87%) Grafana
6 13 (2.87%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.21%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (1.55%) SCCM
9 4 (0.88%) Packer
9 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.88%) vRealize
10 3 (0.66%) Consul
10 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.44%) Podman
11 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.22%) Nagios
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 63 (13.91%) Oracle
2 31 (6.84%) Red Hat
3 27 (5.96%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.42%) Pega
5 15 (3.31%) Bloomberg
5 15 (3.31%) CQG
5 15 (3.31%) ION Trading
5 15 (3.31%) Patsystems
5 15 (3.31%) Reuters
5 15 (3.31%) Trayport
6 11 (2.43%) SaltStack
7 10 (2.21%) Sun
7 10 (2.21%) TOWER Software
8 8 (1.77%) Facebook
8 8 (1.77%) New Relic
9 6 (1.32%) Google
10 5 (1.10%) VMware
11 4 (0.88%) Cisco
11 4 (0.88%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow