Ruby on Rails Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 176 161
Rank change year-on-year +1 -15 +28
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 5 9 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.25% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 1.10% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 16
10th Percentile £70,500 - -
25th Percentile - £63,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +28.57% -0.40%
75th Percentile - £71,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,250 - -
South East median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +28.57% -19.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

Ruby on Rails falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 336 816 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.49% 22.91% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 246 493 569
10th Percentile £35,427 £38,750 £42,798
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,300 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ruby on Rails relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Ruby on Rails job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ruby on Rails.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Oxfordshire - 4 £75,000 - 3
Berkshire -4 1 £82,500 -
Ruby on Rails
South East

Ruby on Rails
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Ruby Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform