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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 353 363
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 -93
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 98 35 110
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.41% 0.29% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 0.70% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 64 29 93
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

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 5,583 4,981 7,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.36% 40.82% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 3,415 5,734
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £61,305
% change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +11 12 £75,000 -16.67% 1
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 6 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 61 (62.24%) AWS
2 25 (25.51%) Serverless
3 18 (18.37%) SaaS
4 15 (15.31%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (15.31%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
5 14 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (8.16%) Azure
6 8 (8.16%) GCP
7 6 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (6.12%) Heroku
8 5 (5.10%) PaaS
9 2 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.04%) n8n
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.02%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.35%) Network Security
2 11 (11.22%) DNS
3 6 (6.12%) BGP
3 6 (6.12%) IPsec
3 6 (6.12%) VPN
4 5 (5.10%) DHCP
4 5 (5.10%) Firewall
4 5 (5.10%) FIX Connectivity
4 5 (5.10%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.06%) Internet
5 3 (3.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.55%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (17.35%) Redis
3 6 (6.12%) Apache Hive
3 6 (6.12%) Big Data
3 6 (6.12%) Hadoop
3 6 (6.12%) HBase
3 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.10%) MySQL
4 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.02%) Git
1 1 (1.02%) GitLab
1 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (37.76%) Finance
2 29 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.20%) Legal
5 9 (9.18%) Legal Technology
6 8 (8.16%) Banking
7 6 (6.12%) Marketing
7 6 (6.12%) Military
7 6 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.06%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.02%) Public Speaking
10 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (39.80%) Developer
2 28 (28.57%) Ruby Developer
3 22 (22.45%) Senior
4 14 (14.29%) Consultant
4 14 (14.29%) Security Consultant
4 14 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 14 (14.29%) Senior Security Consultant
5 11 (11.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Lead
6 8 (8.16%) Ruby Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (4.08%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.06%) Banking Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) Financial Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (47.96%) Ruby on Rails
2 23 (23.47%) React
3 17 (17.35%) JSON
3 17 (17.35%) JWT
3 17 (17.35%) RESTful
3 17 (17.35%) Sidekiq
4 14 (14.29%) AWS CDK
5 8 (8.16%) Node.js
6 6 (6.12%) Kafka
6 6 (6.12%) REST
7 5 (5.10%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (4.08%) Next.js
9 3 (3.06%) .NET
9 3 (3.06%) Vue
10 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.04%) CrewAI
10 2 (2.04%) LangChain
10 2 (2.04%) LlamaIndex
11 1 (1.02%) Jest
11 1 (1.02%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.47%) Onboarding
2 14 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (8.16%) Security Posture
4 7 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.10%) Eurex
5 5 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.06%) NHS
6 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.04%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.04%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.02%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (5.10%) CentOS
2 5 (5.10%) Rocky
2 5 (5.10%) Unix
3 3 (3.06%) Solaris
3 3 (3.06%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.49%) AI
2 23 (23.47%) Agile
2 23 (23.47%) OOP
3 20 (20.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 20 (20.41%) Generative AI
4 18 (18.37%) API Design
4 18 (18.37%) Clean Code
4 18 (18.37%) Containerisation
4 18 (18.37%) Roadmaps
5 17 (17.35%) Architectural Patterns
5 17 (17.35%) CI/CD
5 17 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (17.35%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (17.35%) Scrum
6 15 (15.31%) Threat Modelling
7 14 (14.29%) Cryptography
7 14 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
7 14 (14.29%) Data Protection
7 14 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.80%) Python
2 31 (31.63%) Java
3 23 (23.47%) Perl
4 22 (22.45%) Bash
4 22 (22.45%) SQL
5 21 (21.43%) JavaScript
6 20 (20.41%) PHP
7 13 (13.27%) C#
8 11 (11.22%) TypeScript
9 10 (10.20%) C
10 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
11 5 (5.10%) Go
12 4 (4.08%) C++
13 3 (3.06%) Objective-C
13 3 (3.06%) Rust
14 2 (2.04%) R
14 2 (2.04%) Scala
15 1 (1.02%) F#
15 1 (1.02%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 14 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 13 (13.27%) Degree
4 4 (4.08%) CREST Certified
4 4 (4.08%) OSCP
5 3 (3.06%) CCSAM
5 3 (3.06%) GPEN
5 3 (3.06%) GXPN
5 3 (3.06%) OSCE
6 1 (1.02%) CEH
6 1 (1.02%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (1.02%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (1.02%) CISA
6 1 (1.02%) CISSP
6 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.02%) GRC
2 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 18 (18.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.29%) Terraform
2 6 (6.12%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (12.24%) Oracle
2 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.12%) HP
3 6 (6.12%) IBM
3 6 (6.12%) SAP
4 5 (5.10%) Bloomberg
4 5 (5.10%) CQG
4 5 (5.10%) ION Trading
4 5 (5.10%) Patsystems
4 5 (5.10%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.10%) Reuters
4 5 (5.10%) Trayport
5 2 (2.04%) Databricks