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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 513 557
Rank change year-on-year -5 +44 -222
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 223 134 208
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 1.06% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 165 76 160
10th Percentile £28,850 £52,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £68,007 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.85% +3.70% -3.57%

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 16,784 12,587 21,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 28.71% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,196 8,409 15,759
10th Percentile £38,469 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,733 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +2.49% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +14 98 £75,000 - 6
South East 0 70 £60,000 -14.29% 12
East of England -13 22 £85,000 -15.00% 2
North of England -76 21 £55,000 -18.52% 4
North West -22 15 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Midlands -44 7 £35,000 - 2
West Midlands -35 6 £32,500 - 2
Yorkshire -37 6 £90,000 +28.57% 1
South West -72 5 £42,500 +6.25% 3
East Midlands -35 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 16 (7.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.59%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.35%) WordPress
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 107 (47.98%) AWS
2 35 (15.70%) SaaS
3 29 (13.00%) Serverless
4 28 (12.56%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (9.42%) Azure
6 19 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (8.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (6.28%) Amazon EventBridge
9 14 (6.28%) AWS Control Tower
9 14 (6.28%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (5.83%) PaaS
11 11 (4.93%) GitHub
12 8 (3.59%) GCP
13 6 (2.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (2.69%) Heroku
14 4 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (1.79%) Slack
15 2 (0.90%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.21%) Network Security
2 15 (6.73%) Firewall
3 13 (5.83%) DNS
4 11 (4.93%) LAN
4 11 (4.93%) WAN
5 10 (4.48%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.59%) Cisco Wireless
6 8 (3.59%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (3.59%) Skype
6 8 (3.59%) VLAN
6 8 (3.59%) Wireless
7 7 (3.14%) DHCP
8 6 (2.69%) BGP
8 6 (2.69%) IPsec
8 6 (2.69%) VPN
9 5 (2.24%) FIX Connectivity
10 3 (1.35%) Internet
10 3 (1.35%) VoIP
11 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.62%) Redis
3 13 (5.83%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.38%) MySQL
5 8 (3.59%) Big Data
6 6 (2.69%) Apache Hive
6 6 (2.69%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.69%) HBase
6 6 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Claude Code
1 4 (1.79%) Git
2 2 (0.90%) JIRA
3 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (25.56%) Finance
1 57 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.52%) Public Sector
3 18 (8.07%) Legal
4 13 (5.83%) Legal Technology
4 13 (5.83%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.38%) Banking
6 10 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.69%) Automotive
7 6 (2.69%) Marketing
7 6 (2.69%) Military
8 5 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.24%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.79%) Local Government
10 3 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (32.74%) Developer
2 64 (28.70%) Senior
3 39 (17.49%) Ruby Developer
4 29 (13.00%) Software Engineer
5 26 (11.66%) Lead
6 25 (11.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (9.87%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 21 (9.42%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.28%) 1st Line Support
9 14 (6.28%) Consultant
9 14 (6.28%) Ruby Engineer
9 14 (6.28%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.28%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.28%) Senior Security Consultant
10 12 (5.38%) Python Engineer
10 12 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (4.48%) IT Support
12 10 (4.48%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
13 9 (4.04%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (50.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 47 (21.08%) React
3 22 (9.87%) Next.js
4 18 (8.07%) JSON
5 17 (7.62%) JWT
5 17 (7.62%) Node.js
5 17 (7.62%) RESTful
5 17 (7.62%) Sidekiq
6 15 (6.73%) React Native
7 14 (6.28%) AWS CDK
8 9 (4.04%) .NET
8 9 (4.04%) CSS
9 7 (3.14%) REST
10 6 (2.69%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.69%) Kafka
11 5 (2.24%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (2.24%) HTML
12 4 (1.79%) .NET Core
12 4 (1.79%) OpenAPI
13 3 (1.35%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.31%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.73%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.28%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.04%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.59%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.69%) NHS
8 5 (2.24%) Eurex
8 5 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.79%) Blog
9 4 (1.79%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.35%) Clustering
10 3 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.35%) Replication
11 2 (0.90%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.59%) Linux
2 27 (12.11%) Windows
3 12 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.93%) Ubuntu
5 8 (3.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.69%) Debian
7 5 (2.24%) CentOS
7 5 (2.24%) Rocky
7 5 (2.24%) Unix
8 3 (1.35%) Gentoo
8 3 (1.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 43 (19.28%) Agile
3 40 (17.94%) Mentoring
3 40 (17.94%) Software Engineering
4 35 (15.70%) CI/CD
4 35 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (15.25%) Roadmaps
6 32 (14.35%) AI
7 29 (13.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 29 (13.00%) Containerisation
8 28 (12.56%) Scrum
9 26 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (10.31%) OOP
11 22 (9.87%) DevOps
12 21 (9.42%) Clean Code
13 20 (8.97%) Generative AI
14 18 (8.07%) API Design
14 18 (8.07%) ITIL
15 17 (7.62%) Performance Tuning
16 15 (6.73%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 74 (33.18%) Python
2 37 (16.59%) Java
3 32 (14.35%) Bash
3 32 (14.35%) JavaScript
4 28 (12.56%) SQL
5 25 (11.21%) TypeScript
6 23 (10.31%) Perl
6 23 (10.31%) PHP
7 17 (7.62%) C#
8 11 (4.93%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.48%) C
10 7 (3.14%) Rust
11 6 (2.69%) Scala
12 5 (2.24%) Go
13 4 (1.79%) C++
13 4 (1.79%) Elixir
14 3 (1.35%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.90%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.90%) R
16 1 (0.45%) F#
Qualifications
1 27 (12.11%) Degree
2 20 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.28%) AWS Certification
3 14 (6.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.04%) A+ Certification
6 8 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.24%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.79%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.79%) OSCP
9 3 (1.35%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.35%) GPEN
9 3 (1.35%) GXPN
9 3 (1.35%) OSCE
10 1 (0.45%) CEH
10 1 (0.45%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.45%) CHECK Team Member
10 1 (0.45%) CISA
10 1 (0.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.35%) QA
3 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 34 (15.25%) Docker
2 13 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (13.00%) Terraform
2 15 (6.73%) Ansible
3 8 (3.59%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.69%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (2.69%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.69%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.35%) Podman
5 3 (1.35%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.90%) Grafana
6 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.17%) Cisco
3 14 (6.28%) HP
4 12 (5.38%) Oracle
5 11 (4.93%) VMware
6 7 (3.14%) SAP
7 6 (2.69%) IBM
7 6 (2.69%) Splunk
8 5 (2.24%) Bloomberg
8 5 (2.24%) CQG
8 5 (2.24%) ION Trading
8 5 (2.24%) Patsystems
8 5 (2.24%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.24%) Reuters
8 5 (2.24%) Trayport
9 3 (1.35%) Citrix
9 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.35%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.90%) New Relic
10 2 (0.90%) OpenAI