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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 327 320
Rank change year-on-year -40 -7 -56
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 22 98 171
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.14% 0.65% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% 1.61% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 12 84 159
10th Percentile £50,150 - £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £90,750 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £96,250 £118,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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 4,487 6,089 9,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.50% 40.52% 42.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,171 3,906 7,839
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +0.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +14 1 £86,000 -7.03% 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 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Shopify
2 3 (13.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) GCP
1 7 (31.82%) GitHub
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Figma
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.64%) Google Compute Engine
4 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (9.09%) dbt
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Datadog
6 1 (4.55%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Looker
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 3 (13.64%) GCP Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Ruby Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Node.js
2 9 (40.91%) React
3 7 (31.82%) CSS
3 7 (31.82%) HTML
3 7 (31.82%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (18.18%) GraphQL
4 4 (18.18%) REST
5 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
5 3 (13.64%) CSS3
5 3 (13.64%) HTML5
5 3 (13.64%) React Native
5 3 (13.64%) Vue
6 2 (9.09%) Spring
7 1 (4.55%) Django
7 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (4.55%) Express.js
7 1 (4.55%) jQuery
7 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (27.27%) E-Commerce
5 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) TDD
5 5 (22.73%) User Experience
5 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
6 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
6 4 (18.18%) High Availability
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Microservices
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) Webhook
7 3 (13.64%) Clean Code
7 3 (13.64%) ITIL
7 3 (13.64%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 6 (27.27%) Java
4 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
5 4 (18.18%) Bash
6 3 (13.64%) Go
6 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 3 (13.64%) SQL
7 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
7 2 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Argo
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) OneTrust