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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 326 355
Rank change year-on-year -51 +29 -108
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 40 57 151
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% 1.15% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 31 50 132
10th Percentile £60,000 - £52,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £53,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +9.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,875 £102,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £122,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +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 5,335 4,936 9,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.46% 41.03% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,760 3,525 7,564
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +1 10 £75,000 -21.05% 5
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) GCP
3 8 (20.00%) Azure
4 5 (12.50%) Heroku
5 4 (10.00%) PaaS
5 4 (10.00%) SaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) Internet
2 1 (2.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (17.50%) Redis
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) GitLab
1 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Legal
4 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Ruby Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Ruby Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Testing Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Architect
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (70.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 11 (27.50%) React
3 7 (17.50%) JSON
3 7 (17.50%) JWT
3 7 (17.50%) RESTful
3 7 (17.50%) Sidekiq
4 5 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (2.50%) .NET
5 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.50%) Next.js
5 1 (2.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Security Posture
2 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Agile
2 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
2 9 (22.50%) Roadmaps
3 8 (20.00%) API Design
4 7 (17.50%) Clean Code
4 7 (17.50%) E-Commerce
4 7 (17.50%) OOP
4 7 (17.50%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (17.50%) Scrum
5 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (15.00%) Migration
5 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) MVC
7 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.00%) DevSecOps
7 4 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) Bash
4 4 (10.00%) C#
4 4 (10.00%) Go
4 4 (10.00%) Java
4 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.50%) C
5 3 (7.50%) C++
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) Objective-C
5 3 (7.50%) Perl
5 3 (7.50%) Rust
6 1 (2.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) CCSAM
2 3 (7.50%) CREST Certified
2 3 (7.50%) GPEN
2 3 (7.50%) GXPN
2 3 (7.50%) OSCE
2 3 (7.50%) OSCP
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (2.50%) Google
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle