Ruby
UK

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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 269 177
Rank change year-on-year -214 -92 +28
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 465 1,414 3,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 1.35% 2.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 3.11% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 329 704 1,151
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,225 £46,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +5.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.04% +12.50% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -237 331 £78,138 +4.18% 101
UK excluding London -213 259 £56,000 -17.04% 50
Work from Home -188 223 £70,000 -3.45% 80
London -102 162 £90,000 +16.13% 63
Scotland -71 66 £53,750 +17.48% 9
North of England -92 56 £55,000 -21.43% 9
South West -50 45 £65,000 +6.12% 10
South East -36 39 £55,000 -15.38% 9
North West -41 32 £55,000 -7.97% 5
Northern Ireland +2 22 £55,000 -9.84%
Yorkshire +22 20 £45,000 -35.71% 2
Midlands -52 17 £53,500 -22.18% 8
East of England -39 11 £85,000 +13.33% 3
East Midlands -45 11 £53,500 +1.90% 2
Wales -5 6 £48,052 +17.91% 3
West Midlands -5 6 £58,750 -16.07% 6
North East -30 4 £42,750 -51.14% 2

Ruby
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 20 (4.30%) Camunda
2 16 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.23%) Apache
3 15 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.94%) Confluence
5 6 (1.29%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.44%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (38.71%) AWS
2 110 (23.66%) Azure
3 84 (18.06%) Serverless
4 54 (11.61%) GitHub
5 44 (9.46%) GCP
6 43 (9.25%) SaaS
7 35 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (3.23%) dbt
9 15 (3.23%) IaaS
10 12 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.37%) Pulumi
12 10 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (2.15%) PaaS
12 10 (2.15%) Power Platform
13 9 (1.94%) Datadog
14 8 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.72%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.95%) DNS
2 20 (4.30%) Firewall
2 20 (4.30%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.44%) DHCP
3 16 (3.44%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.51%) HTTP
5 4 (0.86%) Internet
6 3 (0.65%) MQTT
6 3 (0.65%) VPN
7 2 (0.43%) SSL
8 1 (0.22%) 5G
8 1 (0.22%) Network Security
8 1 (0.22%) SNMP
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.32%) Relational Database
2 44 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (9.03%) Oracle Database
4 39 (8.39%) MySQL
5 37 (7.96%) SQL Server
6 36 (7.74%) RDBMS
7 21 (4.52%) MongoDB
7 21 (4.52%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.44%) Redis
9 15 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (3.23%) Apache Arrow
9 15 (3.23%) Apache Ignite
9 15 (3.23%) Dremio
10 10 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.72%) Big Data
11 8 (1.72%) MariaDB
11 8 (1.72%) Power BI
12 7 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 113 (24.30%) Git
2 62 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 37 (7.96%) GitLab
4 36 (7.74%) JDeveloper
5 30 (6.45%) JIRA
6 22 (4.73%) Travis CI
7 21 (4.52%) Gradle
7 21 (4.52%) Maven
8 20 (4.30%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (1.94%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.72%) Appium
11 8 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (1.51%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.51%) JUnit
12 7 (1.51%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.29%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (1.29%) RSpec
14 5 (1.08%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (18.28%) Finance
2 57 (12.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 56 (12.04%) Social Skills
4 44 (9.46%) Banking
5 38 (8.17%) Legal
6 29 (6.24%) Retail
6 29 (6.24%) Tech for Good
7 28 (6.02%) Investment Banking
8 22 (4.73%) Law
9 19 (4.09%) Public Sector
10 15 (3.23%) Front Office
11 13 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (2.37%) Health Technology
13 10 (2.15%) Local Government
14 5 (1.08%) Marketing
15 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.43%) Billing
17 1 (0.22%) Publishing
17 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 162 (34.84%) Developer
2 133 (28.60%) Senior
2 133 (28.60%) Software Engineer
3 74 (15.91%) Senior Developer
4 54 (11.61%) Ruby Developer
5 50 (10.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (10.54%) Software Developer
7 47 (10.11%) Ruby Engineer
8 36 (7.74%) Lead
