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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 518 565
Rank change year-on-year -26 +47 -223
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 177 135 268
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.31% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 1.03% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 127 76 210
10th Percentile £28,500 £53,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -1.75% +1.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £94,063 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £119,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 16,088 13,097 26,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 30.18% 30.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,776 8,853 20,328
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £48,738 £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 £111,250 £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 19 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 19 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 -9 76 £75,000 - 32
South East -3 56 £60,000 -14.29% 12
East of England -6 17 £80,000 -20.00% 2
North of England -50 17 £55,000 -21.43% 2
North West -20 14 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South West -58 6 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Yorkshire -39 3 £90,000 +33.33% 1
Midlands -49 3 £35,000 - 8
West Midlands -26 2 £32,500 - 7
East Midlands -26 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 6 (3.39%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.26%) Skype for Business
3 3 (1.69%) WordPress
4 2 (1.13%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 96 (54.24%) AWS
2 23 (12.99%) SaaS
3 22 (12.43%) Serverless
4 18 (10.17%) Azure
4 18 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (8.47%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (7.91%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (7.91%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (7.91%) AWS Control Tower
6 14 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (7.34%) PaaS
8 11 (6.21%) GitHub
9 10 (5.65%) GCP
10 6 (3.39%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (3.39%) Heroku
11 3 (1.69%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (1.69%) Datadog
12 2 (1.13%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.86%) Network Security
2 7 (3.95%) DNS
3 6 (3.39%) BGP
3 6 (3.39%) IPsec
3 6 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (3.39%) VPN
4 5 (2.82%) Firewall
4 5 (2.82%) LAN
4 5 (2.82%) WAN
5 4 (2.26%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (2.26%) Skype
5 4 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.26%) VLAN
5 4 (2.26%) Wireless
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) Internet
6 1 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.38%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.91%) Redis
3 11 (6.21%) MySQL
4 8 (4.52%) Big Data
5 7 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.39%) Apache Hive
6 6 (3.39%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.39%) HBase
6 6 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (3.39%) Git
2 4 (2.26%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.69%) GitLab
4 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.13%) JIRA
5 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
General
1 50 (28.25%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.86%) Finance
3 16 (9.04%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.78%) Legal
5 11 (6.21%) Legal Technology
6 10 (5.65%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.95%) Banking
8 6 (3.39%) Automotive
8 6 (3.39%) Marketing
8 6 (3.39%) Military
8 6 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 58 (32.77%) Developer
2 52 (29.38%) Senior
3 34 (19.21%) Ruby Developer
4 25 (14.12%) Software Engineer
5 22 (12.43%) Lead
6 17 (9.60%) Senior Developer
7 15 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (7.91%) Consultant
8 14 (7.91%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 14 (7.91%) Security Consultant
8 14 (7.91%) Senior Consultant
8 14 (7.91%) Senior Security Consultant
9 12 (6.78%) Ruby Engineer
10 11 (6.21%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (5.65%) Python Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) Senior Ruby Developer
12 9 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (4.52%) 1st Line Support Technician
13 8 (4.52%) Python Software Engineer
13 8 (4.52%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (55.37%) Ruby on Rails
2 35 (19.77%) React
3 20 (11.30%) Next.js
4 17 (9.60%) Node.js
5 15 (8.47%) JSON
5 15 (8.47%) React Native
6 14 (7.91%) AWS CDK
6 14 (7.91%) JWT
6 14 (7.91%) RESTful
6 14 (7.91%) Sidekiq
7 7 (3.95%) REST
8 6 (3.39%) .NET
8 6 (3.39%) FastAPI
8 6 (3.39%) Kafka
9 4 (2.26%) CSS
9 4 (2.26%) HTML
9 4 (2.26%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (2.26%) Visualforce
10 3 (1.69%) Nuxt
11 2 (1.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.30%) Onboarding
2 16 (9.04%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.91%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.52%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.52%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.26%) Educational Technology
6 4 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.26%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Clustering
7 3 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.13%) Replication
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.95%) Linux
2 15 (8.47%) Windows
3 7 (3.95%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.39%) Debian
4 6 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.69%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 37 (20.90%) Agile
2 37 (20.90%) Software Engineering
3 34 (19.21%) Mentoring
4 33 (18.64%) CI/CD
5 31 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (16.95%) Roadmaps
7 29 (16.38%) AI
8 26 (14.69%) Containerisation
9 24 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (12.99%) Architectural Patterns
11 22 (12.43%) Scrum
12 21 (11.86%) Clean Code
12 21 (11.86%) DevOps
13 20 (11.30%) Generative AI
13 20 (11.30%) OOP
14 15 (8.47%) API Design
14 15 (8.47%) Customer Engagement
14 15 (8.47%) Data Protection
14 15 (8.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (36.16%) Python
2 31 (17.51%) Java
3 29 (16.38%) Bash
4 23 (12.99%) PHP
5 20 (11.30%) SQL
6 19 (10.73%) JavaScript
7 18 (10.17%) TypeScript
8 17 (9.60%) Perl
9 10 (5.65%) C#
10 9 (5.08%) C
10 9 (5.08%) PowerShell
11 7 (3.95%) Rust
12 5 (2.82%) Go
13 4 (2.26%) Apex Code
13 4 (2.26%) Elixir
13 4 (2.26%) Scala
14 3 (1.69%) C++
14 3 (1.69%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.56%) F#
15 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (16.95%) Degree
2 15 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.91%) AWS Certification
3 14 (7.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.52%) A+ Certification
6 4 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.69%) CCSAM
7 3 (1.69%) CREST Certified
7 3 (1.69%) GPEN
7 3 (1.69%) GXPN
7 3 (1.69%) OSCE
7 3 (1.69%) OSCP
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) PhD
8 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.82%) QA
3 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (17.51%) Docker
2 6 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (15.82%) Terraform
2 17 (9.60%) Ansible
3 8 (4.52%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.39%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (2.82%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.26%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.69%) Grafana
7 3 (1.69%) Podman
7 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.69%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.65%) Cisco
2 10 (5.65%) HP
3 7 (3.95%) Oracle
3 7 (3.95%) SAP
4 6 (3.39%) IBM
4 6 (3.39%) Splunk
4 6 (3.39%) VMware
5 5 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.13%) Citrix
6 2 (1.13%) New Relic
6 2 (1.13%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.13%) Thycotic
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow