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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 509 566
Rank change year-on-year -37 +57 -225
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 191 139 225
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 1.07% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 139 79 176
10th Percentile £28,500 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,125 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £63,373 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.47% - -

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 16,326 12,958 22,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.09% 29.83% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,891 8,708 17,187
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 29 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 29 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 +11 79 £75,000 - 59
South East 0 62 £60,000 -14.29% 11
East of England -9 20 £80,000 -20.00% 5
North of England -58 18 £55,000 -20.00% 8
North West -30 14 £55,000 -21.43% 3
South West -54 6 £42,500 +6.25% 5
Yorkshire -35 4 £90,000 +33.33%
Midlands -56 4 £32,500 - 5
West Midlands -38 3 £30,000 - 5
East Midlands -38 1 £41,000 -
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 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.62%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.57%) WordPress
5 2 (1.05%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 102 (53.40%) AWS
2 26 (13.61%) SaaS
3 22 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (11.52%) Serverless
4 19 (9.95%) Azure
5 15 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (7.33%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (7.33%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (7.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (7.33%) AWS Control Tower
6 14 (7.33%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (6.81%) PaaS
8 11 (5.76%) GitHub
9 8 (4.19%) GCP
10 6 (3.14%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (3.14%) Heroku
11 4 (2.09%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.05%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.52%) Network Security
2 8 (4.19%) DNS
2 8 (4.19%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (3.66%) Firewall
3 7 (3.66%) LAN
3 7 (3.66%) WAN
4 6 (3.14%) BGP
4 6 (3.14%) IPsec
4 6 (3.14%) VPN
5 5 (2.62%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (2.62%) Skype
5 5 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.62%) VLAN
5 5 (2.62%) Wireless
6 2 (1.05%) DHCP
7 1 (0.52%) Internet
7 1 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.85%) Redis
3 12 (6.28%) MySQL
4 8 (4.19%) Big Data
4 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.14%) Apache Hive
5 6 (3.14%) Hadoop
5 6 (3.14%) HBase
5 6 (3.14%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Git
2 4 (2.09%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.05%) GitLab
3 2 (1.05%) JIRA
4 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
General
1 53 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.13%) Finance
3 16 (8.38%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.33%) Legal
5 12 (6.28%) Legal Technology
5 12 (6.28%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.66%) Banking
6 7 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.14%) Automotive
7 6 (3.14%) Marketing
7 6 (3.14%) Military
8 5 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.09%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 62 (32.46%) Developer
2 57 (29.84%) Senior
3 36 (18.85%) Ruby Developer
4 28 (14.66%) Software Engineer
5 23 (12.04%) Lead
6 19 (9.95%) Senior Developer
7 18 (9.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (8.38%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 14 (7.33%) Consultant
9 14 (7.33%) Ruby Engineer
9 14 (7.33%) Security Consultant
9 14 (7.33%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (7.33%) Senior Security Consultant
10 12 (6.28%) 1st Line Support
10 12 (6.28%) Python Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) 1st Line Support Technician
12 9 (4.71%) Python Software Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Support Technician
13 8 (4.19%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (54.45%) Ruby on Rails
2 39 (20.42%) React
3 21 (10.99%) Next.js
4 16 (8.38%) JSON
4 16 (8.38%) Node.js
5 15 (7.85%) JWT
5 15 (7.85%) React Native
5 15 (7.85%) RESTful
5 15 (7.85%) Sidekiq
6 14 (7.33%) AWS CDK
7 8 (4.19%) .NET
8 7 (3.66%) REST
9 6 (3.14%) CSS
9 6 (3.14%) FastAPI
9 6 (3.14%) Kafka
10 5 (2.62%) HTML
11 4 (2.09%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (2.09%) Visualforce
12 3 (1.57%) Nuxt
12 3 (1.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.47%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.85%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (5.24%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.19%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.19%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.09%) Educational Technology
6 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.57%) Clustering
7 3 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.57%) NHS
7 3 (1.57%) Replication
8 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.52%) Blog
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.28%) Linux
2 19 (9.95%) Windows
3 8 (4.19%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.14%) Debian
5 5 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.57%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 41 (21.47%) Agile
3 40 (20.94%) Software Engineering
4 36 (18.85%) Mentoring
5 34 (17.80%) CI/CD
6 31 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.23%) Roadmaps
7 30 (15.71%) AI
8 27 (14.14%) Containerisation
9 25 (13.09%) Architectural Patterns
9 25 (13.09%) Scrum
10 24 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (11.52%) Clean Code
12 21 (10.99%) DevOps
12 21 (10.99%) OOP
13 20 (10.47%) Generative AI
14 16 (8.38%) API Design
15 15 (7.85%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (7.85%) Test Automation
15 15 (7.85%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.55%) Python
2 34 (17.80%) Java
3 27 (14.14%) Bash
4 23 (12.04%) JavaScript
4 23 (12.04%) PHP
5 21 (10.99%) SQL
5 21 (10.99%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.90%) Perl
7 12 (6.28%) C#
8 9 (4.71%) C
9 8 (4.19%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.66%) Rust
11 5 (2.62%) Go
11 5 (2.62%) Scala
12 4 (2.09%) Apex Code
12 4 (2.09%) Elixir
13 3 (1.57%) C++
13 3 (1.57%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.52%) F#
14 1 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (15.71%) Degree
2 16 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.33%) AWS Certification
3 14 (7.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.71%) A+ Certification
6 5 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.57%) CCSAM
7 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.57%) CREST Certified
7 3 (1.57%) GPEN
7 3 (1.57%) GXPN
7 3 (1.57%) OSCE
7 3 (1.57%) OSCP
8 2 (1.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.62%) QA
3 3 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (16.75%) Docker
2 8 (4.19%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (14.14%) Terraform
2 15 (7.85%) Ansible
3 7 (3.66%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.14%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (3.14%) ZABBIX
5 5 (2.62%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.57%) Podman
6 3 (1.57%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.57%) SCCM
7 2 (1.05%) Grafana
7 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.81%) Cisco
3 11 (5.76%) HP
4 8 (4.19%) VMware
5 7 (3.66%) Oracle
5 7 (3.66%) SAP
6 6 (3.14%) IBM
6 6 (3.14%) Splunk
7 5 (2.62%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.57%) Citrix
8 3 (1.57%) Thycotic
9 2 (1.05%) New Relic
9 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.52%) Databricks
10 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.52%) Informatica
10 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow