Ruby Job Trends in London

Ruby
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Ruby skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 364 290
Rank change year-on-year -4 -74 -120
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 26 100 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.52% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.56% 1.26% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17 80 164
10th Percentile £57,500 £40,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,500 £119,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -6.67%

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,684 7,943 10,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.26% 41.42% 46.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,155 5,307 8,928
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.56%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in London

Ruby
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ruby

Ruby
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby in London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in London

Ruby
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Central London +36 3 £90,000 +28.57%
South London - 2 - -
West London +45 1 £65,000 +30.00% 2
East London - 1 £107,500 - 1
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (3.85%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (7.69%) AWS KMS
5 2 (7.69%) Figma
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Azure
6 1 (3.85%) Heroku
6 1 (3.85%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
1 2 (7.69%) FTP
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
1 2 (7.69%) SMTP
1 2 (7.69%) SSH
2 1 (3.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) GitLab
2 3 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (7.69%) Subversion
3 2 (7.69%) Vagrant
4 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.85%) RSpec
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Ruby Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Ruby Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) Ruby on Rails
2 8 (30.77%) React
3 7 (26.92%) Node.js
4 4 (15.38%) React Native
5 3 (11.54%) .NET
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
5 3 (11.54%) HTML
6 2 (7.69%) CSS
6 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
6 2 (7.69%) REST
6 2 (7.69%) YAML
7 1 (3.85%) CSS3
7 1 (3.85%) Express.js
7 1 (3.85%) Flask
7 1 (3.85%) Flutter
7 1 (3.85%) HTML5
7 1 (3.85%) Laravel
7 1 (3.85%) RESTful
7 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.85%) IoT
1 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
1 1 (3.85%) NHS
1 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (3.85%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) VMS
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps
1 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 5 (19.23%) Observability
6 4 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (15.38%) SDLC
6 4 (15.38%) Software Delivery
7 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.54%) OO
7 3 (11.54%) Project Management
7 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 2 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (7.69%) Front End Development
8 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 7 (26.92%) Java
4 6 (23.08%) C#
5 5 (19.23%) Groovy
5 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
5 5 (19.23%) SQL
5 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
6 4 (15.38%) C++
7 3 (11.54%) Bash
7 3 (11.54%) PHP
8 2 (7.69%) Perl
8 2 (7.69%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (3.85%) C
9 1 (3.85%) Dart
9 1 (3.85%) MATLAB
9 1 (3.85%) R
9 1 (3.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Grafana
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
3 3 (11.54%) Terraform
4 2 (7.69%) Ansible
4 2 (7.69%) Nagios
4 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Cribl.io
1 3 (11.54%) Sonatype
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe