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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 328 306
Rank change year-on-year -33 -22 -45
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 22 97 164
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.15% 0.62% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.50% 1.53% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10 82 148
10th Percentile £48,500 - £49,625
25th Percentile £65,625 £53,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £91,000 £89,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £99,200 £96,125 £118,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% 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 4,382 6,339 8,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.08% 40.82% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,084 4,071 7,425
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 £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 23 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 23 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
South London - 2 - - 2
Central London +22 1 £86,000 -7.03% 6
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 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Shopify
2 3 (13.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) GitHub
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Figma
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.64%) Google Compute Engine
4 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (9.09%) dbt
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) FTP
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
1 2 (9.09%) SMTP
1 2 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) Looker
4 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) CircleCI
4 2 (9.09%) Subversion
4 2 (9.09%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 3 (13.64%) GCP Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Ruby Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Node.js
2 9 (40.91%) React
3 7 (31.82%) CSS
3 7 (31.82%) HTML
4 6 (27.27%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (18.18%) GraphQL
5 4 (18.18%) REST
6 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
6 3 (13.64%) CSS3
6 3 (13.64%) HTML5
6 3 (13.64%) React Native
6 3 (13.64%) Vue
7 2 (9.09%) Spring
8 1 (4.55%) Django
8 1 (4.55%) Express.js
8 1 (4.55%) jQuery
8 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) VMS
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
5 5 (22.73%) E-Commerce
5 5 (22.73%) TDD
5 5 (22.73%) User Experience
5 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
6 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
6 4 (18.18%) Webhook
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
7 3 (13.64%) High Availability
7 3 (13.64%) ITIL
7 3 (13.64%) ITSM
7 3 (13.64%) Microservices
7 3 (13.64%) Service Management
7 3 (13.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 3 (13.64%) Go
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) Groovy
5 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 2 (9.09%) Perl
5 2 (9.09%) Scala
5 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Argo
4 2 (9.09%) Nagios
5 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) OneTrust