Ruby Job Trends in the North of England

Ruby
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 267 296
Rank change year-on-year -59 +29 -88
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 21 42 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.094% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.58% 1.58% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15 29 25
10th Percentile - £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £76,500 £84,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,621 2,656 3,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.17% 27.59% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,745 1,396 2,887
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the North of England

Ruby
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ruby

Ruby
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the North of England

Ruby
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West -15 15 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Yorkshire -36 6 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (19.05%) Serverless
2 4 (19.05%) Slack
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Claude Code
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
1 4 (19.05%) Legal
1 4 (19.05%) Local Government
1 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
1 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Senior
2 15 (71.43%) Software Engineer
3 11 (52.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) Python Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Lead
5 4 (19.05%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) Ruby on Rails
2 15 (71.43%) React Native
3 14 (66.67%) Next.js
4 10 (47.62%) React
5 6 (28.57%) FastAPI
6 4 (19.05%) .NET
6 4 (19.05%) .NET Core
6 4 (19.05%) CSS
6 4 (19.05%) OpenAPI
7 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Native
1 8 (38.10%) Mobile App
1 8 (38.10%) Product Ownership
2 4 (19.05%) Blog
3 3 (14.29%) NHS
4 2 (9.52%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Software Engineering
2 15 (71.43%) Mentoring
3 12 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
3 12 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 10 (47.62%) Architectural Design
4 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (47.62%) Product Strategy
4 10 (47.62%) Roadmaps
5 9 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (38.10%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (38.10%) Software Architecture
6 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
7 7 (33.33%) Agile
8 6 (28.57%) Pair Programming
9 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
10 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
10 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (19.05%) Kanban
10 4 (19.05%) OO
10 4 (19.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) C#
2 4 (19.05%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Splunk