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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 361 359
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 -79
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 103 28 95
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.43% 0.24% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.89% 0.60% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 68 21 78
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £104,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 5,458 4,675 7,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.57% 39.64% 41.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,733 3,161 5,444
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £116,250 £135,000 £137,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +13 12 £75,000 -16.67% 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 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.83%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 7 (6.80%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 61 (59.22%) AWS
2 25 (24.27%) Serverless
3 19 (18.45%) SaaS
4 15 (14.56%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (14.56%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (13.59%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (13.59%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (13.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (13.59%) AWS Control Tower
5 14 (13.59%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (7.77%) Azure
6 8 (7.77%) GCP
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (5.83%) Heroku
8 5 (4.85%) PaaS
9 2 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.94%) n8n
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.50%) Network Security
2 13 (12.62%) DNS
3 7 (6.80%) DHCP
3 7 (6.80%) Firewall
3 7 (6.80%) FIX Connectivity
3 7 (6.80%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.83%) BGP
4 6 (5.83%) IPsec
4 6 (5.83%) VPN
5 3 (2.91%) Internet
5 3 (2.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.21%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (16.50%) Redis
3 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.83%) Apache Hive
4 6 (5.83%) Big Data
4 6 (5.83%) Hadoop
4 6 (5.83%) HBase
4 6 (5.83%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.85%) MySQL
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
1 1 (0.97%) Git
1 1 (0.97%) GitLab
1 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (37.86%) Finance
2 30 (29.13%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.71%) Banking
4 10 (9.71%) Legal
5 9 (8.74%) Legal Technology
6 6 (5.83%) Marketing
6 6 (5.83%) Military
6 6 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.94%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.94%) Publishing
10 1 (0.97%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 40 (38.83%) Developer
2 29 (28.16%) Ruby Developer
3 22 (21.36%) Senior
4 14 (13.59%) Consultant
4 14 (13.59%) Security Consultant
4 14 (13.59%) Senior Consultant
4 14 (13.59%) Senior Security Consultant
5 12 (11.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Lead
6 8 (7.77%) Ruby Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 4 (3.88%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
9 4 (3.88%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 4 (3.88%) Engineering Manager
9 4 (3.88%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (45.63%) Ruby on Rails
2 23 (22.33%) React
3 17 (16.50%) JSON
3 17 (16.50%) JWT
3 17 (16.50%) RESTful
3 17 (16.50%) Sidekiq
4 14 (13.59%) AWS CDK
4 14 (13.59%) Terraform
5 8 (7.77%) Node.js
6 7 (6.80%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (5.83%) Kafka
7 6 (5.83%) REST
8 4 (3.88%) Next.js
9 3 (2.91%) .NET
9 3 (2.91%) Vue
10 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.94%) CrewAI
10 2 (1.94%) LangChain
10 2 (1.94%) LlamaIndex
11 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.30%) Onboarding
2 14 (13.59%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (7.77%) Security Posture
4 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.80%) Eurex
5 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.91%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (2.91%) NHS
6 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.91%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.94%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.53%) Linux
2 7 (6.80%) CentOS
2 7 (6.80%) Rocky
2 7 (6.80%) Unix
3 4 (3.88%) Solaris
3 4 (3.88%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.30%) AI
2 23 (22.33%) Agile
2 23 (22.33%) OOP
3 21 (20.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (19.42%) Generative AI
5 18 (17.48%) API Design
5 18 (17.48%) Clean Code
5 18 (17.48%) Containerisation
5 18 (17.48%) Roadmaps
6 17 (16.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 17 (16.50%) CI/CD
6 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (16.50%) Performance Tuning
6 17 (16.50%) Scrum
7 15 (14.56%) Threat Modelling
8 14 (13.59%) Cryptography
8 14 (13.59%) Customer Engagement
8 14 (13.59%) Data Protection
8 14 (13.59%) Identity Access Management
8 14 (13.59%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.78%) Python
2 32 (31.07%) Java
3 26 (25.24%) Perl
4 24 (23.30%) Bash
4 24 (23.30%) SQL
5 23 (22.33%) JavaScript
6 20 (19.42%) PHP
7 14 (13.59%) C#
8 11 (10.68%) C
8 11 (10.68%) TypeScript
9 7 (6.80%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.85%) C++
10 5 (4.85%) Go
11 3 (2.91%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.91%) Rust
12 2 (1.94%) R
12 2 (1.94%) Scala
13 1 (0.97%) F#
13 1 (0.97%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (16.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.59%) AWS Certification
2 14 (13.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 13 (12.62%) Degree
4 5 (4.85%) CREST Certified
4 5 (4.85%) OSCP
5 3 (2.91%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.91%) GPEN
5 3 (2.91%) GXPN
5 3 (2.91%) OSCE
6 2 (1.94%) CEH
6 2 (1.94%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (1.94%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (1.94%) CISA
6 2 (1.94%) CISSP
7 1 (0.97%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.97%) GRC
2 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 18 (17.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.83%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (13.59%) Oracle
2 9 (8.74%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.80%) Bloomberg
3 7 (6.80%) CQG
3 7 (6.80%) ION Trading
3 7 (6.80%) Patsystems
3 7 (6.80%) Red Hat
3 7 (6.80%) Reuters
3 7 (6.80%) Trayport
4 6 (5.83%) HP
4 6 (5.83%) IBM
4 6 (5.83%) SAP
5 2 (1.94%) Databricks