Ruby Jobs in England

Ruby
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 555 259
Rank change year-on-year +19 -296 -74
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 148 298 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.34% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 1.07% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 85 237 534
10th Percentile - £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £115,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% -6.67% +6.53%

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 14,565 27,898 37,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.11% 31.55% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,427 22,510 24,377
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby in England.

Salary trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 +27 58 £75,000 -11.76% 297
North of England +22 29 £70,000 +27.27% 438
South East +86 28 £82,500 +53.49% 475
Midlands +72 26 £62,500 +12.61% 345
North West -10 20 £70,000 +16.67% 231
West Midlands +72 14 £62,500 +6.38% 186
East Midlands +43 12 - - 137
Yorkshire +57 8 - - 161
East of England +38 5 £100,000 +17.65% 271
South West +78 1 £40,000 -42.86% 215
North East +45 1 - - 47
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.38%) CMS
2 2 (1.35%) Apache
2 2 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.73%) AWS
2 23 (15.54%) Azure
3 16 (10.81%) GitHub
4 8 (5.41%) GCP
4 8 (5.41%) Pulumi
5 6 (4.05%) SaaS
6 5 (3.38%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.38%) IaaS
6 5 (3.38%) Serverless
7 4 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.70%) PaaS
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (2.03%) AWS KMS
8 3 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) Firewall
1 3 (2.03%) HTTP
1 3 (2.03%) SSL
2 2 (1.35%) Internet
2 2 (1.35%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) Multicast
3 1 (0.68%) SSH
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) Unicast
3 1 (0.68%) VLAN
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.51%) MySQL
2 8 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.35%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.35%) Big Data
4 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.35%) Bigtable
4 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.35%) HBase
4 2 (1.35%) Impala
4 2 (1.35%) Metadata
4 2 (1.35%) Tableau
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Redis
5 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (12.16%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.76%) JIRA
3 9 (6.08%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.03%) CircleCI
4 3 (2.03%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.35%) Gatling
5 2 (1.35%) Git
5 2 (1.35%) GitLab
5 2 (1.35%) JMeter
5 2 (1.35%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) RSpec
General
1 17 (11.49%) Finance
2 11 (7.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.05%) Tech for Good
5 3 (2.03%) Banking
5 3 (2.03%) Games
5 3 (2.03%) Law
5 3 (2.03%) Retail
6 2 (1.35%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (21.62%) Lead
2 23 (15.54%) Senior
3 22 (14.86%) Platform Engineer
4 20 (13.51%) Software Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) Developer
6 10 (6.76%) Linux Engineer
6 10 (6.76%) Ruby Developer
7 9 (6.08%) Ruby Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Junior
9 7 (4.73%) Junior Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.03%) AWS Engineer
12 3 (2.03%) Lead Software Engineer
12 3 (2.03%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (2.03%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (35.14%) HTML
1 52 (35.14%) Ruby on Rails
2 42 (28.38%) React
3 18 (12.16%) jQuery
4 11 (7.43%) RESTful
5 9 (6.08%) Node.js
6 8 (5.41%) ADO
7 6 (4.05%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.05%) YAML
8 4 (2.70%) .NET
9 3 (2.03%) ARM Templates
9 3 (2.03%) CSS
9 3 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.35%) Flutter
10 2 (1.35%) Playwright
11 1 (0.68%) J2EE
11 1 (0.68%) JSON
11 1 (0.68%) React Native
11 1 (0.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.84%) NHS
2 12 (8.11%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.14%) Linux
2 4 (2.70%) Windows
3 3 (2.03%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.03%) VMS
4 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.14%) Artificial Intelligence
1 52 (35.14%) Computer Science
2 49 (33.11%) Data Privacy
2 49 (33.11%) Machine Learning
3 46 (31.08%) Software Engineering
4 40 (27.03%) CI/CD
5 29 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (19.59%) Roadmaps
6 24 (16.22%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (12.84%) Agile
8 18 (12.16%) DevOps
8 18 (12.16%) Product Roadmap
9 14 (9.46%) Mentoring
10 13 (8.78%) Microservices
11 12 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (6.76%) Low Latency
13 9 (6.08%) Configuration Management
13 9 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (6.08%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (6.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 99 (66.89%) Python
2 71 (47.97%) JavaScript
3 67 (45.27%) Java
4 61 (41.22%) C#
5 60 (40.54%) SQL
6 54 (36.49%) TypeScript
7 51 (34.46%) C
7 51 (34.46%) C++
7 51 (34.46%) Rust
8 49 (33.11%) Dart
8 49 (33.11%) MATLAB
8 49 (33.11%) PHP
8 49 (33.11%) R
9 16 (10.81%) Bicep
10 12 (8.11%) Bash
11 9 (6.08%) Go
12 7 (4.73%) Perl
13 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
14 4 (2.70%) Groovy
15 3 (2.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (37.16%) Degree
2 50 (33.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.35%) CCNA
4 2 (1.35%) CCNP
4 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.70%) QA
2 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (14.19%) Docker
2 5 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (19.59%) Terraform
2 27 (18.24%) Ansible
3 24 (16.22%) Progress Chef
4 21 (14.19%) Kubernetes
5 19 (12.84%) Puppet
6 7 (4.73%) Grafana
6 7 (4.73%) Podman
7 4 (2.70%) Consul
7 4 (2.70%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.03%) Argo
8 3 (2.03%) Istio
8 3 (2.03%) Nagios
8 3 (2.03%) Nessus
8 3 (2.03%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.35%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (3.38%) Splunk
2 4 (2.70%) Google
3 3 (2.03%) Cloudera
3 3 (2.03%) Juniper
3 3 (2.03%) New Relic
4 2 (1.35%) Cisco
4 2 (1.35%) Dataiku
4 2 (1.35%) F5
4 2 (1.35%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.35%) MapR
4 2 (1.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.35%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.35%) Snow
5 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.68%) IBM
5 1 (0.68%) Imperva
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle