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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 483 372
Rank change year-on-year -58 -111 -133
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 80 241 354
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.40% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 1.22% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 66 171 294
10th Percentile £48,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £81,258 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £108,418 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -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 10,595 19,737 18,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.61% 32.81% 41.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,907 11,856 15,399
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,683 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £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 27 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 27 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
London -25 31 £85,500 +22.14% 21
North of England +45 25 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North West +44 19 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South East +13 8 £70,000 -33.33% 19
Yorkshire +9 6 £73,750 +63.89% 2
Midlands +43 5 £55,000 -8.33% 2
West Midlands +62 3 £75,000 +25.00% 1
East Midlands +24 2 £52,500 -22.22% 1
East of England +25 1 £50,000 +85.19%
South West +13 1 £75,000 +3.45% 10
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 (5.00%) CMS
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Shopify
2 3 (3.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.50%) AWS
2 11 (13.75%) GitHub
3 7 (8.75%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) SaaS
4 5 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (6.25%) Figma
4 5 (6.25%) GCP
5 4 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.75%) dbt
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (2.50%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.50%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (2.50%) Heroku
7 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) DNS
2 2 (2.50%) FTP
2 2 (2.50%) HTTP
2 2 (2.50%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.50%) SMTP
2 2 (2.50%) SSH
3 1 (1.25%) Broadband
3 1 (1.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.25%) Looker
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
4 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.75%) Git
3 3 (3.75%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.75%) GitLab
3 3 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.50%) JIRA
4 2 (2.50%) RSpec
4 2 (2.50%) Subversion
4 2 (2.50%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Finance
3 4 (5.00%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.75%) Games
5 2 (2.50%) Banking
5 2 (2.50%) Law
5 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Publishing
6 1 (1.25%) Advertising
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (37.50%) Developer
2 28 (35.00%) Senior
3 24 (30.00%) Software Engineer
4 14 (17.50%) Ruby Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Senior Developer
5 11 (13.75%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Backend Developer
6 9 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Ruby Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Backend Developer
8 3 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 3 (3.75%) Lead
8 3 (3.75%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (45.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 19 (23.75%) React
3 18 (22.50%) Node.js
4 12 (15.00%) CSS
4 12 (15.00%) HTML
5 11 (13.75%) React Native
6 9 (11.25%) GraphQL
7 5 (6.25%) Spring
8 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.00%) REST
8 4 (5.00%) Vue
9 3 (3.75%) .NET
9 3 (3.75%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.75%) CSS3
9 3 (3.75%) HTML5
9 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.50%) JSON
10 2 (2.50%) YAML
11 1 (1.25%) Django
11 1 (1.25%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) IoT
3 2 (2.50%) Blog
3 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.25%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.50%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.50%) Unix
3 2 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) Agile
2 27 (33.75%) Software Engineering
3 24 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 23 (28.75%) DevOps
4 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 13 (16.25%) Clean Code
8 11 (13.75%) Microservices
9 10 (12.50%) TDD
10 9 (11.25%) Roadmaps
11 8 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
11 8 (10.00%) User Experience
12 7 (8.75%) Collaborative Culture
12 7 (8.75%) Front End Development
13 6 (7.50%) Analytics
13 6 (7.50%) Critical Thinking
13 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) Java
1 23 (28.75%) Python
2 21 (26.25%) JavaScript
3 11 (13.75%) Go
3 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
4 10 (12.50%) Kotlin
4 10 (12.50%) Scala
5 8 (10.00%) C#
5 8 (10.00%) Elixir
5 8 (10.00%) SQL
6 7 (8.75%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.25%) Bash
7 5 (6.25%) Groovy
8 3 (3.75%) C++
9 2 (2.50%) Perl
9 2 (2.50%) PHP
9 2 (2.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) Degree
3 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.50%) Grafana
2 6 (7.50%) Terraform
3 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Argo
4 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.50%) Nagios
5 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.75%) Cribl.io
2 3 (3.75%) Google
2 3 (3.75%) Sonatype
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) Splunk
4 1 (1.25%) Adobe
4 1 (1.25%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.25%) SendGrid