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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 254 178
Rank change year-on-year -261 -76 +22
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 424 1,460 3,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 1.47% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% 3.39% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 302 638 1,106
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £51,505 £57,500 £54,438
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 £113,625 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.20% +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 33,218 43,078 87,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,863 27,599 43,697
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £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 20 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 20 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 -273 302 £77,500 +3.33% 138
UK excluding London -277 233 £57,500 -17.20% 72
Work from Home -211 186 £65,000 -13.33% 89
London -114 152 £85,000 +9.68% 91
Scotland -93 59 £52,500 +26.12% 6
North of England -125 50 £54,424 -22.25% 14
South West -79 41 £70,000 -2.10% 12
South East -65 34 £55,000 -18.52% 32
North West -75 32 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Northern Ireland -5 20 £55,000 -24.14% 1
Midlands -77 15 £55,500 -19.27% 5
Yorkshire -2 14 £45,000 -35.71% 6
East of England -48 10 £85,000 +13.33% 3
East Midlands -60 9 £55,500 -11.20% 2
West Midlands -16 6 £58,750 -16.07% 3
Wales -20 5 £48,052 +17.91%
North East -29 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 (4.72%) Camunda
2 16 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.30%) Apache
4 13 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.12%) Confluence
6 6 (1.42%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.77%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.94%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (41.04%) AWS
2 102 (24.06%) Azure
3 63 (14.86%) Serverless
4 47 (11.08%) GCP
4 47 (11.08%) SaaS
5 43 (10.14%) GitHub
6 30 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.30%) IaaS
9 13 (3.07%) dbt
10 12 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.36%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.36%) Pulumi
12 9 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.12%) Datadog
12 9 (2.12%) PaaS
13 8 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.89%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.42%) DNS
2 20 (4.72%) Firewall
2 20 (4.72%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.77%) DHCP
3 16 (3.77%) 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 (11.32%) Relational Database
2 45 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (9.67%) Oracle Database
4 40 (9.43%) MySQL
5 37 (8.73%) SQL Server
6 36 (8.49%) RDBMS
7 22 (5.19%) NoSQL
8 21 (4.95%) MongoDB
9 15 (3.54%) Redis
10 13 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (3.07%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (3.07%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (3.07%) Dremio
11 10 (2.36%) Power BI
12 9 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.89%) Big Data
13 8 (1.89%) MariaDB
14 7 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (19.58%) Git
2 59 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 36 (8.49%) JDeveloper
4 29 (6.84%) JIRA
5 27 (6.37%) GitLab
6 21 (4.95%) Gradle
6 21 (4.95%) Maven
6 21 (4.95%) Travis CI
7 20 (4.72%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.89%) Appium
8 8 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (1.42%) JUnit
10 6 (1.42%) RSpec
11 5 (1.18%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (1.18%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.18%) Subversion
12 4 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 77 (18.16%) Finance
2 56 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.73%) Banking
3 37 (8.73%) Legal
4 30 (7.08%) Tech for Good
5 25 (5.90%) Retail
6 21 (4.95%) Investment Banking
7 20 (4.72%) Law
8 19 (4.48%) Public Sector
9 17 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (3.07%) Front Office
11 12 (2.83%) Health Technology
12 10 (2.36%) Local Government
13 5 (1.18%) Marketing
14 4 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.47%) Billing
16 1 (0.24%) Automotive
16 1 (0.24%) Electronics
16 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 156 (36.79%) Developer
2 130 (30.66%) Senior
3 111 (26.18%) Software Engineer
4 72 (16.98%) Senior Developer
5 49 (11.56%) Ruby Engineer
6 48 (11.32%) Ruby Developer
6 48 (11.32%) Software Developer
7 42 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.31%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 29 (6.84%) Lead
11 26 (6.13%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (6.13%) Senior Software Developer
12 22 (5.19%) React Developer
12 22 (5.19%) Senior Ruby Developer
13 21 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.48%) Senior React Developer
15 18 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (4.25%) Lead Developer
16 17 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (26.42%) Ruby on Rails
2 90 (21.23%) React
3 89 (20.99%) Node.js
4 43 (10.14%) HTML
5 42 (9.91%) CSS
6 32 (7.55%) Spring
7 30 (7.08%) Spring Boot
8 24 (5.66%) .NET
9 23 (5.42%) RESTful
10 19 (4.48%) Vue
11 16 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
11 16 (3.77%) JSON
12 15 (3.54%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.54%) Web Services
13 14 (3.30%) Laravel
13 14 (3.30%) XML
14 13 (3.07%) NumPy
14 13 (3.07%) Pandas
14 13 (3.07%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (3.07%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.08%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (4.01%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.77%) Eurex
4 14 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.30%) Hedge funds
5 13 (3.07%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.07%) Derivative
6 12 (2.83%) Equities
6 12 (2.83%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.36%) 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 6 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.94%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.94%) Housing Association
11 4 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 88 (20.75%) Linux
2 48 (11.32%) Windows
3 36 (8.49%) Unix
4 16 (3.77%) CentOS
5 12 (2.83%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.59%) Solaris
7 10 (2.36%) Apple iOS
8 9 (2.12%) Android
8 9 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (1.89%) Windows Server
10 6 (1.42%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.94%) VMS
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (39.39%) Software Engineering
2 149 (35.14%) DevOps
3 137 (32.31%) Agile
4 113 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (22.64%) CI/CD
6 81 (19.10%) Containerisation
7 76 (17.92%) Full Stack Development
8 60 (14.15%) Microservices
9 59 (13.92%) Design Patterns
9 59 (13.92%) Open Source
10 57 (13.44%) Mentoring
11 55 (12.97%) Continuous Integration
12 44 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (10.14%) Clean Code
14 41 (9.67%) Unit Testing
15 40 (9.43%) Code Quality
16 38 (8.96%) Actionable Insight
17 37 (8.73%) Computer Science
18 35 (8.25%) Front End Development
18 35 (8.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 253 (59.67%) Python
2 180 (42.45%) JavaScript
3 158 (37.26%) Java
4 106 (25.00%) Bash
5 94 (22.17%) Go
6 88 (20.75%) Perl
7 78 (18.40%) PowerShell
8 71 (16.75%) SQL
9 54 (12.74%) C#
10 31 (7.31%) PHP
11 28 (6.60%) TypeScript
12 21 (4.95%) Scala
13 15 (3.54%) C
13 15 (3.54%) Rust
14 12 (2.83%) C++
14 12 (2.83%) Groovy
15 8 (1.89%) Korn
15 8 (1.89%) Lua
16 6 (1.42%) Kotlin
17 5 (1.18%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (9.20%) Degree
2 25 (5.90%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) PhD
9 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.32%) 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 70 (16.51%) Docker
2 11 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.65%) 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 91 (21.46%) Kubernetes
2 55 (12.97%) Terraform
3 46 (10.85%) Ansible
4 29 (6.84%) Puppet
5 24 (5.66%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.07%) Grafana
6 13 (3.07%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.89%) 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 (14.86%) Oracle
2 30 (7.08%) Red Hat
3 23 (5.42%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.72%) Pega
5 16 (3.77%) Bloomberg
5 16 (3.77%) CQG
5 16 (3.77%) ION Trading
5 16 (3.77%) Patsystems
5 16 (3.77%) Reuters
5 16 (3.77%) Trayport
6 11 (2.59%) SaltStack
7 8 (1.89%) Facebook
7 8 (1.89%) New Relic
7 8 (1.89%) TOWER Software
8 7 (1.65%) Google
8 7 (1.65%) VMware
9 6 (1.42%) Sun
10 4 (0.94%) Cisco
10 4 (0.94%) PeopleSoft
10 4 (0.94%) ServiceNow