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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 524 559
Rank change year-on-year -5 +35 -226
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 216 135 208
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 1.06% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 159 77 160
10th Percentile £28,700 £52,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% - -

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 16,690 12,697 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 29.07% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,155 8,459 15,920
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £36,494
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,031
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +11 96 £75,000 - 184
South East +10 67 £60,000 -14.29% 16
East of England -15 21 £82,500 -17.50% 6
North of England -73 20 £55,000 -18.52% 4
North West -34 15 £55,000 -18.52% 2
South West -56 6 £42,500 +6.25% 7
Yorkshire -34 5 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Midlands -40 5 £30,000 - 4
West Midlands -30 4 £30,000 - 4
East Midlands -31 1 £41,000 -
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 14 (6.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.24%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.39%) WordPress
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 108 (50.00%) AWS
2 34 (15.74%) SaaS
3 28 (12.96%) Serverless
4 24 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (8.80%) Azure
6 18 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (6.48%) Amazon EventBridge
9 14 (6.48%) AWS Control Tower
9 14 (6.48%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (6.02%) PaaS
11 11 (5.09%) GitHub
12 8 (3.70%) GCP
13 6 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (2.78%) Heroku
14 4 (1.85%) Anthropic Claude
15 3 (1.39%) Slack
16 2 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.11%) Network Security
2 13 (6.02%) Firewall
3 12 (5.56%) DNS
4 9 (4.17%) LAN
4 9 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.17%) WAN
5 8 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (3.24%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (3.24%) Skype
6 7 (3.24%) VLAN
6 7 (3.24%) Wireless
7 6 (2.78%) BGP
7 6 (2.78%) DHCP
7 6 (2.78%) IPsec
7 6 (2.78%) VPN
8 4 (1.85%) FIX Connectivity
9 3 (1.39%) Internet
9 3 (1.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.20%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.87%) Redis
3 12 (5.56%) MySQL
3 12 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.70%) Big Data
5 6 (2.78%) Apache Hive
5 6 (2.78%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.78%) HBase
5 6 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Git
2 4 (1.85%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.93%) GitLab
3 2 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 55 (25.46%) Finance
3 18 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.87%) Legal
5 13 (6.02%) Legal Technology
6 12 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.09%) Banking
8 9 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.78%) Automotive
9 6 (2.78%) Marketing
9 6 (2.78%) Military
10 5 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.31%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.39%) Local Government
13 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 71 (32.87%) Developer
2 63 (29.17%) Senior
3 39 (18.06%) Ruby Developer
4 29 (13.43%) Software Engineer
5 26 (12.04%) Lead
6 24 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (9.26%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 20 (9.26%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.48%) Consultant
8 14 (6.48%) Ruby Engineer
8 14 (6.48%) Security Consultant
8 14 (6.48%) Senior Consultant
8 14 (6.48%) Senior Security Consultant
9 13 (6.02%) 1st Line Support
10 12 (5.56%) Python Engineer
11 11 (5.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
12 9 (4.17%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
12 9 (4.17%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (51.39%) Ruby on Rails
2 46 (21.30%) React
3 22 (10.19%) Next.js
4 18 (8.33%) JSON
5 17 (7.87%) JWT
5 17 (7.87%) Node.js
5 17 (7.87%) RESTful
5 17 (7.87%) Sidekiq
6 15 (6.94%) React Native
7 14 (6.48%) AWS CDK
8 10 (4.63%) .NET
9 8 (3.70%) CSS
10 7 (3.24%) REST
11 6 (2.78%) FastAPI
11 6 (2.78%) Kafka
12 5 (2.31%) HTML
13 4 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
14 3 (1.39%) Nuxt
14 3 (1.39%) Visualforce
14 3 (1.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.65%) Onboarding
2 16 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.48%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.31%) NHS
7 4 (1.85%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.85%) Eurex
7 4 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.39%) Blog
8 3 (1.39%) Clustering
8 3 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.39%) Replication
9 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.13%) Linux
2 23 (10.65%) Windows
3 11 (5.09%) Ubuntu
4 10 (4.63%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.78%) Debian
7 4 (1.85%) CentOS
7 4 (1.85%) Rocky
7 4 (1.85%) Unix
8 3 (1.39%) Gentoo
8 3 (1.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.85%) Full-Stack Development
2 45 (20.83%) Agile
3 41 (18.98%) Software Engineering
4 39 (18.06%) Mentoring
5 36 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 33 (15.28%) Roadmaps
7 32 (14.81%) AI
7 32 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (13.89%) Containerisation
9 28 (12.96%) Architectural Patterns
9 28 (12.96%) Scrum
10 26 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (11.11%) DevOps
12 23 (10.65%) OOP
13 22 (10.19%) Clean Code
14 20 (9.26%) Generative AI
15 18 (8.33%) API Design
16 17 (7.87%) Performance Tuning
17 16 (7.41%) ITIL
18 15 (6.94%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 73 (33.80%) Python
2 37 (17.13%) Java
3 32 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 31 (14.35%) Bash
5 27 (12.50%) SQL
6 25 (11.57%) TypeScript
7 23 (10.65%) PHP
8 21 (9.72%) Perl
9 15 (6.94%) C#
10 11 (5.09%) PowerShell
11 9 (4.17%) C
12 7 (3.24%) Rust
13 6 (2.78%) Go
13 6 (2.78%) Scala
14 4 (1.85%) Elixir
15 3 (1.39%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.39%) C++
15 3 (1.39%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.93%) R
17 1 (0.46%) F#
Qualifications
1 29 (13.43%) Degree
2 18 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.48%) AWS Certification
3 14 (6.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.17%) A+ Certification
6 7 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.85%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.39%) CCSAM
8 3 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.39%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.39%) GPEN
8 3 (1.39%) GXPN
8 3 (1.39%) OSCE
8 3 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.85%) QA
3 3 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) GRC
System Software
1 34 (15.74%) Docker
2 11 (5.09%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.39%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (13.43%) Terraform
2 15 (6.94%) Ansible
3 7 (3.24%) FortiGate
3 7 (3.24%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.78%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (2.78%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.39%) Podman
5 3 (1.39%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.39%) SCCM
6 2 (0.93%) Grafana
6 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.94%) Cisco
3 13 (6.02%) HP
4 11 (5.09%) Oracle
5 10 (4.63%) VMware
6 7 (3.24%) SAP
7 6 (2.78%) IBM
7 6 (2.78%) Splunk
8 4 (1.85%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.85%) CQG
8 4 (1.85%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.85%) Patsystems
8 4 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.85%) Reuters
8 4 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.85%) Trayport
9 3 (1.39%) Citrix
9 3 (1.39%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.93%) New Relic
10 2 (0.93%) OpenAI