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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 519 546
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 -218
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 237 123 196
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 1.04% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 180 64 138
10th Percentile £29,000 £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £59,688 £43,761
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £63,373 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.47% +7.69% -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 16,861 11,847 20,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.98% 27.29% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12,345 7,815 13,761
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +14 104 £80,000 +6.67% 165
South East +26 84 £60,000 -14.29% 12
North of England -79 21 £55,000 -18.52% 3
East of England -22 18 £80,000 -20.00% 2
North West -26 15 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Midlands -65 8 £32,500 - 8
West Midlands -39 7 £30,000 - 7
Yorkshire -52 6 £90,000 +28.57% 1
South West - 2 £42,500 - 2
East Midlands -44 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 23 (9.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.22%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.22%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.27%) WordPress
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.38%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 106 (44.73%) AWS
2 36 (15.19%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (13.92%) SaaS
4 29 (12.24%) Serverless
5 21 (8.86%) Azure
6 19 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (5.91%) Amazon EventBridge
9 14 (5.91%) AWS Control Tower
9 14 (5.91%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (5.06%) GitHub
11 8 (3.38%) GCP
11 8 (3.38%) PaaS
12 6 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (2.53%) Heroku
13 4 (1.69%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.69%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.39%) Network Security
2 22 (9.28%) Firewall
3 16 (6.75%) DNS
4 13 (5.49%) LAN
4 13 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 13 (5.49%) WAN
5 10 (4.22%) Cisco Wireless
5 10 (4.22%) DHCP
5 10 (4.22%) Skype
5 10 (4.22%) VLAN
5 10 (4.22%) Wireless
6 8 (3.38%) FIX Connectivity
6 8 (3.38%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (2.53%) BGP
7 6 (2.53%) IPsec
7 6 (2.53%) VPN
8 5 (2.11%) VoIP
9 3 (1.27%) Internet
10 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.17%) Redis
3 16 (6.75%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.06%) MySQL
5 8 (3.38%) Big Data
6 6 (2.53%) Apache Hive
6 6 (2.53%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.53%) HBase
6 6 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Claude Code
1 4 (1.69%) Git
2 2 (0.84%) JIRA
3 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.42%) GitLab
3 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.21%) Finance
3 18 (7.59%) Legal
3 18 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.33%) Banking
5 13 (5.49%) Legal Technology
5 13 (5.49%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.38%) Automotive
8 6 (2.53%) Marketing
8 6 (2.53%) Military
9 5 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.11%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.69%) Local Government
11 3 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.84%) Publishing
13 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (33.76%) Developer
2 66 (27.85%) Senior
3 40 (16.88%) Ruby Developer
4 28 (11.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (11.81%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 27 (11.39%) Software Engineer
6 23 (9.70%) Senior Developer
7 21 (8.86%) Lead
8 17 (7.17%) 1st Line Support
9 14 (5.91%) Consultant
9 14 (5.91%) IT Support
9 14 (5.91%) Security Consultant
9 14 (5.91%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (5.91%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (5.49%) Ruby Engineer
10 13 (5.49%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
11 12 (5.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (5.06%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (48.10%) Ruby on Rails
2 47 (19.83%) React
3 30 (12.66%) Terraform
4 22 (9.28%) Next.js
5 18 (7.59%) JSON
6 17 (7.17%) JWT
6 17 (7.17%) Node.js
6 17 (7.17%) RESTful
6 17 (7.17%) Sidekiq
7 15 (6.33%) React Native
8 14 (5.91%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.80%) CSS
10 8 (3.38%) .NET
10 8 (3.38%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (2.95%) REST
12 6 (2.53%) FastAPI
12 6 (2.53%) Kafka
13 5 (2.11%) HTML
14 4 (1.69%) .NET Core
14 4 (1.69%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.55%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.91%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.22%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.80%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.38%) Eurex
8 6 (2.53%) NHS
9 5 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.69%) Blog
10 4 (1.69%) Educational Technology
10 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.27%) Clustering
11 3 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
11 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.27%) Replication
12 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.88%) Linux
2 37 (15.61%) Windows
3 16 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.49%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.38%) CentOS
6 8 (3.38%) Rocky
6 8 (3.38%) Unix
7 6 (2.53%) Debian
8 5 (2.11%) Solaris
9 3 (1.27%) Gentoo
10 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 45 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (18.14%) Agile
4 41 (17.30%) Mentoring
5 36 (15.19%) CI/CD
5 36 (15.19%) Software Engineering
6 34 (14.35%) Roadmaps
7 32 (13.50%) AI
8 29 (12.24%) Architectural Patterns
9 28 (11.81%) Containerisation
9 28 (11.81%) Scrum
10 26 (10.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (9.70%) ITIL
11 23 (9.70%) OOP
12 21 (8.86%) Clean Code
12 21 (8.86%) DevOps
13 20 (8.44%) Generative AI
14 18 (7.59%) API Design
15 17 (7.17%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (6.75%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 76 (32.07%) Python
2 37 (15.61%) Java
3 35 (14.77%) Bash
3 35 (14.77%) JavaScript
4 31 (13.08%) SQL
5 27 (11.39%) Perl
6 25 (10.55%) TypeScript
7 23 (9.70%) PHP
8 18 (7.59%) C#
9 13 (5.49%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.64%) C
11 6 (2.53%) Go
12 5 (2.11%) C++
13 4 (1.69%) Rust
14 3 (1.27%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.27%) Scala
15 2 (0.84%) R
16 1 (0.42%) Elixir
16 1 (0.42%) F#
16 1 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (10.97%) Degree
2 21 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.91%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.80%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.11%) CREST Certified
7 5 (2.11%) OSCP
7 5 (2.11%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.27%) CCSAM
8 3 (1.27%) CISSP
8 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.27%) GPEN
8 3 (1.27%) GXPN
8 3 (1.27%) OSCE
9 2 (0.84%) CEH
9 2 (0.84%) CHECK Team Leader
9 2 (0.84%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (0.84%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.27%) QA
3 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) GDPR
3 1 (0.42%) GRC
3 1 (0.42%) PERC
3 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (14.35%) Docker
2 20 (8.44%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (6.33%) Ansible
2 10 (4.22%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.53%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.53%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.27%) Podman
4 3 (1.27%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.27%) SCCM
5 2 (0.84%) Grafana
5 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.59%) Cisco
3 16 (6.75%) HP
4 15 (6.33%) Oracle
5 13 (5.49%) VMware
6 8 (3.38%) Bloomberg
6 8 (3.38%) CQG
6 8 (3.38%) ION Trading
6 8 (3.38%) Patsystems
6 8 (3.38%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.38%) Reuters
6 8 (3.38%) Trayport
7 7 (2.95%) SAP
8 6 (2.53%) IBM
8 6 (2.53%) Splunk
9 3 (1.27%) Citrix
9 3 (1.27%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.84%) Databricks
10 2 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.84%) Salesforce