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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 546 257
Rank change year-on-year +72 -289 +14
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 97 226 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.31% 1.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.95% 0.99% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 38 143 215
10th Percentile £52,125 £38,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £61,563 £46,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £69,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% -6.67% +6.53%

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 10,207 22,714 23,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.25% 30.84% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,599 16,483 13,211
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,296 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,963
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 28 May 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 28 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
North of England +22 29 £70,000 +27.27% 71
South East +86 28 £82,500 +53.49% 22
Midlands +72 26 £62,500 +12.61% 12
North West -10 20 £70,000 +16.67% 62
West Midlands +72 14 £62,500 +6.38% 9
East Midlands +43 12 - - 3
Yorkshire +57 8 - - 8
East of England +38 5 £100,000 +17.65% 4
Scotland +69 4 £63,750 +21.43% 8
Wales +47 4 £37,733 -21.47% 7
South West +78 1 £40,000 -42.86% 9
North East +45 1 - - 1
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 5 (5.15%) CMS
2 2 (2.06%) Apache
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.49%) Azure
2 14 (14.43%) AWS
3 10 (10.31%) GitHub
4 5 (5.15%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.12%) SaaS
5 4 (4.12%) Serverless
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (3.09%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.09%) GCP
6 3 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) H2O.ai
7 2 (2.06%) IaaS
7 2 (2.06%) PaaS
7 2 (2.06%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Firewall
1 3 (3.09%) HTTP
1 3 (3.09%) SSL
2 2 (2.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.09%) Hadoop
1 3 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Hive
2 2 (2.06%) Big Data
2 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.06%) Bigtable
2 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.06%) HBase
2 2 (2.06%) Impala
2 2 (2.06%) Metadata
2 2 (2.06%) Tableau
3 1 (1.03%) DB2
3 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (13.40%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.28%) TeamCity
3 5 (5.15%) JIRA
4 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (3.09%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (9.28%) Finance
2 5 (5.15%) Tech for Good
3 3 (3.09%) Retail
3 3 (3.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.06%) Law
5 1 (1.03%) Banking
5 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Software Engineer
2 14 (14.43%) Lead
2 14 (14.43%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (14.43%) Senior
3 8 (8.25%) Developer
4 7 (7.22%) Senior Developer
4 7 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (5.15%) Ruby Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Ruby Developer
7 3 (3.09%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 2 (2.06%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.06%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (2.06%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (2.06%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (2.06%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (2.06%) Software Team Leader
8 2 (2.06%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (51.55%) HTML
2 21 (21.65%) Ruby on Rails
3 13 (13.40%) React
4 8 (8.25%) ADO
5 7 (7.22%) Node.js
6 6 (6.19%) RESTful
7 2 (2.06%) .NET
7 2 (2.06%) CSS
7 2 (2.06%) Flutter
7 2 (2.06%) React Native
8 1 (1.03%) JSON
8 1 (1.03%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.19%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Windows
3 3 (3.09%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.55%) Artificial Intelligence
2 49 (50.52%) Computer Science
3 48 (49.48%) Data Privacy
3 48 (49.48%) Machine Learning
4 24 (24.74%) Software Engineering
5 19 (19.59%) CI/CD
6 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (12.37%) Agile
8 10 (10.31%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.28%) DevOps
10 7 (7.22%) TDD
11 6 (6.19%) Design Patterns
11 6 (6.19%) Mentoring
11 6 (6.19%) Microservices
11 6 (6.19%) Strategic Roadmap
12 5 (5.15%) Architectural Design
12 5 (5.15%) Configuration Management
12 5 (5.15%) CRM
12 5 (5.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (82.47%) Python
2 58 (59.79%) Java
2 58 (59.79%) JavaScript
3 56 (57.73%) C#
4 54 (55.67%) SQL
4 54 (55.67%) TypeScript
5 52 (53.61%) C++
5 52 (53.61%) Rust
6 50 (51.55%) C
7 48 (49.48%) Dart
7 48 (49.48%) MATLAB
7 48 (49.48%) PHP
7 48 (49.48%) R
8 11 (11.34%) Bash
9 9 (9.28%) Bicep
10 7 (7.22%) Go
11 6 (6.19%) Perl
12 3 (3.09%) Groovy
12 3 (3.09%) Shell Script
13 2 (2.06%) F#
Qualifications
1 51 (52.58%) Degree
2 49 (50.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.03%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.22%) Docker
2 5 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.06%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (16.49%) Terraform
2 12 (12.37%) Ansible
3 9 (9.28%) Progress Chef
3 9 (9.28%) Puppet
4 5 (5.15%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.09%) Nagios
5 3 (3.09%) Nessus
5 3 (3.09%) Proxmox
6 2 (2.06%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 3 (3.09%) Cloudera
1 3 (3.09%) Google
1 3 (3.09%) Juniper
2 2 (2.06%) Dataiku
2 2 (2.06%) MapR
3 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.03%) IBM
3 1 (1.03%) Imperva
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle
3 1 (1.03%) Splunk