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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 517 527
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -193
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 245 117 210
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.48% 1.02% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 183 56 145
10th Percentile £29,000 £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £59,688 £51,250
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 £78,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £63,373 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.47% +7.69% -6.81%

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 16,597 11,495 20,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.96% 26.54% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12,116 7,536 12,420
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,875 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -4 101 £85,000 +6.25% 178
South East +25 94 £55,000 -21.43% 21
North of England -77 21 £55,000 -18.52% 19
North West -33 15 £55,000 -18.52% 10
East of England -24 14 £80,000 -20.00% 2
Midlands -48 12 £30,000 -45.45% 10
West Midlands -45 11 £30,000 - 7
Yorkshire -38 6 £90,000 +28.57% 3
South West - 3 £42,500 - 2
East Midlands -42 1 £41,000 -25.45% 3
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 29 (11.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 14 (5.71%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.22%) WordPress
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.27%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 96 (39.18%) AWS
2 42 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (12.24%) Serverless
4 29 (11.84%) SaaS
5 19 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (7.35%) Azure
7 17 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (5.71%) Amazon EventBridge
8 14 (5.71%) AWS Control Tower
8 14 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (5.31%) GitHub
10 6 (2.45%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (2.45%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.45%) Heroku
10 6 (2.45%) Slack
11 5 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.04%) GCP
12 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.43%) Firewall
1 28 (11.43%) Network Security
2 17 (6.94%) LAN
2 17 (6.94%) WAN
3 16 (6.53%) DNS
4 14 (5.71%) Cisco Wireless
4 14 (5.71%) Skype
4 14 (5.71%) VLAN
4 14 (5.71%) Wireless
5 13 (5.31%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.08%) DHCP
7 8 (3.27%) FIX Connectivity
7 8 (3.27%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (3.27%) VoIP
8 6 (2.45%) BGP
8 6 (2.45%) IPsec
8 6 (2.45%) VPN
9 4 (1.63%) Internet
10 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.88%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.53%) Redis
2 16 (6.53%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.90%) MySQL
4 8 (3.27%) Big Data
5 6 (2.45%) Apache Hive
5 6 (2.45%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.45%) HBase
5 6 (2.45%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Claude Code
1 4 (1.63%) Git
2 3 (1.22%) JIRA
3 2 (0.82%) GitLab
3 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 57 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.18%) Finance
3 18 (7.35%) Legal
3 18 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.71%) Automotive
5 13 (5.31%) Legal Technology
5 13 (5.31%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.90%) Banking
7 10 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.45%) Marketing
8 6 (2.45%) Military
9 5 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.04%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.63%) Local Government
11 3 (1.22%) Public Speaking
11 3 (1.22%) Publishing
12 2 (0.82%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (34.69%) Developer
2 70 (28.57%) Senior
3 39 (15.92%) Ruby Developer
4 33 (13.47%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 27 (11.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (10.61%) Senior Developer
7 24 (9.80%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.76%) Lead
8 19 (7.76%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
9 18 (7.35%) 1st Line Support
10 16 (6.53%) IT Support
11 14 (5.71%) Consultant
11 14 (5.71%) Network Support
11 14 (5.71%) Security Consultant
11 14 (5.71%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (5.71%) Senior Security Consultant
12 13 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (5.31%) Support Technician
13 12 (4.90%) IT Engineer
13 12 (4.90%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (44.90%) Ruby on Rails
2 44 (17.96%) React
3 31 (12.65%) Terraform
4 22 (8.98%) Next.js
5 17 (6.94%) JSON
6 16 (6.53%) JWT
6 16 (6.53%) RESTful
6 16 (6.53%) Sidekiq
7 15 (6.12%) React Native
8 14 (5.71%) AWS CDK
9 13 (5.31%) Node.js
10 9 (3.67%) CSS
11 8 (3.27%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (2.86%) REST
13 6 (2.45%) .NET
13 6 (2.45%) FastAPI
13 6 (2.45%) Kafka
14 5 (2.04%) HTML
15 4 (1.63%) .NET Core
15 4 (1.63%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.20%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.53%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.71%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (4.49%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.27%) Eurex
6 7 (2.86%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.45%) NHS
8 4 (1.63%) Blog
8 4 (1.63%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.22%) Clustering
9 3 (1.22%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.22%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.22%) Replication
9 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.96%) Windows
2 37 (15.10%) Linux
3 22 (8.98%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (5.31%) Ubuntu
6 8 (3.27%) CentOS
6 8 (3.27%) Rocky
6 8 (3.27%) Unix
7 6 (2.45%) Debian
8 5 (2.04%) Solaris
9 4 (1.63%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.22%) Gentoo
11 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (28.16%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (16.73%) Agile
4 39 (15.92%) Mentoring
5 38 (15.51%) Software Engineering
6 35 (14.29%) AI
7 34 (13.88%) CI/CD
8 31 (12.65%) Roadmaps
9 29 (11.84%) Architectural Patterns
10 27 (11.02%) ITIL
11 26 (10.61%) Containerisation
11 26 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (10.61%) Scrum
12 23 (9.39%) OOP
13 20 (8.16%) DevOps
13 20 (8.16%) Generative AI
14 19 (7.76%) Clean Code
15 17 (6.94%) API Design
15 17 (6.94%) ERP
15 17 (6.94%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (30.61%) Python
2 34 (13.88%) Java
2 34 (13.88%) JavaScript
3 32 (13.06%) Bash
4 30 (12.24%) SQL
5 25 (10.20%) Perl
6 23 (9.39%) PHP
7 20 (8.16%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.12%) C#
9 10 (4.08%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.67%) C
11 4 (1.63%) Go
12 3 (1.22%) C++
12 3 (1.22%) Rust
13 2 (0.82%) R
13 2 (0.82%) Scala
14 1 (0.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (8.98%) Degree
1 22 (8.98%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.71%) AWS Certification
2 14 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 14 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.67%) A+ Certification
5 5 (2.04%) CISSP
5 5 (2.04%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.22%) CEH
6 3 (1.22%) CHECK Team Leader
6 3 (1.22%) CHECK Team Member
6 3 (1.22%) CISA
6 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.22%) CREST Certified
6 3 (1.22%) OSCP
7 2 (0.82%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.82%) GDPR
3 2 (0.82%) PERC
3 2 (0.82%) QA
3 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.41%) GRC
System Software
1 33 (13.47%) Docker
2 29 (11.84%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (6.12%) Ansible
2 14 (5.71%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.45%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.45%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.22%) Podman
4 3 (1.22%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.22%) SCCM
5 2 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.98%) Cisco
3 20 (8.16%) HP
4 17 (6.94%) VMware
5 15 (6.12%) Oracle
6 8 (3.27%) Bloomberg
6 8 (3.27%) CQG
6 8 (3.27%) ION Trading
6 8 (3.27%) Patsystems
6 8 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.27%) Reuters
6 8 (3.27%) Trayport
7 7 (2.86%) SAP
8 6 (2.45%) IBM
8 6 (2.45%) Splunk
9 4 (1.63%) QNAP
10 3 (1.22%) Citrix
10 3 (1.22%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.82%) New Relic
11 2 (0.82%) OpenAI