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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 454 476
Rank change year-on-year -126 +22 -185
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 81 152 343
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.42% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 1.23% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 56 125 292
10th Percentile £54,250 - £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £78,138
Median % change year-on-year - -4.02% +4.18%
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £98,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,418 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 13,196 12,389 26,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.94% 33.89% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,427 9,342 22,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,628
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -61 28 £85,000 +6.25% 29
South East -46 14 £75,000 -28.57% 9
East of England -34 9 £100,000 - 2
North of England -71 6 £75,000 +7.14% 5
South West -40 5 £59,550 -0.75% 1
Yorkshire -51 4 £75,000 +66.67% 1
Midlands -50 2 £62,500 +2.04% 2
North West -53 2 £75,000 +5.26% 4
West Midlands -11 1 £75,000 +22.45%
East Midlands -57 1 £50,000 -21.57% 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 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.23%) Apache
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.23%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.16%) AWS
2 15 (18.52%) SaaS
3 11 (13.58%) PaaS
4 9 (11.11%) GCP
5 8 (9.88%) Azure
6 4 (4.94%) GitHub
6 4 (4.94%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.70%) dbt
7 3 (3.70%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.47%) Serverless
9 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.23%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (1.23%) Datadog
9 1 (1.23%) Figma
9 1 (1.23%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Network Security
2 2 (2.47%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.47%) Power BI
3 2 (2.47%) Redis
3 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.23%) Looker
4 1 (1.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Git
2 2 (2.47%) GitLab
3 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.16%) Finance
3 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.94%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.70%) Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Legal
6 2 (2.47%) Marketing
6 2 (2.47%) Public Speaking
6 2 (2.47%) Publishing
7 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (35.80%) Software Engineer
2 21 (25.93%) Developer
3 20 (24.69%) Senior
4 13 (16.05%) Lead
4 13 (16.05%) Ruby Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Ruby Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Architect
8 5 (6.17%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) GCP Architect
10 3 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.70%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (53.09%) Ruby on Rails
2 13 (16.05%) Node.js
3 12 (14.81%) React
4 9 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 7 (8.64%) React Native
6 6 (7.41%) .NET
6 6 (7.41%) CSS
6 6 (7.41%) HTML
7 4 (4.94%) JSON
7 4 (4.94%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (4.94%) Visualforce
8 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.70%) Spring
8 3 (3.70%) Vue
9 2 (2.47%) JWT
9 2 (2.47%) RESTful
9 2 (2.47%) Sidekiq
9 2 (2.47%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.47%) Blog
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Windows
3 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.47%) Unix
4 1 (1.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 23 (28.40%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (23.46%) Agile
5 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (20.99%) Mentoring
7 14 (17.28%) Customer-Centricity
7 14 (17.28%) DevOps
8 12 (14.81%) Containerisation
9 10 (12.35%) Clean Code
10 9 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (11.11%) Microservices
11 8 (9.88%) TDD
11 8 (9.88%) Test Automation
12 7 (8.64%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (7.41%) Analytics
13 6 (7.41%) E-Commerce
13 6 (7.41%) High Availability
13 6 (7.41%) Proactive Monitoring
13 6 (7.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.10%) Python
2 22 (27.16%) Java
3 12 (14.81%) Scala
4 11 (13.58%) TypeScript
5 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
6 8 (9.88%) Go
6 8 (9.88%) Kotlin
7 7 (8.64%) Bash
7 7 (8.64%) Rust
8 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
9 5 (6.17%) C#
9 5 (6.17%) Perl
10 4 (4.94%) Apex Code
10 4 (4.94%) Elixir
10 4 (4.94%) SQL
11 3 (3.70%) C
11 3 (3.70%) C++
11 3 (3.70%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.23%) F#
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Degree
2 5 (6.17%) OSCP
3 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) CCSAM
4 3 (3.70%) CREST Certified
4 3 (3.70%) GPEN
4 3 (3.70%) GXPN
4 3 (3.70%) OSCE
5 2 (2.47%) CEH
5 2 (2.47%) CISA
5 2 (2.47%) CISSP
5 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (12.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.41%) Terraform
3 4 (4.94%) Ansible
4 3 (3.70%) Argo
5 1 (1.23%) Grafana
5 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.94%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.70%) Google
2 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.23%) OneTrust
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle