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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 271 176
Rank change year-on-year -224 -95 +23
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 457 1,365 3,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 1.32% 2.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 3.05% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 318 675 1,147
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +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 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
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 £54,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

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 4 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 4 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 -243 324 £77,819 +3.76% 103
UK excluding London -226 256 £56,250 -16.67% 44
Work from Home -179 220 £65,000 -10.34% 77
London -107 158 £85,000 +9.68% 63
Scotland -73 66 £52,500 +14.75% 3
North of England -103 54 £54,424 -22.25% 9
South West -61 44 £70,000 +3.70% 13
South East -49 38 £55,000 -15.38% 8
North West -40 33 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Northern Ireland 0 22 £55,000 -17.60%
Yorkshire +17 17 £45,000 -35.71% 3
Midlands -42 17 £53,500 -22.18% 7
East of England -29 11 £85,000 +13.33% 3
East Midlands -42 11 £53,500 +1.90% 3
Wales -5 6 £48,052 +17.91% 2
West Midlands -13 6 £58,750 -16.07% 4
North East -31 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 (4.38%) Camunda
2 15 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.84%) Apache
3 13 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.97%) Confluence
5 6 (1.31%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.28%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 178 (38.95%) AWS
2 107 (23.41%) Azure
3 83 (18.16%) Serverless
4 52 (11.38%) GitHub
5 44 (9.63%) GCP
5 44 (9.63%) SaaS
6 34 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (3.28%) IaaS
9 13 (2.84%) dbt
10 12 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (2.19%) PaaS
11 10 (2.19%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.19%) Pulumi
12 9 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (1.97%) Datadog
13 8 (1.75%) Heroku
14 7 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.81%) DNS
2 19 (4.16%) Firewall
2 19 (4.16%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.28%) DHCP
3 15 (3.28%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.53%) HTTP
5 4 (0.88%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) MQTT
6 3 (0.66%) SSL
6 3 (0.66%) VPN
7 1 (0.22%) 5G
7 1 (0.22%) Network Security
7 1 (0.22%) SNMP
7 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.50%) Relational Database
2 45 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (9.19%) Oracle Database
4 39 (8.53%) MySQL
5 36 (7.88%) RDBMS
5 36 (7.88%) SQL Server
6 22 (4.81%) NoSQL
7 21 (4.60%) MongoDB
8 16 (3.50%) Redis
9 13 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (2.84%) Apache Arrow
9 13 (2.84%) Apache Ignite
9 13 (2.84%) Dremio
10 10 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.19%) Power BI
11 8 (1.75%) Big Data
11 8 (1.75%) MariaDB
12 7 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.53%) Qlik Sense
12 7 (1.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 112 (24.51%) Git
2 61 (13.35%) Jenkins
3 36 (7.88%) JDeveloper
4 34 (7.44%) GitLab
5 30 (6.56%) JIRA
6 21 (4.60%) Gradle
6 21 (4.60%) Maven
6 21 (4.60%) Travis CI
7 20 (4.38%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.75%) Appium
11 7 (1.53%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.53%) JUnit
11 7 (1.53%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (1.31%) RSpec
13 5 (1.09%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (17.51%) Finance
2 57 (12.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 57 (12.47%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.53%) Banking
4 36 (7.88%) Legal
5 29 (6.35%) Tech for Good
6 27 (5.91%) Retail
7 24 (5.25%) Investment Banking
8 20 (4.38%) Law
9 19 (4.16%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (2.84%) Front Office
12 11 (2.41%) Health Technology
13 10 (2.19%) Local Government
14 5 (1.09%) Marketing
15 4 (0.88%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.44%) Billing
18 1 (0.22%) Automotive
18 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 161 (35.23%) Developer
2 132 (28.88%) Senior
3 130 (28.45%) Software Engineer
4 74 (16.19%) Senior Developer
5 54 (11.82%) Ruby Developer
6 47 (10.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 47 (10.28%) Ruby Engineer
6 47 (10.28%) Software Developer
7 33 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
8 32 (7.00%) Lead
9 29 (6.35%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 26 (5.69%) Full Stack Developer
10 26 (5.69%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 26 (5.69%) Senior Software Developer
11 25 (5.47%) Java Engineer
11 25 (5.47%) Java Software Engineer
12 22 (4.81%) React Developer
12 22 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (4.16%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (29.54%) Ruby on Rails
2 114 (24.95%) React
3 91 (19.91%) Node.js
4 52 (11.38%) Spring
5 43 (9.41%) CSS
5 43 (9.41%) HTML
6 30 (6.56%) Spring Boot
7 27 (5.91%) .NET
8 23 (5.03%) RESTful
9 21 (4.60%) J2EE
10 19 (4.16%) Vue
11 16 (3.50%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.28%) FIX Protocol
12 15 (3.28%) JSON
12 15 (3.28%) Web Services
13 14 (3.06%) Laravel
13 14 (3.06%) XML
14 13 (2.84%) NumPy
14 13 (2.84%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (2.84%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.00%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (3.72%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.28%) Eurex
4 14 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.06%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.84%) Derivative
6 12 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.63%) Equities
6 12 (2.63%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.41%) Life Science
7 11 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.97%) Educational Technology
10 7 (1.53%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.31%) Blog
11 6 (1.31%) IoT
11 6 (1.31%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.88%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 93 (20.35%) Linux
2 54 (11.82%) Windows
3 36 (7.88%) Unix
4 15 (3.28%) CentOS
5 12 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.41%) Windows Server
7 10 (2.19%) Solaris
7 10 (2.19%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.75%) Apple iOS
9 7 (1.53%) Android
10 6 (1.31%) Windows 10
11 5 (1.09%) VMS
12 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (42.01%) Software Engineering
2 159 (34.79%) DevOps
3 142 (31.07%) Agile
4 137 (29.98%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (22.54%) Containerisation
6 102 (22.32%) CI/CD
7 80 (17.51%) Mentoring
7 80 (17.51%) Microservices
8 77 (16.85%) Continuous Integration
8 77 (16.85%) Design Patterns
9 75 (16.41%) Full Stack Development
10 64 (14.00%) Clean Code
11 62 (13.57%) Open Source
12 60 (13.13%) Unit Testing
13 59 (12.91%) Code Quality
14 57 (12.47%) Actionable Insight
15 47 (10.28%) Coaching
16 42 (9.19%) Infrastructure as Code
17 39 (8.53%) Computer Science
18 37 (8.10%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 280 (61.27%) Python
2 181 (39.61%) Java
2 181 (39.61%) JavaScript
3 111 (24.29%) Bash
4 95 (20.79%) Go
5 91 (19.91%) Perl
6 79 (17.29%) PowerShell
7 77 (16.85%) C#
8 69 (15.10%) SQL
9 30 (6.56%) PHP
10 29 (6.35%) TypeScript
11 21 (4.60%) Scala
12 18 (3.94%) Rust
13 15 (3.28%) C
14 12 (2.63%) Groovy
15 11 (2.41%) Korn
16 9 (1.97%) C++
17 8 (1.75%) Kotlin
17 8 (1.75%) Lua
18 5 (1.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (8.10%) Degree
2 28 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.09%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.22%) OCA
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PhD
9 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.72%) QA
2 11 (2.41%) GDPR
3 5 (1.09%) SLA
4 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) MISRA
System Software
1 75 (16.41%) Docker
2 14 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (21.23%) Kubernetes
2 58 (12.69%) Terraform
3 50 (10.94%) Ansible
4 32 (7.00%) Puppet
5 25 (5.47%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.84%) Grafana
6 13 (2.84%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.41%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (1.75%) SCCM
9 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.88%) Packer
9 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.88%) vRealize
10 3 (0.66%) Consul
11 2 (0.44%) Podman
11 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.22%) Nagios
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 63 (13.79%) Oracle
2 32 (7.00%) Red Hat
3 30 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.38%) Pega
5 15 (3.28%) Bloomberg
5 15 (3.28%) CQG
5 15 (3.28%) ION Trading
5 15 (3.28%) Patsystems
5 15 (3.28%) Reuters
5 15 (3.28%) Trayport
6 11 (2.41%) SaltStack
6 11 (2.41%) Sun
6 11 (2.41%) TOWER Software
7 8 (1.75%) Facebook
7 8 (1.75%) New Relic
8 6 (1.31%) Google
9 5 (1.09%) VMware
10 4 (0.88%) Cisco
10 4 (0.88%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow