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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 274 177
Rank change year-on-year -237 -97 +21
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 432 1,335 3,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 1.32% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 3.05% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 313 659 1,125
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,271 £57,500 £53,750
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £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 £107,000 £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 10 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 10 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 -242 307 £77,500 +3.33% 97
UK excluding London -242 238 £56,250 -16.67% 40
Work from Home -208 195 £65,000 -11.86% 67
London -99 154 £85,000 +9.68% 60
Scotland -67 62 £52,500 +26.12% 2
North of England -91 49 £54,424 -22.25% 8
South West -58 41 £70,000 +3.70% 14
South East -57 36 £55,000 -16.98% 8
North West -50 30 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Northern Ireland -5 20 £55,000 -24.14%
Midlands -73 16 £53,500 -23.57% 5
Yorkshire +17 15 £45,000 -35.71% 3
East of England -35 11 £85,000 +13.33% 2
East Midlands -46 10 £53,500 +1.90% 1
West Midlands -28 6 £58,750 -16.07% 4
Wales -12 5 £48,052 +17.91% 2
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 (4.63%) Camunda
2 16 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.24%) Apache
4 13 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.08%) Confluence
6 6 (1.39%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.70%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (40.97%) AWS
2 107 (24.77%) Azure
3 63 (14.58%) Serverless
4 48 (11.11%) GitHub
5 46 (10.65%) SaaS
6 45 (10.42%) GCP
7 33 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (3.47%) IaaS
10 13 (3.01%) dbt
11 12 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.31%) PaaS
12 10 (2.31%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.31%) Pulumi
13 9 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.08%) Datadog
14 8 (1.85%) Heroku
15 7 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.32%) DNS
2 20 (4.63%) Firewall
2 20 (4.63%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.70%) DHCP
3 16 (3.70%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.62%) HTTP
5 4 (0.93%) Internet
6 3 (0.69%) MQTT
6 3 (0.69%) SSL
6 3 (0.69%) VPN
7 1 (0.23%) 5G
7 1 (0.23%) Network Security
7 1 (0.23%) SNMP
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 45 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (9.72%) Oracle Database
4 40 (9.26%) MySQL
5 38 (8.80%) SQL Server
6 36 (8.33%) RDBMS
7 21 (4.86%) MongoDB
7 21 (4.86%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.70%) Redis
9 13 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (3.01%) Apache Arrow
9 13 (3.01%) Apache Ignite
9 13 (3.01%) Dremio
10 10 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.31%) Power BI
11 8 (1.85%) Big Data
11 8 (1.85%) MariaDB
12 7 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (20.60%) Git
2 59 (13.66%) Jenkins
3 36 (8.33%) JDeveloper
4 30 (6.94%) GitLab
5 29 (6.71%) JIRA
6 21 (4.86%) Gradle
6 21 (4.86%) Maven
6 21 (4.86%) Travis CI
7 20 (4.63%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.85%) Appium
10 7 (1.62%) JUnit
10 7 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.39%) RSpec
11 6 (1.39%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.16%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (1.16%) Subversion
General
1 78 (18.06%) Finance
2 57 (13.19%) Social Skills
3 56 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (8.80%) Banking
5 35 (8.10%) Legal
6 29 (6.71%) Tech for Good
7 26 (6.02%) Retail
8 22 (5.09%) Investment Banking
9 20 (4.63%) Law
10 19 (4.40%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (3.01%) Front Office
13 11 (2.55%) Health Technology
14 10 (2.31%) Local Government
15 5 (1.16%) Marketing
16 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.46%) Billing
17 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
18 1 (0.23%) Police
18 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (37.04%) Developer
2 132 (30.56%) Senior
3 111 (25.69%) Software Engineer
4 73 (16.90%) Senior Developer
5 52 (12.04%) Ruby Developer
6 48 (11.11%) Ruby Engineer
6 48 (11.11%) Software Developer
7 45 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.64%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.18%) Lead
10 29 (6.71%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 26 (6.02%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (6.02%) Senior Software Developer
12 25 (5.79%) Senior Ruby Developer
13 22 (5.09%) React Developer
13 22 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (4.40%) Senior React Developer
16 18 (4.17%) Lead Developer
17 16 (3.70%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (26.39%) Ruby on Rails
2 94 (21.76%) React
3 90 (20.83%) Node.js
4 43 (9.95%) HTML
5 42 (9.72%) CSS
6 33 (7.64%) Spring
7 30 (6.94%) Spring Boot
8 26 (6.02%) .NET
9 23 (5.32%) RESTful
10 19 (4.40%) Vue
11 16 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
11 16 (3.70%) JSON
12 15 (3.47%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.47%) Web Services
13 14 (3.24%) Laravel
13 14 (3.24%) XML
14 13 (3.01%) NumPy
14 13 (3.01%) Pandas
14 13 (3.01%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (3.01%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (3.94%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.70%) Eurex
4 14 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.24%) Hedge funds
5 13 (3.01%) Derivative
6 12 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.78%) Equities
6 12 (2.78%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.31%) Life Science
8 10 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.08%) Educational Technology
10 6 (1.39%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.39%) IoT
11 5 (1.16%) Blog
11 5 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.93%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.30%) Linux
2 53 (12.27%) Windows
3 37 (8.56%) Unix
4 16 (3.70%) CentOS
5 12 (2.78%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.55%) Solaris
7 10 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (2.08%) Apple iOS
8 9 (2.08%) Windows Server
9 8 (1.85%) Android
10 6 (1.39%) Windows 10
11 5 (1.16%) VMS
12 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (39.35%) Software Engineering
2 154 (35.65%) DevOps
3 140 (32.41%) Agile
4 116 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (22.69%) CI/CD
6 83 (19.21%) Containerisation
7 75 (17.36%) Full Stack Development
8 61 (14.12%) Microservices
8 61 (14.12%) Open Source
9 60 (13.89%) Mentoring
10 58 (13.43%) Design Patterns
11 57 (13.19%) Continuous Integration
12 45 (10.42%) Clean Code
13 42 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (9.49%) Unit Testing
15 40 (9.26%) Code Quality
16 39 (9.03%) Computer Science
17 38 (8.80%) Actionable Insight
18 37 (8.56%) Front End Development
19 35 (8.10%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 257 (59.49%) Python
2 181 (41.90%) JavaScript
3 160 (37.04%) Java
4 109 (25.23%) Bash
5 92 (21.30%) Go
6 90 (20.83%) Perl
7 78 (18.06%) PowerShell
8 70 (16.20%) SQL
9 56 (12.96%) C#
10 30 (6.94%) PHP
11 28 (6.48%) TypeScript
12 21 (4.86%) Scala
13 16 (3.70%) Rust
14 15 (3.47%) C
15 12 (2.78%) Groovy
16 10 (2.31%) C++
17 9 (2.08%) Korn
18 8 (1.85%) Lua
19 7 (1.62%) Kotlin
20 5 (1.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (8.80%) Degree
2 27 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.63%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.62%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.23%) OCA
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.11%) QA
2 11 (2.55%) GDPR
3 5 (1.16%) SLA
4 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) MISRA
System Software
1 73 (16.90%) Docker
2 13 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 56 (12.96%) Terraform
3 47 (10.88%) Ansible
4 30 (6.94%) Puppet
5 24 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.01%) Grafana
6 13 (3.01%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (1.62%) SCCM
9 4 (0.93%) Packer
9 4 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.93%) vRealize
10 3 (0.69%) Consul
10 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.46%) Podman
11 2 (0.46%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.23%) Nagios
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 64 (14.81%) Oracle
2 31 (7.18%) Red Hat
3 27 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.63%) Pega
5 16 (3.70%) Bloomberg
5 16 (3.70%) CQG
5 16 (3.70%) ION Trading
5 16 (3.70%) Patsystems
5 16 (3.70%) Reuters
5 16 (3.70%) Trayport
6 11 (2.55%) SaltStack
7 9 (2.08%) Sun
7 9 (2.08%) TOWER Software
8 8 (1.85%) Facebook
8 8 (1.85%) New Relic
9 6 (1.39%) Google
10 5 (1.16%) VMware
11 4 (0.93%) Cisco
11 4 (0.93%) PeopleSoft
11 4 (0.93%) ServiceNow