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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 255 179
Rank change year-on-year -269 -76 +19
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 426 1,445 3,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 1.45% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% 3.35% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 303 638 1,102
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,075
25th Percentile £51,760 £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 £113,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.00% +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 33,238 43,130 87,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.26% 43.34% 53.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,636 43,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 19 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 19 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 -285 303 £77,500 +3.33% 132
UK excluding London -268 233 £56,250 -19.00% 65
Work from Home -226 188 £65,000 -13.33% 88
London -117 152 £85,000 +9.68% 89
Scotland -99 59 £52,500 +26.12% 6
North of England -121 50 £54,424 -22.25% 12
South West -65 40 £70,000 -2.10% 12
South East -78 34 £55,000 -18.52% 26
North West -71 32 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Northern Ireland -10 20 £55,000 -24.14% 2
Midlands -68 16 £53,500 -22.18% 5
Yorkshire 0 14 £45,000 -35.71% 6
East Midlands -51 10 £53,500 -14.40% 2
East of England -53 10 £85,000 +13.33% 3
West Midlands -15 6 £58,750 -16.07% 3
Wales -23 5 £48,052 +17.91%
North East -30 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 (4.69%) Camunda
2 16 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.29%) Apache
4 13 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.11%) Confluence
6 6 (1.41%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.76%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.94%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (41.08%) AWS
2 104 (24.41%) Azure
3 64 (15.02%) Serverless
4 47 (11.03%) GCP
4 47 (11.03%) SaaS
5 45 (10.56%) GitHub
6 32 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (3.52%) IaaS
9 13 (3.05%) dbt
10 12 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.35%) PaaS
11 10 (2.35%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.35%) Pulumi
12 9 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (2.11%) Datadog
13 8 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.88%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.40%) DNS
2 20 (4.69%) Firewall
2 20 (4.69%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.76%) DHCP
3 16 (3.76%) FIX Connectivity
4 7 (1.64%) HTTP
5 4 (0.94%) Internet
6 3 (0.70%) MQTT
6 3 (0.70%) SSL
6 3 (0.70%) VPN
7 2 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) 5G
8 1 (0.23%) Network Security
8 1 (0.23%) SNMP
8 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.27%) Relational Database
2 45 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (9.62%) Oracle Database
4 40 (9.39%) MySQL
5 38 (8.92%) SQL Server
6 36 (8.45%) RDBMS
7 22 (5.16%) NoSQL
8 20 (4.69%) MongoDB
9 15 (3.52%) Redis
10 13 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (3.05%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (3.05%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (3.05%) Dremio
11 10 (2.35%) Power BI
12 9 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.88%) Big Data
13 8 (1.88%) MariaDB
14 7 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (20.19%) Git
2 60 (14.08%) Jenkins
3 36 (8.45%) JDeveloper
4 29 (6.81%) GitLab
4 29 (6.81%) JIRA
5 21 (4.93%) Gradle
5 21 (4.93%) Maven
5 21 (4.93%) Travis CI
6 20 (4.69%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.88%) Appium
7 8 (1.88%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.41%) JUnit
9 6 (1.41%) RSpec
10 5 (1.17%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
10 5 (1.17%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.17%) Subversion
General
1 78 (18.31%) Finance
2 56 (13.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (13.15%) Social Skills
3 38 (8.92%) Banking
4 37 (8.69%) Legal
5 29 (6.81%) Tech for Good
6 25 (5.87%) Retail
7 22 (5.16%) Investment Banking
8 20 (4.69%) Law
9 19 (4.46%) Public Sector
10 17 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (3.05%) Front Office
12 11 (2.58%) Health Technology
13 10 (2.35%) Local Government
14 5 (1.17%) Marketing
15 4 (0.94%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.47%) Billing
17 1 (0.23%) Automotive
17 1 (0.23%) Electronics
17 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 156 (36.62%) Developer
