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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 548 344
Rank change year-on-year +18 -204 -156
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 120 204 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.30% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 0.97% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 60 143 348
10th Percentile £52,500 £33,750 £46,320
25th Percentile £62,500 £48,147 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -6.67%

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 11,804 21,072 22,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.35% 30.67% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7,778 13,531 18,325
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +39 40 £67,500 +3.85% 7
South East +48 27 £70,000 +75.00% 7
North West +12 27 £67,500 +3.85% 4
London -4 26 £85,000 +30.77% 24
Midlands +71 24 - - 2
West Midlands +58 12 - -
East Midlands +42 12 - - 2
Yorkshire +24 12 £70,000 +55.56% 2
East of England -4 5 £100,000 +270.37% 3
North East +16 1 - - 1
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.83%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.83%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.83%) AWS
2 8 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
4 5 (4.17%) Amazon Glacier
4 5 (4.17%) AWS KMS
4 5 (4.17%) Azure
4 5 (4.17%) GitHub
4 5 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.50%) SaaS
6 3 (2.50%) Serverless
7 2 (1.67%) Figma
7 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.67%) Heroku
8 1 (0.83%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.17%) HTTP
2 3 (2.50%) DNS
2 3 (2.50%) Firewall
2 3 (2.50%) Internet
2 3 (2.50%) SSL
3 2 (1.67%) FTP
3 2 (1.67%) SMTP
3 2 (1.67%) SSH
4 1 (0.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.67%) MySQL
3 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.17%) Vagrant
3 3 (2.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (2.50%) Git
3 3 (2.50%) GitLab
3 3 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.67%) JIRA
4 2 (1.67%) RSpec
4 2 (1.67%) Subversion
5 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
General
1 15 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.00%) Tech for Good
3 5 (4.17%) Finance
4 3 (2.50%) Games
5 2 (1.67%) Banking
5 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Advertising
6 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (24.17%) Senior
2 26 (21.67%) Developer
3 23 (19.17%) Software Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (10.83%) Ruby Developer
6 12 (10.00%) Ruby Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Backend Developer
7 9 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Lead
10 5 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
11 3 (2.50%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (2.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) Lead Developer
11 3 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (45.83%) HTML
2 38 (31.67%) Ruby on Rails
3 16 (13.33%) React
4 8 (6.67%) React Native
5 7 (5.83%) Node.js
6 6 (5.00%) CSS
7 5 (4.17%) .NET
7 5 (4.17%) RESTful
8 3 (2.50%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.67%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.67%) REST
9 2 (1.67%) YAML
10 1 (0.83%) CSS3
10 1 (0.83%) Express.js
10 1 (0.83%) Flask
10 1 (0.83%) Flutter
10 1 (0.83%) HTML5
10 1 (0.83%) Laravel
10 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.50%) IoT
2 5 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.83%) NHS
3 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.83%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.67%) Windows
2 7 (5.83%) Linux
3 5 (4.17%) VMS
4 3 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (42.50%) Computer Science
2 49 (40.83%) Artificial Intelligence
2 49 (40.83%) Data Privacy
2 49 (40.83%) Machine Learning
3 26 (21.67%) Agile
3 26 (21.67%) Software Engineering
4 21 (17.50%) DevOps
5 18 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (9.17%) Clean Code
8 11 (9.17%) Mentoring
9 10 (8.33%) Roadmaps
10 9 (7.50%) Collaborative Culture
10 9 (7.50%) Product Roadmap
10 9 (7.50%) TDD
11 8 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (5.00%) Architectural Design
12 6 (5.00%) CRM
12 6 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 72 (60.00%) Python
2 62 (51.67%) JavaScript
3 59 (49.17%) C#
3 59 (49.17%) Java
3 59 (49.17%) SQL
4 54 (45.00%) TypeScript
5 52 (43.33%) C++
6 51 (42.50%) PHP
7 49 (40.83%) C
7 49 (40.83%) Dart
7 49 (40.83%) MATLAB
7 49 (40.83%) R
7 49 (40.83%) Rust
8 8 (6.67%) Elixir
8 8 (6.67%) Go
8 8 (6.67%) Groovy
9 6 (5.00%) Perl
10 5 (4.17%) Bash
10 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (43.33%) Degree
2 51 (42.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Terraform
2 7 (5.83%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.00%) Grafana
4 5 (4.17%) Ansible
4 5 (4.17%) Nagios
5 3 (2.50%) Nessus
5 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.50%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (2.50%) Cribl.io
1 3 (2.50%) Juniper
1 3 (2.50%) Sonatype
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle
2 2 (1.67%) Splunk
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe
3 1 (0.83%) Google
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.83%) SendGrid