Ruby on Rails Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.32% - 0.060%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.31% - 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,250 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.10%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £38,500 £100,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -61.50% +53.85% +17.65%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

Ruby on Rails falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 116 132 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.40% 22.26% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 88 97 238
10th Percentile £34,625 £30,250 £40,880
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,813 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,750 £77,500 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +12.73% -8.33%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ruby on Rails relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Ruby on Rails job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Ruby on Rails.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby on Rails in Cambridgeshire

Ruby on Rails
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. 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
Cambridge - 3 £38,500 -
Peterborough - 2 £80,000 - 1
Ruby on Rails
East of England

Ruby on Rails
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Nuxt
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Proxmox
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
1 3 (60.00%) ZABBIX
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes