Ruby Job Trends in Cheshire

Ruby
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 68 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 9 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 1.17% 0.21% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.50% 0.74% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £71,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% +13.04% -11.54%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 257 269 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.51% 28.77% 36.93%
Number of salaries quoted 102 161 140
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £32,400
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £63,438 £57,500 £69,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £83,781
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.08% +0.08%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Ruby
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Ruby

Ruby
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 2025. 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
Chester - 5 £55,000 -
Crewe - 3 £67,500 -
Neston - 1 - -
Ruby
North West

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Backend Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Backend Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
1 8 (88.89%) Product Roadmap
1 8 (88.89%) Roadmaps
2 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (55.56%) Critical Thinking
2 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) AI
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Data Privacy
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Elixir
1 8 (88.89%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) Dart
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
2 1 (11.11%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) R
2 1 (11.11%) Rust
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) QA