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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 511 334
Rank change year-on-year +11 -177 -119
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 122 219 441
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.35% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 1.11% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 61 153 316
10th Percentile £48,500 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.47% -4.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +7.69% -1.89% -8.62%

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 10,768 19,751 20,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.14% 31.90% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,390 11,898 16,680
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 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
North of England +31 41 £70,000 +7.69% 11
London -10 27 £75,000 +15.38% 59
North West -8 26 £68,750 +5.77% 2
South East +21 25 £70,000 -33.33% 44
Midlands +63 24 £55,000 -13.73% 2
Yorkshire +23 14 £73,750 - 5
East Midlands +20 14 £52,500 -22.22% 2
West Midlands +49 10 £75,000 +25.00%
South West +23 1 £75,000 +29.05% 2
North East +9 1 - - 4
East of England -6 1 £50,000 +85.19%
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 6 (4.92%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.03%) AWS
2 8 (6.56%) GitHub
3 6 (4.92%) Azure
4 5 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (4.10%) SaaS
5 4 (3.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (3.28%) Figma
5 4 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.64%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.64%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (1.64%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.64%) GCP
7 2 (1.64%) Heroku
7 2 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.82%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.82%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.82%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.46%) DNS
1 3 (2.46%) HTTP
2 2 (1.64%) FTP
2 2 (1.64%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.64%) Internet
2 2 (1.64%) SMTP
2 2 (1.64%) SSH
3 1 (0.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.82%) Redis
3 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.10%) Git
3 3 (2.46%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.46%) GitLab
3 3 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.64%) JIRA
4 2 (1.64%) RSpec
4 2 (1.64%) Subversion
4 2 (1.64%) Vagrant
General
1 20 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.02%) Finance
3 5 (4.10%) Tech for Good
4 3 (2.46%) Games
5 2 (1.64%) Banking
5 2 (1.64%) Law
5 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.64%) Publishing
6 1 (0.82%) Advertising
6 1 (0.82%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (24.59%) Developer
2 26 (21.31%) Senior
3 23 (18.85%) Software Engineer
4 15 (12.30%) Ruby Engineer
5 11 (9.02%) Ruby Developer
5 11 (9.02%) Senior Developer
6 9 (7.38%) Backend Developer
6 9 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (4.10%) Senior Backend Developer
8 4 (3.28%) Lead
9 3 (2.46%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (2.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (2.46%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (1.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (1.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (46.72%) HTML
2 33 (27.05%) Ruby on Rails
3 16 (13.11%) React
4 13 (10.66%) Node.js
5 9 (7.38%) React Native
6 8 (6.56%) CSS
7 4 (3.28%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.28%) REST
8 3 (2.46%) .NET
8 3 (2.46%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.46%) CSS3
8 3 (2.46%) HTML5
9 2 (1.64%) JSON
9 2 (1.64%) RESTful
9 2 (1.64%) Spring
9 2 (1.64%) YAML
10 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.82%) Express.js
10 1 (0.82%) Laravel
10 1 (0.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.38%) IoT
2 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.64%) Blog
4 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.82%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.74%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Windows
3 2 (1.64%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.64%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.64%) Unix
3 2 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.44%) AI
2 52 (42.62%) Computer Science
3 49 (40.16%) Data Privacy
3 49 (40.16%) Machine Learning
4 32 (26.23%) Agile
5 27 (22.13%) Software Engineering
6 21 (17.21%) CI/CD
7 19 (15.57%) DevOps
8 16 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (11.48%) Mentoring
10 13 (10.66%) Clean Code
11 12 (9.84%) TDD
12 9 (7.38%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (6.56%) Product Roadmap
13 8 (6.56%) Roadmaps
14 7 (5.74%) Front End Development
14 7 (5.74%) Microservices
14 7 (5.74%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 68 (55.74%) Python
2 67 (54.92%) Java
3 66 (54.10%) JavaScript
4 59 (48.36%) SQL
5 58 (47.54%) C#
6 57 (46.72%) TypeScript
7 52 (42.62%) C++
8 51 (41.80%) PHP
9 49 (40.16%) C
9 49 (40.16%) Dart
9 49 (40.16%) MATLAB
9 49 (40.16%) R
9 49 (40.16%) Rust
10 10 (8.20%) Kotlin
10 10 (8.20%) Scala
11 8 (6.56%) Elixir
11 8 (6.56%) Go
12 5 (4.10%) Groovy
12 5 (4.10%) PowerShell
13 3 (2.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (43.44%) Degree
2 52 (42.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.92%) Grafana
3 4 (3.28%) Terraform
4 3 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.64%) Ansible
5 2 (1.64%) Nagios
5 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (2.46%) Cribl.io
1 3 (2.46%) Sonatype
2 2 (1.64%) Google
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle
2 2 (1.64%) Splunk
3 1 (0.82%) Adobe
3 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.82%) SendGrid