Ruby Job Trends in East Sussex

Ruby
South East > East Sussex

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 45 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 2 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs in East Sussex 0.32% 1.54% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.89% 5.69% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £68,250 - -
25th Percentile £69,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £81,875 - -
90th Percentile £83,750 - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -15.38%

All Programming Languages
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 225 123 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East Sussex 35.66% 27.09% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 195 112 248
10th Percentile £42,500 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £28,250 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Ruby
Salary Trend in East Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Ruby

Ruby
Job Locations in East Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 15 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
Brighton -20 2 £75,000 - 4
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Development Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 1 (50.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) New Relic
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI