Ruby Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Ruby
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.47% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.41% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -10.34%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 37 156 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.75% 31.77% 46.57%
Number of salaries quoted 21 77 127
10th Percentile £39,250 £37,800 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,500 £47,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +35.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Ruby
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Ruby

Ruby
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
County Antrim - 2 £75,000 - 5
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) Grails
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker