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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 273 174
Rank change year-on-year -207 -99 +31
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 466 1,372 3,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 1.32% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 3.04% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 329 679 1,153
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,241
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.04% +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 33,221 45,157 83,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.78% 43.42% 53.83%
Number of salaries quoted 25,021 28,803 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -2.73% +2.33% +7.50%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -233 331 £78,138 +4.18% 110
UK excluding London -212 260 £56,000 -17.04% 50
Work from Home -188 224 £70,000 -3.45% 93
London -84 162 £90,000 +16.13% 71
Scotland -57 67 £53,750 +17.48% 9
North of England -103 56 £55,000 -21.43% 8
South West -53 45 £65,000 +4.00% 10
South East -56 39 £55,000 -15.38% 9
North West -47 32 £55,000 -7.60% 4
Northern Ireland +3 22 £55,000 -9.84%
Yorkshire +20 20 £45,000 -35.71% 2
Midlands -43 17 £53,500 -22.18% 8
East of England -37 11 £85,000 +13.33% 4
East Midlands -43 11 £53,500 +1.90% 2
West Midlands +2 6 £58,750 -16.07% 6
Wales -7 6 £48,052 +17.91% 3
North East -32 4 £42,750 -51.14% 2

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 (4.29%) Camunda
2 16 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.22%) Apache
3 15 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.93%) Confluence
5 6 (1.29%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.43%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 181 (38.84%) AWS
2 111 (23.82%) Azure
3 84 (18.03%) Serverless
4 54 (11.59%) GitHub
5 45 (9.66%) GCP
6 44 (9.44%) SaaS
7 36 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (3.22%) dbt
9 15 (3.22%) IaaS
10 13 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.36%) Pulumi
12 10 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (2.15%) PaaS
12 10 (2.15%) Power Platform
13 9 (1.93%) Datadog
14 8 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.72%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.94%) DNS
2 20 (4.29%) Firewall
2 20 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.43%) DHCP
3 16 (3.43%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.50%) HTTP
5 4 (0.86%) Internet
6 3 (0.64%) MQTT
6 3 (0.64%) VPN
7 2 (0.43%) SSL
8 1 (0.21%) 5G
8 1 (0.21%) Network Security
8 1 (0.21%) SNMP
8 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.30%) Relational Database
2 44 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (9.01%) Oracle Database
4 39 (8.37%) MySQL
5 37 (7.94%) SQL Server
6 36 (7.73%) RDBMS
7 21 (4.51%) MongoDB
7 21 (4.51%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.43%) Redis
9 15 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (3.22%) Apache Arrow
9 15 (3.22%) Apache Ignite
9 15 (3.22%) Dremio
10 10 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.72%) Big Data
11 8 (1.72%) MariaDB
11 8 (1.72%) Power BI
12 7 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 113 (24.25%) Git
2 62 (13.30%) Jenkins
3 37 (7.94%) GitLab
4 36 (7.73%) JDeveloper
5 30 (6.44%) JIRA
6 22 (4.72%) Travis CI
7 21 (4.51%) Gradle
7 21 (4.51%) Maven
8 20 (4.29%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (1.93%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.72%) Appium
11 8 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (1.50%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.50%) JUnit
12 7 (1.50%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.29%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (1.29%) RSpec
14 5 (1.07%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (18.24%) Finance
2 58 (12.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 56 (12.02%) Social Skills
4 44 (9.44%) Banking
5 38 (8.15%) Legal
6 29 (6.22%) Retail
6 29 (6.22%) Tech for Good
7 28 (6.01%) Investment Banking
8 22 (4.72%) Law
9 19 (4.08%) Public Sector
10 15 (3.22%) Front Office
11 13 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (2.36%) Health Technology
13 10 (2.15%) Local Government
14 5 (1.07%) Marketing
15 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.43%) Billing
17 1 (0.21%) Police
17 1 (0.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 162 (34.76%) Developer
2 133 (28.54%) Senior
2 133 (28.54%) Software Engineer
3 74 (15.88%) Senior Developer
4 54 (11.59%) Ruby Developer
5 50 (10.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (10.52%) Software Developer
7 47 (10.09%) Ruby Engineer
8 36 (7.73%) Lead
9 33 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (5.79%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 26 (5.58%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (5.58%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 26 (5.58%) Senior Software Developer
12 25 (5.36%) Java Engineer
12 25 (5.36%) Java Software Engineer
13 23 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (4.72%) React Developer
15 19 (4.08%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (28.54%) Ruby on Rails
2 115 (24.68%) React
3 91 (19.53%) Node.js
4 52 (11.16%) Spring
5 43 (9.23%) CSS
5 43 (9.23%) HTML
6 30 (6.44%) Spring Boot
7 25 (5.36%) .NET
8 23 (4.94%) RESTful
9 21 (4.51%) J2EE
10 19 (4.08%) Vue
11 16 (3.43%) AngularJS
11 16 (3.43%) FIX Protocol
12 15 (3.22%) gRPC
12 15 (3.22%) JSON
12 15 (3.22%) NumPy
12 15 (3.22%) Pandas
12 15 (3.22%) Protocol Buffers
12 15 (3.22%) SciPy
12 15 (3.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.08%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (3.65%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.43%) Eurex
4 14 (3.00%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.79%) Derivative
5 13 (2.79%) Life Science
5 13 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (2.58%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.58%) Equities
6 12 (2.58%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.93%) Educational Technology
8 9 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.50%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.29%) Blog
10 6 (1.29%) IoT
11 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 97 (20.82%) Linux
2 58 (12.45%) Windows
3 37 (7.94%) Unix
4 16 (3.43%) CentOS
5 13 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.36%) Solaris
6 11 (2.36%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.72%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.50%) Android
9 6 (1.29%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.07%) VMS
11 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (41.85%) Software Engineering
2 164 (35.19%) DevOps
3 145 (31.12%) Agile
4 138 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (22.32%) Containerisation
6 103 (22.10%) CI/CD
7 80 (17.17%) Microservices
8 79 (16.95%) Mentoring
9 78 (16.74%) Design Patterns
10 76 (16.31%) Continuous Integration
11 75 (16.09%) Full Stack Development
12 64 (13.73%) Clean Code
13 62 (13.30%) Open Source
14 60 (12.88%) Unit Testing
15 59 (12.66%) Code Quality
16 57 (12.23%) Actionable Insight
17 47 (10.09%) Coaching
18 45 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
19 40 (8.58%) Computer Science
20 38 (8.15%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 287 (61.59%) Python
2 182 (39.06%) JavaScript
3 181 (38.84%) Java
4 115 (24.68%) Bash
5 95 (20.39%) Go
6 94 (20.17%) Perl
7 84 (18.03%) PowerShell
8 75 (16.09%) C#
9 71 (15.24%) SQL
10 31 (6.65%) TypeScript
11 29 (6.22%) PHP
12 23 (4.94%) Scala
13 18 (3.86%) Rust
14 14 (3.00%) C
15 13 (2.79%) Groovy
15 13 (2.79%) Korn
16 8 (1.72%) C++
16 8 (1.72%) Kotlin
16 8 (1.72%) Lua
17 5 (1.07%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (7.94%) Degree
2 26 (5.58%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.86%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.21%) OCA
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PhD
9 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.73%) QA
2 11 (2.36%) GDPR
3 5 (1.07%) SLA
4 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.21%) MISRA
System Software
1 79 (16.95%) Docker
2 15 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 101 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 62 (13.30%) Terraform
3 53 (11.37%) Ansible
4 36 (7.73%) Puppet
5 27 (5.79%) Progress Chef
6 16 (3.43%) Grafana
6 16 (3.43%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.79%) Red Hat Satellite
8 10 (2.15%) SCCM
9 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.86%) Packer
10 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.86%) vRealize
11 3 (0.64%) Consul
12 2 (0.43%) Podman
12 2 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.21%) Nagios
13 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 63 (13.52%) Oracle
2 35 (7.51%) Red Hat
3 34 (7.30%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.29%) Pega
5 16 (3.43%) Bloomberg
5 16 (3.43%) CQG
5 16 (3.43%) ION Trading
5 16 (3.43%) Patsystems
5 16 (3.43%) Reuters
5 16 (3.43%) Trayport
6 13 (2.79%) Sun
6 13 (2.79%) TOWER Software
7 12 (2.58%) SaltStack
8 9 (1.93%) New Relic
9 8 (1.72%) Facebook
10 6 (1.29%) Google
11 5 (1.07%) iManage
11 5 (1.07%) VMware
12 4 (0.86%) Cisco
12 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow