Ruby Engineer Jobs

Ruby Engineer
UK

The median Ruby Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 891 848 1118
Rank change year-on-year -43 +270 -217
Permanent jobs requiring a Ruby Engineer 16 99 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.10% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.11% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 12 29 17
10th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +50.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 - £125,000
90th Percentile - £97,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 - -

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Ruby Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby Engineer in the UK

Ruby Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Ruby Engineer in the UK

Ruby Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Ruby Engineer in the UK

Ruby Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -21 13 £85,000 - 7
London +86 11 £85,000 - 3
North of England +21 2 £65,000 - 3
North West -11 2 £65,000 - 3
UK excluding London -80 2 £65,000 - 4
Work from Home -23 1 - - 7

Ruby Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Ruby Engineer 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 Ruby Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Ruby
2 11 (68.75%) AWS
3 7 (43.75%) Educational Technology
3 7 (43.75%) Tech for Good
3 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 7 (43.75%) Heroku
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (18.75%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
5 3 (18.75%) SaaS
5 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
5 3 (18.75%) Docker
6 1 (6.25%) Rollbar
6 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven
6 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (6.25%) PagerDuty
6 1 (6.25%) Datadog
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 1 (6.25%) Go

Ruby Engineer 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 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Heroku
3 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (43.75%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
2 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) TDD
3 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven
3 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Ruby
2 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) PagerDuty
1 1 (6.25%) Rollbar