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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 74 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 9 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.20% 0.36% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.19% 1.32% -
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 £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +3.85% +1.96% -5.35%

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 282 304 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 37.50% 27.00% 36.54%
Number of salaries quoted 98 199 145
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £62,406 £59,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £83,934
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby 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 17 September 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 and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 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%) Artificial Intelligence
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