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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 524 536
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 -195
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 238 118 206
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 1.01% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 183 58 145
10th Percentile £29,000 £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £94,000
UK median annual salary £64,618 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.69% -7.14%

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 16,938 11,668 20,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.47% 27.25% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,330 7,699 13,047
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -1.56% -1.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +8 99 £85,000 -2.86% 170
South East +15 90 £60,000 -14.29% 20
North of England -78 21 £55,000 -18.52% 23
North West -42 15 £55,000 -18.52% 12
East of England -29 14 £80,000 -20.00% 1
Midlands -70 11 £30,000 - 7
West Midlands -42 10 £30,000 - 5
Yorkshire -45 6 £90,000 +28.57% 4
South West - 3 £42,500 - 6
East Midlands -44 1 £41,000 - 2
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 26 (10.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.04%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.26%) WordPress
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.36%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 101 (42.44%) AWS
2 39 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (12.61%) Serverless
4 29 (12.18%) SaaS
5 20 (8.40%) Azure
6 19 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
9 14 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
9 14 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (5.04%) GitHub
11 7 (2.94%) GCP
12 6 (2.52%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (2.52%) Heroku
12 6 (2.52%) Slack
13 5 (2.10%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (2.10%) Entra ID
14 3 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.76%) Network Security
2 25 (10.50%) Firewall
3 16 (6.72%) DNS
4 15 (6.30%) LAN
4 15 (6.30%) WAN
5 13 (5.46%) TCP/IP
6 12 (5.04%) Cisco Wireless
6 12 (5.04%) Skype
6 12 (5.04%) VLAN
6 12 (5.04%) Wireless
7 10 (4.20%) DHCP
8 8 (3.36%) FIX Connectivity
8 8 (3.36%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (2.94%) VoIP
10 6 (2.52%) BGP
10 6 (2.52%) IPsec
10 6 (2.52%) VPN
11 4 (1.68%) Internet
12 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.72%) Redis
2 16 (6.72%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.04%) MySQL
4 8 (3.36%) Big Data
5 6 (2.52%) Apache Hive
5 6 (2.52%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.52%) HBase
5 6 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Claude Code
1 4 (1.68%) Git
2 3 (1.26%) JIRA
3 2 (0.84%) GitLab
3 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 57 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.59%) Finance
3 18 (7.56%) Legal
3 18 (7.56%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.88%) Banking
5 13 (5.46%) Legal Technology
5 13 (5.46%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.04%) Automotive
7 10 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.52%) Marketing
8 6 (2.52%) Military
9 5 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.10%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.68%) Local Government
11 2 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.84%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (34.45%) Developer
2 70 (29.41%) Senior
3 39 (16.39%) Ruby Developer
4 31 (13.03%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 28 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (10.92%) Senior Developer
7 25 (10.50%) Software Engineer
8 18 (7.56%) Lead
9 17 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
9 17 (7.14%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
10 15 (6.30%) IT Support
11 14 (5.88%) Consultant
11 14 (5.88%) Security Consultant
11 14 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (5.88%) Senior Security Consultant
12 13 (5.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (5.46%) Ruby Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) Network Support
13 12 (5.04%) Python Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (46.22%) Ruby on Rails
2 47 (19.75%) React
3 30 (12.61%) Terraform
4 22 (9.24%) Next.js
5 17 (7.14%) JSON
6 16 (6.72%) JWT
6 16 (6.72%) Node.js
6 16 (6.72%) RESTful
6 16 (6.72%) Sidekiq
7 15 (6.30%) React Native
8 14 (5.88%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.78%) CSS
10 8 (3.36%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (2.94%) REST
12 6 (2.52%) .NET
12 6 (2.52%) FastAPI
12 6 (2.52%) Kafka
13 5 (2.10%) HTML
14 4 (1.68%) .NET Core
14 4 (1.68%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.50%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.30%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.20%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.36%) Eurex
6 8 (3.36%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.52%) NHS
8 5 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.68%) Blog
9 4 (1.68%) Educational Technology
9 4 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.26%) Clustering
10 3 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.26%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.26%) Replication
10 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.23%) Windows
2 39 (16.39%) Linux
3 19 (7.98%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.46%) Ubuntu
5 12 (5.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.36%) CentOS
6 8 (3.36%) Rocky
6 8 (3.36%) Unix
7 6 (2.52%) Debian
8 5 (2.10%) Solaris
9 3 (1.26%) Gentoo
9 3 (1.26%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (28.99%) Full-Stack Development
2 47 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (17.23%) Agile
3 41 (17.23%) Mentoring
4 37 (15.55%) Software Engineering
5 35 (14.71%) AI
5 35 (14.71%) CI/CD
6 33 (13.87%) Roadmaps
7 29 (12.18%) Architectural Patterns
8 26 (10.92%) Containerisation
8 26 (10.92%) Scrum
9 25 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (10.50%) ITIL
10 23 (9.66%) OOP
11 20 (8.40%) DevOps
11 20 (8.40%) Generative AI
12 19 (7.98%) Clean Code
13 17 (7.14%) API Design
14 16 (6.72%) Performance Tuning
14 16 (6.72%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (31.51%) Python
2 35 (14.71%) Java
3 34 (14.29%) Bash
3 34 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 30 (12.61%) SQL
5 26 (10.92%) Perl
6 24 (10.08%) TypeScript
7 23 (9.66%) PHP
8 16 (6.72%) C#
9 12 (5.04%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.20%) C
11 5 (2.10%) Go
12 4 (1.68%) C++
13 3 (1.26%) Rust
14 2 (0.84%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.84%) R
14 2 (0.84%) Scala
15 1 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (10.08%) Degree
2 21 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.78%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.10%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.68%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.68%) OSCP
9 3 (1.26%) CISSP
9 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.84%) CCSAM
10 2 (0.84%) CEH
10 2 (0.84%) CHECK Team Leader
10 2 (0.84%) CHECK Team Member
10 2 (0.84%) CISA
10 2 (0.84%) GPEN
10 2 (0.84%) GXPN
10 2 (0.84%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.84%) QA
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) GRC
4 1 (0.42%) PERC
4 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (13.87%) Docker
2 25 (10.50%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (6.30%) Ansible
2 12 (5.04%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.52%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.52%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.26%) Podman
4 3 (1.26%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.26%) SCCM
5 2 (0.84%) Grafana
5 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (25.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.40%) Cisco
3 18 (7.56%) HP
4 15 (6.30%) Oracle
4 15 (6.30%) VMware
5 8 (3.36%) Bloomberg
5 8 (3.36%) CQG
5 8 (3.36%) ION Trading
5 8 (3.36%) Patsystems
5 8 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.36%) Reuters
5 8 (3.36%) Trayport
6 7 (2.94%) SAP
7 6 (2.52%) IBM
7 6 (2.52%) Splunk
8 3 (1.26%) Citrix
8 3 (1.26%) QNAP
8 3 (1.26%) Thycotic
9 2 (0.84%) New Relic
9 2 (0.84%) OpenAI