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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 490 330
Rank change year-on-year +2 -160 -105
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 126 235 438
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.39% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 1.21% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 65 162 317
10th Percentile £48,500 £33,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £97,375 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -10.34%

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 10,900 19,459 19,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.80% 31.89% 41.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,736 11,602 16,170
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,225 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +18 41 £70,000 +7.69% 10
London -33 29 £75,000 +15.38% 123
North West +17 26 £68,750 +5.77% 5
Midlands +67 24 £55,000 -8.33% 2
South East +11 23 £70,000 -33.33% 96
East Midlands +38 14 £52,500 -22.22% 1
Yorkshire +28 14 £73,750 +63.89% 3
West Midlands +51 10 £75,000 +25.00% 1
East of England +26 1 £50,000 +85.19%
South West +26 1 £75,000 +3.45% 8
North East +7 1 - - 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 4 (3.17%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Shopify
2 3 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.46%) AWS
2 8 (6.35%) GitHub
3 7 (5.56%) Azure
4 5 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (3.97%) Figma
4 5 (3.97%) SaaS
5 4 (3.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.38%) GCP
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (1.59%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.59%) Heroku
7 2 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (0.79%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (0.79%) Sentry
8 1 (0.79%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) DNS
1 3 (2.38%) HTTP
2 2 (1.59%) FTP
2 2 (1.59%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.59%) Internet
2 2 (1.59%) SMTP
2 2 (1.59%) SSH
3 1 (0.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.79%) Looker
3 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.79%) MySQL
3 1 (0.79%) Redis
3 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.76%) Git
3 3 (2.38%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.38%) GitLab
3 3 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.59%) JIRA
4 2 (1.59%) RSpec
4 2 (1.59%) Subversion
4 2 (1.59%) Vagrant
General
1 23 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.52%) Finance
3 3 (2.38%) Games
3 3 (2.38%) Tech for Good
4 2 (1.59%) Banking
4 2 (1.59%) Law
4 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.59%) Publishing
5 1 (0.79%) Advertising
5 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (24.60%) Developer
2 29 (23.02%) Senior
3 24 (19.05%) Software Engineer
4 13 (10.32%) Ruby Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (8.73%) Ruby Developer
6 11 (8.73%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) Backend Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Backend Developer
10 3 (2.38%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (2.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (2.38%) Lead
10 3 (2.38%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (1.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 2 (1.59%) Linux Engineer
11 2 (1.59%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (46.03%) HTML
2 34 (26.98%) Ruby on Rails
3 16 (12.70%) React
4 14 (11.11%) Node.js
5 11 (8.73%) React Native
6 9 (7.14%) CSS
7 8 (6.35%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.17%) REST
9 3 (2.38%) .NET
9 3 (2.38%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.38%) CSS3
9 3 (2.38%) HTML5
10 2 (1.59%) JSON
10 2 (1.59%) RESTful
10 2 (1.59%) Spring
10 2 (1.59%) YAML
11 1 (0.79%) Django
11 1 (0.79%) JPA
11 1 (0.79%) jQuery
11 1 (0.79%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.14%) IoT
2 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.59%) Blog
4 2 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.79%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.35%) Linux
2 5 (3.97%) Windows
3 2 (1.59%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.59%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.59%) Unix
3 2 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.06%) AI
2 52 (41.27%) Computer Science
3 49 (38.89%) Data Privacy
3 49 (38.89%) Machine Learning
4 32 (25.40%) Agile
5 28 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 22 (17.46%) CI/CD
7 21 (16.67%) DevOps
8 19 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (13.49%) Mentoring
11 13 (10.32%) Clean Code
12 10 (7.94%) TDD
13 9 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
13 9 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (6.35%) Microservices
14 8 (6.35%) Product Roadmap
14 8 (6.35%) Roadmaps
14 8 (6.35%) User Experience
15 7 (5.56%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 68 (53.97%) JavaScript
1 68 (53.97%) Python
2 67 (53.17%) Java
3 58 (46.03%) C#
3 58 (46.03%) SQL
3 58 (46.03%) TypeScript
4 52 (41.27%) C++
5 51 (40.48%) PHP
6 49 (38.89%) C
6 49 (38.89%) Dart
6 49 (38.89%) MATLAB
6 49 (38.89%) R
6 49 (38.89%) Rust
7 10 (7.94%) Kotlin
7 10 (7.94%) Scala
8 8 (6.35%) Elixir
8 8 (6.35%) Go
9 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.97%) Groovy
11 4 (3.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (42.06%) Degree
2 52 (41.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) QA
2 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.76%) Grafana
3 5 (3.97%) Terraform
4 3 (2.38%) Ansible
4 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.59%) Nagios
5 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (2.38%) Cribl.io
1 3 (2.38%) Google
1 3 (2.38%) Sonatype
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle
2 2 (1.59%) Splunk
3 1 (0.79%) Adobe
3 1 (0.79%) OneTrust
3 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.79%) SendGrid