Ruby Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Ruby
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.17% - 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% - 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile - - £56,250
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £73,750 - £63,750
% change year-on-year - - +27.50%

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 93 239 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 15.84% 26.03% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 88 94 168
10th Percentile £27,650 £31,325 £26,328
25th Percentile £30,625 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,637 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +4.50% -6.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,769 £65,375
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +0.02%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Ruby
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Ruby

Ruby
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Sheffield - 1 £75,000 -
Ruby
Yorkshire

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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