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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 511 574
Rank change year-on-year -48 +63 -241
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 143 136 293
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.33% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 1.06% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 106 79 239
10th Percentile £28,500 £53,500 £42,275
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £119,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -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 15,751 12,813 28,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.36% 31.10% 30.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,437 8,655 22,670
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,500 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -19 58 £75,000 +11.11% 42
South East -11 45 £72,500 +3.57% 23
North of England -58 16 £55,000 -21.43% 4
East of England -6 14 £80,000 -20.00% 3
North West -15 14 £55,000 -21.43% 2
South West -53 6 £42,500 +6.25% 2
Yorkshire -40 2 - - 2
East Midlands -36 1 £41,000 - 1
Midlands -60 1 £41,000 - 3
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 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.10%) SharePoint
1 3 (2.10%) Skype for Business
1 3 (2.10%) WordPress
2 2 (1.40%) Apache Solr
2 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 77 (53.85%) AWS
2 19 (13.29%) SaaS
3 15 (10.49%) Azure
4 13 (9.09%) PaaS
5 12 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (7.69%) GitHub
7 10 (6.99%) GCP
7 10 (6.99%) Serverless
8 7 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.20%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (4.20%) AWS Control Tower
9 6 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.20%) Heroku
10 3 (2.10%) Datadog
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.39%) Network Security
2 4 (2.80%) Firewall
2 4 (2.80%) LAN
2 4 (2.80%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.80%) WAN
3 3 (2.10%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (2.10%) DNS
3 3 (2.10%) Skype
3 3 (2.10%) VLAN
3 3 (2.10%) Wireless
4 2 (1.40%) BGP
4 2 (1.40%) IPsec
4 2 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.70%) DHCP
5 1 (0.70%) Internet
5 1 (0.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.39%) Redis
3 9 (6.29%) MySQL
4 4 (2.80%) Big Data
5 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.40%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.40%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.40%) HBase
6 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Git
2 4 (2.80%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.10%) GitLab
4 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.40%) JIRA
5 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
General
1 36 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.58%) Finance
3 11 (7.69%) Legal
4 10 (6.99%) Legal Technology
5 9 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.90%) Banking
7 6 (4.20%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Automotive
10 2 (1.40%) Marketing
10 2 (1.40%) Military
10 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (35.66%) Developer
2 39 (27.27%) Senior
3 32 (22.38%) Ruby Developer
4 26 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 21 (14.69%) Lead
6 15 (10.49%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.99%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 10 (6.99%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 10 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) 1st Line Support
10 8 (5.59%) Python Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Python Software Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Ruby Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Consultant
12 6 (4.20%) Security Consultant
12 6 (4.20%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (4.20%) Senior Security Consultant
12 6 (4.20%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (60.84%) Ruby on Rails
2 33 (23.08%) React
3 19 (13.29%) Next.js
4 15 (10.49%) React Native
5 13 (9.09%) Node.js
6 12 (8.39%) JSON
6 12 (8.39%) JWT
6 12 (8.39%) RESTful
6 12 (8.39%) Sidekiq
7 6 (4.20%) .NET
7 6 (4.20%) AWS CDK
7 6 (4.20%) FastAPI
7 6 (4.20%) REST
8 4 (2.80%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (2.80%) Visualforce
9 3 (2.10%) Nuxt
10 2 (1.40%) Kafka
10 2 (1.40%) Loki
10 2 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.59%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.59%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.20%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.80%) Educational Technology
5 4 (2.80%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.10%) Clustering
6 3 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.99%) Linux
2 8 (5.59%) Windows
3 6 (4.20%) Debian
4 5 (3.50%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.10%) Gentoo
5 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.87%) Software Engineering
2 32 (22.38%) Mentoring
3 31 (21.68%) Full-Stack Development
4 30 (20.98%) Agile
5 29 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 24 (16.78%) Containerisation
7 24 (16.78%) Roadmaps
8 20 (13.99%) DevOps
9 18 (12.59%) Clean Code
9 18 (12.59%) Scrum
10 17 (11.89%) AI
11 16 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (10.49%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (10.49%) Test Automation
13 14 (9.79%) OOP
14 13 (9.09%) API Design
14 13 (9.09%) Incident Response
15 12 (8.39%) Customer-Centricity
15 12 (8.39%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 48 (33.57%) Python
2 20 (13.99%) Bash
3 18 (12.59%) Java
4 16 (11.19%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.79%) SQL
6 13 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.69%) PHP
8 9 (6.29%) Perl
8 9 (6.29%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.90%) Rust
10 6 (4.20%) C#
11 5 (3.50%) C
11 5 (3.50%) Go
12 4 (2.80%) Apex Code
12 4 (2.80%) Elixir
12 4 (2.80%) Scala
13 3 (2.10%) C++
13 3 (2.10%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.70%) F#
14 1 (0.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (16.78%) Degree
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.20%) A+ Certification
3 6 (4.20%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.10%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.10%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.10%) GPEN
5 3 (2.10%) GXPN
5 3 (2.10%) OSCE
5 3 (2.10%) OSCP
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) PhD
6 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.50%) QA
2 3 (2.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (18.88%) Docker
2 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (13.99%) Terraform
2 17 (11.89%) Ansible
3 6 (4.20%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.10%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.10%) Grafana
4 3 (2.10%) Podman
4 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.10%) Proxmox
4 3 (2.10%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.40%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.20%) Splunk
3 5 (3.50%) Cisco
3 5 (3.50%) HP
4 4 (2.80%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.10%) Oracle
5 3 (2.10%) VMware
6 2 (1.40%) IBM
6 2 (1.40%) New Relic
6 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.40%) SAP
7 1 (0.70%) Google