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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ruby skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby over the 6 months to 27 May 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Ruby UK |
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6 months to
27 May 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
99 |
93 |
109 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-6 |
+16 |
+29 |
| Permanent jobs citing Ruby |
5,412 |
5,310 |
5,733 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
3.14% |
3.11% |
2.86% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
5.61% |
5.64% |
5.49% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
4,509 |
4,747 |
5,144 |
| UK median annual salary |
£52,500 |
£52,500 |
£52,500 |
| 10th Percentile |
£33,750 |
£32,500 |
£32,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£85,000 |
£77,500 |
£77,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£47,500 |
£45,000 |
£47,250 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
-4.76% |
+5.00% |
Ruby is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.
| All Programming Languages UK |
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills |
96,408 |
94,145 |
104,462 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
55.96% |
55.18% |
52.07% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
80,282 |
79,950 |
90,133 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
£46,500 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+2.15% |
+3.33% |
| 10th Percentile |
£30,000 |
£28,750 |
£28,250 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£76,250 |
£75,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+7.14% |
+5.00% |
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Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Ruby as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Ruby
Salary Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ruby.
Ruby
Salary Histogram
The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 27 May 2018.
Ruby
Top 16 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the UK over the 6 months to 27 May 2018.
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
Job
Vacancies |
| England |
-10 |
5,038 |
£52,500 |
-4.55% |
671 |
| UK excluding London |
+9 |
2,984 |
£47,500 |
+5.56% |
355 |
| London |
-10 |
2,326 |
£65,000 |
+8.33% |
361 |
| South East |
-2 |
887 |
£47,500 |
- |
87 |
| North of England |
-4 |
838 |
£45,000 |
- |
119 |
| North West |
-9 |
433 |
£47,500 |
+11.76% |
63 |
| Yorkshire |
+17 |
345 |
£47,500 |
-13.64% |
47 |
| South West |
+45 |
342 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
43 |
| Midlands |
-2 |
322 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
26 |
| East of England |
+24 |
304 |
£45,000 |
-14.29% |
33 |
| Scotland |
-6 |
220 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
31 |
| East Midlands |
+17 |
189 |
£43,750 |
-2.78% |
14 |
| West Midlands |
-30 |
133 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
12 |
| North East |
-30 |
60 |
£42,500 |
+6.25% |
9 |
| Wales |
+44 |
56 |
£40,000 |
-5.88% |
10 |
| Northern Ireland |
+14 |
16 |
£45,000 |
+38.46% |
6 |
For the 6 months to 27 May 2018, IT jobs citing Ruby also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Ruby.
| 1 |
3,146 (58.13%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,785 (51.46%) |
Python |
| 3 |
2,089 (38.60%) |
TDD |
| 4 |
1,967 (36.35%) |
Java |
| 5 |
1,911 (35.31%) |
C# |
| 6 |
1,805 (33.35%) |
Git (software) |
| 7 |
1,748 (32.30%) |
JavaScript |
| 8 |
1,697 (31.36%) |
BDD |
| 9 |
1,692 (31.26%) |
Linux |
| 10 |
1,642 (30.34%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 11 |
1,631 (30.14%) |
Node.js |
| 12 |
1,614 (29.82%) |
DevOps |
| 13 |
1,496 (27.64%) |
.NET |
| 14 |
1,433 (26.48%) |
NoSQL |
| 15 |
1,425 (26.33%) |
RESTful |
|
| 16 |
1,333 (24.63%) |
MVC |
| 17 |
1,313 (24.26%) |
SQL Server |
| 18 |
1,208 (22.32%) |
ASP.NET |
| 19 |
1,175 (21.71%) |
Web Application Development |
| 20 |
1,171 (21.64%) |
ASP.NET MVC |
| 21 |
1,153 (21.30%) |
ASP.NET Web API |
| 22 |
1,111 (20.53%) |
Jenkins |
| 23 |
1,084 (20.03%) |
Puppet |
| 24 |
1,068 (19.73%) |
ASP.NET MVC 5 |
| 25 |
1,065 (19.68%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 26 |
1,032 (19.07%) |
WCF |
| 27 |
1,027 (18.98%) |
Docker |
| 28 |
997 (18.42%) |
Ansible |
| 29 |
966 (17.85%) |
Test Automation |
| 30 |
938 (17.33%) |
SQL Server 2016 |
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Ruby
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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