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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 484 415
Rank change year-on-year -73 -69 -115
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 62 199 343
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.42% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.59% 1.24% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 48 148 289
10th Percentile £48,500 - £42,275
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 £85,000 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £93,000 £112,500 £110,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -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 10,592 16,058 22,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.03% 33.99% 37.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,920 9,408 19,224
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,869 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 29 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 29 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 -24 23 £85,000 +13.33% 25
North of England -5 13 £72,500 +7.41% 5
North West +5 7 £67,500 -3.57% 2
South East -11 7 £75,000 -28.57% 18
Yorkshire -11 6 £75,000 +66.67% 2
Midlands +1 4 £55,000 -10.20% 3
West Midlands +25 2 £75,000 +22.45% 1
East Midlands -13 2 £52,500 -17.65% 2
South West +4 1 £75,000 +25.00% 6
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 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.23%) CMS
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Shopify
2 3 (4.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.13%) AWS
2 9 (14.52%) GitHub
3 7 (11.29%) Azure
3 7 (11.29%) GCP
4 5 (8.06%) SaaS
5 4 (6.45%) Figma
5 4 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.84%) dbt
6 3 (4.84%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.23%) Serverless
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.61%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.61%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.61%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) DNS
1 2 (3.23%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.61%) FTP
2 1 (1.61%) HTTP
2 1 (1.61%) SMTP
2 1 (1.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.84%) BigQuery
2 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.23%) Power BI
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.61%) Looker
4 1 (1.61%) MySQL
4 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Redis
4 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Git
2 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.45%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.61%) GitLab
4 1 (1.61%) Subversion
4 1 (1.61%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.45%) Tech for Good
4 2 (3.23%) Law
4 2 (3.23%) Marketing
4 2 (3.23%) Public Speaking
4 2 (3.23%) Publishing
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Legal
5 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (41.94%) Software Engineer
2 21 (33.87%) Senior
3 19 (30.65%) Developer
4 12 (19.35%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (16.13%) Ruby Engineer
6 9 (14.52%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Backend Developer
8 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) GCP Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Backend Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Lead
10 2 (3.23%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (46.77%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (22.58%) Node.js
3 13 (20.97%) React
4 12 (19.35%) GraphQL
4 12 (19.35%) React Native
5 11 (17.74%) CSS
5 11 (17.74%) HTML
6 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.45%) REST
6 4 (6.45%) Spring
6 4 (6.45%) Vue
7 3 (4.84%) CSS3
7 3 (4.84%) HTML5
8 2 (3.23%) JSON
8 2 (3.23%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.61%) Django
9 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.61%) jQuery
9 1 (1.61%) Next.js
9 1 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) IoT
3 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Blog
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.23%) Mac OS X
3 2 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) Software Engineering
2 24 (38.71%) Agile
3 21 (33.87%) CI/CD
4 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (30.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (24.19%) DevOps
6 15 (24.19%) Mentoring
7 10 (16.13%) Clean Code
8 9 (14.52%) Microservices
9 7 (11.29%) Roadmaps
9 7 (11.29%) User Experience
10 6 (9.68%) AI
10 6 (9.68%) Analytics
10 6 (9.68%) Computer Science
10 6 (9.68%) Containerisation
10 6 (9.68%) E-Commerce
10 6 (9.68%) Front End Development
10 6 (9.68%) High Availability
10 6 (9.68%) TDD
11 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) Java
2 16 (25.81%) Python
3 15 (24.19%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.13%) Kotlin
4 10 (16.13%) Scala
5 9 (14.52%) Go
5 9 (14.52%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.06%) Elixir
6 5 (8.06%) SQL
7 4 (6.45%) Bash
8 3 (4.84%) C#
8 3 (4.84%) Perl
8 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
1 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) Degree
3 6 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.23%) CEH
4 2 (3.23%) CISA
4 2 (3.23%) CISSP
4 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.23%) OSCP
4 2 (3.23%) PhD
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.68%) Terraform
3 4 (6.45%) Ansible
3 4 (6.45%) Argo
4 2 (3.23%) Grafana
5 1 (1.61%) Nagios
5 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (6.45%) Google
1 4 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.61%) OneTrust
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle
2 1 (1.61%) SendGrid