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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 356 348
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -62
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 76 42 137
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.34% 0.34% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 0.81% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 45 38 118
10th Percentile £60,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £53,750 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,938 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £106,750 £128,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 5,344 5,179 8,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.78% 41.68% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,778 3,589 6,764
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £130,875
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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +7 12 £75,000 -17.81% 8
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 (7.89%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 53 (69.74%) AWS
2 22 (28.95%) Serverless
3 15 (19.74%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (19.74%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (18.42%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (18.42%) Amazon EventBridge
4 14 (18.42%) AWS Control Tower
4 14 (18.42%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (13.16%) GCP
6 9 (11.84%) Azure
6 9 (11.84%) SaaS
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (7.89%) Heroku
8 5 (6.58%) PaaS
9 1 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (1.32%) Datadog
9 1 (1.32%) GitHub
9 1 (1.32%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.37%) Network Security
2 6 (7.89%) BGP
2 6 (7.89%) DNS
2 6 (7.89%) IPsec
2 6 (7.89%) VPN
3 1 (1.32%) Internet
3 1 (1.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.63%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (18.42%) Redis
3 7 (9.21%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.89%) Apache Hive
4 6 (7.89%) Big Data
4 6 (7.89%) Hadoop
4 6 (7.89%) HBase
5 5 (6.58%) MySQL
6 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) GitLab
1 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.32%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.32%) Git
General
1 30 (39.47%) Finance
2 24 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 16 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.53%) Legal
5 7 (9.21%) Legal Technology
6 6 (7.89%) Marketing
6 6 (7.89%) Military
6 6 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.95%) Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (44.74%) Developer
2 23 (30.26%) Ruby Developer
3 18 (23.68%) Senior
4 14 (18.42%) Consultant
4 14 (18.42%) Security Consultant
4 14 (18.42%) Senior Consultant
4 14 (18.42%) Senior Security Consultant
5 8 (10.53%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Ruby Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Testing Manager
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Software Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.63%) Python Software Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (53.95%) Ruby on Rails
2 15 (19.74%) React
3 14 (18.42%) AWS CDK
3 14 (18.42%) JSON
3 14 (18.42%) JWT
3 14 (18.42%) RESTful
3 14 (18.42%) Sidekiq
4 8 (10.53%) Node.js
5 6 (7.89%) Kafka
5 6 (7.89%) REST
6 2 (2.63%) Next.js
6 2 (2.63%) Vue
7 1 (1.32%) .NET
7 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.32%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.32%) Jakarta EE
7 1 (1.32%) JPA
7 1 (1.32%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.32%) Onboarding
2 14 (18.42%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (10.53%) Security Posture
4 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.63%) AI
2 20 (26.32%) Generative AI
2 20 (26.32%) OOP
3 19 (25.00%) Agile
4 17 (22.37%) CI/CD
4 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (21.05%) Containerisation
5 16 (21.05%) Roadmaps
6 15 (19.74%) API Design
6 15 (19.74%) Architectural Patterns
6 15 (19.74%) Clean Code
6 15 (19.74%) Customer Engagement
6 15 (19.74%) Data Protection
6 15 (19.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (19.74%) Threat Modelling
7 14 (18.42%) Cryptography
7 14 (18.42%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (18.42%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (18.42%) Scrum
7 14 (18.42%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (39.47%) Python
2 26 (34.21%) Java
3 20 (26.32%) PHP
4 19 (25.00%) Bash
5 17 (22.37%) Perl
6 14 (18.42%) SQL
7 10 (13.16%) C#
8 9 (11.84%) C
9 8 (10.53%) JavaScript
10 5 (6.58%) TypeScript
11 4 (5.26%) Go
11 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
12 3 (3.95%) C++
12 3 (3.95%) Objective-C
12 3 (3.95%) Rust
13 1 (1.32%) F#
13 1 (1.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.42%) AWS Certification
2 14 (18.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 14 (18.42%) Degree
3 3 (3.95%) CCSAM
3 3 (3.95%) CREST Certified
3 3 (3.95%) GPEN
3 3 (3.95%) GXPN
3 3 (3.95%) OSCE
3 3 (3.95%) OSCP
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.32%) PhD
4 1 (1.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.32%) GDPR
2 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.32%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (21.05%) Terraform
2 6 (7.89%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.63%) Ansible
5 1 (1.32%) Grafana
5 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (9.21%) Oracle
2 6 (7.89%) HP
2 6 (7.89%) IBM
2 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) SAP
3 1 (1.32%) Google