2 130 (30.52%) Senior
3 110 (25.82%) Software Engineer
4 72 (16.90%) Senior Developer
5 49 (11.50%) Ruby Engineer
6 48 (11.27%) Ruby Developer
6 48 (11.27%) Software Developer
7 44 (10.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.28%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 29 (6.81%) Lead
11 26 (6.10%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (6.10%) Senior Software Developer
12 22 (5.16%) React Developer
12 22 (5.16%) Senior Ruby Developer
13 21 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (4.46%) Senior React Developer
15 18 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (4.23%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (26.29%) Ruby on Rails
2 91 (21.36%) React
3 89 (20.89%) Node.js
4 43 (10.09%) HTML
5 42 (9.86%) CSS
6 32 (7.51%) Spring
7 30 (7.04%) Spring Boot
8 25 (5.87%) .NET
9 23 (5.40%) RESTful
10 19 (4.46%) Vue
11 16 (3.76%) FIX Protocol
11 16 (3.76%) JSON
12 15 (3.52%) Web Services
13 14 (3.29%) AngularJS
13 14 (3.29%) Laravel
13 14 (3.29%) XML
14 13 (3.05%) NumPy
14 13 (3.05%) Pandas
14 13 (3.05%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (3.05%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.04%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (3.99%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.76%) Eurex
4 14 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.29%) Hedge funds
5 13 (3.05%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.05%) Derivative
6 12 (2.82%) Equities
6 12 (2.82%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.11%) Educational Technology
8 9 (2.11%) Life Science
8 9 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.64%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.64%) IoT
10 6 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.17%) Blog
11 5 (1.17%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 90 (21.13%) Linux
2 51 (11.97%) Windows
3 36 (8.45%) Unix
4 16 (3.76%) CentOS
5 12 (2.82%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.58%) Solaris
7 10 (2.35%) Apple iOS
7 10 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (2.11%) Android
8 9 (2.11%) Windows Server
9 6 (1.41%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (39.20%) Software Engineering
2 152 (35.68%) DevOps
3 137 (32.16%) Agile
4 114 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (23.00%) CI/CD
6 82 (19.25%) Containerisation
7 75 (17.61%) Full Stack Development
8 60 (14.08%) Open Source
9 59 (13.85%) Design Patterns
9 59 (13.85%) Microservices
10 57 (13.38%) Mentoring
11 56 (13.15%) Continuous Integration
12 45 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (10.09%) Clean Code
14 40 (9.39%) Code Quality
14 40 (9.39%) Unit Testing
15 38 (8.92%) Actionable Insight
16 37 (8.69%) Computer Science
17 35 (8.22%) Front End Development
17 35 (8.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 256 (60.09%) Python
2 181 (42.49%) JavaScript
3 159 (37.32%) Java
4 108 (25.35%) Bash
5 95 (22.30%) Go
6 89 (20.89%) Perl
7 81 (19.01%) PowerShell
8 70 (16.43%) SQL
9 55 (12.91%) C#
10 30 (7.04%) PHP
11 27 (6.34%) TypeScript
12 21 (4.93%) Scala
13 15 (3.52%) C
13 15 (3.52%) Rust
14 12 (2.82%) C++
14 12 (2.82%) Groovy
15 9 (2.11%) Korn
16 8 (1.88%) Lua
17 6 (1.41%) Kotlin
18 5 (1.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (9.15%) Degree
2 26 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.27%) QA
2 11 (2.58%) GDPR
3 5 (1.17%) SLA
4 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) MISRA
System Software
1 72 (16.90%) Docker
2 12 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.47%) XenApp
6 2 (0.47%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 93 (21.83%) Kubernetes
2 57 (13.38%) Terraform
3 47 (11.03%) Ansible
4 30 (7.04%) Puppet
5 24 (5.63%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.05%) Grafana
6 13 (3.05%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.11%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (1.64%) SCCM
9 4 (0.94%) Packer
9 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.94%) vRealize
10 3 (0.70%) Consul
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.47%) Podman
11 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 63 (14.79%) Oracle
2 31 (7.28%) Red Hat
3 25 (5.87%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.69%) Pega
5 16 (3.76%) Bloomberg
5 16 (3.76%) CQG
5 16 (3.76%) ION Trading
5 16 (3.76%) Patsystems
5 16 (3.76%) Reuters
5 16 (3.76%) Trayport
6 11 (2.58%) SaltStack
7 9 (2.11%) TOWER Software
8 8 (1.88%) Facebook
8 8 (1.88%) New Relic
9 7 (1.64%) Google
9 7 (1.64%) Sun
9 7 (1.64%) VMware
10 4 (0.94%) Cisco
10 4 (0.94%) PeopleSoft
10 4 (0.94%) ServiceNow