Ruby Job Trends in the East Midlands

Ruby
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 128 113
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 +21
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 2 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.079% 0.14% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 0.49% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile £45,750 £50,875 £50,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £54,063 £51,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £56,875 £69,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £57,250 £69,625 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 435 609 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.19% 27.48% 37.23%
Number of salaries quoted 354 368 601
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £34,813 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,875 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Ruby
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Ruby

Ruby
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Nottinghamshire +18 2 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL