Ruby Jobs in England

Ruby
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 537 281
Rank change year-on-year +2 -256 -92
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 159 306 1,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.35% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 1.11% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 95 238 546
10th Percentile - £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £54,063 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,938 £88,750
90th Percentile £104,500 £114,125 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +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 15,048 27,644 38,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.36% 32.00% 43.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,086 22,394 24,664
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £39,954
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby in England.

Salary trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in England over the 6 months to 18 May 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 May 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 +27 66 £80,000 -5.88% 268
South East +85 30 £95,000 +72.73% 87
North of England +23 28 £70,000 +28.62% 88
Midlands +75 27 £62,500 +16.82% 7
North West -14 19 £70,000 +27.27% 74
West Midlands +56 14 £62,500 +6.38% 4
East Midlands +26 13 £57,500 +7.48% 2
Yorkshire +60 8 - - 14
East of England +35 6 £100,000 +17.65% 6
South West +70 1 £40,000 -42.86% 16
North East +33 1 - -
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.52%) CMS
2 2 (1.26%) Apache
2 2 (1.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.56%) AWS
2 23 (14.47%) Azure
3 17 (10.69%) GitHub
4 10 (6.29%) Pulumi
5 8 (5.03%) GCP
6 6 (3.77%) SaaS
7 5 (3.14%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.14%) IaaS
7 5 (3.14%) Serverless
8 4 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.52%) PaaS
9 3 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.89%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (1.89%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (1.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (1.89%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) Firewall
2 3 (1.89%) Network Security
2 3 (1.89%) SSL
3 2 (1.26%) DHCP
3 2 (1.26%) DNS
3 2 (1.26%) HTTP
3 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.63%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.63%) Multicast
4 1 (0.63%) SSH
4 1 (0.63%) Unicast
4 1 (0.63%) VLAN
4 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.84%) MySQL
2 12 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.89%) Hadoop
3 3 (1.89%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.89%) Tableau
4 2 (1.26%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.26%) Big Data
4 2 (1.26%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.26%) Bigtable
4 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.26%) HBase
4 2 (1.26%) Impala
4 2 (1.26%) Metadata
4 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.63%) DB2
5 1 (0.63%) FileMaker
5 1 (0.63%) Power Query
5 1 (0.63%) Redis
5 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (11.95%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.29%) JIRA
2 10 (6.29%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (1.89%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.89%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.26%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.26%) Gatling
4 2 (1.26%) Git
4 2 (1.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.26%) JMeter
4 2 (1.26%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.26%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) RSpec
General
1 20 (12.58%) Finance
2 12 (7.55%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.03%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.77%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.52%) Banking
7 3 (1.89%) Games
7 3 (1.89%) Law
7 3 (1.89%) Retail
8 2 (1.26%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.26%) Legal
8 2 (1.26%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Automotive
9 1 (0.63%) Publishing
9 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (22.01%) Lead
2 26 (16.35%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (15.72%) Senior
4 21 (13.21%) Software Engineer
5 20 (12.58%) Developer
6 12 (7.55%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (6.92%) Ruby Developer
8 10 (6.29%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.66%) Junior
9 9 (5.66%) Junior Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.03%) Ruby Engineer
10 8 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (4.40%) Senior Ruby Developer
12 6 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (3.77%) Principal Software Engineer
13 5 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 4 (2.52%) Ruby on Rails Developer
15 3 (1.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (34.59%) HTML
2 52 (32.70%) Ruby on Rails
3 44 (27.67%) React
4 19 (11.95%) jQuery
5 11 (6.92%) Node.js
6 10 (6.29%) RESTful
7 9 (5.66%) ADO
8 6 (3.77%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.77%) YAML
9 5 (3.14%) CSS
9 5 (3.14%) Flutter
10 4 (2.52%) .NET
11 3 (1.89%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.26%) Playwright
13 1 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
13 1 (0.63%) J2EE
13 1 (0.63%) JSON
13 1 (0.63%) Vue
13 1 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.58%) NHS
2 14 (8.81%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.63%) Blog
6 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Eurex
6 1 (0.63%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.32%) Linux
2 6 (3.77%) Windows
3 4 (2.52%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.89%) VMS
5 2 (1.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.63%) CentOS
6 1 (0.63%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.96%) Computer Science
2 52 (32.70%) Artificial Intelligence
3 50 (31.45%) Data Privacy
4 49 (30.82%) Machine Learning
4 49 (30.82%) Software Engineering
5 41 (25.79%) CI/CD
6 34 (21.38%) Roadmaps
7 31 (19.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (17.61%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (11.95%) Product Roadmap
10 18 (11.32%) Agile
10 18 (11.32%) DevOps
11 16 (10.06%) Microservices
12 15 (9.43%) Mentoring
13 13 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (6.92%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (6.92%) Low Latency
15 10 (6.29%) Fintech
15 10 (6.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 10 (6.29%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 109 (68.55%) Python
2 75 (47.17%) JavaScript
3 69 (43.40%) Java
4 61 (38.36%) C#
5 60 (37.74%) SQL
6 56 (35.22%) Rust
7 55 (34.59%) C
7 55 (34.59%) C++
8 54 (33.96%) TypeScript
9 51 (32.08%) PHP
10 49 (30.82%) Dart
10 49 (30.82%) MATLAB
10 49 (30.82%) R
11 19 (11.95%) Bicep
12 15 (9.43%) Bash
12 15 (9.43%) Go
13 12 (7.55%) Perl
14 7 (4.40%) PowerShell
15 5 (3.14%) Groovy
16 3 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (35.85%) Degree
2 50 (31.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.03%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.26%) CCNA
5 2 (1.26%) CCNP
5 2 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.52%) QA
2 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.26%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) JTAG
3 1 (0.63%) MISRA
System Software
1 26 (16.35%) Docker
2 5 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (21.38%) Terraform
2 30 (18.87%) Ansible
3 27 (16.98%) Kubernetes
3 27 (16.98%) Progress Chef
4 22 (13.84%) Puppet
5 9 (5.66%) Podman
6 7 (4.40%) Grafana
7 4 (2.52%) Consul
7 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.89%) Argo
8 3 (1.89%) Istio
8 3 (1.89%) Nagios
8 3 (1.89%) Nessus
8 3 (1.89%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.26%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (3.14%) Splunk
2 4 (2.52%) Google
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.89%) Cloudera
3 3 (1.89%) Juniper
3 3 (1.89%) New Relic
4 2 (1.26%) Cisco
4 2 (1.26%) Dataiku
4 2 (1.26%) F5
4 2 (1.26%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.26%) MapR
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle
4 2 (1.26%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.26%) Snow
5 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.63%) IBM
5 1 (0.63%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.63%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.63%) Patsystems