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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 469 380
Rank change year-on-year -70 -89 -91
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 67 206 313
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.42% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 1.23% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 51 145 264
10th Percentile £48,500 £49,750 £41,288
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £83,125 £89,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +2.19% -5.52%

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 10,241 16,698 18,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.66% 33.97% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,724 9,852 15,198
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,512 £38,838
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -2 24 £86,000 +14.67% 26
North of England +11 18 £67,500 +3.85% 29
North West +19 10 £67,500 -3.57% 12
Yorkshire +2 8 £73,750 +63.89% 15
South East -12 7 £75,000 -28.57% 41
Midlands +14 5 £55,000 -10.20% 31
West Midlands +27 3 £75,000 +22.45% 16
East Midlands -11 2 £52,500 -17.65% 13
South West +8 1 £75,000 +25.00% 26
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 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.99%) CMS
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Shopify
2 3 (4.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.39%) AWS
2 10 (14.93%) GitHub
3 6 (8.96%) Azure
3 6 (8.96%) SaaS
4 5 (7.46%) GCP
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.97%) Figma
5 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.48%) dbt
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.99%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.99%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) FTP
2 2 (2.99%) HTTP
2 2 (2.99%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.99%) SMTP
2 2 (2.99%) SSH
3 1 (1.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.99%) Power BI
3 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.49%) Looker
4 1 (1.49%) MySQL
4 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.45%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.99%) GitLab
4 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.99%) Subversion
4 2 (2.99%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.99%) Law
4 2 (2.99%) Marketing
4 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.99%) Public Speaking
4 2 (2.99%) Publishing
5 1 (1.49%) Banking
5 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (37.31%) Software Engineer
2 21 (31.34%) Developer
2 21 (31.34%) Senior
3 11 (16.42%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) Ruby Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Backend Developer
7 7 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (4.48%) Lead
10 2 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 2 (2.99%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.79%) Ruby on Rails
2 16 (23.88%) Node.js
3 14 (20.90%) React
4 13 (19.40%) React Native
5 11 (16.42%) CSS
5 11 (16.42%) GraphQL
5 11 (16.42%) HTML
6 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.97%) REST
6 4 (5.97%) Spring
6 4 (5.97%) Vue
7 3 (4.48%) CSS3
7 3 (4.48%) HTML5
8 2 (2.99%) .NET
8 2 (2.99%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.99%) JSON
8 2 (2.99%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.49%) Django
9 1 (1.49%) jQuery
9 1 (1.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.43%) IoT
3 3 (4.48%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.99%) Blog
4 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Linux
2 5 (7.46%) Windows
3 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.99%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
3 2 (2.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) Agile
2 28 (41.79%) Software Engineering
3 23 (34.33%) CI/CD
3 23 (34.33%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (32.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (31.34%) DevOps
6 17 (25.37%) Mentoring
7 13 (19.40%) Clean Code
8 10 (14.93%) Microservices
9 9 (13.43%) Roadmaps
10 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.94%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (10.45%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (10.45%) Containerisation
11 7 (10.45%) TDD
11 7 (10.45%) User Experience
12 6 (8.96%) AI
12 6 (8.96%) Analytics
12 6 (8.96%) Front End Development
13 5 (7.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.85%) Java
2 19 (28.36%) Python
3 18 (26.87%) JavaScript
4 11 (16.42%) Go
5 10 (14.93%) Kotlin
5 10 (14.93%) Scala
5 10 (14.93%) TypeScript
6 8 (11.94%) Elixir
7 6 (8.96%) C#
8 5 (7.46%) PowerShell
9 4 (5.97%) Bash
9 4 (5.97%) Groovy
9 4 (5.97%) Perl
9 4 (5.97%) SQL
10 2 (2.99%) C++
11 1 (1.49%) PHP
11 1 (1.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
1 10 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.99%) CEH
4 2 (2.99%) CISA
4 2 (2.99%) CISSP
4 2 (2.99%) OSCP
5 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Argo
3 4 (5.97%) Grafana
4 3 (4.48%) Ansible
5 2 (2.99%) Nagios
5 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (5.97%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.48%) Google
3 2 (2.99%) Cribl.io
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle
3 2 (2.99%) Sonatype
4 1 (1.49%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.49%) SendGrid
4 1 (1.49%) Splunk