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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 483 406
Rank change year-on-year -76 -77 -115
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 63 203 333
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.60% 1.26% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 48 149 278
10th Percentile £48,500 £52,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £89,750 £95,938
90th Percentile £93,000 £112,500 £110,150
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +0.72% -4.14%

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 10,454 16,161 20,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.19% 33.78% 37.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7,844 9,498 17,743
10th Percentile £32,838 £37,789 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,994 £48,750 £46,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.89% -7.31%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -34 20 £85,000 +13.33% 32
North of England +4 17 £67,500 +3.85% 11
North West +7 10 £67,500 -3.57% 3
South East -1 7 £75,000 -28.57% 30
Yorkshire -9 7 £75,000 +66.67% 6
Midlands +13 5 £55,000 -10.20% 9
West Midlands +25 3 £75,000 +22.45% 1
East Midlands -4 2 £52,500 -17.65% 7
South West +10 1 £75,000 +25.00% 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 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.17%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Shopify
2 3 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.46%) AWS
2 9 (14.29%) GitHub
3 6 (9.52%) Azure
3 6 (9.52%) GCP
4 5 (7.94%) SaaS
5 4 (6.35%) Figma
5 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.35%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.76%) dbt
6 3 (4.76%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.17%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) FTP
2 2 (3.17%) HTTP
2 2 (3.17%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.17%) SMTP
2 2 (3.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.76%) BigQuery
2 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.17%) Power BI
3 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.59%) Looker
4 1 (1.59%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.76%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.17%) Subversion
4 2 (3.17%) Vagrant
General
1 26 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (6.35%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.17%) Law
5 2 (3.17%) Marketing
5 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Public Speaking
5 2 (3.17%) Publishing
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Software Engineer
2 22 (34.92%) Senior
3 19 (30.16%) Developer
4 12 (19.05%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) Ruby Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.70%) Backend Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Backend Developer
8 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (4.76%) GCP Architect
10 2 (3.17%) Consultant
10 2 (3.17%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 2 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (44.44%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (22.22%) Node.js
3 13 (20.63%) React
3 13 (20.63%) React Native
4 12 (19.05%) GraphQL
5 11 (17.46%) CSS
5 11 (17.46%) HTML
6 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.35%) REST
6 4 (6.35%) Spring
6 4 (6.35%) Vue
7 3 (4.76%) CSS3
7 3 (4.76%) HTML5
8 2 (3.17%) JSON
8 2 (3.17%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.59%) Django
9 1 (1.59%) Express.js
9 1 (1.59%) jQuery
9 1 (1.59%) Next.js
9 1 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.70%) IoT
3 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Blog
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Linux
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
3 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.17%) Mac OS X
3 2 (3.17%) Unix
3 2 (3.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Agile
1 28 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 22 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (31.75%) CI/CD
3 20 (31.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (28.57%) DevOps
5 17 (26.98%) Mentoring
6 12 (19.05%) Clean Code
7 10 (15.87%) Roadmaps
8 9 (14.29%) Microservices
9 8 (12.70%) Product Roadmap
10 7 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (11.11%) User Experience
11 6 (9.52%) AI
11 6 (9.52%) Analytics
11 6 (9.52%) Computer Science
11 6 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (9.52%) Front End Development
11 6 (9.52%) TDD
12 5 (7.94%) OO
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) Java
2 16 (25.40%) Python
3 15 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 12 (19.05%) Go
5 10 (15.87%) Kotlin
5 10 (15.87%) Scala
6 9 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 8 (12.70%) Elixir
8 4 (6.35%) C#
8 4 (6.35%) Perl
8 4 (6.35%) SQL
9 3 (4.76%) Bash
9 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
1 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.70%) Degree
3 6 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.17%) CEH
4 2 (3.17%) CISA
4 2 (3.17%) CISSP
4 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.17%) OSCP
4 2 (3.17%) PhD
5 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.52%) Terraform
3 4 (6.35%) Argo
4 3 (4.76%) Ansible
5 2 (3.17%) Nagios
6 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (6.35%) Google
1 4 (6.35%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 1 (1.59%) OneTrust
3 1 (1.59%) SendGrid