Ruby Job Trends in the Midlands

Ruby
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 268 211
Rank change year-on-year +68 -57 +44
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 24 6 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.43% 0.067% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.07% 0.28% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 19
10th Percentile £46,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,500 £76,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -4.41% -6.21%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,157 2,156 1,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.88% 24.25% 35.11%
Number of salaries quoted 896 1,179 1,523
10th Percentile £28,875 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Ruby
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ruby

Ruby
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the Midlands

Ruby
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
East Midlands +23 14 £52,500 -22.22% 2
West Midlands +55 10 £75,000 +25.00%
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Glacier
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) SaaS
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) FTP
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
1 2 (8.33%) SMTP
1 2 (8.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) Subversion
1 2 (8.33%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (8.33%) Law
1 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (79.17%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Mac OS X
2 2 (8.33%) VMS
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) AI
2 19 (79.17%) Computer Science
2 19 (79.17%) Data Privacy
2 19 (79.17%) Machine Learning
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) OO
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (8.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) C#
2 22 (91.67%) Java
3 21 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 21 (87.50%) Python
3 21 (87.50%) SQL
4 19 (79.17%) C
4 19 (79.17%) C++
4 19 (79.17%) Dart
4 19 (79.17%) MATLAB
4 19 (79.17%) PHP
4 19 (79.17%) R
4 19 (79.17%) Rust
4 19 (79.17%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.33%) Groovy
5 2 (8.33%) Perl
6 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (79.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 19 (79.17%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Nagios
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle