Ruby Job Trends in the East of England

Ruby
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 168 161
Rank change year-on-year -17 -7 -12
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 17 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.21% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 0.68% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £37,250 £68,500 -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +270.37% -23.94%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £28,500
90th Percentile - - £48,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,099 731 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.84% 21.32% 23.82%
Number of salaries quoted 847 587 616
10th Percentile £35,150 £28,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -15.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,700 £79,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the East of England

Ruby
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ruby

Ruby
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the East of England

Ruby
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the East of England region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Cambridgeshire - 15 £80,000 -
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (17.65%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MySQL
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
1 11 (64.71%) Ruby on Rails Developer
1 11 (64.71%) Senior
1 11 (64.71%) Senior Developer
1 11 (64.71%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) Ruby on Rails
2 5 (29.41%) CSS
2 5 (29.41%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) Nuxt
3 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Scrum
3 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
1 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.88%) Elixir
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Rust
2 1 (5.88%) Scala
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Proxmox
2 3 (17.65%) ZABBIX