Ruby Job Trends in England

Ruby
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 518 548
Rank change year-on-year -11 +30 -209
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 238 117 216
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 1.01% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 180 57 150
10th Percentile £29,000 £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,750
UK median annual salary £63,373 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.47% +7.69% -7.14%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,777 11,571 20,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.22% 26.88% 31.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,207 7,618 12,955
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in England

Ruby
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ruby

Ruby
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in England over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in England

Ruby
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +24 99 £85,000 +6.25% 121
South East +9 90 £55,000 -21.43% 22
North of England -80 21 £55,000 -18.52% 23
North West -46 15 £55,000 -18.52% 12
East of England -18 14 £80,000 -20.00% 1
Midlands -61 11 £30,000 - 7
West Midlands -38 10 £30,000 - 5
Yorkshire -34 6 £90,000 +28.57% 4
South West - 3 £42,500 - 4
East Midlands -47 1 £41,000 - 2
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 28 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.46%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.26%) WordPress
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.36%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 98 (41.18%) AWS
2 40 (16.81%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (12.61%) Serverless
4 29 (12.18%) SaaS
5 19 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (7.98%) Azure
6 18 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
8 14 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
8 14 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (5.46%) GitHub
10 6 (2.52%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (2.52%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.52%) GCP
10 6 (2.52%) Heroku
10 6 (2.52%) Slack
11 5 (2.10%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.76%) Network Security
2 27 (11.34%) Firewall
3 16 (6.72%) DNS
3 16 (6.72%) LAN
3 16 (6.72%) WAN
4 13 (5.46%) Cisco Wireless
4 13 (5.46%) Skype
4 13 (5.46%) TCP/IP
4 13 (5.46%) VLAN
4 13 (5.46%) Wireless
5 10 (4.20%) DHCP
6 8 (3.36%) FIX Connectivity
6 8 (3.36%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (3.36%) VoIP
7 6 (2.52%) BGP
7 6 (2.52%) IPsec
7 6 (2.52%) VPN
8 4 (1.68%) Internet
9 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.72%) Redis
2 16 (6.72%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.04%) MySQL
4 8 (3.36%) Big Data
5 6 (2.52%) Apache Hive
5 6 (2.52%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.52%) HBase
5 6 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Claude Code
1 4 (1.68%) Git
2 3 (1.26%) JIRA
3 2 (0.84%) GitLab
3 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 57 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.17%) Finance
3 18 (7.56%) Legal
3 18 (7.56%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.46%) Banking
4 13 (5.46%) Legal Technology
4 13 (5.46%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.04%) Automotive
6 10 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.52%) Marketing
7 6 (2.52%) Military
8 5 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.10%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.68%) Local Government
10 2 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Public Speaking
10 2 (0.84%) Publishing
11 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (34.03%) Developer
2 69 (28.99%) Senior
3 39 (16.39%) Ruby Developer
4 30 (12.61%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 27 (11.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (10.50%) Senior Developer
7 24 (10.08%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.98%) Lead
9 17 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
9 17 (7.14%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
10 16 (6.72%) IT Support
11 14 (5.88%) Consultant
11 14 (5.88%) Security Consultant
11 14 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (5.88%) Senior Security Consultant
12 13 (5.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (5.46%) Network Support
13 12 (5.04%) IT Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (45.38%) Ruby on Rails
2 45 (18.91%) React
3 31 (13.03%) Terraform
4 22 (9.24%) Next.js
5 17 (7.14%) JSON
6 16 (6.72%) JWT
6 16 (6.72%) RESTful
6 16 (6.72%) Sidekiq
7 15 (6.30%) React Native
8 14 (5.88%) AWS CDK
8 14 (5.88%) Node.js
9 9 (3.78%) CSS
10 8 (3.36%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (2.94%) REST
12 6 (2.52%) .NET
12 6 (2.52%) FastAPI
12 6 (2.52%) Kafka
13 5 (2.10%) HTML
14 4 (1.68%) .NET Core
14 4 (1.68%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.50%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.72%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.20%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.36%) Eurex
6 8 (3.36%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.52%) NHS
7 6 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.68%) Blog
8 4 (1.68%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.26%) Clustering
9 3 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.26%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.26%) Replication
9 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 42 (17.65%) Windows
2 38 (15.97%) Linux
3 21 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.46%) Ubuntu
4 13 (5.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.36%) CentOS
5 8 (3.36%) Rocky
5 8 (3.36%) Unix
6 6 (2.52%) Debian
7 5 (2.10%) Solaris
8 4 (1.68%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.26%) Gentoo
10 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (28.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 49 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (17.23%) Agile
4 40 (16.81%) Mentoring
5 37 (15.55%) Software Engineering
6 35 (14.71%) AI
6 35 (14.71%) CI/CD
7 32 (13.45%) Roadmaps
8 29 (12.18%) Architectural Patterns
9 26 (10.92%) Containerisation
9 26 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (10.92%) ITIL
9 26 (10.92%) Scrum
10 23 (9.66%) OOP
11 20 (8.40%) DevOps
11 20 (8.40%) Generative AI
12 19 (7.98%) Clean Code
13 17 (7.14%) API Design
13 17 (7.14%) Threat Modelling
14 16 (6.72%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (31.09%) Python
2 34 (14.29%) Java
2 34 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 33 (13.87%) Bash
4 30 (12.61%) SQL
5 25 (10.50%) Perl
6 23 (9.66%) PHP
7 21 (8.82%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.30%) C#
9 11 (4.62%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.78%) C
11 5 (2.10%) Go
12 3 (1.26%) C++
12 3 (1.26%) Rust
13 2 (0.84%) R
13 2 (0.84%) Scala
14 1 (0.42%) Groovy
14 1 (0.42%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 23 (9.66%) Degree
2 21 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 13 (5.46%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.78%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.10%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.68%) CISSP
9 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.26%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.26%) OSCP
10 2 (0.84%) CEH
10 2 (0.84%) CHECK Team Leader
10 2 (0.84%) CHECK Team Member
10 2 (0.84%) CISA
10 2 (0.84%) CISM
11 1 (0.42%) GPEN
11 1 (0.42%) GXPN
11 1 (0.42%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.84%) GDPR
3 2 (0.84%) PERC
3 2 (0.84%) QA
3 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.42%) GRC
System Software
1 33 (13.87%) Docker
2 27 (11.34%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (6.30%) Ansible
2 13 (5.46%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.52%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.52%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.26%) Podman
4 3 (1.26%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.26%) SCCM
5 2 (0.84%) Grafana
5 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 62 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.82%) Cisco
3 19 (7.98%) HP
4 16 (6.72%) VMware
5 15 (6.30%) Oracle
6 8 (3.36%) Bloomberg
6 8 (3.36%) CQG
6 8 (3.36%) ION Trading
6 8 (3.36%) Patsystems
6 8 (3.36%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.36%) Reuters
6 8 (3.36%) Trayport
7 7 (2.94%) SAP
8 6 (2.52%) IBM
8 6 (2.52%) Splunk
9 4 (1.68%) QNAP
10 3 (1.26%) Citrix
10 3 (1.26%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.84%) New Relic
11 2 (0.84%) OpenAI