Ruby Job Trends in Manchester

Ruby
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester citing Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	200	131	157
Rank change year-on-year	-69	+26	-31
Permanent jobs citing Ruby	11	2	20
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester	0.14%	0.082%	0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category	0.92%	0.33%	1.68%
Number of salaries quoted	10	2	16
10^th Percentile	-	£57,450	£55,000
25^th Percentile	£52,500	£60,375	£62,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£66,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	-9.77%	+2.31%	+18.18%
75^th Percentile	-	£71,375	£67,500
90^th Percentile	-	£73,550	£80,000
North West median annual salary	£60,000	£68,750	£65,000
% change year-on-year	-12.73%	+5.77%	+18.18%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing coding skills in Manchester.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	1,191	605	1,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester	15.26%	24.82%	32.70%
Number of salaries quoted	834	501	613
10^th Percentile	£42,500	£32,750	£38,750
25^th Percentile	£52,500	£46,250	£46,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£60,000	£59,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.33%	+1.69%	-1.67%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£73,750	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£95,000	£87,500	£80,000
North West median annual salary	£62,500	£57,500	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+8.70%	+4.55%	-4.35%

Ruby Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ruby relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Ruby Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ruby.

Ruby Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 14 November 2026, job vacancies citing Ruby also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region citing Ruby.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	11
1	Python	100.0%	11
1	Software Engineering	100.0%	11
4	Next.js	90.9%	10
4	React Native	90.9%	10
4	Ruby on Rails	90.9%	10
7	Architectural Design	63.6%	7
7	React	63.6%	7
7	Terraform	63.6%	7
10	Ansible	54.5%	6
10	Docker	54.5%	6
10	FastAPI	54.5%	6
10	Splunk	54.5%	6
14	Architectural Patterns	45.5%	5
14	Design Patterns	45.5%	5
14	Full-Stack Development	45.5%	5
14	Mentoring	45.5%	5
18	Problem-Solving	36.4%	4
18	Product Roadmap	36.4%	4
18	Product Strategy	36.4%	4
18	Roadmaps	36.4%	4
18	Software Architecture	36.4%	4
18	Test Automation	36.4%	4
24	.NET	9.1%	1
24	.NET Core	9.1%	1
24	Agile	9.1%	1
24	AWS CloudFormation	9.1%	1
24	AWS Lambda	9.1%	1
24	BEM - Block Element Modifier	9.1%	1
24	C#	9.1%	1

Ruby Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	100.0%	11
2	C#	9.1%	1
2	Java	9.1%	1