Ruby Job Trends in the South East

Ruby
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 267 252
Rank change year-on-year +4 -15 +57
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 7 39 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.067% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.44% 1.31% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 39
10th Percentile £62,500 £94,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £97,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +75.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,375 £112,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £115,000 £80,200
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -

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 1,591 2,979 3,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.33% 33.18% 34.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,264 1,740 2,397
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the South East

Ruby
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ruby

Ruby
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Thames Valley -10 5 £75,000 -28.57% 15
Oxfordshire - 4 £75,000 - 1
Hampshire +26 1 £55,000 - 2
Berkshire -26 1 £82,500 -21.43% 13
West Sussex - 1 £85,000 - 2
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Heroku
2 1 (14.29%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Tech for Good
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (28.57%) React
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) Next.js
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Line Management
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) OOP
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
5 1 (14.29%) Security Management
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SendGrid