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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 551 573
Rank change year-on-year +37 +22 -233
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 310 125 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% 0.95% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 251 65 160
10th Percentile £30,500 £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,090 £62,500 £47,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 18,697 13,140 24,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.47% 26.45% 30.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13,324 8,484 15,406
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -7 237 £75,000 +7.14% 113
UK excluding London -41 172 £60,000 -14.29% 33
London +22 104 £82,500 +10.00% 91
Work from Home -15 104 £72,500 +7.41% 407
South East +15 85 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Wales - 38 £60,000 - 3
North of England -59 21 £55,000 -18.52% 4
East of England -17 17 £80,000 -20.00% 1
North West -34 15 £55,000 -18.52% 3
Midlands -63 8 £32,500 - 7
West Midlands -36 7 £30,000 - 6
Yorkshire -52 6 £90,000 +28.57% 1
South West - 2 £42,500 - 3
East Midlands -44 1 £41,000 - 1
Isle of Man - 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 23 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.23%) Skype for Business
3 8 (2.58%) Confluence
4 6 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.97%) WordPress
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.58%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.94%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.65%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 173 (55.81%) AWS
2 87 (28.06%) Serverless
3 71 (22.90%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (12.26%) GitHub
6 37 (11.94%) Azure
6 37 (11.94%) SaaS
7 36 (11.61%) Amazon S3
7 36 (11.61%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (10.65%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (8.71%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (6.45%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (4.52%) AWS Control Tower
14 14 (4.52%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (4.52%) GCP
15 12 (3.87%) PaaS
16 8 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.71%) Network Security
2 22 (7.10%) Firewall
3 17 (5.48%) DNS
4 13 (4.19%) LAN
4 13 (4.19%) TCP/IP
4 13 (4.19%) WAN
5 10 (3.23%) Cisco Wireless
5 10 (3.23%) DHCP
5 10 (3.23%) Skype
5 10 (3.23%) VLAN
5 10 (3.23%) Wireless
6 8 (2.58%) FIX Connectivity
6 8 (2.58%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.94%) BGP
7 6 (1.94%) IPsec
7 6 (1.94%) VoIP
7 6 (1.94%) VPN
8 4 (1.29%) Internet
9 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.94%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.06%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.42%) Redis
4 17 (5.48%) MySQL
5 16 (5.16%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.58%) Big Data
7 7 (2.26%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.94%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.94%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.94%) HBase
8 6 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.32%) Adabas
12 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (10.97%) Cypress.io
2 21 (6.77%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.13%) Git
4 12 (3.87%) JIRA
5 7 (2.26%) RSpec
5 7 (2.26%) Selenium
6 6 (1.94%) GitLab
6 6 (1.94%) JUnit
7 5 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.29%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.29%) minitest
8 4 (1.29%) Postman
8 4 (1.29%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.29%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.97%) Newman
9 3 (0.97%) TestRail
10 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.32%) Gatling
10 1 (0.32%) Mocha
10 1 (0.32%) Pa11y
General
1 71 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.42%) Finance
3 51 (16.45%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.77%) Legal
5 15 (4.84%) Banking
6 13 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.19%) Legal Technology
6 13 (4.19%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.90%) Automotive
9 7 (2.26%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.94%) Marketing
10 6 (1.94%) Military
11 5 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.29%) Local Government
13 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.65%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.65%) Publishing
15 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (38.39%) Developer
2 78 (25.16%) Senior
3 55 (17.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 46 (14.84%) Ruby Developer
5 36 (11.61%) Software Engineer
6 35 (11.29%) Lead
7 31 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 29 (9.35%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 17 (5.48%) 1st Line Support
