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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 489 374
Rank change year-on-year -51 -115 -134
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 72 231 323
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.41% 0.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 1.23% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 57 166 274
10th Percentile £50,900 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,642 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £81,750 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £93,800 £110,459 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -3.45%

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 10,267 18,752 18,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.86% 33.68% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,712 11,339 15,351
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £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 £111,250 £110,000
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 7 December 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 December 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 -13 27 £86,000 +22.86% 14
North of England +20 23 £70,000 +7.69% 20
North West +32 16 £68,750 +5.77% 8
Yorkshire -1 7 £73,750 +63.89% 11
South East +6 6 £72,500 -30.95% 23
Midlands +30 5 £55,000 -10.20% 15
West Midlands +31 3 £75,000 +25.00% 7
East Midlands +12 2 £52,500 -22.22% 7
South West +19 1 £75,000 +25.00% 17
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 3 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Shopify
2 3 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.61%) AWS
2 11 (15.28%) GitHub
3 7 (9.72%) Azure
3 7 (9.72%) SaaS
4 5 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (6.94%) GCP
5 4 (5.56%) Figma
5 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (4.17%) dbt
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.78%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.78%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) DNS
2 2 (2.78%) FTP
2 2 (2.78%) HTTP
2 2 (2.78%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.78%) SMTP
2 2 (2.78%) SSH
3 1 (1.39%) Broadband
3 1 (1.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.78%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.78%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) Looker
4 1 (1.39%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.72%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) CircleCI
3 3 (4.17%) GitLab
3 3 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.78%) JIRA
4 2 (2.78%) Subversion
4 2 (2.78%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Finance
3 3 (4.17%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.78%) Banking
4 2 (2.78%) Games
4 2 (2.78%) Law
4 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.78%) Publishing
5 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.39%) Legal
5 1 (1.39%) Marketing
5 1 (1.39%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 26 (36.11%) Senior
2 24 (33.33%) Developer
2 24 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 12 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 11 (15.28%) Ruby Engineer
5 10 (13.89%) Senior Developer
6 9 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.11%) Backend Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Ruby Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (4.17%) Lead
9 3 (4.17%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (40.28%) Ruby on Rails
2 17 (23.61%) Node.js
3 15 (20.83%) React
4 12 (16.67%) React Native
5 11 (15.28%) CSS
5 11 (15.28%) HTML
6 10 (13.89%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.56%) REST
7 4 (5.56%) Spring
7 4 (5.56%) Vue
8 3 (4.17%) .NET
8 3 (4.17%) .NET Framework
8 3 (4.17%) CSS3
8 3 (4.17%) HTML5
9 2 (2.78%) JSON
9 2 (2.78%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.78%) YAML
10 1 (1.39%) Express.js
10 1 (1.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.50%) IoT
3 2 (2.78%) Blog
3 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Windows
3 2 (2.78%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.78%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.78%) Unix
3 2 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (44.44%) Agile
2 27 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 24 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 23 (31.94%) DevOps
4 23 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 13 (18.06%) Clean Code
8 10 (13.89%) Microservices
9 9 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 8 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
10 8 (11.11%) TDD
11 7 (9.72%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (9.72%) User Experience
12 6 (8.33%) AI
12 6 (8.33%) Analytics
12 6 (8.33%) Front End Development
13 5 (6.94%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) Java
1 21 (29.17%) Python
2 19 (26.39%) JavaScript
3 11 (15.28%) Go
4 10 (13.89%) Kotlin
4 10 (13.89%) Scala
4 10 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 8 (11.11%) C#
5 8 (11.11%) Elixir
6 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.94%) Bash
7 5 (6.94%) Groovy
7 5 (6.94%) SQL
8 3 (4.17%) C++
8 3 (4.17%) Perl
9 2 (2.78%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.33%) Degree
3 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) CEH
5 1 (1.39%) CISA
5 1 (1.39%) CISSP
5 1 (1.39%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) OSCP
5 1 (1.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (18.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.33%) Grafana
2 6 (8.33%) Terraform
3 4 (5.56%) Ansible
3 4 (5.56%) Argo
4 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.78%) Nagios
5 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.17%) Cribl.io
2 3 (4.17%) Google
2 3 (4.17%) Sonatype
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle
3 2 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (1.39%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.39%) SendGrid