Ruby Jobs in the South East

Ruby
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 365 286
Rank change year-on-year +86 -79 -10
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 28 32 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.18% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 0.64% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10 28 33
10th Percentile £52,500 - £51,750
25th Percentile £60,938 £37,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £53,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.49% -20.37% +3.85%
75th Percentile £97,500 £62,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £75,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,453 5,022 5,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.92% 28.99% 40.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,686 4,033 3,729
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,600
England median annual salary £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.97% -7.69% +4.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the South East

Ruby
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the South East.

Salary trend for Ruby in the South East

Ruby
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the South East

Ruby
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Thames Valley +65 18 £95,000 +80.95% 155
Buckinghamshire +42 9 - - 44
Oxfordshire +44 7 £70,000 +75.00% 29
East Sussex - 7 - - 22
Berkshire +34 2 £110,000 +109.52% 86
Middlesex - 2 - -
Hampshire +64 1 £62,500 -19.35% 74
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) CMS
2 2 (7.14%) Apache
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) GCP
2 2 (7.14%) H2O.ai
2 2 (7.14%) IaaS
2 2 (7.14%) PaaS
2 2 (7.14%) SaaS
2 2 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Hive
1 2 (7.14%) Big Data
1 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 2 (7.14%) Bigtable
1 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 2 (7.14%) HBase
1 2 (7.14%) Impala
1 2 (7.14%) Metadata
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 5 (17.86%) Tech for Good
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Law
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Ruby Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) UI Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (64.29%) HTML
2 8 (28.57%) React
2 8 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (7.14%) CSS
3 2 (7.14%) Flutter
3 2 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 16 (57.14%) Data Privacy
2 16 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Agile
4 5 (17.86%) Architectural Design
4 5 (17.86%) CRM
4 5 (17.86%) TDD
5 4 (14.29%) Microservices
5 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (7.14%) Data Acquisition
7 2 (7.14%) Data Analytics
7 2 (7.14%) Data Governance
7 2 (7.14%) High Availability
7 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (7.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) Python
2 21 (75.00%) SQL
3 19 (67.86%) JavaScript
4 18 (64.29%) C
4 18 (64.29%) C++
4 18 (64.29%) Java
4 18 (64.29%) Rust
5 17 (60.71%) TypeScript
6 16 (57.14%) C#
6 16 (57.14%) Dart
6 16 (57.14%) MATLAB
6 16 (57.14%) PHP
6 16 (57.14%) R
7 2 (7.14%) Bash
7 2 (7.14%) Go
7 2 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Degree
2 16 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) HDFS
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Cloudera
1 2 (7.14%) Dataiku
1 2 (7.14%) Google
1 2 (7.14%) MapR