Ruby Jobs in the UK excluding London

Ruby
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 561 307
Rank change year-on-year +81 -254 -65
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 99 210 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.27% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 0.91% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 40 146 215
10th Percentile £50,875 £37,563 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,938 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -11.85% +10.58%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,688 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,545 23,105 21,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.45% 30.11% 38.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6,804 16,674 12,944
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,343 £67,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
North of England +38 30 £70,000 +27.27% 442
South East +89 29 £70,000 +27.27% 445
Midlands +80 24 £62,500 +12.61% 325
North West +6 21 £70,000 +7.69% 243
West Midlands +62 12 £62,500 +6.38% 173
East Midlands +50 12 - - 131
Yorkshire +58 8 - - 156
East of England +36 6 £100,000 +17.65% 267
Scotland +69 4 £63,750 +21.43% 75
Wales +45 4 £37,733 -21.47% 57
South West +79 1 £40,000 -42.86% 217
North East +44 1 - - 44
Northern Ireland +24 1 - - 43
Ruby
UK

Ruby
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 6 (6.06%) CMS
2 2 (2.02%) Apache
2 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.16%) AWS
2 15 (15.15%) Azure
3 9 (9.09%) GitHub
4 5 (5.05%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.04%) SaaS
5 4 (4.04%) Serverless
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (3.03%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.03%) GCP
6 3 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) H2O.ai
7 2 (2.02%) IaaS
7 2 (2.02%) PaaS
7 2 (2.02%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) HTTP
2 3 (3.03%) Firewall
2 3 (3.03%) SSL
3 2 (2.02%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.03%) Hadoop
1 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.02%) Apache Hive
2 2 (2.02%) Big Data
2 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.02%) Bigtable
2 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.02%) HBase
2 2 (2.02%) Impala
2 2 (2.02%) Metadata
2 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.02%) Tableau
3 1 (1.01%) DB2
3 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.09%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (3.03%) JIRA
3 3 (3.03%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.01%) Git
4 1 (1.01%) Gradle
4 1 (1.01%) Maven
4 1 (1.01%) RSpec
General
1 9 (9.09%) Finance
2 6 (6.06%) Tech for Good
3 3 (3.03%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.02%) Law
4 2 (2.02%) Retail
5 1 (1.01%) Banking
5 1 (1.01%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 14 (14.14%) Senior
3 13 (13.13%) Lead
3 13 (13.13%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (11.11%) Developer
5 7 (7.07%) Ruby Developer
5 7 (7.07%) Ruby Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (2.02%) Data Engineer
9 2 (2.02%) Senior Software Developer
9 2 (2.02%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.02%) Software Team Leader
9 2 (2.02%) Team Leader
9 2 (2.02%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (51.52%) HTML
2 23 (23.23%) Ruby on Rails
3 12 (12.12%) React
4 8 (8.08%) ADO
5 6 (6.06%) RESTful
6 4 (4.04%) Node.js
7 3 (3.03%) CSS
8 2 (2.02%) .NET
8 2 (2.02%) React Native
8 2 (2.02%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.01%) Bootstrap
9 1 (1.01%) Flutter
9 1 (1.01%) Kafka
9 1 (1.01%) Micronaut
9 1 (1.01%) OpenAPI
9 1 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.01%) REST
9 1 (1.01%) RxJava
9 1 (1.01%) Spring
9 1 (1.01%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.06%) Linux
2 4 (4.04%) Windows
3 3 (3.03%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (50.51%) Artificial Intelligence
2 49 (49.49%) Computer Science
3 48 (48.48%) Data Privacy
3 48 (48.48%) Machine Learning
4 23 (23.23%) Software Engineering
5 19 (19.19%) CI/CD
6 14 (14.14%) Agile
7 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (13.13%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (9.09%) DevOps
8 9 (9.09%) Roadmaps
8 9 (9.09%) TDD
9 6 (6.06%) Architectural Design
9 6 (6.06%) CRM
9 6 (6.06%) Design Patterns
9 6 (6.06%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.06%) Microservices
9 6 (6.06%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (4.04%) Cloud Security
10 4 (4.04%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (80.81%) Python
2 60 (60.61%) Java
3 58 (58.59%) JavaScript
4 56 (56.57%) C#
5 54 (54.55%) SQL
5 54 (54.55%) TypeScript
6 51 (51.52%) C++
6 51 (51.52%) Rust
7 49 (49.49%) C
8 48 (48.48%) Dart
8 48 (48.48%) MATLAB
8 48 (48.48%) PHP
8 48 (48.48%) R
9 10 (10.10%) Bash
10 8 (8.08%) Bicep
11 6 (6.06%) Go
12 5 (5.05%) Perl
13 4 (4.04%) Groovy
14 3 (3.03%) Shell Script
15 2 (2.02%) F#
Qualifications
1 51 (51.52%) Degree
2 49 (49.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.02%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (14.14%) Terraform
2 11 (11.11%) Ansible
3 8 (8.08%) Progress Chef
3 8 (8.08%) Puppet
4 4 (4.04%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.03%) Nagios
5 3 (3.03%) Nessus
5 3 (3.03%) Proxmox
6 2 (2.02%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 3 (3.03%) Cloudera
1 3 (3.03%) Google
1 3 (3.03%) Juniper
2 2 (2.02%) Dataiku
2 2 (2.02%) MapR
3 1 (1.01%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.01%) IBM
3 1 (1.01%) Imperva
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle
3 1 (1.01%) Splunk