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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 270 179
Rank change year-on-year -239 -91 +17
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 435 1,336 3,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 1.32% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.31% 3.05% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 315 657 1,133
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,385 £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 £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 9 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 9 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 -245 309 £77,500 +3.33% 97
UK excluding London -234 239 £57,500 -14.81% 41
Work from Home -210 197 £65,000 -13.33% 69
London -105 155 £85,000 +9.68% 59
Scotland -75 63 £52,500 +26.12% 2
North of England -84 49 £54,424 -22.25% 10
South West -64 41 £70,000 - 13
South East -64 36 £55,000 -15.38% 9
North West -40 30 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Northern Ireland 0 20 £55,000 -24.14%
Midlands -68 16 £53,500 -23.57% 4
Yorkshire +19 15 £45,000 -35.71% 5
East of England -34 11 £85,000 +13.33% 2
East Midlands -47 10 £53,500 +1.90% 1
West Midlands -16 6 £58,750 -16.07% 3
Wales -15 5 £48,052 +17.91% 2
North East -32 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 (4.60%) Camunda
2 16 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.22%) Apache
4 13 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.07%) Confluence
6 6 (1.38%) 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 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.68%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 178 (40.92%) AWS
2 107 (24.60%) Azure
3 63 (14.48%) Serverless
4 49 (11.26%) GitHub
5 46 (10.57%) SaaS
6 45 (10.34%) GCP
7 33 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (3.45%) IaaS
10 13 (2.99%) dbt
11 12 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.30%) PaaS
12 10 (2.30%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.30%) Pulumi
13 9 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.07%) Datadog
14 8 (1.84%) Heroku
15 7 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.29%) DNS
2 20 (4.60%) Firewall
2 20 (4.60%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.68%) DHCP
3 16 (3.68%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.61%) HTTP
5 4 (0.92%) 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 (11.03%) Relational Database
2 45 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (9.66%) Oracle Database
4 40 (9.20%) MySQL
5 38 (8.74%) SQL Server
6 36 (8.28%) RDBMS
7 22 (5.06%) NoSQL
8 21 (4.83%) MongoDB
9 16 (3.68%) Redis
10 13 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (2.99%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (2.99%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (2.99%) Dremio
11 10 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.30%) Power BI
12 8 (1.84%) Big Data
12 8 (1.84%) MariaDB
13 7 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (20.92%) Git
2 59 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 36 (8.28%) JDeveloper
4 31 (7.13%) GitLab
5 29 (6.67%) JIRA
6 21 (4.83%) Gradle
6 21 (4.83%) Maven
6 21 (4.83%) Travis CI
7 20 (4.60%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.07%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.84%) Appium
10 7 (1.61%) JUnit
10 7 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.38%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.38%) RSpec
11 6 (1.38%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.15%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 79 (18.16%) Finance
2 58 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 56 (12.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (8.97%) Banking
5 35 (8.05%) Legal
6 29 (6.67%) Tech for Good
7 26 (5.98%) Retail
8 23 (5.29%) Investment Banking
9 20 (4.60%) Law
10 19 (4.37%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.99%) Front Office
13 11 (2.53%) Health Technology
14 10 (2.30%) Local Government
15 5 (1.15%) Marketing
16 4 (0.92%) 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
1 161 (37.01%) Developer
2 133 (30.57%) Senior
3 111 (25.52%) Software Engineer
4 74 (17.01%) Senior Developer
5 53 (12.18%) Ruby Developer
6 48 (11.03%) Ruby Engineer
6 48 (11.03%) Software Developer
7 45 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
9 32 (7.36%) Lead
