Ruby on Rails Jobs in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 712 419
Rank change year-on-year +156 -293 +192
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 20 48 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.051% 0.068% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% 0.34% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 18 37 60
10th Percentile £51,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £54,063 £47,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £99,375 £68,750 £67,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £76,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -18.03% +1.67% +14.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,414 14,322 16,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.82% 20.17% 27.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,532 10,312 9,115
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ruby on Rails as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
South East +100 7 £70,000 +33.33% 58
East of England +44 6 £100,000 +53.85% 3
Midlands +70 4 £62,500 -7.41%
West Midlands +47 4 £62,500 -7.41%
Scotland +123 2 £57,500 - 3
Wales +39 1 £37,733 +4.51%
Ruby on Rails
UK

Ruby on Rails
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Tech for Good
2 3 (15.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Software Engineer
2 10 (50.00%) Senior
3 7 (35.00%) Developer
4 6 (30.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Ruby Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Lead
6 3 (15.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Ruby Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 2 (10.00%) UI Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (5.00%) React Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior React Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) React
2 5 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) React Native
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 4 (20.00%) CRM
3 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (20.00%) Scrum
3 4 (20.00%) TDD
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Mobile Development
5 2 (10.00%) OO
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.00%) Web Development
6 1 (5.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (5.00%) Design Patterns
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (5.00%) Mob Programming
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Ruby
2 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (35.00%) Python
4 5 (25.00%) SQL
5 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (10.00%) Bash
7 1 (5.00%) C#
7 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes