Ruby Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Ruby
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 109 125
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +62
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 6 3 20
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.37% 0.18% 1.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 0.60% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 17
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £45,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -35.25% +15.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £47,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,500 - £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £73,750 £45,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year +63.89% -35.25% +16.76%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 438 504 787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.81% 29.70% 39.59%
Number of salaries quoted 345 314 628
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £38,702
25th Percentile £40,875 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £74,063
90th Percentile £83,650 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Ruby
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Ruby

Ruby
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in West Yorkshire

Ruby
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Leeds +2 6 £72,500 +61.11% 3
Ruby
Yorkshire

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) React Native
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Business Development
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Objectives and Key Results
4 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Presales
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Red Team
4 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) CISA
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) OSCP