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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 676 507 357
Rank change year-on-year -169 -150 +149
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 108 266 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.45% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 1.69% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 78 96 255
10th Percentile £52,625 £43,909 £39,124
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,063 £92,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -

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 14,154 15,767 49,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.62% 26.86% 35.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,422 12,171 25,838
10th Percentile £39,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,623 £50,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +12.00%

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 26 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Top 12 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 26 October 2024. 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 -141 93 £65,000 +8.33% 50
London +39 58 £57,500 -36.11% 17
Work from Home -144 41 £70,000 +16.67% 57
UK excluding London -192 40 £65,000 +18.18% 32
North of England -45 17 £65,000 +18.18% 7
North West -50 17 £65,000 +18.18% 5
South East -68 11 £67,500 +28.57% 8
Scotland -30 5 £37,500 -
Midlands -46 5 £63,750 +13.33% 7
West Midlands -29 4 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Wales +20 2 £48,500 +4.96%
East Midlands -36 1 £67,500 +8.00%

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 1 (0.93%) Apache Pig
1 1 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 10 (9.26%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 45 (41.67%) AWS
2 24 (22.22%) SaaS
3 9 (8.33%) GCP
4 4 (3.70%) Vercel
5 3 (2.78%) Azure
5 3 (2.78%) Serverless
6 2 (1.85%) Heroku
7 1 (0.93%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.44%) MySQL
2 11 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.26%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.85%) Git
2 2 (1.85%) GitLab
2 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.67%) Finance
3 16 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.26%) Local Government
5 10 (9.26%) Police
6 7 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.56%) Legal
8 5 (4.63%) Law
9 3 (2.78%) Games
9 3 (2.78%) Retail
10 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.85%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (46.30%) Developer
2 44 (40.74%) Senior
3 28 (25.93%) Lead
4 27 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 21 (19.44%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 16 (14.81%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
7 15 (13.89%) Ruby Developer
8 13 (12.04%) Software Developer
9 12 (11.11%) Ruby Engineer
10 10 (9.26%) Oracle Developer
10 10 (9.26%) PL/SQL Developer
10 10 (9.26%) SQL Developer
11 8 (7.41%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 8 (7.41%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
12 6 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (5.56%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
12 6 (5.56%) Technical Manager
13 5 (4.63%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (4.63%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.63%) React
2 19 (17.59%) jQuery
3 16 (14.81%) HTML
4 15 (13.89%) REST
5 14 (12.96%) CSS
6 10 (9.26%) JSON
6 10 (9.26%) SOAP
6 10 (9.26%) XML
7 7 (6.48%) Node.js
7 7 (6.48%) RESTful
8 6 (5.56%) Flash
9 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.63%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.70%) Next.js
10 4 (3.70%) React Native
11 3 (2.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 2 (1.85%) Kafka
12 2 (1.85%) Laravel
12 2 (1.85%) OpenAPI
12 2 (1.85%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 29 (26.85%) NHS
2 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.63%) Educational Technology
4 3 (2.78%) Mobile Games
4 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.48%) Linux
2 2 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.11%) Software Engineering
2 28 (25.93%) Roadmaps
3 21 (19.44%) Product Roadmap
4 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 13 (12.04%) Agile
7 11 (10.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (10.19%) Technical Architecture
8 10 (9.26%) Computer Science
8 10 (9.26%) Customer Service
8 10 (9.26%) Data Security
8 10 (9.26%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (9.26%) Web Design
9 8 (7.41%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (6.48%) Clean Code
10 7 (6.48%) Technology Roadmap
11 6 (5.56%) Asset Management
11 6 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (5.56%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (94.44%) Ruby
2 21 (19.44%) Java
3 14 (12.96%) JavaScript
3 14 (12.96%) SQL
4 11 (10.19%) C#
5 10 (9.26%) C
5 10 (9.26%) PL/SQL
6 5 (4.63%) Python
7 2 (1.85%) Elixir
7 2 (1.85%) Perl
7 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.81%) Degree
3 10 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (9.26%) DBS Check
4 7 (6.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.26%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.63%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (9.26%) NEC
1 10 (9.26%) Oracle
2 2 (1.85%) Google