Ruby Job Trends

Ruby
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 482 399
Rank change year-on-year -102 -83 -117
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 83 231 475
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.45% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 1.33% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 67 166 387
10th Percentile - £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,385
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,418 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% +10.42% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,109 17,432 27,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.86% 33.91% 37.70%
Number of salaries quoted 8,709 10,064 22,849
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ruby relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Ruby job vacancy trend in the UK

Ruby
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ruby.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ruby

Ruby
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England -93 57 £75,000 +7.14% 43
Work from Home -10 43 £77,500 +3.33% 43
London -29 23 £85,000 +13.33% 30
UK excluding London -57 23 £75,000 +13.21% 26
North of England -30 8 £75,000 +11.11% 4
South East -10 7 £75,000 -28.57% 8
Midlands +8 4 £55,000 -10.20% 3
North West -3 4 £71,250 +1.79% 2
Yorkshire -17 4 £75,000 +66.67% 2
West Midlands +20 2 £75,000 +22.45% 1
East Midlands 0 2 £52,500 -17.65% 2
South West +2 1 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Wales -10 1 £75,000 +25.00% 2
Scotland -15 1 £75,000 +30.43% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 1

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Shopify
2 3 (3.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.30%) AWS
2 14 (16.87%) Serverless
3 13 (15.66%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (15.66%) Amazon S3
4 12 (14.46%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (14.46%) Amazon SQS
4 12 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.84%) GitHub
6 7 (8.43%) Azure
6 7 (8.43%) GCP
7 5 (6.02%) SaaS
8 4 (4.82%) Figma
8 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.82%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.61%) dbt
9 3 (3.61%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.41%) Heroku
10 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.41%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) DNS
1 2 (2.41%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.20%) FTP
2 1 (1.20%) HTTP
2 1 (1.20%) SMTP
2 1 (1.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.69%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.46%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.61%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.41%) Power BI
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.20%) Looker
5 1 (1.20%) MySQL
5 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Redis
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (14.46%) Cypress.io
2 8 (9.64%) Git
3 6 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.82%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.20%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.20%) GitLab
5 1 (1.20%) Metasploit
5 1 (1.20%) Subversion
5 1 (1.20%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.66%) Finance
3 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.82%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.41%) Law
4 2 (2.41%) Marketing
4 2 (2.41%) Public Speaking
4 2 (2.41%) Publishing
5 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Legal
5 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (42.17%) Software Engineer
2 30 (36.14%) Developer
3 23 (27.71%) Senior
4 16 (19.28%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (16.87%) Ruby Engineer
6 13 (15.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Lead
8 4 (4.82%) Ruby Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) GCP Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Penetration Tester
9 3 (3.61%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (56.63%) Ruby on Rails
2 26 (31.33%) Node.js
3 25 (30.12%) React
4 12 (14.46%) CSS
4 12 (14.46%) GraphQL
4 12 (14.46%) Jest
5 11 (13.25%) HTML
6 10 (12.05%) React Native
7 4 (4.82%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.82%) REST
7 4 (4.82%) Spring
7 4 (4.82%) Vue
8 3 (3.61%) CSS3
8 3 (3.61%) HTML5
9 2 (2.41%) JSON
9 2 (2.41%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.20%) Django
10 1 (1.20%) EDI
10 1 (1.20%) jQuery
10 1 (1.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.61%) Blog
2 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.41%) IoT
3 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Mac OS
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
3 2 (2.41%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) Android
4 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.20%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.78%) Software Engineering
2 36 (43.37%) Full-Stack Development
3 21 (25.30%) Agile
3 21 (25.30%) CI/CD
4 20 (24.10%) Microservices
5 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (16.87%) Mentoring
7 12 (14.46%) DevOps
7 12 (14.46%) Mob Programming
8 7 (8.43%) Clean Code
8 7 (8.43%) User Experience
9 6 (7.23%) AI
9 6 (7.23%) Analytics
9 6 (7.23%) Computer Science
9 6 (7.23%) Containerisation
9 6 (7.23%) E-Commerce
9 6 (7.23%) Front End Development
9 6 (7.23%) High Availability
9 6 (7.23%) TDD
10 5 (6.02%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.53%) JavaScript
2 22 (26.51%) Java
3 17 (20.48%) Python
4 14 (16.87%) Kotlin
4 14 (16.87%) Scala
5 9 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.23%) Go
7 5 (6.02%) SQL
8 4 (4.82%) Bash
8 4 (4.82%) C#
8 4 (4.82%) Perl
9 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.41%) Elixir
11 1 (1.20%) C
11 1 (1.20%) C++
11 1 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
1 9 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.64%) Degree
3 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.61%) CISSP
4 3 (3.61%) OSCP
5 2 (2.41%) CEH
5 2 (2.41%) CISA
5 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.41%) PhD
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.20%) GPEN
6 1 (1.20%) GWAPT
6 1 (1.20%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) GDPR
1 2 (2.41%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.23%) Terraform
3 4 (4.82%) Ansible
3 4 (4.82%) Argo
4 2 (2.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) Nagios
5 1 (1.20%) Nessus
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.82%) Google
1 4 (4.82%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.20%) GoCardless
2 1 (1.20%) OneTrust
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle
2 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.20%) SendGrid