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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 487 552
Rank change year-on-year -95 +65 -218
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 118 145 306
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 1.15% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 92 84 252
10th Percentile £37,250 - £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,063 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -6.67%

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 15,180 12,652 29,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.24% 31.99% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,948 8,485 23,144
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -42 46 £75,000 - 38
South East -10 34 £75,000 +7.14% 21
North of England -50 15 £55,000 -21.43% 11
East of England -6 13 £90,000 -10.00% 2
North West -12 13 £55,000 -21.43% 6
South West -49 5 £43,300 +8.25% 2
Yorkshire -48 2 - - 4
East Midlands -40 1 £41,000 - 3
Midlands -42 1 £41,000 - 7
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 2 (1.69%) Apache Solr
1 2 (1.69%) Confluence
1 2 (1.69%) WordPress
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 63 (53.39%) AWS
2 16 (13.56%) SaaS
3 12 (10.17%) Azure
3 12 (10.17%) PaaS
4 9 (7.63%) GCP
5 8 (6.78%) GitHub
6 6 (5.08%) Heroku
6 6 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.54%) Datadog
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (1.69%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.69%) Serverless
9 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.85%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) Network Security
2 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) Internet
3 1 (0.85%) LAN
3 1 (0.85%) Skype
3 1 (0.85%) VLAN
3 1 (0.85%) VoIP
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
3 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.49%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.47%) Redis
3 8 (6.78%) MySQL
4 2 (1.69%) Big Data
4 2 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Claude Code
1 4 (3.39%) Git
2 3 (2.54%) GitLab
3 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
General
1 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.41%) Finance
3 11 (9.32%) Legal
4 10 (8.47%) Legal Technology
5 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.24%) Banking
6 4 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Automotive
7 3 (2.54%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (41.53%) Developer
2 32 (27.12%) Senior
3 30 (25.42%) Ruby Developer
4 24 (20.34%) Software Engineer
5 21 (17.80%) Lead
6 15 (12.71%) Senior Developer
7 13 (11.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (8.47%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 10 (8.47%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 10 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Python Software Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Ruby Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) 1st Line Support
10 6 (5.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.24%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.39%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (68.64%) Ruby on Rails
2 31 (26.27%) React
3 18 (15.25%) Next.js
4 15 (12.71%) React Native
5 11 (9.32%) Node.js
6 10 (8.47%) JSON
6 10 (8.47%) JWT
6 10 (8.47%) RESTful
6 10 (8.47%) Sidekiq
7 6 (5.08%) .NET
7 6 (5.08%) REST
8 5 (4.24%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.39%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (3.39%) Visualforce
10 2 (1.69%) CSS
10 2 (1.69%) HTML
10 2 (1.69%) Loki
10 2 (1.69%) Nuxt
10 2 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.78%) Mobile App
4 7 (5.93%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.54%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Clustering
8 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.85%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Linux
2 4 (3.39%) Ubuntu
2 4 (3.39%) Windows
3 3 (2.54%) Debian
4 1 (0.85%) Gentoo
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.81%) Software Engineering
2 31 (26.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (23.73%) Mentoring
4 27 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (22.03%) Agile
6 23 (19.49%) CI/CD
7 21 (17.80%) Containerisation
7 21 (17.80%) Roadmaps
8 18 (15.25%) DevOps
9 16 (13.56%) Clean Code
9 16 (13.56%) Scrum
10 15 (12.71%) Test Automation
11 11 (9.32%) API Design
11 11 (9.32%) Customer-Centricity
12 10 (8.47%) Incident Response
12 10 (8.47%) OOP
12 10 (8.47%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (8.47%) Product Strategy
13 9 (7.63%) Architectural Patterns
13 9 (7.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (30.51%) Python
2 16 (13.56%) TypeScript
3 12 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.32%) Bash
4 11 (9.32%) SQL
5 10 (8.47%) Java
6 8 (6.78%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.93%) Rust
8 5 (4.24%) Go
9 4 (3.39%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.39%) C#
9 4 (3.39%) Elixir
9 4 (3.39%) Scala
10 3 (2.54%) C
10 3 (2.54%) C++
10 3 (2.54%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.54%) Perl
11 2 (1.69%) PHP
12 1 (0.85%) F#
12 1 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) Degree
2 3 (2.54%) A+ Certification
2 3 (2.54%) CCSAM
2 3 (2.54%) CREST Certified
2 3 (2.54%) GPEN
2 3 (2.54%) GXPN
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (2.54%) OSCE
2 3 (2.54%) OSCP
3 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.85%) PhD
4 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (18.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (10.17%) Ansible
1 12 (10.17%) Terraform
2 6 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.54%) Grafana
3 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.69%) Proxmox
4 2 (1.69%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.24%) Splunk
3 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.69%) New Relic
4 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco
5 1 (0.85%) Google
5 1 (0.85%) HP
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle
5 1 (0.85%) VMware