Ruby Job Trends in the City of London

Ruby
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 159 153
Rank change year-on-year +31 -6 +22
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 3 8 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.14% 0.30% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.63% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 12
10th Percentile £80,200 £71,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £82,000 £85,000 £74,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £92,500 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -8.64% +39.66%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £117,188
90th Percentile - £113,500 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £92,500 £101,250
% change year-on-year -2.70% -8.64% +39.66%

All Programming Languages
City of London

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 739 1,275 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 35.12% 47.03% 50.73%
Number of salaries quoted 602 939 1,316
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ruby relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Ruby job vacancy trend in the City of London

Ruby
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ruby

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat