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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 249 172
Rank change year-on-year -271 -77 +28
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 419 1,458 3,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 1.48% 2.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% 3.42% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 305 626 1,104
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £54,125
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 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £103,750 £99,250
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 33,326 42,611 88,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 43.26% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24,946 27,225 43,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 23 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 23 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 -278 298 £77,500 +3.33% 113
UK excluding London -286 224 £57,500 -17.20% 44
Work from Home -242 177 £65,000 -13.33% 84
London -107 155 £85,000 +9.68% 71
Scotland -86 59 £52,500 +14.75% 5
North of England -124 47 £54,424 -22.25% 12
South West -79 40 £70,000 -4.44% 11
South East -70 32 £53,750 -20.37% 10
North West -80 30 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Northern Ireland -9 19 £55,000 -24.14%
Midlands -79 14 £55,500 -19.27% 5
Yorkshire -7 13 £45,000 -35.71% 4
East of England -45 10 £85,000 +13.33% 3
East Midlands -49 8 £55,500 -11.20% 1
West Midlands -19 6 £58,750 -16.07% 4
Wales -21 4 £48,052 +17.91%
North East -34 4 £42,750 -51.14% 1

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 (4.77%) Camunda
2 17 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.34%) Apache
4 13 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.15%) Confluence
6 6 (1.43%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.48%) 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 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (4.06%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (41.77%) AWS
2 105 (25.06%) Azure
3 51 (12.17%) Serverless
4 50 (11.93%) SaaS
5 48 (11.46%) GCP
6 43 (10.26%) GitHub
7 30 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (3.34%) IaaS
10 13 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (3.10%) dbt
11 10 (2.39%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.39%) Pulumi
12 9 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.15%) Datadog
12 9 (2.15%) PaaS
13 8 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.91%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.73%) DNS
2 21 (5.01%) Firewall
2 21 (5.01%) TCP/IP
3 17 (4.06%) DHCP
3 17 (4.06%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.67%) HTTP
5 4 (0.95%) Internet
5 4 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.72%) MQTT
6 3 (0.72%) SSL
6 3 (0.72%) VPN
7 1 (0.24%) 5G
7 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (9.31%) MySQL
3 38 (9.07%) SQL Server
4 36 (8.59%) Relational Database
5 29 (6.92%) Oracle Database
6 24 (5.73%) NoSQL
6 24 (5.73%) RDBMS
7 21 (5.01%) MongoDB
8 14 (3.34%) Redis
9 13 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (3.10%) Apache Arrow
9 13 (3.10%) Apache Ignite
9 13 (3.10%) Dremio
10 10 (2.39%) Power BI
11 8 (1.91%) Big Data
11 8 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.91%) MariaDB
12 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (16.95%) Git
2 61 (14.56%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.92%) GitLab
3 29 (6.92%) JIRA
4 24 (5.73%) JDeveloper
5 21 (5.01%) Gradle
5 21 (5.01%) Maven
5 21 (5.01%) Travis CI
6 20 (4.77%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.91%) Appium
7 8 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.43%) JUnit
9 6 (1.43%) RSpec
10 5 (1.19%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.19%) Oracle APEX
10 5 (1.19%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.19%) Subversion
11 4 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 80 (19.09%) Finance
2 59 (14.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 56 (13.37%) Social Skills
4 40 (9.55%) Banking
5 38 (9.07%) Legal
6 30 (7.16%) Tech for Good
7 24 (5.73%) Retail
8 23 (5.49%) Investment Banking
9 20 (4.77%) Law
10 19 (4.53%) Public Sector
11 17 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (3.10%) Front Office
13 12 (2.86%) Health Technology
14 10 (2.39%) Local Government
15 5 (1.19%) Marketing
16 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.48%) Billing
18 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
18 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
18 1 (0.24%) Police
Job Titles
1 159 (37.95%) Developer
2 129 (30.79%) Senior
3 99 (23.63%) Software Engineer
4 72 (17.18%) Senior Developer
5 50 (11.93%) Software Developer
6 48 (11.46%) Ruby Developer
7 42 (10.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 38 (9.07%) Ruby Engineer
9 33 (7.88%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (7.64%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 29 (6.92%) Lead
12 26 (6.21%) Full Stack Developer
12 26 (6.21%) Senior Software Developer
13 22 (5.25%) React Developer
13 22 (5.25%) Senior Ruby Developer
14 21 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (4.53%) Senior React Developer
17 18 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
17 18 (4.30%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (26.97%) Ruby on Rails
2 78 (18.62%) React
3 77 (18.38%) Node.js
4 44 (10.50%) HTML
5 43 (10.26%) CSS
6 32 (7.64%) Spring
7 30 (7.16%) Spring Boot
8 24 (5.73%) .NET
9 23 (5.49%) RESTful
10 19 (4.53%) Vue
11 17 (4.06%) FIX Protocol
12 16 (3.82%) JSON
13 15 (3.58%) AngularJS
13 15 (3.58%) Web Services
14 14 (3.34%) Laravel
14 14 (3.34%) XML
15 13 (3.10%) NumPy
15 13 (3.10%) Pandas
15 13 (3.10%) Protocol Buffers
15 13 (3.10%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.16%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (4.06%) Algorithms
2 17 (4.06%) Eurex
3 14 (3.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (3.34%) Hedge funds
4 13 (3.10%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.10%) Derivative
5 12 (2.86%) Equities
5 12 (2.86%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.15%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.15%) Educational Technology
7 9 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.91%) Life Science
9 7 (1.67%) IoT
10 6 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.95%) Blog
12 4 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 93 (22.20%) Linux
2 51 (12.17%) Windows
3 39 (9.31%) Unix
4 17 (4.06%) CentOS
5 13 (3.10%) Ubuntu
6 12 (2.86%) Solaris
7 11 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (2.39%) Apple iOS
8 10 (2.39%) Windows Server
9 9 (2.15%) Android
10 6 (1.43%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.95%) VMS
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (36.99%) Software Engineering
2 141 (33.65%) DevOps
3 137 (32.70%) Agile
4 101 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (23.63%) CI/CD
6 77 (18.38%) Full Stack Development
7 69 (16.47%) Containerisation
8 57 (13.60%) Mentoring
9 48 (11.46%) Microservices
10 47 (11.22%) Design Patterns
10 47 (11.22%) Open Source
11 46 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
13 36 (8.59%) Computer Science
14 35 (8.35%) Front End Development
14 35 (8.35%) SDLC
15 33 (7.88%) Artificial Intelligence
15 33 (7.88%) TDD
15 33 (7.88%) Test Automation
16 31 (7.40%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 246 (58.71%) Python
2 173 (41.29%) JavaScript
3 147 (35.08%) Java
4 96 (22.91%) Bash
5 84 (20.05%) Go
6 82 (19.57%) PowerShell
7 79 (18.85%) Perl
8 72 (17.18%) SQL
9 53 (12.65%) C#
10 31 (7.40%) PHP
11 28 (6.68%) TypeScript
12 21 (5.01%) Scala
13 14 (3.34%) C
13 14 (3.34%) Rust
14 13 (3.10%) C++
15 11 (2.63%) Groovy
16 10 (2.39%) Korn
17 8 (1.91%) Lua
18 6 (1.43%) Kotlin
19 5 (1.19%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 38 (9.07%) Degree
2 24 (5.73%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.53%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.59%) QA
2 11 (2.63%) GDPR
3 5 (1.19%) SLA
4 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 74 (17.66%) Docker
2 11 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.95%) XenApp
5 4 (0.95%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 93 (22.20%) Kubernetes
2 57 (13.60%) Terraform
3 48 (11.46%) Ansible
4 31 (7.40%) Puppet
5 24 (5.73%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.10%) Grafana
6 13 (3.10%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.39%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (1.43%) SCCM
9 4 (0.95%) Packer
9 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.95%) vRealize
10 3 (0.72%) Consul
11 2 (0.48%) Podman
11 2 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 52 (12.41%) Oracle
2 33 (7.88%) Red Hat
3 24 (5.73%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.77%) Pega
5 17 (4.06%) Bloomberg
5 17 (4.06%) CQG
5 17 (4.06%) ION Trading
5 17 (4.06%) Patsystems
5 17 (4.06%) Reuters
5 17 (4.06%) Trayport
6 11 (2.63%) SaltStack
7 10 (2.39%) TOWER Software
8 9 (2.15%) VMware
9 8 (1.91%) Facebook
9 8 (1.91%) New Relic
10 7 (1.67%) Google
11 6 (1.43%) Sun
12 5 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
13 4 (0.95%) Cisco
13 4 (0.95%) Citrix