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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 545 540
Rank change year-on-year +35 -5 -216
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 315 123 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.68% 0.95% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 254 61 170
10th Percentile £30,150 £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,687 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,375 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -3.85%

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 18,721 12,944 23,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.93% 26.08% 30.96%
Number of salaries quoted 13,256 8,345 14,347
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 14 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 27 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 +2 239 £75,000 +7.14% 189
UK excluding London -41 179 £55,000 -21.43% 86
London +17 101 £85,000 - 131
Work from Home -21 101 £72,500 +7.41% 81
South East +14 89 £55,000 -21.43% 23
Wales - 41 £55,810 - 8
North of England -72 21 £55,000 -18.52% 23
North West -38 15 £55,000 -18.52% 12
East of England -22 14 £80,000 -20.00% 1
Midlands -65 11 £30,000 - 7
West Midlands -43 10 £30,000 - 5
Yorkshire -39 6 £90,000 +28.57% 4
South West - 3 £42,500 - 4
East Midlands -48 1 £41,000 - 2

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 27 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.81%) Skype for Business
3 8 (2.54%) Confluence
4 6 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.95%) WordPress
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.54%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.90%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 168 (53.33%) AWS
2 87 (27.62%) Serverless
3 71 (22.54%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (15.87%) Amazon ECS
5 41 (13.02%) GitHub
6 40 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (11.43%) Azure
8 35 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 33 (10.48%) SaaS
10 32 (10.16%) Amazon SQS
11 31 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (8.25%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (6.35%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (4.44%) AWS Control Tower
16 14 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (4.13%) GCP
18 9 (2.86%) PaaS
19 8 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.89%) Network Security
2 26 (8.25%) Firewall
3 17 (5.40%) DNS
4 15 (4.76%) LAN
4 15 (4.76%) WAN
5 13 (4.13%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.81%) Cisco Wireless
6 12 (3.81%) Skype
6 12 (3.81%) VLAN
6 12 (3.81%) Wireless
7 10 (3.17%) DHCP
8 8 (2.54%) FIX Connectivity
8 8 (2.54%) Remote Desktop
8 8 (2.54%) VoIP
9 6 (1.90%) BGP
9 6 (1.90%) IPsec
9 6 (1.90%) VPN
10 4 (1.27%) Internet
11 2 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (20.95%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.62%) MongoDB
3 22 (6.98%) Redis
4 17 (5.40%) MySQL
5 16 (5.08%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.54%) Big Data
7 7 (2.22%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.90%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.90%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.90%) HBase
8 6 (1.90%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.32%) Adabas
12 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (10.79%) Cypress.io
2 24 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.03%) Git
4 13 (4.13%) JIRA
5 8 (2.54%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.54%) Selenium
6 7 (2.22%) GitLab
6 7 (2.22%) JUnit
6 7 (2.22%) RSpec
7 5 (1.59%) Postman
7 5 (1.59%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.27%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.27%) minitest
8 4 (1.27%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.95%) Newman
9 3 (0.95%) TestRail
10 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.32%) Gatling
10 1 (0.32%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.32%) TestNG
General
1 72 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.51%) Public Sector
3 49 (15.56%) Finance
4 22 (6.98%) Legal
5 14 (4.44%) Banking
5 14 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.13%) Legal Technology
6 13 (4.13%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.81%) Automotive
8 11 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.22%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.90%) Marketing
11 6 (1.90%) Military
12 5 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.27%) Local Government
14 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Public Speaking
15 2 (0.63%) Publishing
16 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (38.10%) Developer
2 83 (26.35%) Senior
3 53 (16.83%) Full-Stack Developer
4 44 (13.97%) Ruby Developer
5 35 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 33 (10.48%) Lead
6 33 (10.48%) Senior Developer
7 32 (10.16%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 17 (5.40%) 1st Line Support
8 17 (5.40%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
9 16 (5.08%) IT Support
10 15 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 14 (4.44%) Consultant
11 14 (4.44%) Security Consultant
11 14 (4.44%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (4.44%) Senior Security Consultant
11 14 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.13%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.81%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (3.81%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (54.60%) Ruby on Rails
2 94 (29.84%) React
3 62 (19.68%) Node.js
4 50 (15.87%) Terraform
5 34 (10.79%) Jest
6 32 (10.16%) Spring Boot
7 28 (8.89%) Next.js
8 27 (8.57%) RESTful
9 26 (8.25%) AWS CDK
9 26 (8.25%) Spring
10 22 (6.98%) Sidekiq
11 18 (5.71%) REST
12 17 (5.40%) CSS
12 17 (5.40%) JSON
13 16 (5.08%) JWT
14 15 (4.76%) React Native
15 14 (4.44%) Kafka
16 13 (4.13%) HTML
16 13 (4.13%) Playwright
17 12 (3.81%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.02%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.84%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.94%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.98%) Mainframe
5 18 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (4.44%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.17%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.86%) Digital Wallet
8 9 (2.86%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.54%) Eurex
9 8 (2.54%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.54%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.22%) Blog
10 7 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.90%) NHS
12 5 (1.59%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
13 4 (1.27%) Educational Technology
14 3 (0.95%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.60%) Linux
2 45 (14.29%) Windows
3 20 (6.35%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.13%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (2.86%) Unix
7 8 (2.54%) CentOS
7 8 (2.54%) Rocky
8 7 (2.22%) AIX
9 6 (1.90%) Debian
10 5 (1.59%) Solaris
11 4 (1.27%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.95%) Gentoo
13 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 89 (28.25%) CI/CD
3 88 (27.94%) Agile
4 72 (22.86%) Software Engineering
5 63 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (18.41%) Microservices
7 54 (17.14%) Mentoring
8 51 (16.19%) AI
9 50 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (15.24%) Scrum
11 40 (12.70%) Roadmaps
12 39 (12.38%) DevOps
13 37 (11.75%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (11.75%) Containerisation
14 32 (10.16%) Clean Code
14 32 (10.16%) Test Automation
14 32 (10.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 28 (8.89%) OOP
16 27 (8.57%) ITIL
17 24 (7.62%) Mob Programming
Programming Languages
1 88 (27.94%) Python
2 78 (24.76%) JavaScript
3 75 (23.81%) Java
4 35 (11.11%) Bash
5 31 (9.84%) TypeScript
6 30 (9.52%) SQL
7 26 (8.25%) Perl
8 23 (7.30%) PHP
9 22 (6.98%) C#
10 13 (4.13%) PowerShell
11 11 (3.49%) C
12 9 (2.86%) Go
13 6 (1.90%) COBOL
14 4 (1.27%) C++
14 4 (1.27%) Rust
15 2 (0.63%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.63%) R
15 2 (0.63%) Scala
16 1 (0.32%) Groovy
16 1 (0.32%) Natural
Qualifications
1 42 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.25%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.94%) Degree
4 24 (7.62%) AWS Certification
5 21 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.86%) A+ Certification
9 8 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.27%) CISSP
11 4 (1.27%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.27%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (1.27%) OSCP
12 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.63%) CCSAM
13 2 (0.63%) CHECK Team Leader
13 2 (0.63%) CHECK Team Member
13 2 (0.63%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.94%) Accessibility
2 19 (6.03%) WCAG
3 17 (5.40%) QA
4 8 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.90%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.90%) NCSC
6 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.63%) GDPR
7 2 (0.63%) PERC
7 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 48 (15.24%) Docker
2 26 (8.25%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (5.71%) Ansible
2 15 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.81%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.90%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (1.90%) ZABBIX
5 3 (0.95%) Grafana
5 3 (0.95%) Podman
5 3 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.95%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.95%) SCCM
6 2 (0.63%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 62 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.25%) Oracle
3 20 (6.35%) Cisco
4 18 (5.71%) HP
5 15 (4.76%) VMware
6 11 (3.49%) OneLogin
7 8 (2.54%) Bloomberg
7 8 (2.54%) CQG
7 8 (2.54%) ION Trading
7 8 (2.54%) Patsystems
7 8 (2.54%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.54%) Reuters
7 8 (2.54%) Trayport
8 7 (2.22%) SAP
9 6 (1.90%) Google
9 6 (1.90%) IBM
9 6 (1.90%) Splunk
10 4 (1.27%) New Relic
10 4 (1.27%) QNAP
11 3 (0.95%) Thycotic