Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ruby on Rails skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 491 370 546
Rank change year-on-year -121 +176 +11
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 242 1,152 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.91% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 2.79% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 94 249 253
10th Percentile £45,375 £41,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +25.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Ruby on Rails is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,242 41,228 50,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.45% 32.62% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,171 24,746 32,182
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Top 17 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 30 November 2023. 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
Work from Home -106 204 £60,000 -20.00% 42
UK excluding London -88 179 £55,000 -4.35% 38
England -105 164 £60,000 -20.00% 63
North of England +68 52 £55,000 -1.79% 8
South East +73 48 £52,500 -19.23% 14
London +71 36 £90,000 +5.88% 41
North West +66 34 £55,000 -1.79% 6
Scotland -30 25 £65,000 +73.33% 4
Yorkshire +88 17 £70,000 -
South West +30 14 £80,000 +42.22% 5
Midlands +84 13 £76,250 +64.86% 2
Wales +15 13 £46,210 -
Northern Ireland -26 13 - - 3
East Midlands +27 11 - -
West Midlands +116 2 £76,250 +79.41% 2
East of England +15 1 £41,000 -45.33% 2
North East 0 1 £65,000 - 2

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 (1.24%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 7 (2.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (61.16%) Serverless
2 34 (14.05%) AWS
3 33 (13.64%) SaaS
4 14 (5.79%) Azure
5 8 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (3.31%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.24%) GCP
8 2 (0.83%) PaaS
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.41%) GitHub
9 1 (0.41%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.85%) Oracle Database
2 18 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.72%) Redis
4 8 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.24%) OpenStack Swift
5 3 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.41%) MySQL
7 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 149 (61.57%) Git
2 19 (7.85%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (1.65%) RSpec
4 2 (0.83%) Capybara
4 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
General
1 108 (44.63%) Police
2 33 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.26%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.85%) Local Government
5 14 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.89%) Health Technology
7 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.24%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.83%) Finance
9 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (63.22%) Software Engineer
2 146 (60.33%) Java Engineer
2 146 (60.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 75 (30.99%) Developer
4 43 (17.77%) Senior
5 35 (14.46%) Senior Developer
6 30 (12.40%) Ruby Developer
7 19 (7.85%) Oracle Developer
7 19 (7.85%) PL/SQL Developer
7 19 (7.85%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 18 (7.44%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 18 (7.44%) SQL Developer
9 12 (4.96%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 12 (4.96%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
10 11 (4.55%) SaaS Developer
10 11 (4.55%) Senior SQL Developer
11 8 (3.31%) Web Developer
12 7 (2.89%) Full Stack Developer
12 7 (2.89%) Head of Engineering
13 5 (2.07%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (67.77%) React
2 148 (61.16%) Spring
3 146 (60.33%) J2EE
4 42 (17.36%) CSS
4 42 (17.36%) HTML
5 27 (11.16%) XML
6 26 (10.74%) REST
7 23 (9.50%) Node.js
8 19 (7.85%) JSON
8 19 (7.85%) SOAP
8 19 (7.85%) Web Services
9 14 (5.79%) Sass
10 12 (4.96%) Vue
11 11 (4.55%) HTML5
11 11 (4.55%) Sinatra
12 9 (3.72%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.31%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.31%) EDI
13 8 (3.31%) Memcached
13 8 (3.31%) Sidekiq
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.41%) Blog
4 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.41%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.41%) NHS
4 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.96%) Linux
2 8 (3.31%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (73.14%) Problem-Solving
2 158 (65.29%) Software Engineering
3 156 (64.46%) Clean Code
4 154 (63.64%) Unit Testing
5 153 (63.22%) Mentoring
6 150 (61.98%) Design Patterns
7 149 (61.57%) Containerisation
8 148 (61.16%) Coaching
8 148 (61.16%) Continuous Integration
9 147 (60.74%) Microservices
10 146 (60.33%) Actionable Insight
10 146 (60.33%) Code Quality
11 38 (15.70%) Agile
12 28 (11.57%) Scrum
13 17 (7.02%) Web Development
14 15 (6.20%) Full Stack Development
15 12 (4.96%) Requirements Gathering
16 9 (3.72%) Kanban
17 8 (3.31%) ERP
17 8 (3.31%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 242 (100.00%) Ruby
2 189 (78.10%) Java
3 157 (64.88%) Python
4 148 (61.16%) C#
5 66 (27.27%) JavaScript
6 35 (14.46%) SQL
7 19 (7.85%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.65%) Go
9 3 (1.24%) Clojure
10 2 (0.83%) Rust
11 1 (0.41%) Bash
11 1 (0.41%) Perl
11 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 127 (52.48%) SC Cleared
1 127 (52.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (2.48%) Degree
2 6 (2.48%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.79%) QA
2 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (1.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.89%) Terraform
3 4 (1.65%) Ansible
4 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (7.85%) Oracle
2 3 (1.24%) Cisco
2 3 (1.24%) Juniper