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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 487 572
Rank change year-on-year -86 +85 -245
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 129 144 302
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 1.13% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 98 84 247
10th Percentile £34,700 £53,750 £42,050
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,063 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £116,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -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 15,399 12,694 29,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 31.84% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,133 8,536 23,354
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 21 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 21 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 -15 50 £75,000 - 15
South East -16 38 £75,000 +7.14% 17
North of England -48 16 £55,000 -21.43% 2
East of England -6 14 £80,000 -20.00%
North West -8 14 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South West -54 6 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Yorkshire -42 2 - - 1
East Midlands -36 1 £41,000 - 1
Midlands -41 1 £41,000 - 1
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 (2.33%) WordPress
2 2 (1.55%) Apache Solr
2 2 (1.55%) Confluence
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.55%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 68 (52.71%) AWS
2 18 (13.95%) SaaS
3 14 (10.85%) Azure
4 13 (10.08%) PaaS
5 10 (7.75%) GCP
5 10 (7.75%) GitHub
6 7 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.65%) Heroku
8 5 (3.88%) Serverless
9 3 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.33%) Datadog
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.55%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.43%) Network Security
2 3 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.55%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (1.55%) Firewall
3 2 (1.55%) LAN
3 2 (1.55%) Skype
3 2 (1.55%) VLAN
3 2 (1.55%) WAN
3 2 (1.55%) Wireless
4 1 (0.78%) BGP
4 1 (0.78%) DNS
4 1 (0.78%) Internet
4 1 (0.78%) IPsec
4 1 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.78%) VoIP
4 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.60%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.75%) Redis
3 9 (6.98%) MySQL
4 3 (2.33%) Big Data
5 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.78%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.78%) HBase
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Git
2 4 (3.10%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.33%) GitLab
4 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.55%) JIRA
5 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
General
1 30 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.05%) Finance
3 11 (8.53%) Legal
4 10 (7.75%) Legal Technology
5 6 (4.65%) Banking
6 5 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.10%) Automotive
7 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.55%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (37.98%) Developer
2 36 (27.91%) Senior
3 30 (23.26%) Ruby Developer
4 26 (20.16%) Software Engineer
5 21 (16.28%) Lead
6 15 (11.63%) Senior Developer
7 13 (10.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (7.75%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 10 (7.75%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 8 (6.20%) Python Engineer
10 8 (6.20%) Python Software Engineer
10 8 (6.20%) Ruby Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (4.65%) 1st Line Support
12 6 (4.65%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.88%) Lead Developer
14 4 (3.10%) Engineering Manager
14 4 (3.10%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (65.89%) Ruby on Rails
2 33 (25.58%) React
3 19 (14.73%) Next.js
4 16 (12.40%) React Native
5 12 (9.30%) Node.js
6 10 (7.75%) JSON
6 10 (7.75%) JWT
6 10 (7.75%) RESTful
6 10 (7.75%) Sidekiq
7 6 (4.65%) .NET
7 6 (4.65%) FastAPI
7 6 (4.65%) REST
8 4 (3.10%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (3.10%) Visualforce
9 3 (2.33%) Nuxt
10 2 (1.55%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.55%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.55%) Loki
10 2 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.75%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.20%) Mobile App
3 8 (6.20%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.10%) Educational Technology
4 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.55%) Clustering
6 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.18%) Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Windows
3 5 (3.88%) Debian
3 5 (3.88%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.55%) Gentoo
4 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.68%) Software Engineering
2 32 (24.81%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (22.48%) Mentoring
4 28 (21.71%) Agile
4 28 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (20.16%) CI/CD
6 23 (17.83%) Roadmaps
7 22 (17.05%) Containerisation
8 20 (15.50%) DevOps
9 16 (12.40%) Clean Code
9 16 (12.40%) Scrum
10 15 (11.63%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.08%) Incident Response
12 12 (9.30%) Customer-Centricity
12 12 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (8.53%) AI
13 11 (8.53%) API Design
13 11 (8.53%) Architectural Patterns
13 11 (8.53%) OOP
14 10 (7.75%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.56%) Python
2 16 (12.40%) TypeScript
3 15 (11.63%) Bash
4 13 (10.08%) Java
4 13 (10.08%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.08%) SQL
5 9 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.43%) Rust
7 6 (4.65%) PHP
8 5 (3.88%) C#
8 5 (3.88%) Go
8 5 (3.88%) Perl
9 4 (3.10%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.10%) C
9 4 (3.10%) Elixir
9 4 (3.10%) Scala
10 3 (2.33%) C++
10 3 (2.33%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.78%) F#
11 1 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 19 (14.73%) Degree
2 3 (2.33%) A+ Certification
2 3 (2.33%) CCSAM
2 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.33%) CREST Certified
2 3 (2.33%) GPEN
2 3 (2.33%) GXPN
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (2.33%) OSCE
2 3 (2.33%) OSCP
2 3 (2.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.78%) PhD
4 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.88%) QA
2 3 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (18.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (12.40%) Ansible
1 16 (12.40%) Terraform
2 6 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.33%) Grafana
3 3 (2.33%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.33%) Proxmox
3 3 (2.33%) ZABBIX
4 2 (1.55%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.55%) Podman
5 1 (0.78%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 10 (7.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.65%) Splunk
3 4 (3.10%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.33%) Cisco
4 3 (2.33%) HP
5 2 (1.55%) New Relic
5 2 (1.55%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle
5 2 (1.55%) VMware
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) IBM
6 1 (0.78%) SAP