10 29 (6.67%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 26 (5.98%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (5.98%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 26 (5.98%) Senior Software Developer
12 22 (5.06%) React Developer
12 22 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (4.37%) Senior React Developer
15 18 (4.14%) Lead Developer
16 16 (3.68%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (26.44%) Ruby on Rails
2 95 (21.84%) React
3 90 (20.69%) Node.js
4 44 (10.11%) HTML
5 43 (9.89%) CSS
6 33 (7.59%) Spring
7 30 (6.90%) Spring Boot
8 26 (5.98%) .NET
9 23 (5.29%) RESTful
10 19 (4.37%) Vue
11 16 (3.68%) AngularJS
11 16 (3.68%) FIX Protocol
11 16 (3.68%) JSON
12 15 (3.45%) Web Services
13 14 (3.22%) Laravel
13 14 (3.22%) XML
14 13 (2.99%) NumPy
14 13 (2.99%) Pandas
14 13 (2.99%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (2.99%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.36%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (3.91%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.68%) Eurex
4 14 (3.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.22%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.99%) Derivative
6 12 (2.76%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.76%) Equities
6 12 (2.76%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.30%) Life Science
8 10 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.07%) Educational Technology
10 6 (1.38%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.38%) IoT
11 5 (1.15%) Blog
11 5 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.92%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 93 (21.38%) Linux
2 54 (12.41%) Windows
3 37 (8.51%) Unix
4 16 (3.68%) CentOS
5 12 (2.76%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.53%) Solaris
7 10 (2.30%) Windows Server
8 9 (2.07%) Apple iOS
9 8 (1.84%) Android
10 6 (1.38%) Windows 10
11 5 (1.15%) VMS
12 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (39.31%) Software Engineering
2 156 (35.86%) DevOps
3 141 (32.41%) Agile
4 117 (26.90%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (22.76%) CI/CD
6 83 (19.08%) Containerisation
7 75 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
8 61 (14.02%) Mentoring
8 61 (14.02%) Microservices
8 61 (14.02%) Open Source
9 58 (13.33%) Design Patterns
10 57 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
11 45 (10.34%) Clean Code
12 42 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (9.43%) Unit Testing
14 40 (9.20%) Code Quality
15 39 (8.97%) Computer Science
16 38 (8.74%) Actionable Insight
17 37 (8.51%) Front End Development
18 35 (8.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 259 (59.54%) Python
2 182 (41.84%) JavaScript
3 161 (37.01%) Java
4 110 (25.29%) Bash
5 93 (21.38%) Go
6 91 (20.92%) Perl
7 78 (17.93%) PowerShell
8 71 (16.32%) SQL
9 57 (13.10%) C#
10 30 (6.90%) PHP
11 29 (6.67%) TypeScript
12 21 (4.83%) Scala
13 16 (3.68%) Rust
14 15 (3.45%) C
15 12 (2.76%) Groovy
16 10 (2.30%) C++
16 10 (2.30%) Korn
17 8 (1.84%) Kotlin
17 8 (1.84%) Lua
18 5 (1.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (8.74%) Degree
2 27 (6.21%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.84%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.15%) 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 (11.03%) QA
2 11 (2.53%) GDPR
3 5 (1.15%) SLA
4 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) MISRA
System Software
1 73 (16.78%) Docker
2 13 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (21.84%) Kubernetes
2 56 (12.87%) Terraform
3 48 (11.03%) Ansible
4 31 (7.13%) Puppet
5 24 (5.52%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.99%) Grafana
6 13 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.30%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (1.61%) SCCM
9 4 (0.92%) Packer
9 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.92%) 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 (14.71%) Oracle
2 32 (7.36%) Red Hat
3 27 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.60%) Pega
5 16 (3.68%) Bloomberg
5 16 (3.68%) CQG
5 16 (3.68%) ION Trading
5 16 (3.68%) Patsystems
5 16 (3.68%) Reuters
5 16 (3.68%) Trayport
6 11 (2.53%) SaltStack
7 10 (2.30%) Sun
7 10 (2.30%) TOWER Software
8 8 (1.84%) Facebook
8 8 (1.84%) New Relic
9 6 (1.38%) Google
10 5 (1.15%) VMware
11 4 (0.92%) Cisco
11 4 (0.92%) PeopleSoft
11 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow