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 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 283 219 224
Rank change year-on-year -64 +5 -19
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 596 2,107 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.72% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.80% 3.75% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 314 828 1,184
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,219 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 21,309 56,138 66,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.76% 45.93% 51.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,539 35,840 45,476
10th Percentile £39,740 £38,443 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,845 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 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
England -75 441 £70,000 -3.45% 229
Work from Home -25 436 £65,000 -7.14% 180
UK excluding London -41 368 £60,000 - 152
London -59 166 £90,000 +12.50% 120
North of England +32 94 £60,000 - 40
South East +47 68 £60,000 -7.69% 47
Scotland -11 67 £65,000 +9.20% 22
North West +42 52 £55,000 -8.33% 18
South West -39 51 £56,000 -5.92% 13
Yorkshire +70 41 £70,000 +17.60% 14
Midlands +63 35 £60,000 +14.29% 13
East Midlands +27 28 £60,000 +20.00% 9
Wales +21 21 £46,210 -11.98% 4
Northern Ireland -19 21 - - 3
East of England +3 16 £85,000 +13.33% 11
West Midlands +81 7 £63,750 -1.92% 4
North East -1 1 £50,000 -25.93% 8

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 19 (3.19%) Apache
1 19 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.01%) Camunda
4 3 (0.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Fidessa
2 8 (1.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 250 (41.95%) Serverless
2 167 (28.02%) AWS
3 135 (22.65%) Azure
4 57 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (9.23%) GitHub
6 51 (8.56%) GCP
7 36 (6.04%) SaaS
8 24 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
8 24 (4.03%) Datadog
9 20 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (3.36%) PaaS
10 18 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.85%) Azure AKS
11 17 (2.85%) dbt
12 16 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (2.68%) IaaS
12 16 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.01%) Pulumi
14 11 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.19%) DNS
2 18 (3.02%) Firewall
3 16 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.85%) DHCP
5 10 (1.68%) FIX Connectivity
6 6 (1.01%) HTTP
6 6 (1.01%) Network Security
6 6 (1.01%) SMTP
6 6 (1.01%) SNMP
7 5 (0.84%) Internet
8 2 (0.34%) FTP
8 2 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.34%) SSH
8 2 (0.34%) VoIP
9 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (18.62%) Oracle Database
2 91 (15.27%) Relational Database
3 87 (14.60%) RDBMS
4 21 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (3.52%) SQL Server
5 18 (3.02%) Big Data
6 17 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (2.85%) Apache Arrow
6 17 (2.85%) Apache Ignite
6 17 (2.85%) Dremio
7 15 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.01%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.68%) Redis
10 8 (1.34%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.01%) MySQL
12 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.67%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle Database 10g
15 2 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 273 (45.81%) Git
2 93 (15.60%) Jenkins
3 60 (10.07%) GitLab
4 36 (6.04%) JDeveloper
5 20 (3.36%) Oracle APEX
5 20 (3.36%) TeamCity
6 17 (2.85%) Gradle
6 17 (2.85%) Maven
7 14 (2.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 12 (2.01%) Travis CI
9 11 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (1.51%) Artifactory
10 9 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.34%) JIRA
11 8 (1.34%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.01%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.84%) Selenium
General
1 147 (24.66%) Police
2 87 (14.60%) Finance
3 81 (13.59%) Social Skills
4 48 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.72%) Banking
6 32 (5.37%) Investment Banking
7 28 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (4.19%) Front Office
9 22 (3.69%) Law
10 20 (3.36%) Local Government
11 17 (2.85%) Legal
12 16 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (1.85%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.34%) Retail
15 6 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.01%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.84%) Aviation
17 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.34%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 271 (45.47%) Software Engineer
2 134 (22.48%) Java Engineer
2 134 (22.48%) Java Software Engineer
3 114 (19.13%) Developer
4 103 (17.28%) Senior
5 95 (15.94%) Ruby Engineer
6 94 (15.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 40 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
7 40 (6.71%) Senior Developer
8 38 (6.38%) Lead
9 35 (5.87%) Ruby Developer
10 31 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
11 30 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
11 30 (5.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 27 (4.53%) Software Developer
13 26 (4.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.52%) Senior Ruby Developer
15 20 (3.36%) Oracle Developer
15 20 (3.36%) PL/SQL Developer
16 18 (3.02%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (44.97%) React
2 223 (37.42%) Ruby on Rails
3 144 (24.16%) Spring
4 134 (22.48%) J2EE
5 130 (21.81%) Node.js
6 53 (8.89%) HTML
7 51 (8.56%) CSS
8 34 (5.70%) REST
9 32 (5.37%) .NET
10 27 (4.53%) Web Services
10 27 (4.53%) XML
11 26 (4.36%) JSON
12 21 (3.52%) SOAP
13 19 (3.19%) AngularJS
14 17 (2.85%) gRPC
14 17 (2.85%) NumPy
14 17 (2.85%) Pandas
14 17 (2.85%) Protocol Buffers
14 17 (2.85%) SciPy
15 16 (2.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (2.01%) Blog
3 12 (2.01%) Mobile App
4 10 (1.68%) Cloud Native
4 10 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (1.68%) Eurex
5 9 (1.51%) Life Science
5 9 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.34%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.01%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.01%) Social Media
9 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.67%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.50%) Derivative
11 3 (0.50%) PKI
11 3 (0.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 107 (17.95%) Linux
2 72 (12.08%) Windows
3 22 (3.69%) Unix
4 17 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.52%) Ubuntu
5 15 (2.52%) Windows Server
6 13 (2.18%) VMS
7 11 (1.85%) CentOS
8 10 (1.68%) Solaris
9 7 (1.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.34%) Android
10 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (53.02%) Software Engineering
2 304 (51.01%) Problem-Solving
3 259 (43.46%) Continuous Integration
4 257 (43.12%) Containerisation
5 245 (41.11%) DevOps
6 238 (39.93%) Design Patterns
7 233 (39.09%) Actionable Insight
8 231 (38.76%) Unit Testing
9 230 (38.59%) Microservices
10 229 (38.42%) Clean Code
11 225 (37.75%) Code Quality
12 174 (29.19%) Mentoring
13 144 (24.16%) Coaching
14 141 (23.66%) Agile
15 129 (21.64%) CI/CD
16 122 (20.47%) Open Source
17 64 (10.74%) Infrastructure as Code
18 54 (9.06%) Configuration Management
19 44 (7.38%) Analytics
20 43 (7.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 453 (76.01%) Python
2 373 (62.58%) Java
3 220 (36.91%) JavaScript
4 206 (34.56%) Bash
5 187 (31.38%) C#
6 168 (28.19%) Go
7 148 (24.83%) Perl
8 109 (18.29%) PowerShell
9 85 (14.26%) SQL
10 28 (4.70%) TypeScript
11 26 (4.36%) Groovy
12 25 (4.19%) C++
13 22 (3.69%) Korn
14 20 (3.36%) PL/SQL
15 19 (3.19%) Rust
16 18 (3.02%) Scala
17 16 (2.68%) C
18 10 (1.68%) PHP
19 9 (1.51%) Kotlin
19 9 (1.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 218 (36.58%) Security Cleared
2 203 (34.06%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.54%) Degree
4 20 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.17%) CISSP
8 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.67%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.50%) OCA
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (19.30%) QA
2 9 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.01%) MISRA
4 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (15.27%) Docker
2 15 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.51%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 120 (20.13%) Kubernetes
2 119 (19.97%) Terraform
3 84 (14.09%) Ansible
4 58 (9.73%) Puppet
5 50 (8.39%) Progress Chef
6 30 (5.03%) Grafana
6 30 (5.03%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 10 (1.68%) Nagios
9 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.34%) SCCM
10 6 (1.01%) Packer
11 4 (0.67%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.34%) Istio
13 2 (0.34%) Kibana
13 2 (0.34%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.34%) logstash
14 1 (0.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 124 (20.81%) Oracle
2 54 (9.06%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.70%) Red Hat
3 28 (4.70%) Splunk
4 18 (3.02%) New Relic
5 15 (2.52%) TOWER Software
6 14 (2.35%) Sun
7 13 (2.18%) SaltStack
8 10 (1.68%) Bloomberg
8 10 (1.68%) CQG
8 10 (1.68%) ION Trading
8 10 (1.68%) Patsystems
8 10 (1.68%) Reuters
8 10 (1.68%) Trayport
9 8 (1.34%) CheckPoint
9 8 (1.34%) CyberArk
9 8 (1.34%) Google
9 8 (1.34%) iManage
10 7 (1.17%) ArcSight
10 7 (1.17%) McAfee