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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 326 351
Rank change year-on-year -48 +25 -92
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 32 70 151
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.16% 0.55% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 1.35% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 23 63 136
10th Percentile £60,000 - £54,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £72,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £91,500 £91,875 £102,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £101,000 £116,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%

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 5,202 5,171 9,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.53% 40.84% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,663 3,807 7,609
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,875 £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 £129,000
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 8 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 8 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 0 7 £80,500 -12.97% 14
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 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) GCP
3 6 (18.75%) Azure
4 4 (12.50%) SaaS
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub
5 3 (9.38%) PaaS
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.25%) dbt
6 2 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
7 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.13%) Datadog
7 1 (3.13%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) Internet
2 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) Redis
3 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
1 1 (3.13%) Git
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Developer
2 8 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
5 4 (12.50%) Ruby Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Testing Manager
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) GCP Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Lead
7 2 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (53.13%) Ruby on Rails
2 5 (15.63%) React
3 4 (12.50%) JSON
3 4 (12.50%) JWT
3 4 (12.50%) Node.js
3 4 (12.50%) RESTful
3 4 (12.50%) Sidekiq
4 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.25%) CSS
4 2 (6.25%) HTML
4 2 (6.25%) Vue
5 1 (3.13%) .NET
5 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.13%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) Spring
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (21.88%) E-Commerce
3 6 (18.75%) Agile
3 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
3 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 5 (15.63%) API Design
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
4 5 (15.63%) Microservices
5 4 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (12.50%) OOP
5 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (12.50%) Scrum
5 4 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) Bash
3 6 (18.75%) Go
4 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.50%) C#
5 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 3 (9.38%) C
6 3 (9.38%) C++
6 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.38%) Objective-C
6 3 (9.38%) Perl
6 3 (9.38%) Rust
7 2 (6.25%) SQL
8 1 (3.13%) F#
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.38%) CCSAM
3 3 (9.38%) CREST Certified
3 3 (9.38%) GPEN
3 3 (9.38%) GXPN
3 3 (9.38%) OSCE
3 3 (9.38%) OSCP
4 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.25%) PhD
4 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Argo
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Google
1 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle