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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 769 492
Rank change year-on-year +133 -277 -128
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 64 135 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 0.64% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 60 106 211
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,512
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,625 £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 £86,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £117,500
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 8,534 21,080 31,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.22% 21.38% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,428 15,747 19,253
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,938 £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 £79,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
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 4 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 4 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 +138 53 £62,500 -20.01% 184
London +84 38 £57,500 -32.35% 92
Work from Home +146 28 £62,500 -3.85% 176
UK excluding London +154 18 £82,500 +37.50% 120
East of England +56 6 £100,000 +53.85% 7
South East +107 5 £95,000 +80.95% 55
Midlands +58 4 £62,500 -7.41% 5
West Midlands +53 4 £62,500 -7.41%
Scotland +127 2 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Wales +39 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 (4.69%) CMS
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.13%) AWS
2 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (4.69%) Heroku
2 3 (4.69%) SaaS
2 3 (4.69%) Serverless
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (3.13%) GitHub
3 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (35.94%) MySQL
2 10 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.13%) JUnit
3 2 (3.13%) Subversion
4 1 (1.56%) RSpec
General
1 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (6.25%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.69%) Retail
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.56%) Automotive
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Publishing
6 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) Lead
2 24 (37.50%) Developer
3 19 (29.69%) Senior
4 14 (21.88%) Senior Developer
5 12 (18.75%) Software Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) Ruby Developer
7 9 (14.06%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 7 (10.94%) Ruby Engineer
9 6 (9.38%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 5 (7.81%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
11 4 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
12 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Developer
12 3 (4.69%) Software Developer
13 2 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
13 2 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
13 2 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
13 2 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 2 (3.13%) Node.js Developer
13 2 (3.13%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (65.63%) React
2 21 (32.81%) jQuery
3 10 (15.63%) RESTful
4 7 (10.94%) CSS
4 7 (10.94%) HTML
4 7 (10.94%) Node.js
5 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.69%) React Native
7 2 (3.13%) Ajax
7 2 (3.13%) CSS3
7 2 (3.13%) Django
7 2 (3.13%) Guice
7 2 (3.13%) HTML5
7 2 (3.13%) JSON
7 2 (3.13%) Play Framework
7 2 (3.13%) REST
7 2 (3.13%) Spring
7 2 (3.13%) Spring MVC
7 2 (3.13%) Vue
7 2 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.81%) NHS
2 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.69%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 22 (34.38%) Roadmaps
3 21 (32.81%) Product Roadmap
4 11 (17.19%) Agile
5 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
6 8 (12.50%) Design Patterns
7 7 (10.94%) Clean Code
7 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.38%) Scrum
8 6 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (7.81%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.81%) Coaching
9 5 (7.81%) Community of Practice
9 5 (7.81%) Containerisation
9 5 (7.81%) Microservices
9 5 (7.81%) OO
9 5 (7.81%) SOLID
9 5 (7.81%) Technical Architecture
9 5 (7.81%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.81%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Ruby
2 21 (32.81%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.50%) C#
3 8 (12.50%) Python
4 6 (9.38%) Java
4 6 (9.38%) SQL
5 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.13%) Google
1 2 (3.13%) Mercator