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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 511 531
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -196
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 245 124 212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.48% 1.10% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 180 63 145
10th Percentile £29,000 £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £61,250 £53,750
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 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £63,373 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.47% +7.69% -6.47%

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 16,570 11,301 20,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.94% 26.26% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,018 7,475 12,292
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,987 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +18 101 £85,000 +6.25% 159
South East +18 93 £50,000 -28.57% 22
North of England -88 21 £55,000 -21.43% 18
North West -35 15 £55,000 -18.52% 8
East of England -31 14 £80,000 -20.00% 2
Midlands -59 13 £30,000 -53.85% 6
West Midlands -47 12 £30,000 -60.00% 4
Yorkshire -51 6 £90,000 +22.03% 3
South West -70 3 £42,500 -43.33% 2
East Midlands -41 1 £41,000 -25.45% 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 29 (11.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 14 (5.71%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.22%) WordPress
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.27%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 94 (38.37%) AWS
2 42 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (12.24%) Serverless
4 29 (11.84%) SaaS
5 19 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (7.35%) Azure
7 17 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (5.71%) Amazon EventBridge
8 14 (5.71%) AWS Control Tower
8 14 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (4.90%) GitHub
10 6 (2.45%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (2.45%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.45%) Heroku
10 6 (2.45%) Slack
11 5 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.04%) GCP
12 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.43%) Firewall
1 28 (11.43%) Network Security
2 17 (6.94%) LAN
2 17 (6.94%) WAN
3 16 (6.53%) DNS
4 14 (5.71%) Cisco Wireless
4 14 (5.71%) Skype
4 14 (5.71%) VLAN
4 14 (5.71%) Wireless
5 13 (5.31%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.08%) DHCP
7 8 (3.27%) FIX Connectivity
7 8 (3.27%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (3.27%) VoIP
8 6 (2.45%) BGP
8 6 (2.45%) IPsec
8 6 (2.45%) VPN
9 4 (1.63%) Internet
10 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.47%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.53%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.12%) Redis
4 12 (4.90%) MySQL
5 8 (3.27%) Big Data
6 6 (2.45%) Apache Hive
6 6 (2.45%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.45%) HBase
6 6 (2.45%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Claude Code
2 3 (1.22%) Git
2 3 (1.22%) JIRA
3 2 (0.82%) GitLab
3 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 55 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.18%) Finance
3 18 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.94%) Legal
5 14 (5.71%) Automotive
6 13 (5.31%) Legal Technology
6 13 (5.31%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.90%) Banking
8 10 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.45%) Marketing
9 6 (2.45%) Military
10 5 (2.04%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.63%) Local Government
11 4 (1.63%) Public Speaking
11 4 (1.63%) Publishing
12 1 (0.41%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (34.69%) Developer
2 69 (28.16%) Senior
3 38 (15.51%) Ruby Developer
4 33 (13.47%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 26 (10.61%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (10.61%) Senior Developer
6 24 (9.80%) Software Engineer
7 19 (7.76%) Lead
7 19 (7.76%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
8 18 (7.35%) 1st Line Support
9 16 (6.53%) IT Support
10 14 (5.71%) Consultant
10 14 (5.71%) Network Support
10 14 (5.71%) Security Consultant
10 14 (5.71%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (5.71%) Senior Security Consultant
11 13 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) Support Technician
12 12 (4.90%) IT Engineer
12 12 (4.90%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (44.49%) Ruby on Rails
2 43 (17.55%) React
3 31 (12.65%) Terraform
4 22 (8.98%) Next.js
5 16 (6.53%) JSON
6 15 (6.12%) JWT
6 15 (6.12%) React Native
6 15 (6.12%) RESTful
6 15 (6.12%) Sidekiq
7 14 (5.71%) AWS CDK
8 12 (4.90%) Node.js
9 9 (3.67%) CSS
10 8 (3.27%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (2.86%) .NET
11 7 (2.86%) REST
12 6 (2.45%) FastAPI
12 6 (2.45%) Kafka
13 5 (2.04%) HTML
14 4 (1.63%) .NET Core
14 4 (1.63%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.20%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.71%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (4.90%) Mobile App
5 11 (4.49%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.27%) Eurex
6 8 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.45%) NHS
9 4 (1.63%) Blog
9 4 (1.63%) Educational Technology
9 4 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
10 3 (1.22%) Clustering
10 3 (1.22%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.22%) Replication
10 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.96%) Windows
2 37 (15.10%) Linux
3 22 (8.98%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (5.31%) Ubuntu
6 8 (3.27%) CentOS
6 8 (3.27%) Rocky
6 8 (3.27%) Unix
7 6 (2.45%) Debian
8 5 (2.04%) Solaris
9 4 (1.63%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.22%) Gentoo
11 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 53 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (16.33%) Agile
4 38 (15.51%) Mentoring
4 38 (15.51%) Software Engineering
5 35 (14.29%) AI
6 34 (13.88%) CI/CD
7 30 (12.24%) Roadmaps
8 28 (11.43%) Architectural Patterns
9 27 (11.02%) ITIL
10 25 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (10.20%) Scrum
11 24 (9.80%) Containerisation
12 22 (8.98%) OOP
13 20 (8.16%) DevOps
13 20 (8.16%) Generative AI
14 18 (7.35%) Clean Code
15 16 (6.53%) Cloud Security
15 16 (6.53%) Identity Access Management
15 16 (6.53%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (30.61%) Python
2 34 (13.88%) Java
2 34 (13.88%) JavaScript
3 32 (13.06%) Bash
4 31 (12.65%) SQL
5 26 (10.61%) Perl
6 23 (9.39%) PHP
7 19 (7.76%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.53%) C#
9 10 (4.08%) C
9 10 (4.08%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.63%) C++
10 4 (1.63%) Go
11 3 (1.22%) Rust
12 2 (0.82%) R
12 2 (0.82%) Scala
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (9.39%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.98%) Degree
3 14 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 14 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.67%) A+ Certification
6 6 (2.45%) CISSP
7 5 (2.04%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.63%) CEH
8 4 (1.63%) CHECK Team Leader
8 4 (1.63%) CHECK Team Member
8 4 (1.63%) CISA
8 4 (1.63%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.63%) OSCP
9 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.82%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.82%) GDPR
3 2 (0.82%) PERC
3 2 (0.82%) QA
3 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.41%) GRC
System Software
1 32 (13.06%) Docker
2 29 (11.84%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (6.12%) Ansible
2 14 (5.71%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.45%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.45%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.22%) Podman
4 3 (1.22%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.22%) SCCM
5 2 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.98%) Cisco
3 20 (8.16%) HP
4 17 (6.94%) VMware
5 14 (5.71%) Oracle
6 8 (3.27%) Bloomberg
6 8 (3.27%) CQG
6 8 (3.27%) ION Trading
6 8 (3.27%) Patsystems
6 8 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.27%) Reuters
6 8 (3.27%) Trayport
7 7 (2.86%) SAP
8 6 (2.45%) IBM
8 6 (2.45%) Splunk
9 4 (1.63%) QNAP
10 3 (1.22%) Citrix
10 3 (1.22%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.82%) New Relic
11 2 (0.82%) OpenAI