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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 323 300
Rank change year-on-year -18 -23 -47
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 24 97 150
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.17% 0.63% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.56% 1.52% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11 79 136
10th Percentile £48,500 - £48,125
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -16.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £105,000 £89,875 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £96,250 £118,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%

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 4,265 6,385 7,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.63% 41.29% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,018 4,099 6,852
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,938 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Ruby job vacancy trend 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 9 January 2026.

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 9 January 2026. 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 +38 2 £88,000 -4.86% 6
South London - 2 - - 2
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Shopify
2 3 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) GitHub
3 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (16.67%) Azure
4 4 (16.67%) Figma
4 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
6 2 (8.33%) dbt
6 2 (8.33%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.17%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) FTP
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
1 2 (8.33%) SMTP
1 2 (8.33%) SSH
2 1 (4.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Looker
3 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.83%) Git
3 3 (12.50%) CircleCI
4 2 (8.33%) GitLab
4 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.33%) Subversion
4 2 (8.33%) Vagrant
5 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) GCP Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Ruby Developer
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Node.js
2 10 (41.67%) React
3 7 (29.17%) CSS
3 7 (29.17%) HTML
4 5 (20.83%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 4 (16.67%) REST
6 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 3 (12.50%) CSS3
6 3 (12.50%) HTML5
6 3 (12.50%) React Native
6 3 (12.50%) Vue
7 2 (8.33%) .NET
7 2 (8.33%) .NET Framework
7 2 (8.33%) Spring
8 1 (4.17%) Django
8 1 (4.17%) Express.js
8 1 (4.17%) jQuery
8 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
8 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) VMS
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Agile
1 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) TDD
6 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.83%) User Experience
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (16.67%) E-Commerce
7 4 (16.67%) Front End Development
7 4 (16.67%) Microservices
7 4 (16.67%) SDLC
7 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
7 4 (16.67%) Webhook
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (12.50%) Software Delivery
8 3 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
3 10 (41.67%) Java
4 6 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
6 4 (16.67%) Bash
6 4 (16.67%) C#
6 4 (16.67%) Groovy
7 2 (8.33%) C++
7 2 (8.33%) Go
7 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
7 2 (8.33%) Perl
7 2 (8.33%) Scala
7 2 (8.33%) SQL
8 1 (4.17%) PHP
8 1 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Grafana
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Ansible
3 3 (12.50%) Argo
4 2 (8.33%) Nagios
4 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Google
1 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.33%) Cribl.io
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Sonatype
3 1 (4.17%) OneTrust
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk