Ruby Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Ruby
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 161 157
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 4 33 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.10% 0.83% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.68% 2.45% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 17
10th Percentile - £94,000 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £97,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £105,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.95% +100.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £77,188 £112,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £81,125 £114,250 £54,250
South East median annual salary £72,500 £105,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -30.95% +75.00% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 587 1,348 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.37% 34.09% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 422 794 951
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,755 £47,500 £45,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.99% -8.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Ruby
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ruby

Ruby
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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 - 3 £70,000 - 2
Berkshire -24 1 £82,500 -21.43% 5
Ruby
South East

Ruby
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 2 (50.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform