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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 262 179
Rank change year-on-year -255 -83 +22
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 425 1,421 3,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 1.43% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% 3.31% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 303 633 1,104
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,760 £57,500 £55,000
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.00% +15.75% +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 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £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 18 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 18 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 -268 302 £77,500 +3.33% 125
UK excluding London -277 233 £56,250 -19.00% 63
Work from Home -215 188 £65,000 -13.33% 83
London -110 151 £85,000 +9.68% 82
Scotland -89 59 £52,500 +26.12% 6
North of England -106 50 £54,424 -22.25% 12
South West -80 40 £70,000 -2.10% 12
South East -69 34 £55,000 -18.52% 25
North West -64 32 £55,000 -12.00% 7
Northern Ireland -12 20 £55,000 -24.14% 1
Midlands -75 16 £53,500 -23.57% 5
Yorkshire +3 14 £45,000 -35.71% 5
East Midlands -47 10 £53,500 -14.40% 2
East of England -50 10 £85,000 +13.33% 3
West Midlands -16 6 £58,750 -16.07% 3
Wales -20 5 £48,052 +17.91%
North East -34 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 (4.71%) Camunda
2 16 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.29%) Apache
4 13 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.12%) Confluence
6 6 (1.41%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.76%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.94%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (40.94%) AWS
2 104 (24.47%) Azure
3 63 (14.82%) Serverless
4 47 (11.06%) GCP
4 47 (11.06%) SaaS
5 45 (10.59%) GitHub
6 32 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (3.53%) IaaS
9 13 (3.06%) dbt
10 12 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.35%) PaaS
11 10 (2.35%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.35%) Pulumi
12 9 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (2.12%) Datadog
13 8 (1.88%) Heroku
14 7 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.41%) DNS
2 20 (4.71%) Firewall
2 20 (4.71%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.76%) DHCP
3 16 (3.76%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.65%) HTTP
5 4 (0.94%) Internet
6 3 (0.71%) MQTT
6 3 (0.71%) SSL
6 3 (0.71%) VPN
7 2 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) 5G
8 1 (0.24%) Network Security
8 1 (0.24%) SNMP
8 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.29%) Relational Database
2 45 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (9.65%) Oracle Database
4 40 (9.41%) MySQL
5 38 (8.94%) SQL Server
6 36 (8.47%) RDBMS
7 22 (5.18%) NoSQL
8 20 (4.71%) MongoDB
9 15 (3.53%) Redis
10 13 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (3.06%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (3.06%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (3.06%) Dremio
11 10 (2.35%) Power BI
12 9 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.88%) Big Data
13 8 (1.88%) MariaDB
14 7 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (20.24%) Git
2 60 (14.12%) Jenkins
3 36 (8.47%) JDeveloper
4 29 (6.82%) GitLab
4 29 (6.82%) JIRA
5 21 (4.94%) Gradle
5 21 (4.94%) Maven
5 21 (4.94%) Travis CI
6 20 (4.71%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.88%) Appium
7 8 (1.88%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.41%) JUnit
9 6 (1.41%) RSpec
10 5 (1.18%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
10 5 (1.18%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.18%) Subversion
General
1 78 (18.35%) Finance
2 56 (13.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 55 (12.94%) Social Skills
4 38 (8.94%) Banking
5 37 (8.71%) Legal
6 29 (6.82%) Tech for Good
7 25 (5.88%) Retail
8 22 (5.18%) Investment Banking
9 20 (4.71%) Law
10 19 (4.47%) Public Sector
11 16 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (3.06%) Front Office
13 11 (2.59%) Health Technology
14 10 (2.35%) Local Government
15 5 (1.18%) Marketing
16 4 (0.94%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.47%) Billing
18 1 (0.24%) Automotive
18 1 (0.24%) Electronics
18 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 156 (36.71%) Developer
2 130 (30.59%) Senior
3 110 (25.88%) Software Engineer
4 72 (16.94%) Senior Developer
5 49 (11.53%) Ruby Engineer
6 48 (11.29%) Ruby Developer
6 48 (11.29%) Software Developer
7 44 (10.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.29%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 29 (6.82%) Lead
11 26 (6.12%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (6.12%) Senior Software Developer
12 22 (5.18%) React Developer
12 22 (5.18%) Senior Ruby Developer
13 21 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (4.47%) Senior React Developer
15 18 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (4.24%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (26.35%) Ruby on Rails
2 91 (21.41%) React
3 89 (20.94%) Node.js
4 43 (10.12%) HTML
5 42 (9.88%) CSS
6 32 (7.53%) Spring
7 30 (7.06%) Spring Boot
8 25 (5.88%) .NET
9 23 (5.41%) RESTful
10 19 (4.47%) Vue
11 16 (3.76%) FIX Protocol
11 16 (3.76%) JSON
12 15 (3.53%) Web Services
13 14 (3.29%) AngularJS
13 14 (3.29%) Laravel
13 14 (3.29%) XML
14 13 (3.06%) gRPC
14 13 (3.06%) Pandas
14 13 (3.06%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (3.06%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.06%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.76%) Eurex
4 14 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.29%) Hedge funds
5 13 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.06%) Derivative
6 12 (2.82%) Equities
6 12 (2.82%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.12%) Educational Technology
8 9 (2.12%) Life Science
8 9 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.65%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.65%) IoT
10 5 (1.18%) Blog
10 5 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.94%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 90 (21.18%) Linux
2 51 (12.00%) Windows
3 36 (8.47%) Unix
4 16 (3.76%) CentOS
5 12 (2.82%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.59%) Solaris
7 10 (2.35%) Apple iOS
7 10 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (2.12%) Android
8 9 (2.12%) Windows Server
9 6 (1.41%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.18%) VMS
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (39.29%) Software Engineering
2 152 (35.76%) DevOps
3 137 (32.24%) Agile
4 114 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (23.06%) CI/CD
6 82 (19.29%) Containerisation
7 75 (17.65%) Full Stack Development
8 60 (14.12%) Open Source
9 59 (13.88%) Design Patterns
9 59 (13.88%) Microservices
10 57 (13.41%) Mentoring
11 56 (13.18%) Continuous Integration
12 45 (10.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (10.12%) Clean Code
14 40 (9.41%) Code Quality
14 40 (9.41%) Unit Testing
15 38 (8.94%) Actionable Insight
16 37 (8.71%) Computer Science
17 35 (8.24%) Front End Development
17 35 (8.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 255 (60.00%) Python
2 181 (42.59%) JavaScript
3 158 (37.18%) Java
4 108 (25.41%) Bash
5 94 (22.12%) Go
6 89 (20.94%) Perl
7 80 (18.82%) PowerShell
8 70 (16.47%) SQL
9 54 (12.71%) C#
10 30 (7.06%) PHP
11 27 (6.35%) TypeScript
12 21 (4.94%) Scala
13 15 (3.53%) C
13 15 (3.53%) Rust
14 12 (2.82%) C++
14 12 (2.82%) Groovy
15 9 (2.12%) Korn
16 8 (1.88%) Lua
17 6 (1.41%) Kotlin
18 5 (1.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (8.94%) Degree
2 26 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) PhD
9 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.29%) QA
2 11 (2.59%) GDPR
3 5 (1.18%) SLA
4 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) MISRA
System Software
1 72 (16.94%) Docker
2 12 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.47%) XenApp
6 2 (0.47%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 93 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 57 (13.41%) Terraform
3 47 (11.06%) Ansible
4 30 (7.06%) Puppet
5 24 (5.65%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.06%) Grafana
6 13 (3.06%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.12%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (1.65%) SCCM
9 4 (0.94%) Packer
9 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.94%) vRealize
10 3 (0.71%) Consul
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.47%) Podman
11 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 63 (14.82%) Oracle
2 31 (7.29%) Red Hat
3 25 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.71%) Pega
5 16 (3.76%) Bloomberg
5 16 (3.76%) CQG
5 16 (3.76%) ION Trading
5 16 (3.76%) Patsystems
5 16 (3.76%) Reuters
5 16 (3.76%) Trayport
6 11 (2.59%) SaltStack
7 9 (2.12%) TOWER Software
8 8 (1.88%) Facebook
8 8 (1.88%) New Relic
9 7 (1.65%) Google
9 7 (1.65%) Sun
9 7 (1.65%) VMware
10 4 (0.94%) Cisco
10 4 (0.94%) PeopleSoft
10 4 (0.94%) ServiceNow