Ruby on Rails Jobs

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 626 762 480
Rank change year-on-year +136 -282 -122
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 66 134 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 0.64% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 61 105 213
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,102
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,500 £117,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% +9.09% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ruby on Rails as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails.

Salary trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +135 55 £62,500 -20.01% 195
London +93 38 £57,500 -32.35% 94
Work from Home +174 29 £62,500 -3.85% 194
UK excluding London +165 19 £82,500 +37.50% 130
East of England +62 7 £100,000 +53.85% 9
South East +106 5 £95,000 +80.95% 56
Midlands +80 4 £62,500 -7.41% 5
West Midlands +49 4 £62,500 -7.41%
Scotland +127 2 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Wales +45 1 £37,733 +4.51%

Ruby on Rails
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (4.55%) CMS
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (51.52%) AWS
2 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (4.55%) Heroku
2 3 (4.55%) SaaS
2 3 (4.55%) Serverless
3 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (3.03%) GitHub
3 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.52%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (34.85%) MySQL
2 10 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) JIRA
2 5 (7.58%) Git
3 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.03%) JUnit
3 2 (3.03%) Subversion
4 1 (1.52%) RSpec
General
1 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (6.06%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.55%) Retail
5 2 (3.03%) Banking
5 2 (3.03%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.52%) Automotive
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Publishing
6 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (40.91%) Lead
2 26 (39.39%) Developer
3 20 (30.30%) Senior
4 15 (22.73%) Senior Developer
5 12 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 11 (16.67%) Ruby Developer
7 10 (15.15%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 7 (10.61%) Ruby Engineer
8 7 (10.61%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 5 (7.58%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
10 4 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Software Developer
12 2 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
12 2 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
12 2 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (3.03%) Lead Developer
12 2 (3.03%) Node.js Developer
12 2 (3.03%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (65.15%) React
2 21 (31.82%) jQuery
3 11 (16.67%) RESTful
4 7 (10.61%) AngularJS
4 7 (10.61%) CSS
4 7 (10.61%) HTML
4 7 (10.61%) Node.js
5 3 (4.55%) React Native
6 2 (3.03%) Ajax
6 2 (3.03%) CSS3
6 2 (3.03%) Django
6 2 (3.03%) Guice
6 2 (3.03%) HTML5
6 2 (3.03%) JSON
6 2 (3.03%) Play Framework
6 2 (3.03%) REST
6 2 (3.03%) Spring
6 2 (3.03%) Spring MVC
6 2 (3.03%) Vue
6 2 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) NHS
2 4 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (62.12%) Software Engineering
2 22 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 21 (31.82%) Product Roadmap
4 12 (18.18%) Agile
5 10 (15.15%) Mentoring
6 9 (13.64%) Design Patterns
7 8 (12.12%) Clean Code
8 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (9.09%) Coaching
9 6 (9.09%) Community of Practice
9 6 (9.09%) Microservices
9 6 (9.09%) Scrum
9 6 (9.09%) SOLID
9 6 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (9.09%) Unit Testing
10 5 (7.58%) CI/CD
10 5 (7.58%) Containerisation
10 5 (7.58%) OO
10 5 (7.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (100.00%) Ruby
2 22 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 9 (13.64%) C#
4 8 (12.12%) Python
5 7 (10.61%) Java
6 6 (9.09%) SQL
7 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.03%) Google
1 2 (3.03%) Mercator