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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 338 277
Rank change year-on-year -20 -61 -64
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 28 110 190
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.23% 0.63% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 1.48% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 16 90 147
10th Percentile £54,250 £42,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,438 £53,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -23.53% +3.03%
75th Percentile £101,875 £90,000 £95,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £92,875 £127,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.80% -4.83%

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 4,490 7,421 8,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.35% 42.55% 45.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,986 4,903 7,740
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 +38 3 £90,000 +28.57% 25
South London - 2 - - 6
West London +7 1 £65,000 +30.00% 3
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 1 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (10.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (14.29%) Figma
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.57%) Azure
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (3.57%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (3.57%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.57%) Sentry
7 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) FTP
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
1 2 (7.14%) SMTP
1 2 (7.14%) SSH
2 1 (3.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) Looker
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 3 (10.71%) CircleCI
3 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (7.14%) Subversion
4 2 (7.14%) Vagrant
5 1 (3.57%) RSpec
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Advertising
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Senior
3 7 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (10.71%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Ruby Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) Node.js
2 9 (32.14%) Ruby on Rails
3 8 (28.57%) React
4 5 (17.86%) HTML
4 5 (17.86%) React Native
5 4 (14.29%) CSS
5 4 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 4 (14.29%) REST
6 3 (10.71%) .NET
6 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
6 3 (10.71%) CSS3
6 3 (10.71%) HTML5
7 2 (7.14%) Spring
7 2 (7.14%) YAML
8 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.57%) Django
8 1 (3.57%) Express.js
8 1 (3.57%) Flask
8 1 (3.57%) JPA
8 1 (3.57%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) IoT
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.57%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) VMS
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Agile
1 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
3 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 6 (21.43%) TDD
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Clean Code
7 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 4 (14.29%) Front End Development
7 4 (14.29%) Observability
7 4 (14.29%) SDLC
7 4 (14.29%) Software Delivery
7 4 (14.29%) User Experience
8 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.71%) Microservices
8 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (10.71%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
3 10 (35.71%) Java
4 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (21.43%) C#
5 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
6 5 (17.86%) Groovy
7 4 (14.29%) Bash
7 4 (14.29%) C++
7 4 (14.29%) SQL
8 3 (10.71%) PHP
9 2 (7.14%) Kotlin
9 2 (7.14%) Perl
9 2 (7.14%) Scala
9 2 (7.14%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (3.57%) C
10 1 (3.57%) Dart
10 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
10 1 (3.57%) R
10 1 (3.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Grafana
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) Nagios
3 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.57%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Cribl.io
1 3 (10.71%) Sonatype
2 2 (7.14%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) Adobe
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat