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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 485 551
Rank change year-on-year -107 +66 -223
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 101 146 292
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 75 83 242
10th Percentile £46,980 - £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £114,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 14,887 12,398 27,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.89% 31.94% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,611 8,396 22,732
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 3 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 3 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 -27 41 £75,000 - 59
South East -21 25 £75,000 +7.14% 23
North of England -45 15 £55,000 -21.43% 11
North West -12 11 £55,000 -21.43% 8
East of England -13 11 £100,000 - 3
Yorkshire -52 4 - - 3
South West -58 4 £44,100 +10.25% 5
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 (1.98%) Apache Solr
1 2 (1.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Trello
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 52 (51.49%) AWS
2 14 (13.86%) SaaS
3 12 (11.88%) PaaS
4 10 (9.90%) Azure
5 9 (8.91%) GCP
6 6 (5.94%) GitHub
7 5 (4.95%) Heroku
8 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.98%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.98%) Datadog
9 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.98%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.98%) Serverless
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.99%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (0.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) Internet
2 1 (0.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.84%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.92%) Redis
3 7 (6.93%) MySQL
4 2 (1.98%) Big Data
4 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Claude Code
2 3 (2.97%) Git
2 3 (2.97%) GitLab
3 2 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.98%) JIRA
4 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
General
1 25 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Finance
3 7 (6.93%) Legal
4 5 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.96%) Banking
5 4 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.96%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.98%) Marketing
7 2 (1.98%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (39.60%) Developer
2 26 (25.74%) Senior
3 24 (23.76%) Ruby Developer
3 24 (23.76%) Software Engineer
4 19 (18.81%) Lead
5 14 (13.86%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (9.90%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 9 (8.91%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 8 (7.92%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (7.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Ruby Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Python Software Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) 1st Line Support
12 3 (2.97%) Architect
12 3 (2.97%) Engineering Manager
12 3 (2.97%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.97%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (70.30%) Ruby on Rails
2 25 (24.75%) React
3 14 (13.86%) React Native
4 13 (12.87%) Next.js
5 10 (9.90%) Node.js
6 8 (7.92%) JSON
6 8 (7.92%) JWT
6 8 (7.92%) RESTful
6 8 (7.92%) Sidekiq
7 6 (5.94%) .NET
8 5 (4.95%) REST
9 4 (3.96%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (3.96%) Visualforce
10 3 (2.97%) FastAPI
10 3 (2.97%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.99%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.99%) HTML
11 1 (0.99%) Loki
11 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.90%) Mobile App
3 9 (8.91%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.93%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.97%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.98%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.93%) Linux
2 3 (2.97%) Windows
3 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.68%) Software Engineering
2 25 (24.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 25 (24.75%) Mentoring
3 24 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (21.78%) Agile
5 21 (20.79%) Roadmaps
6 20 (19.80%) CI/CD
7 17 (16.83%) Containerisation
8 14 (13.86%) Test Automation
9 13 (12.87%) Clean Code
9 13 (12.87%) DevOps
9 13 (12.87%) Scrum
10 11 (10.89%) Customer-Centricity
11 10 (9.90%) Product Strategy
12 9 (8.91%) API Design
12 9 (8.91%) Architectural Patterns
13 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (7.92%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (7.92%) Product Roadmap
13 8 (7.92%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (31.68%) Python
2 14 (13.86%) TypeScript
3 9 (8.91%) Java
4 8 (7.92%) SQL
5 7 (6.93%) Bash
5 7 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.93%) Rust
6 5 (4.95%) Go
6 5 (4.95%) Perl
6 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.96%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.96%) C#
7 4 (3.96%) Elixir
7 4 (3.96%) Scala
8 3 (2.97%) C
8 3 (2.97%) C++
8 3 (2.97%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.99%) F#
Qualifications
1 15 (14.85%) Degree
2 5 (4.95%) OSCP
3 3 (2.97%) CCSAM
3 3 (2.97%) CREST Certified
3 3 (2.97%) GPEN
3 3 (2.97%) GXPN
3 3 (2.97%) OSCE
4 2 (1.98%) CEH
4 2 (1.98%) CISA
4 2 (1.98%) CISSP
5 1 (0.99%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.99%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.99%) GDPR
3 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (14.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.92%) Terraform
2 6 (5.94%) Ansible
3 5 (4.95%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.98%) Grafana
4 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
1 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.97%) Splunk
3 2 (1.98%) New Relic
3 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.99%) Google
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle