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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 487 568
Rank change year-on-year -104 +81 -236
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 102 148 296
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.38% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.68% 1.18% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 77 86 243
10th Percentile £48,820 - £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - -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 14,920 12,575 28,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.06% 31.90% 31.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,668 8,486 22,839
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £86,250 £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 7 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 7 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 -31 42 £75,000 - 60
South East -24 26 £75,000 +7.14% 25
North of England -51 14 £55,000 -21.43% 8
East of England -14 11 £100,000 - 3
North West -28 11 £55,000 -21.43% 6
South West -50 4 £44,100 +10.25% 5
Yorkshire -49 3 - - 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 2 (1.96%) Apache Solr
1 2 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Trello
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 53 (51.96%) AWS
2 14 (13.73%) SaaS
3 12 (11.76%) PaaS
4 10 (9.80%) Azure
5 9 (8.82%) GCP
6 6 (5.88%) GitHub
6 6 (5.88%) Heroku
7 4 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (1.96%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.96%) Datadog
8 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.96%) Serverless
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.98%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (0.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (0.98%) Internet
2 1 (0.98%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.84%) Redis
3 7 (6.86%) MySQL
4 2 (1.96%) Big Data
4 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Claude Code
2 3 (2.94%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) GitLab
3 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.98%) CircleCI
General
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Finance
3 8 (7.84%) Legal
4 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.92%) Banking
5 4 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.92%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.98%) Automotive
7 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.98%) Marketing
7 1 (0.98%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 41 (40.20%) Developer
2 27 (26.47%) Senior
3 25 (24.51%) Ruby Developer
4 24 (23.53%) Software Engineer
5 19 (18.63%) Lead
6 14 (13.73%) Senior Developer
7 10 (9.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (9.80%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 9 (8.82%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 8 (7.84%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Ruby Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Python Software Engineer
13 4 (3.92%) 1st Line Support
14 3 (2.94%) Architect
14 3 (2.94%) Engineering Manager
14 3 (2.94%) Software Developer
14 3 (2.94%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (71.57%) Ruby on Rails
2 26 (25.49%) React
3 14 (13.73%) React Native
4 13 (12.75%) Next.js
5 10 (9.80%) Node.js
6 8 (7.84%) JSON
6 8 (7.84%) JWT
6 8 (7.84%) RESTful
6 8 (7.84%) Sidekiq
7 6 (5.88%) .NET
7 6 (5.88%) REST
8 4 (3.92%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (3.92%) Visualforce
9 3 (2.94%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.94%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.98%) HTML
10 1 (0.98%) Loki
10 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.82%) Mobile App
2 9 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.86%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.96%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.86%) Linux
2 3 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.37%) Software Engineering
2 26 (25.49%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (24.51%) Mentoring
4 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (21.57%) Agile
6 21 (20.59%) Roadmaps
7 20 (19.61%) CI/CD
8 17 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 14 (13.73%) Test Automation
10 13 (12.75%) Clean Code
10 13 (12.75%) DevOps
10 13 (12.75%) Scrum
11 11 (10.78%) Customer-Centricity
12 10 (9.80%) Product Strategy
13 9 (8.82%) API Design
13 9 (8.82%) Architectural Patterns
14 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (7.84%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (7.84%) Product Roadmap
14 8 (7.84%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.39%) Python
2 14 (13.73%) TypeScript
3 9 (8.82%) Java
4 8 (7.84%) SQL
5 7 (6.86%) Bash
5 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.86%) Rust
6 5 (4.90%) Go
6 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.92%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.92%) C#
7 4 (3.92%) Elixir
7 4 (3.92%) Perl
7 4 (3.92%) Scala
8 3 (2.94%) C
8 3 (2.94%) C++
8 3 (2.94%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.98%) F#
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) Degree
2 4 (3.92%) OSCP
3 3 (2.94%) CCSAM
3 3 (2.94%) CREST Certified
3 3 (2.94%) GPEN
3 3 (2.94%) GXPN
3 3 (2.94%) OSCE
4 1 (0.98%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.98%) CEH
4 1 (0.98%) CISA
4 1 (0.98%) CISSP
4 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.98%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.98%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.84%) Terraform
2 6 (5.88%) Ansible
3 5 (4.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.96%) Grafana
4 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.98%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.98%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft
1 4 (3.92%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.94%) Splunk
3 2 (1.96%) New Relic
3 2 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.98%) Google
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle