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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 274 177
Rank change year-on-year -235 -97 +18
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 434 1,334 3,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 1.32% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.31% 3.06% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 313 658 1,126
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,525 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,271 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +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 33,203 43,593 84,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.21% 53.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,989 27,864 43,488
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £106,925 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -253 309 £77,500 +3.33% 95
UK excluding London -228 239 £56,250 -16.67% 40
Work from Home -204 196 £65,000 -13.33% 68
London -106 155 £85,000 +9.68% 57
Scotland -70 62 £52,500 +26.12% 2
North of England -98 50 £54,424 -22.25% 8
South West -68 41 £70,000 +1.82% 14
South East -61 36 £55,000 -16.98% 8
North West -48 31 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Northern Ireland 0 20 £55,000 -24.14%
Midlands -66 16 £53,500 -22.18% 5
Yorkshire +11 15 £45,000 -35.71% 3
East of England -33 11 £85,000 +13.33% 2
East Midlands -48 10 £53,500 +1.90% 2
West Midlands -18 6 £58,750 -16.07% 3
Wales -12 5 £48,052 +17.91% 2
North East -32 4 £42,750 -51.14%

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 (4.61%) Camunda
2 16 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.23%) Apache
4 13 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.07%) Confluence
6 6 (1.38%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.69%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (41.24%) AWS
2 107 (24.65%) Azure
3 63 (14.52%) Serverless
4 48 (11.06%) GitHub
5 46 (10.60%) GCP
5 46 (10.60%) SaaS
6 33 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (3.46%) IaaS
9 13 (3.00%) dbt
10 12 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.30%) PaaS
11 10 (2.30%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.30%) Pulumi
12 9 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (2.07%) Datadog
13 8 (1.84%) Heroku
14 7 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.30%) DNS
2 20 (4.61%) Firewall
2 20 (4.61%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.69%) DHCP
3 16 (3.69%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.61%) HTTP
5 4 (0.92%) Internet
6 3 (0.69%) MQTT
6 3 (0.69%) SSL
6 3 (0.69%) VPN
7 1 (0.23%) 5G
7 1 (0.23%) Network Security
7 1 (0.23%) SNMP
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.06%) Relational Database
2 45 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (9.68%) Oracle Database
4 40 (9.22%) MySQL
5 38 (8.76%) SQL Server
6 36 (8.29%) RDBMS
7 22 (5.07%) NoSQL
8 21 (4.84%) MongoDB
9 16 (3.69%) Redis
10 13 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (3.00%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (3.00%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (3.00%) Dremio
11 10 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.30%) Power BI
12 8 (1.84%) Big Data
12 8 (1.84%) MariaDB
13 7 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (20.51%) Git
2 59 (13.59%) Jenkins
3 36 (8.29%) JDeveloper
4 30 (6.91%) GitLab
5 29 (6.68%) JIRA
6 21 (4.84%) Gradle
6 21 (4.84%) Maven
6 21 (4.84%) Travis CI
7 20 (4.61%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.07%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.84%) Appium
10 7 (1.61%) JUnit
10 7 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.38%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.38%) RSpec
11 6 (1.38%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.15%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 79 (18.20%) Finance
2 57 (13.13%) Social Skills
3 56 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (8.76%) Banking
5 36 (8.29%) Legal
6 29 (6.68%) Tech for Good
7 26 (5.99%) Retail
8 22 (5.07%) Investment Banking
9 20 (4.61%) Law
10 19 (4.38%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (3.00%) Front Office
13 11 (2.53%) Health Technology
14 10 (2.30%) Local Government
15 5 (1.15%) Marketing
16 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.46%) Billing
17 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
18 1 (0.23%) Police
18 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (37.10%) Developer
2 134 (30.88%) Senior
3 112 (25.81%) Software Engineer
4 74 (17.05%) Senior Developer
5 52 (11.98%) Ruby Developer
6 48 (11.06%) Ruby Engineer
6 48 (11.06%) Software Developer
7 45 (10.37%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.60%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.14%) Lead
10 30 (6.91%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 26 (5.99%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (5.99%) Senior Software Developer
12 25 (5.76%) Senior Ruby Developer
13 23 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (5.07%) React Developer
15 20 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (4.38%) Senior React Developer
17 18 (4.15%) Lead Developer
18 16 (3.69%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (26.50%) Ruby on Rails
2 94 (21.66%) React
3 90 (20.74%) Node.js
4 43 (9.91%) HTML
5 42 (9.68%) CSS
6 33 (7.60%) Spring
7 30 (6.91%) Spring Boot
8 26 (5.99%) .NET
9 23 (5.30%) RESTful
10 19 (4.38%) Vue
11 16 (3.69%) FIX Protocol
11 16 (3.69%) JSON
12 15 (3.46%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.46%) Web Services
13 14 (3.23%) Laravel
13 14 (3.23%) XML
14 13 (3.00%) NumPy
14 13 (3.00%) Pandas
14 13 (3.00%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (3.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.37%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (4.15%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.69%) Eurex
4 14 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 13 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.00%) Derivative
6 12 (2.76%) Equities
6 12 (2.76%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.30%) Life Science
8 10 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.07%) Educational Technology
10 7 (1.61%) IoT
11 6 (1.38%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.15%) Blog
12 5 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.20%) Linux
2 53 (12.21%) Windows
3 37 (8.53%) Unix
4 16 (3.69%) CentOS
5 12 (2.76%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.53%) Solaris
7 10 (2.30%) Apple iOS
7 10 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (2.07%) Android
8 9 (2.07%) Windows Server
9 6 (1.38%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.15%) VMS
11 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (39.40%) Software Engineering
2 154 (35.48%) DevOps
3 140 (32.26%) Agile
4 117 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (22.81%) CI/CD
6 83 (19.12%) Containerisation
7 75 (17.28%) Full Stack Development
8 61 (14.06%) Mentoring
8 61 (14.06%) Microservices
8 61 (14.06%) Open Source
9 59 (13.59%) Design Patterns
10 57 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
11 46 (10.60%) Clean Code
12 42 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (9.45%) Unit Testing
14 40 (9.22%) Code Quality
14 40 (9.22%) Computer Science
15 38 (8.76%) Actionable Insight
16 37 (8.53%) Front End Development
17 35 (8.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 257 (59.22%) Python
2 181 (41.71%) JavaScript
3 160 (36.87%) Java
4 109 (25.12%) Bash
5 93 (21.43%) Go
6 90 (20.74%) Perl
7 78 (17.97%) PowerShell
8 70 (16.13%) SQL
9 56 (12.90%) C#
10 30 (6.91%) PHP
11 28 (6.45%) TypeScript
12 21 (4.84%) Scala
13 16 (3.69%) Rust
14 15 (3.46%) C
15 12 (2.76%) Groovy
16 10 (2.30%) C++
17 9 (2.07%) Korn
18 8 (1.84%) Lua
19 7 (1.61%) Kotlin
20 5 (1.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (8.99%) Degree
2 27 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.84%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.23%) OCA
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.29%) QA
2 11 (2.53%) GDPR
3 5 (1.15%) SLA
4 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) MISRA
System Software
1 73 (16.82%) Docker
2 13 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (22.12%) Kubernetes
2 56 (12.90%) Terraform
3 47 (10.83%) Ansible
4 30 (6.91%) Puppet
5 24 (5.53%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.00%) Grafana
6 13 (3.00%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.07%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (1.61%) SCCM
9 4 (0.92%) Packer
9 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.92%) vRealize
10 3 (0.69%) Consul
10 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.46%) Podman
11 2 (0.46%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.23%) Nagios
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 64 (14.75%) Oracle
2 31 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 27 (6.22%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.61%) Pega
5 16 (3.69%) Bloomberg
5 16 (3.69%) CQG
5 16 (3.69%) ION Trading
5 16 (3.69%) Patsystems
5 16 (3.69%) Reuters
5 16 (3.69%) Trayport
6 11 (2.53%) SaltStack
7 9 (2.07%) Sun
7 9 (2.07%) TOWER Software
8 8 (1.84%) Facebook
8 8 (1.84%) New Relic
9 6 (1.38%) Google
10 5 (1.15%) VMware
11 4 (0.92%) Cisco
11 4 (0.92%) PeopleSoft
11 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow