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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 364 358
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 -68
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 99 26 110
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.39% 0.22% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 0.57% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 62 16 86
10th Percentile - £55,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,438 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +20.75% -15.61%
75th Percentile £91,875 £101,563 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,125
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 5,534 4,579 7,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.55% 38.81% 41.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,688 3,070 5,216
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 28 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 28 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 8 £75,000 -16.67% 4
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 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.06%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 57 (57.58%) AWS
2 26 (26.26%) Serverless
3 17 (17.17%) Amazon ECS
3 17 (17.17%) SaaS
4 15 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (14.14%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (14.14%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (14.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (14.14%) AWS Control Tower
5 14 (14.14%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (6.06%) Azure
6 6 (6.06%) GCP
6 6 (6.06%) Heroku
7 3 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (3.03%) GitHub
7 3 (3.03%) PaaS
8 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.02%) n8n
8 2 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.15%) Network Security
2 14 (14.14%) DNS
3 8 (8.08%) DHCP
3 8 (8.08%) Firewall
3 8 (8.08%) FIX Connectivity
3 8 (8.08%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.06%) BGP
4 6 (6.06%) IPsec
4 6 (6.06%) VPN
5 4 (4.04%) Internet
5 4 (4.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.26%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (16.16%) Redis
3 8 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.06%) Apache Hive
4 6 (6.06%) Big Data
4 6 (6.06%) Hadoop
4 6 (6.06%) HBase
4 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.05%) MySQL
6 3 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.01%) Git
1 1 (1.01%) GitLab
1 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (36.36%) Finance
2 29 (29.29%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.10%) Legal
5 9 (9.09%) Banking
5 9 (9.09%) Legal Technology
6 6 (6.06%) Marketing
6 6 (6.06%) Military
6 6 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Tech for Good
9 2 (2.02%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.02%) Publishing
10 1 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 39 (39.39%) Developer
2 30 (30.30%) Ruby Developer
3 21 (21.21%) Senior
4 14 (14.14%) Consultant
4 14 (14.14%) Security Consultant
4 14 (14.14%) Senior Consultant
4 14 (14.14%) Senior Security Consultant
5 13 (13.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 10 (10.10%) Lead
7 8 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 5 (5.05%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
9 5 (5.05%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (5.05%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 5 (5.05%) Analyst
9 5 (5.05%) Banking Analyst
9 5 (5.05%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (5.05%) Ruby Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (41.41%) Ruby on Rails
2 24 (24.24%) React
3 16 (16.16%) JSON
3 16 (16.16%) JWT
3 16 (16.16%) RESTful
3 16 (16.16%) Sidekiq
3 16 (16.16%) Terraform
4 14 (14.14%) AWS CDK
5 8 (8.08%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (8.08%) Node.js
6 6 (6.06%) Kafka
6 6 (6.06%) REST
7 4 (4.04%) Next.js
8 3 (3.03%) Vue
9 2 (2.02%) .NET
9 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.02%) CrewAI
9 2 (2.02%) LangChain
9 2 (2.02%) LlamaIndex
10 1 (1.01%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.25%) Onboarding
2 14 (14.14%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (8.08%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.08%) Eurex
3 8 (8.08%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.03%) NHS
4 3 (3.03%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.02%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.15%) Linux
2 8 (8.08%) CentOS
2 8 (8.08%) Rocky
2 8 (8.08%) Unix
3 5 (5.05%) Solaris
3 5 (5.05%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.25%) AI
2 23 (23.23%) OOP
3 22 (22.22%) Agile
3 22 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (20.20%) Generative AI
5 19 (19.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (17.17%) API Design
6 17 (17.17%) Architectural Patterns
6 17 (17.17%) CI/CD
6 17 (17.17%) Clean Code
6 17 (17.17%) Containerisation
6 17 (17.17%) Threat Modelling
7 16 (16.16%) Cloud Security
7 16 (16.16%) Identity Access Management
7 16 (16.16%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (16.16%) Roadmaps
7 16 (16.16%) Scrum
8 14 (14.14%) Cryptography
8 14 (14.14%) Data Protection
8 14 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.41%) Python
2 30 (30.30%) Java
3 25 (25.25%) Perl
4 24 (24.24%) SQL
5 23 (23.23%) Bash
5 23 (23.23%) JavaScript
6 20 (20.20%) PHP
7 11 (11.11%) C#
8 10 (10.10%) TypeScript
9 9 (9.09%) C
10 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
11 5 (5.05%) Go
12 3 (3.03%) C++
12 3 (3.03%) Rust
13 2 (2.02%) R
13 2 (2.02%) Scala
14 1 (1.01%) Groovy
14 1 (1.01%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 17 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.14%) AWS Certification
2 14 (14.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (10.10%) Degree
4 4 (4.04%) CISSP
5 3 (3.03%) CREST Certified
5 3 (3.03%) OSCP
6 2 (2.02%) CEH
6 2 (2.02%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (2.02%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (2.02%) CISA
6 2 (2.02%) CISM
7 1 (1.01%) CCSAM
7 1 (1.01%) GPEN
7 1 (1.01%) GXPN
7 1 (1.01%) OSCE
7 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.02%) GDPR
2 2 (2.02%) PERC
2 2 (2.02%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.01%) GRC
3 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.06%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (15.15%) Oracle
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.08%) Bloomberg
3 8 (8.08%) CQG
3 8 (8.08%) ION Trading
3 8 (8.08%) Patsystems
3 8 (8.08%) Red Hat
3 8 (8.08%) Reuters
3 8 (8.08%) Trayport
4 6 (6.06%) HP
4 6 (6.06%) IBM
4 6 (6.06%) SAP
5 2 (2.02%) Databricks