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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 515 557
Rank change year-on-year -23 +42 -227
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 199 139 212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.07% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 147 80 164
10th Percentile £28,500 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,250 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

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 16,574 12,978 21,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.05% 29.74% 29.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,082 8,725 16,267
10th Percentile £37,525 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +9 86 £75,000 - 56
South East +9 62 £60,000 -14.29% 15
East of England -8 20 £80,000 -20.00% 4
North of England -62 18 £55,000 -21.43% 6
North West -19 14 £55,000 -21.43% 4
South West -60 6 £42,500 +6.25% 7
Midlands -48 5 £30,000 - 3
Yorkshire -43 4 £90,000 +28.57% 1
West Midlands -45 4 £30,000 - 3
East Midlands -40 1 £41,000 -
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 10 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.51%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.51%) WordPress
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Fidessa
1 2 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 104 (52.26%) AWS
2 29 (14.57%) SaaS
3 24 (12.06%) Serverless
4 22 (11.06%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (9.55%) Azure
6 16 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (7.54%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (7.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (7.04%) Amazon EventBridge
8 14 (7.04%) AWS Control Tower
8 14 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (6.53%) PaaS
10 11 (5.53%) GitHub
11 8 (4.02%) GCP
12 6 (3.02%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (3.02%) Heroku
13 4 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
14 2 (1.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (1.01%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.06%) Network Security
2 10 (5.03%) DNS
3 9 (4.52%) Firewall
4 8 (4.02%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (3.52%) LAN
5 7 (3.52%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.52%) WAN
6 6 (3.02%) BGP
6 6 (3.02%) IPsec
6 6 (3.02%) VPN
7 5 (2.51%) Cisco Wireless
7 5 (2.51%) Skype
7 5 (2.51%) VLAN
7 5 (2.51%) Wireless
8 4 (2.01%) DHCP
9 2 (1.01%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (1.01%) Internet
9 2 (1.01%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.04%) Redis
3 12 (6.03%) MySQL
4 10 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.02%) Big Data
6 6 (3.02%) Apache Hive
6 6 (3.02%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.02%) HBase
6 6 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Git
2 4 (2.01%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.01%) GitLab
3 2 (1.01%) JIRA
4 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.13%) Finance
3 16 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.04%) Legal
5 12 (6.03%) Legal Technology
5 12 (6.03%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.52%) Banking
7 7 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.02%) Automotive
8 6 (3.02%) Marketing
8 6 (3.02%) Military
9 5 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.01%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (32.66%) Developer
2 59 (29.65%) Senior
3 37 (18.59%) Ruby Developer
4 28 (14.07%) Software Engineer
5 24 (12.06%) Lead
6 20 (10.05%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (9.55%) Senior Developer
8 17 (8.54%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 14 (7.04%) Consultant
9 14 (7.04%) Ruby Engineer
9 14 (7.04%) Security Consultant
9 14 (7.04%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (7.04%) Senior Security Consultant
10 12 (6.03%) 1st Line Support
10 12 (6.03%) Python Engineer
11 10 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (4.52%) 1st Line Support Technician
12 9 (4.52%) Python Software Engineer
12 9 (4.52%) Support Technician
13 8 (4.02%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (53.77%) Ruby on Rails
2 41 (20.60%) React
3 21 (10.55%) Next.js
4 17 (8.54%) JSON
4 17 (8.54%) Node.js
5 16 (8.04%) JWT
5 16 (8.04%) RESTful
5 16 (8.04%) Sidekiq
6 15 (7.54%) React Native
7 14 (7.04%) AWS CDK
8 8 (4.02%) .NET
9 7 (3.52%) REST
10 6 (3.02%) CSS
10 6 (3.02%) FastAPI
10 6 (3.02%) Kafka
11 5 (2.51%) HTML
12 4 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (2.01%) Visualforce
13 3 (1.51%) Nuxt
13 3 (1.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.55%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.54%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.04%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.02%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.02%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.01%) Educational Technology
6 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.51%) Clustering
7 3 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.51%) NHS
7 3 (1.51%) Replication
8 2 (1.01%) Eurex
8 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.59%) Linux
2 19 (9.55%) Windows
3 9 (4.52%) Ubuntu
4 8 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.02%) Debian
6 5 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.51%) Gentoo
8 2 (1.01%) CentOS
8 2 (1.01%) Rocky
8 2 (1.01%) Unix
9 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.63%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (21.11%) Agile
3 40 (20.10%) Software Engineering
4 37 (18.59%) Mentoring
5 34 (17.09%) CI/CD
6 31 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (15.58%) Roadmaps
7 30 (15.08%) AI
8 28 (14.07%) Containerisation
9 26 (13.07%) Scrum
10 25 (12.56%) Architectural Patterns
11 24 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (11.56%) Clean Code
13 22 (11.06%) OOP
14 21 (10.55%) DevOps
15 20 (10.05%) Generative AI
16 17 (8.54%) API Design
17 16 (8.04%) Performance Tuning
18 15 (7.54%) Test Automation
18 15 (7.54%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.17%) Python
2 34 (17.09%) Java
3 29 (14.57%) Bash
4 26 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 23 (11.56%) PHP
5 23 (11.56%) SQL
6 22 (11.06%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.55%) Perl
8 12 (6.03%) C#
9 9 (4.52%) C
9 9 (4.52%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.52%) Rust
11 5 (2.51%) Go
11 5 (2.51%) Scala
12 4 (2.01%) Apex Code
12 4 (2.01%) Elixir
13 3 (1.51%) C++
13 3 (1.51%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.50%) F#
14 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (15.08%) Degree
2 16 (8.04%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.04%) AWS Certification
3 14 (7.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.52%) A+ Certification
6 5 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.51%) CCSAM
7 3 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.51%) CREST Certified
7 3 (1.51%) GPEN
7 3 (1.51%) GXPN
7 3 (1.51%) OSCE
7 3 (1.51%) OSCP
8 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.51%) QA
3 3 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (16.58%) Docker
2 8 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (13.57%) Terraform
2 15 (7.54%) Ansible
3 7 (3.52%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.02%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (3.02%) ZABBIX
5 5 (2.51%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.51%) Podman
6 3 (1.51%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.51%) SCCM
7 2 (1.01%) Grafana
7 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.53%) Cisco
3 11 (5.53%) HP
4 9 (4.52%) Oracle
5 8 (4.02%) VMware
6 7 (3.52%) SAP
7 6 (3.02%) IBM
7 6 (3.02%) Splunk
8 5 (2.51%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.51%) Citrix
9 3 (1.51%) Thycotic
10 2 (1.01%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.01%) CQG
10 2 (1.01%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.01%) New Relic
10 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.01%) Patsystems
10 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.01%) Reuters
10 2 (1.01%) Trayport