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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 469 395
Rank change year-on-year -139 -74 -113
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 85 220 482
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.46% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 1.35% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 69 164 394
10th Percentile £49,400 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £51,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.07% -4.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,392 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -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 12,867 16,317 27,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.59% 34.48% 37.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,132 9,986 22,891
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,253 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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 24 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 24 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 -114 56 £75,000 +3.45% 31
Work from Home -13 44 £77,500 +3.33% 25
UK excluding London -79 22 £75,000 +7.14% 16
London -54 20 £85,000 +13.33% 25
South East -36 8 £75,000 -28.57% 5
North of England -36 6 £75,000 +7.14% 5
Yorkshire -30 4 £75,000 +66.67%
Midlands -12 3 £55,000 -10.20% 2
North West -15 2 £75,000 +7.14% 4
South West -17 2 £59,550 -0.75% 1
East Midlands -24 2 £52,500 -17.65%
West Midlands +2 1 £75,000 +22.45% 2
Wales -15 1 £75,000 +25.00% 2
Scotland -21 1 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.18%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Shopify
2 3 (3.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.06%) AWS
2 16 (18.82%) Serverless
3 14 (16.47%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (16.47%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (16.47%) Amazon S3
3 14 (16.47%) Amazon SQS
3 14 (16.47%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (8.24%) Azure
4 7 (8.24%) GCP
4 7 (8.24%) GitHub
5 5 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.88%) SaaS
6 4 (4.71%) dbt
6 4 (4.71%) Figma
7 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.53%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.18%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (1.18%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.35%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.47%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.53%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.35%) MySQL
4 2 (2.35%) Power BI
5 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.18%) Looker
5 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) Cypress.io
2 9 (10.59%) Git
3 4 (4.71%) CircleCI
3 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.35%) GitLab
5 1 (1.18%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.18%) Metasploit
General
1 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Finance
3 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.71%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Law
6 2 (2.35%) Marketing
6 2 (2.35%) Public Speaking
6 2 (2.35%) Publishing
7 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (42.35%) Software Engineer
2 30 (35.29%) Developer
3 21 (24.71%) Senior
4 15 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (16.47%) Ruby Engineer
5 14 (16.47%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Lead
8 4 (4.71%) Architect
8 4 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Ruby Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) GCP Architect
9 3 (3.53%) Penetration Tester
9 3 (3.53%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (56.47%) Ruby on Rails
2 27 (31.76%) Node.js
3 26 (30.59%) React
4 14 (16.47%) Jest
5 12 (14.12%) GraphQL
6 11 (12.94%) CSS
7 10 (11.76%) HTML
8 9 (10.59%) React Native
9 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.71%) Spring
9 4 (4.71%) Vue
10 3 (3.53%) .NET
10 3 (3.53%) CSS3
10 3 (3.53%) HTML5
10 3 (3.53%) REST
11 2 (2.35%) JSON
11 2 (2.35%) Lightning Web Components
11 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
11 2 (2.35%) Visualforce
12 1 (1.18%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.53%) Blog
2 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.35%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.35%) Unix
4 1 (1.18%) Android
4 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.18%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) Software Engineering
2 38 (44.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 22 (25.88%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.88%) Microservices
4 21 (24.71%) Agile
5 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 14 (16.47%) Mob Programming
8 13 (15.29%) DevOps
9 10 (11.76%) TDD
10 9 (10.59%) Clean Code
11 8 (9.41%) Containerisation
12 7 (8.24%) AI
12 7 (8.24%) User Experience
13 6 (7.06%) Analytics
13 6 (7.06%) E-Commerce
13 6 (7.06%) High Availability
13 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
14 5 (5.88%) Front End Development
14 5 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.12%) JavaScript
2 25 (29.41%) Java
3 19 (22.35%) Python
4 14 (16.47%) Kotlin
4 14 (16.47%) Scala
5 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.88%) Go
7 4 (4.71%) Bash
7 4 (4.71%) C#
7 4 (4.71%) SQL
8 3 (3.53%) Perl
8 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.35%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.18%) C
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) Degree
2 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
2 7 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.53%) CISSP
4 3 (3.53%) OSCP
5 2 (2.35%) CEH
5 2 (2.35%) CISA
5 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.35%) PhD
6 1 (1.18%) GPEN
6 1 (1.18%) GWAPT
6 1 (1.18%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) GDPR
1 2 (2.35%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.94%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.06%) Terraform
3 4 (4.71%) Ansible
3 4 (4.71%) Argo
4 1 (1.18%) Grafana
4 1 (1.18%) Nessus
4 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.71%) Google
1 4 (4.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.18%) GoCardless
3 1 (1.18%) OneTrust