9 33 (7.10%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (5.81%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 26 (5.59%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (5.59%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 26 (5.59%) Senior Software Developer
12 25 (5.38%) Java Engineer
12 25 (5.38%) Java Software Engineer
13 23 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (4.73%) React Developer
15 19 (4.09%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (28.60%) Ruby on Rails
2 115 (24.73%) React
3 91 (19.57%) Node.js
4 52 (11.18%) Spring
5 43 (9.25%) CSS
5 43 (9.25%) HTML
6 30 (6.45%) Spring Boot
7 25 (5.38%) .NET
8 23 (4.95%) RESTful
9 21 (4.52%) J2EE
10 19 (4.09%) Vue
11 16 (3.44%) AngularJS
11 16 (3.44%) FIX Protocol
12 15 (3.23%) gRPC
12 15 (3.23%) JSON
12 15 (3.23%) NumPy
12 15 (3.23%) Pandas
12 15 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
12 15 (3.23%) SciPy
12 15 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.10%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (3.66%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.44%) Eurex
4 14 (3.01%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.80%) Derivative
5 13 (2.80%) Life Science
5 13 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (2.58%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.58%) Equities
6 12 (2.58%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.94%) Educational Technology
8 9 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.29%) Blog
10 6 (1.29%) IoT
11 4 (0.86%) PKI
11 4 (0.86%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 97 (20.86%) Linux
2 58 (12.47%) Windows
3 37 (7.96%) Unix
4 16 (3.44%) CentOS
5 13 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.37%) Solaris
6 11 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.72%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.51%) Android
9 6 (1.29%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.08%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (41.94%) Software Engineering
2 163 (35.05%) DevOps
3 145 (31.18%) Agile
4 138 (29.68%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (22.37%) Containerisation
6 103 (22.15%) CI/CD
7 80 (17.20%) Microservices
8 79 (16.99%) Mentoring
9 78 (16.77%) Design Patterns
10 76 (16.34%) Continuous Integration
11 75 (16.13%) Full Stack Development
12 64 (13.76%) Clean Code
13 62 (13.33%) Open Source
14 60 (12.90%) Unit Testing
15 59 (12.69%) Code Quality
16 57 (12.26%) Actionable Insight
17 47 (10.11%) Coaching
18 45 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
19 40 (8.60%) Computer Science
20 38 (8.17%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 286 (61.51%) Python
2 182 (39.14%) JavaScript
3 180 (38.71%) Java
4 115 (24.73%) Bash
5 95 (20.43%) Go
6 94 (20.22%) Perl
7 84 (18.06%) PowerShell
8 74 (15.91%) C#
9 71 (15.27%) SQL
10 31 (6.67%) TypeScript
11 29 (6.24%) PHP
12 23 (4.95%) Scala
13 18 (3.87%) Rust
14 14 (3.01%) C
15 13 (2.80%) Groovy
15 13 (2.80%) Korn
16 8 (1.72%) C++
16 8 (1.72%) Kotlin
16 8 (1.72%) Lua
17 5 (1.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (7.96%) Degree
2 26 (5.59%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.87%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.22%) OCA
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PhD
9 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.75%) QA
2 11 (2.37%) GDPR
3 5 (1.08%) SLA
4 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) MISRA
System Software
1 79 (16.99%) Docker
2 15 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 101 (21.72%) Kubernetes
2 62 (13.33%) Terraform
3 53 (11.40%) Ansible
4 36 (7.74%) Puppet
5 27 (5.81%) Progress Chef
6 16 (3.44%) Grafana
6 16 (3.44%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 10 (2.15%) SCCM
9 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.86%) Packer
10 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.86%) vRealize
11 3 (0.65%) Consul
12 2 (0.43%) Podman
12 2 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.22%) Nagios
13 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 63 (13.55%) Oracle
2 35 (7.53%) Red Hat
3 34 (7.31%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.30%) Pega
5 16 (3.44%) Bloomberg
5 16 (3.44%) CQG
5 16 (3.44%) ION Trading
5 16 (3.44%) Patsystems
5 16 (3.44%) Reuters
5 16 (3.44%) Trayport
6 13 (2.80%) Sun
6 13 (2.80%) TOWER Software
7 12 (2.58%) SaltStack
8 9 (1.94%) New Relic
9 8 (1.72%) Facebook
10 6 (1.29%) Google
11 5 (1.08%) iManage
11 5 (1.08%) VMware
12 4 (0.86%) Cisco
12 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow