Ruby Developer Jobs

Ruby Developer
UK

The median Ruby Developer salary in the UK is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 684 850 910
Rank change year-on-year +166 +60 +166
Permanent jobs requiring a Ruby Developer 16 54 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.055% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.058% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 16 53 65
10th Percentile £54,375 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,500 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +60.00% -29.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 47,541 93,322 94,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 94.63% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27,467 66,921 59,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Ruby Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Ruby Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby Developer in the UK

Ruby Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby Developer.

Salary trend for Ruby Developer in the UK

Ruby Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby Developer in the UK

Ruby Developer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
England +153 12 £63,750 -15.00% 11
Work from Home +159 11 £62,500 -3.85% 10
London +83 9 £62,500 -23.08% 5
UK excluding London +182 3 £65,000 +8.33% 8
North of England +69 1 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Midlands +60 1 £62,500 +25.00%
West Midlands +54 1 £62,500 +25.00%
North West +21 1 £65,000 +30.00% 3
East of England - 1 £70,000 - 1

Ruby Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Ruby Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Ruby Developer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Ruby
2 12 (75.00%) React
3 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
4 10 (62.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
6 7 (43.75%) RESTful
7 6 (37.50%) AngularJS
7 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
7 6 (37.50%) C#
7 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (31.25%) Community of Practice
8 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
8 5 (31.25%) SOLID
8 5 (31.25%) Coaching
8 5 (31.25%) Microservices
8 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
8 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
8 5 (31.25%) Java
8 5 (31.25%) Agile
8 5 (31.25%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
8 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
8 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
9 4 (25.00%) CSS
9 4 (25.00%) HTML
9 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
10 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development

Ruby Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Health Technology
4 1 (6.25%) Automotive
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) React
2 10 (62.50%) Ruby on Rails
3 7 (43.75%) RESTful
4 6 (37.50%) AngularJS
5 4 (25.00%) CSS
5 4 (25.00%) HTML
6 1 (6.25%) .NET
6 1 (6.25%) Node.js
6 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
3 5 (31.25%) Coaching
3 5 (31.25%) Community of Practice
3 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
3 5 (31.25%) Microservices
3 5 (31.25%) SOLID
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (18.75%) Web Development
6 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
6 1 (6.25%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Ruby
2 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
3 6 (37.50%) C#
4 5 (31.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared