Ruby Job Trends in South Wales

Ruby
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 69 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.14% 0.11% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 0.39% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
Wales median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £46,210
% change year-on-year +25.00% +29.84% -11.98%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 124 255 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 17.59% 27.99% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 111 150 188
10th Percentile £37,250 £23,750 £33,100
25th Percentile £48,250 £37,500 £41,704
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,309 £50,119
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% +0.38% -4.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -9.52%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in South Wales

Ruby
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Ruby

Ruby
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Cardiff +25 1 £75,000 +25.00%
Ruby
Wales

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) Scala