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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 488 335
Rank change year-on-year -7 -153 -113
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 128 243 422
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.40% 0.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.25% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 66 172 305
10th Percentile £48,500 £35,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,938 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 10,624 19,466 19,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.07% 31.97% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,841 11,590 15,961
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,851 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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
North of England +38 41 £70,000 +7.69% 8
London -25 31 £80,000 +18.52% 91
North West +40 26 £68,750 +5.77% 5
Midlands +75 24 £55,000 -8.33%
South East +11 23 £70,000 -33.33% 16
East Midlands +33 14 £52,500 -22.22%
Yorkshire +18 14 £73,750 +63.89% 3
West Midlands +46 10 £75,000 +25.00%
South West +20 1 £75,000 +25.00% 7
East of England +16 1 £50,000 +85.19%
North East +5 1 - -
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 4 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Shopify
2 3 (2.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.19%) AWS
2 9 (7.03%) GitHub
3 8 (6.25%) Azure
4 7 (5.47%) SaaS
5 5 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (3.91%) Figma
6 4 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (3.13%) GCP
6 4 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (1.56%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.56%) Heroku
8 2 (1.56%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) dbt
9 1 (0.78%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.78%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) DNS
1 3 (2.34%) HTTP
2 2 (1.56%) FTP
2 2 (1.56%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.56%) Internet
2 2 (1.56%) SMTP
2 2 (1.56%) SSH
3 1 (0.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.78%) Looker
4 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.78%) MySQL
4 1 (0.78%) Power BI
4 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (7.81%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.69%) Git
3 3 (2.34%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.34%) GitLab
3 3 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.56%) JIRA
4 2 (1.56%) RSpec
4 2 (1.56%) Subversion
4 2 (1.56%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (2.34%) Games
3 3 (2.34%) Tech for Good
4 2 (1.56%) Banking
4 2 (1.56%) Law
4 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.56%) Publishing
5 1 (0.78%) Advertising
5 1 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (24.22%) Developer
2 30 (23.44%) Senior
3 24 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 13 (10.16%) Ruby Engineer
5 12 (9.38%) Senior Developer
5 12 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (7.81%) Ruby Developer
7 9 (7.03%) Backend Developer
8 5 (3.91%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (2.34%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (2.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.34%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (2.34%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (2.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (2.34%) Lead
9 3 (2.34%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.34%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (1.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (1.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (46.09%) HTML
2 35 (27.34%) Ruby on Rails
3 18 (14.06%) React
4 15 (11.72%) Node.js
5 11 (8.59%) React Native
6 10 (7.81%) CSS
7 8 (6.25%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.13%) REST
8 4 (3.13%) Spring
9 3 (2.34%) .NET
9 3 (2.34%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.34%) CSS3
9 3 (2.34%) HTML5
9 3 (2.34%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.56%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.56%) JSON
10 2 (1.56%) RESTful
10 2 (1.56%) Vue
10 2 (1.56%) YAML
11 1 (0.78%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.03%) IoT
2 7 (5.47%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.56%) Blog
4 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.78%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.25%) Linux
2 5 (3.91%) Windows
3 2 (1.56%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.56%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.56%) Unix
3 2 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (42.97%) AI
2 53 (41.41%) Computer Science
3 49 (38.28%) Data Privacy
3 49 (38.28%) Machine Learning
4 33 (25.78%) Agile
5 28 (21.88%) Software Engineering
6 24 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 22 (17.19%) DevOps
8 20 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 13 (10.16%) Clean Code
11 10 (7.81%) TDD
12 9 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.03%) Microservices
13 8 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
13 8 (6.25%) Product Roadmap
13 8 (6.25%) Roadmaps
13 8 (6.25%) User Experience
14 7 (5.47%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 71 (55.47%) Python
2 70 (54.69%) Java
3 68 (53.13%) JavaScript
4 59 (46.09%) TypeScript
5 58 (45.31%) C#
5 58 (45.31%) SQL
6 52 (40.63%) C++
7 51 (39.84%) PHP
8 49 (38.28%) C
8 49 (38.28%) Dart
8 49 (38.28%) MATLAB
8 49 (38.28%) R
8 49 (38.28%) Rust
9 10 (7.81%) Go
9 10 (7.81%) Kotlin
9 10 (7.81%) Scala
10 8 (6.25%) Elixir
11 6 (4.69%) PowerShell
12 5 (3.91%) Groovy
13 4 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (42.19%) Degree
2 53 (41.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.03%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.69%) Grafana
3 5 (3.91%) Terraform
4 3 (2.34%) Ansible
4 3 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.56%) Argo
5 2 (1.56%) Nagios
5 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (2.34%) Cribl.io
1 3 (2.34%) Google
1 3 (2.34%) Sonatype
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle
2 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
2 2 (1.56%) Splunk
3 1 (0.78%) Adobe
3 1 (0.78%) OneTrust
3 1 (0.78%) SendGrid