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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 457 420
Rank change year-on-year -109 -37 -127
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 57 191 360
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.095% 0.43% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.51% 1.25% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 42 146 307
10th Percentile £48,500 £53,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,063 £51,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,550 £110,459 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -10.34%

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 11,273 15,222 23,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.71% 34.59% 36.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,351 9,231 20,493
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,750 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 February 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 February 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 -42 21 £85,000 +13.33% 23
South East -22 8 £75,000 -28.57% 7
North of England -44 6 £75,000 +7.14% 6
Yorkshire -28 4 £75,000 +66.67%
Midlands -10 3 £55,000 -10.20% 3
South West -5 2 £59,550 -0.75% 4
North West -22 2 £75,000 +7.14% 5
East Midlands -22 2 £52,500 -17.65% 1
West Midlands +8 1 £75,000 +22.45% 2
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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Shopify
2 3 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) AWS
2 7 (12.28%) Azure
2 7 (12.28%) GCP
2 7 (12.28%) GitHub
3 5 (8.77%) OpenShift
3 5 (8.77%) SaaS
4 4 (7.02%) Figma
5 3 (5.26%) dbt
5 3 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.51%) Serverless
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (1.75%) Datadog
7 1 (1.75%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) BigQuery
1 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.51%) Power BI
2 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.75%) Looker
3 1 (1.75%) MySQL
3 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) CircleCI
2 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) GitLab
General
1 23 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
3 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.02%) Tech for Good
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Law
4 2 (3.51%) Marketing
4 2 (3.51%) Public Speaking
4 2 (3.51%) Publishing
5 1 (1.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (45.61%) Software Engineer
2 17 (29.82%) Senior
3 13 (22.81%) Developer
4 10 (17.54%) Ruby Engineer
4 10 (17.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Architect
6 4 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) GCP Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Lead
8 2 (3.51%) Consultant
8 2 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (47.37%) Ruby on Rails
2 13 (22.81%) Node.js
3 12 (21.05%) GraphQL
3 12 (21.05%) React
4 10 (17.54%) CSS
4 10 (17.54%) HTML
4 10 (17.54%) React Native
5 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.02%) Spring
5 4 (7.02%) Vue
6 3 (5.26%) .NET
6 3 (5.26%) CSS3
6 3 (5.26%) HTML5
6 3 (5.26%) REST
7 2 (3.51%) JSON
7 2 (3.51%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.51%) Visualforce
8 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.75%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Blog
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.51%) Mac OS X
2 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (52.63%) Software Engineering
2 22 (38.60%) CI/CD
3 20 (35.09%) Agile
4 18 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (24.56%) Mentoring
7 13 (22.81%) DevOps
8 9 (15.79%) Clean Code
8 9 (15.79%) TDD
9 8 (14.04%) Containerisation
9 8 (14.04%) Microservices
10 7 (12.28%) User Experience
11 6 (10.53%) AI
11 6 (10.53%) Analytics
11 6 (10.53%) E-Commerce
11 6 (10.53%) High Availability
11 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (8.77%) Computer Science
12 5 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.33%) Java
2 17 (29.82%) Python
3 14 (24.56%) JavaScript
4 10 (17.54%) Kotlin
4 10 (17.54%) Scala
5 9 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.77%) Go
7 4 (7.02%) Bash
7 4 (7.02%) SQL
8 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.51%) Apex Code
9 2 (3.51%) C#
9 2 (3.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Degree
2 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.51%) CEH
4 2 (3.51%) CISA
4 2 (3.51%) CISSP
4 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.51%) OSCP
4 2 (3.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) GDPR
1 2 (3.51%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Terraform
3 4 (7.02%) Ansible
3 4 (7.02%) Argo
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) Google
1 4 (7.02%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.75%) OneTrust