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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 480 336
Rank change year-on-year -54 -144 -106
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 80 239 412
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.40% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 1.24% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 67 168 305
10th Percentile £48,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% -3.45%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,625 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,800 £100,000 £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 10,535 19,318 19,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.03% 32.19% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,787 11,448 15,961
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £111,075 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 18 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 18 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
London -34 31 £85,000 +25.93% 96
North of England +40 27 £70,000 +7.69% 9
North West +34 21 £70,000 +7.69% 6
South East +11 8 £70,000 -33.33% 14
Yorkshire +17 6 £73,750 +63.89% 3
Midlands +45 5 £55,000 -13.73%
West Midlands +51 3 £75,000 +25.00%
East Midlands +24 2 £52,500 -23.64%
South West +20 1 £75,000 +3.45% 7
East of England +11 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 5 (6.25%) CMS
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Shopify
2 3 (3.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.50%) AWS
2 10 (12.50%) GitHub
3 8 (10.00%) Azure
4 7 (8.75%) SaaS
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (6.25%) Figma
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (5.00%) GCP
6 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (2.50%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.50%) dbt
8 2 (2.50%) Heroku
8 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) DNS
1 3 (3.75%) HTTP
2 2 (2.50%) FTP
2 2 (2.50%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.50%) Internet
2 2 (2.50%) SMTP
2 2 (2.50%) SSH
3 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.25%) Looker
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
4 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.50%) Git
3 3 (3.75%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.75%) GitLab
3 3 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.50%) JIRA
4 2 (2.50%) RSpec
4 2 (2.50%) Subversion
4 2 (2.50%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Finance
3 4 (5.00%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.75%) Games
5 2 (2.50%) Banking
5 2 (2.50%) Law
5 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Publishing
6 1 (1.25%) Advertising
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (38.75%) Developer
2 30 (37.50%) Senior
3 25 (31.25%) Software Engineer
4 14 (17.50%) Ruby Engineer
5 12 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 12 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Ruby Developer
7 9 (11.25%) Backend Developer
7 9 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (3.75%) Lead
10 3 (3.75%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (2.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 2 (2.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (45.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 19 (23.75%) React
3 16 (20.00%) Node.js
4 11 (13.75%) CSS
4 11 (13.75%) HTML
4 11 (13.75%) React Native
5 8 (10.00%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.00%) REST
6 4 (5.00%) Spring
7 3 (3.75%) .NET
7 3 (3.75%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.75%) CSS3
7 3 (3.75%) HTML5
7 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.75%) Vue
8 2 (2.50%) JSON
8 2 (2.50%) RESTful
8 2 (2.50%) YAML
9 1 (1.25%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) IoT
2 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.50%) Blog
4 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.50%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.50%) Unix
3 2 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.75%) Agile
2 28 (35.00%) Software Engineering
3 25 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 22 (27.50%) DevOps
5 21 (26.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 13 (16.25%) Clean Code
8 11 (13.75%) TDD
9 10 (12.50%) Microservices
10 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
11 8 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 8 (10.00%) User Experience
12 7 (8.75%) Collaborative Culture
12 7 (8.75%) Containerisation
12 7 (8.75%) Front End Development
13 6 (7.50%) AI
13 6 (7.50%) Critical Thinking
13 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.50%) Java
1 22 (27.50%) Python
2 20 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (12.50%) Go
3 10 (12.50%) Kotlin
3 10 (12.50%) Scala
3 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 9 (11.25%) C#
4 9 (11.25%) SQL
5 8 (10.00%) Elixir
6 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.25%) Groovy
8 4 (5.00%) Bash
9 3 (3.75%) C++
10 2 (2.50%) Perl
10 2 (2.50%) PHP
10 2 (2.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.25%) Degree
3 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.50%) Grafana
2 6 (7.50%) Terraform
3 3 (3.75%) Ansible
3 3 (3.75%) Argo
3 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) Nagios
4 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (3.75%) Cribl.io
1 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
1 3 (3.75%) Sonatype
2 2 (2.50%) Google
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle
2 2 (2.50%) Splunk
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe
3 1 (1.25%) OneTrust
3 1 (1.25%) SendGrid