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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 280 211
Rank change year-on-year +71 -69 +47
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 24 4 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.43% 0.040% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 0.17% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 25
10th Percentile - £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile - £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £73,125 £83,750
90th Percentile - £76,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -6.67%

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 1,244 2,344 1,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.21% 23.35% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 953 1,413 1,567
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £39,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.56%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby 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
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 17 September 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
West Midlands +58 12 - -
East Midlands +42 12 - - 2
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon ELB
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon Glacier
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
1 5 (20.83%) AWS KMS
1 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
1 3 (12.50%) SSL
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) FTP
2 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 2 (8.33%) SMTP
2 2 (8.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
1 5 (20.83%) Vagrant
2 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (79.17%) HTML
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
1 5 (20.83%) VMS
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Artificial Intelligence
1 19 (79.17%) Computer Science
1 19 (79.17%) Data Privacy
1 19 (79.17%) Machine Learning
2 5 (20.83%) Agile
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
2 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 3 (12.50%) Key Management
3 3 (12.50%) Patch Management
3 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (12.50%) Server Management
4 2 (8.33%) OO
4 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (8.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Java
1 24 (100.00%) Python
2 21 (87.50%) C#
3 19 (79.17%) C
3 19 (79.17%) C++
3 19 (79.17%) Dart
3 19 (79.17%) JavaScript
3 19 (79.17%) MATLAB
3 19 (79.17%) PHP
3 19 (79.17%) R
3 19 (79.17%) Rust
3 19 (79.17%) SQL
3 19 (79.17%) TypeScript
4 5 (20.83%) Groovy
4 5 (20.83%) Perl
5 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
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
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
1 3 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Nagios
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Nessus
2 3 (12.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Juniper
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle