Senior Ruby Developer
UK

The median Senior Ruby Developer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 862 954 1162
Rank change year-on-year +92 +208 -359
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Ruby Developer 26 41 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.040% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.044% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 25 28 22
10th Percentile £47,500 £65,875 £47,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £80,625 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +4.62% -18.75%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £88,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £85,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +50.00% -50.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Ruby Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Ruby Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Ruby Developer in the UK

Senior Ruby Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Ruby Developer in the UK

Senior Ruby Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Ruby Developer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Ruby Developer in the UK

Senior Ruby Developer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Ruby Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +63 18 £82,500 -2.94% 5
London +108 17 £82,500 -2.94% 4
Work from Home +66 9 £72,500 -3.33% 6
UK excluding London -5 7 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 -
Scotland -58 2 £65,000 -
South East - 1 £72,500 - 1

Senior Ruby Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior Ruby Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Ruby Developer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Ruby
2 24 (92.31%) Ruby on Rails
3 14 (53.85%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
6 9 (34.62%) HTML
6 9 (34.62%) CSS
6 9 (34.62%) Vue
6 9 (34.62%) React
7 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
7 8 (30.77%) AWS
8 7 (26.92%) Agile
9 6 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (23.08%) Node.js
9 6 (23.08%) DevOps
10 5 (19.23%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (19.23%) GraphQL
10 5 (19.23%) Remarketing
10 5 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (19.23%) Degree
10 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
10 5 (19.23%) Git
10 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
11 4 (15.38%) CSS3
11 4 (15.38%) HTML5
11 4 (15.38%) Tech for Good
11 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
12 3 (11.54%) Front End Development
12 3 (11.54%) Clean Code

Senior Ruby Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) RSpec
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Tech for Good
3 1 (3.85%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (92.31%) Ruby on Rails
2 9 (34.62%) CSS
2 9 (34.62%) HTML
2 9 (34.62%) React
2 9 (34.62%) Vue
3 6 (23.08%) Node.js
4 5 (19.23%) GraphQL
5 4 (15.38%) CSS3
5 4 (15.38%) HTML5
6 1 (3.85%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) 3D Printing
1 1 (3.85%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Full Stack Development
2 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Remarketing
5 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.54%) Clean Code
7 3 (11.54%) Front End Development
7 3 (11.54%) TDD
8 1 (3.85%) BDD
8 1 (3.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (3.85%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.85%) Pair Programming
8 1 (3.85%) Scrum
8 1 (3.85%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Ruby
2 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.69%) Elixir
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) Perl
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes