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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 327 355
Rank change year-on-year -47 +28 -102
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 33 65 151
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.16% 0.52% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 1.29% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25 58 135
10th Percentile £60,000 - £54,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £102,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £100,000 £117,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%

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 5,196 5,034 9,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.52% 40.63% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,668 3,746 7,582
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £130,000
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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -9 8 £75,000 -18.92% 10
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 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) GCP
3 5 (15.15%) Azure
4 3 (9.09%) Heroku
4 3 (9.09%) PaaS
4 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (6.06%) Serverless
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) Datadog
6 1 (3.03%) dbt
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.15%) Redis
3 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) CircleCI
1 1 (3.03%) Git
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Legal
4 3 (9.09%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (57.58%) Developer
2 11 (33.33%) Ruby Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior
5 4 (12.12%) Ruby Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Testing Manager
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) GCP Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Python Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
8 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (57.58%) Ruby on Rails
2 5 (15.15%) JSON
2 5 (15.15%) JWT
2 5 (15.15%) React
2 5 (15.15%) RESTful
2 5 (15.15%) Sidekiq
3 3 (9.09%) Node.js
3 3 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) .NET
4 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
2 7 (21.21%) E-Commerce
3 6 (18.18%) Agile
3 6 (18.18%) API Design
3 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 5 (15.15%) Clean Code
4 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
4 5 (15.15%) OOP
4 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (15.15%) Scrum
5 4 (12.12%) DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (12.12%) Microservices
5 4 (12.12%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (9.09%) Fintech
6 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.09%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) Bash
3 5 (15.15%) Go
3 5 (15.15%) Java
3 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.12%) C#
5 3 (9.09%) C
5 3 (9.09%) C++
5 3 (9.09%) Objective-C
5 3 (9.09%) Perl
5 3 (9.09%) Rust
5 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.06%) SQL
7 1 (3.03%) F#
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) CCSAM
2 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.09%) CREST Certified
2 3 (9.09%) GPEN
2 3 (9.09%) GXPN
2 3 (9.09%) OSCE
2 3 (9.09%) OSCP
3 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.06%) PhD
4 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Ansible
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Argo
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Google
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat