Ruby Job Trends in Wales

Ruby
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 72 91
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 +23
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 1 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.10% 0.81% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 2.92% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £44,250 £42,819
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £54,250 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +38.25% +17.40% -11.98%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £49,600
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -10.34%

All Programming Languages
Wales

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 157 343 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 16.42% 27.77% 36.29%
Number of salaries quoted 138 197 268
10th Percentile £34,475 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,144 £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ruby relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Ruby job vacancy trend in Wales

Ruby
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Ruby

Ruby
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Wales region over the 6 months to 7 November 2025. 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
South Wales - 1 £75,000 - 2
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) Scala