10 15 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 14 (4.52%) Consultant
11 14 (4.52%) IT Support
11 14 (4.52%) Security Consultant
11 14 (4.52%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (4.52%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
11 14 (4.52%) Senior Security Consultant
11 14 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.19%) Ruby Engineer
12 13 (4.19%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (56.77%) Ruby on Rails
2 97 (31.29%) React
3 66 (21.29%) Node.js
4 49 (15.81%) Terraform
5 34 (10.97%) Jest
6 31 (10.00%) Spring Boot
7 27 (8.71%) Next.js
7 27 (8.71%) RESTful
8 26 (8.39%) AWS CDK
9 25 (8.06%) Spring
10 23 (7.42%) Sidekiq
11 18 (5.81%) JSON
12 17 (5.48%) CSS
12 17 (5.48%) JWT
12 17 (5.48%) REST
13 15 (4.84%) React Native
14 14 (4.52%) Kafka
15 13 (4.19%) .NET
15 13 (4.19%) HTML
16 12 (3.87%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.03%) Product Ownership
3 25 (8.06%) Onboarding
4 21 (6.77%) Mainframe
5 17 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (4.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.23%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.90%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.58%) Digital Wallet
9 8 (2.58%) Eurex
9 8 (2.58%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.26%) Blog
11 6 (1.94%) NHS
12 5 (1.61%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.29%) Educational Technology
13 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.29%) Web Conferencing
14 3 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.16%) Linux
2 40 (12.90%) Windows
3 16 (5.16%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.19%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (2.90%) Unix
7 8 (2.58%) CentOS
7 8 (2.58%) Rocky
8 6 (1.94%) AIX
8 6 (1.94%) Debian
9 5 (1.61%) Solaris
10 3 (0.97%) Gentoo
11 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (33.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 86 (27.74%) Agile
3 84 (27.10%) CI/CD
4 69 (22.26%) Software Engineering
5 58 (18.71%) Microservices
6 57 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (17.10%) Mentoring
8 49 (15.81%) AI
9 48 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (15.16%) Scrum
11 41 (13.23%) Roadmaps
12 39 (12.58%) Containerisation
12 39 (12.58%) DevOps
13 37 (11.94%) Architectural Patterns
14 31 (10.00%) Clean Code
14 31 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 29 (9.35%) Test Automation
16 28 (9.03%) OOP
17 25 (8.06%) ITIL
17 25 (8.06%) Mob Programming
Programming Languages
1 88 (28.39%) Python
2 79 (25.48%) JavaScript
3 74 (23.87%) Java
4 36 (11.61%) Bash
5 35 (11.29%) TypeScript
6 31 (10.00%) SQL
7 27 (8.71%) Perl
8 24 (7.74%) C#
9 23 (7.42%) PHP
10 14 (4.52%) PowerShell
11 12 (3.87%) C
12 9 (2.90%) Go
13 6 (1.94%) COBOL
14 5 (1.61%) C++
15 4 (1.29%) Rust
16 3 (0.97%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.97%) Scala
17 2 (0.65%) R
18 1 (0.32%) Elixir
18 1 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.71%) Degree
3 24 (7.74%) AWS Certification
3 24 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.90%) A+ Certification
8 7 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.61%) CREST Certified
10 5 (1.61%) OSCP
11 4 (1.29%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.97%) CCSAM
12 3 (0.97%) CISSP
12 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.97%) GPEN
12 3 (0.97%) GXPN
12 3 (0.97%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.10%) Accessibility
2 18 (5.81%) WCAG
3 15 (4.84%) QA
4 8 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.94%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.94%) NCSC
6 3 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) GRC
7 1 (0.32%) PERC
7 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (15.81%) Docker
2 20 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (5.81%) Ansible
2 15 (4.84%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.23%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.94%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (1.94%) ZABBIX
5 3 (0.97%) Grafana
5 3 (0.97%) Podman
5 3 (0.97%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.97%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.97%) SCCM
6 2 (0.65%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.65%) Packer
Vendors
1 56 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.74%) Oracle
3 18 (5.81%) Cisco
4 16 (5.16%) HP
5 13 (4.19%) VMware
6 10 (3.23%) OneLogin
7 8 (2.58%) Bloomberg
7 8 (2.58%) CQG
7 8 (2.58%) ION Trading
7 8 (2.58%) Patsystems
7 8 (2.58%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.58%) Reuters
7 8 (2.58%) Trayport
8 7 (2.26%) SAP
9 6 (1.94%) Google
9 6 (1.94%) IBM
9 6 (1.94%) Splunk
10 4 (1.29%) New Relic
11 3 (0.97%) Citrix
11 3 (0.97%) Thycotic