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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 532 554
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 -218
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 265 147 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.46% 1.03% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 206 86 214
10th Percentile £31,500 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,343 £56,875 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,187 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% - -
75th Percentile £80,938 £85,000 £91,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
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 18,204 14,253 26,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.69% 28.84% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,982 9,428 19,180
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -31 195 £75,000 +7.14% 79
UK excluding London -29 150 £60,000 -14.29% 37
Work from Home -12 95 £75,000 +11.11% 47
London +3 82 £75,000 - 53
South East -2 62 £60,000 -14.29% 15
Wales - 33 £60,000 - 3
East of England -4 20 £80,000 -20.00% 4
North of England -53 18 £55,000 -21.43% 4
North West -13 14 £55,000 -21.43% 2
South West -58 6 £42,500 +6.25% 5
Isle of Man - 6 - -
Midlands -60 5 £30,000 - 3
West Midlands -29 4 £30,000 - 3
Yorkshire -41 4 £90,000 +28.57% 1
East Midlands -34 1 £41,000 -

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 10 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.26%) Confluence
3 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.89%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.13%) WordPress
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.75%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 163 (61.51%) AWS
2 72 (27.17%) Serverless
3 61 (23.02%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (16.98%) Amazon ECS
5 35 (13.21%) SaaS
6 33 (12.45%) Amazon S3
7 32 (12.08%) Azure
7 32 (12.08%) GitHub
8 30 (11.32%) Amazon SQS
9 28 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (9.06%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (9.06%) PaaS
11 22 (8.30%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (7.55%) Amazon EventBridge
12 20 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (5.28%) AWS Control Tower
13 14 (5.28%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (4.91%) GCP
15 7 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.30%) Network Security
2 10 (3.77%) DNS
3 9 (3.40%) Firewall
4 8 (3.02%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (2.64%) LAN
5 7 (2.64%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.64%) WAN
6 6 (2.26%) BGP
6 6 (2.26%) IPsec
6 6 (2.26%) VPN
7 5 (1.89%) Cisco Wireless
7 5 (1.89%) Skype
7 5 (1.89%) VLAN
7 5 (1.89%) Wireless
8 4 (1.51%) DHCP
9 2 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.38%) Internet
10 1 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (23.77%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.30%) MongoDB
3 21 (7.92%) Redis
4 18 (6.79%) MySQL
5 10 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.02%) Big Data
7 7 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.26%) Apache Hive
8 6 (2.26%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.26%) HBase
8 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.38%) Adabas
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (10.57%) Cypress.io
2 18 (6.79%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.42%) Git
4 10 (3.77%) JIRA
5 7 (2.64%) GitLab
5 7 (2.64%) Selenium
6 6 (2.26%) JUnit
6 6 (2.26%) RSpec
7 4 (1.51%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.51%) minitest
7 4 (1.51%) Postman
7 4 (1.51%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.51%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.13%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.13%) Newman
8 3 (1.13%) TestRail
9 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.38%) Gatling
9 1 (0.38%) JMeter
9 1 (0.38%) Mocha
General
1 68 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.51%) Finance
3 45 (16.98%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.42%) Legal
5 12 (4.53%) Legal Technology
5 12 (4.53%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.40%) Banking
8 7 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.26%) Automotive
9 6 (2.26%) Marketing
9 6 (2.26%) Military
10 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.89%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 97 (36.60%) Developer
2 68 (25.66%) Senior
3 44 (16.60%) Full-Stack Developer
4 41 (15.47%) Ruby Developer
5 39 (14.72%) Lead
6 36 (13.58%) Software Engineer
7 25 (9.43%) Senior Developer
8 18 (6.79%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 15 (5.66%) Ruby Engineer
10 14 (5.28%) Consultant
10 14 (5.28%) Security Consultant
10 14 (5.28%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (5.28%) Senior Security Consultant
10 14 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.53%) 1st Line Support
12 12 (4.53%) Python Engineer
13 11 (4.15%) Architect
14 10 (3.77%) Senior Ruby Developer
15 9 (3.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (63.40%) Ruby on Rails
2 82 (30.94%) React
3 61 (23.02%) Node.js
4 28 (10.57%) Jest
5 27 (10.19%) Spring Boot
6 26 (9.81%) AWS CDK
7 23 (8.68%) Next.js
7 23 (8.68%) RESTful
8 21 (7.92%) Sidekiq
8 21 (7.92%) Spring
9 17 (6.42%) JSON
9 17 (6.42%) REST
10 16 (6.04%) JWT
11 15 (5.66%) React Native
12 14 (5.28%) Kafka
13 12 (4.53%) GraphQL
14 11 (4.15%) .NET
14 11 (4.15%) CSS
15 10 (3.77%) HTML
16 7 (2.64%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.34%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.68%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.92%) Onboarding
4 20 (7.55%) Mainframe
5 15 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (5.28%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.02%) Mobile App
7 8 (3.02%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.02%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.64%) Digital Wallet
8 7 (2.64%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.89%) Educational Technology
10 4 (1.51%) Blog
10 4 (1.51%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.13%) Clustering
11 3 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.13%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.13%) NHS
11 3 (1.13%) Replication
12 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.09%) Linux
2 22 (8.30%) Windows
3 9 (3.40%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.02%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.26%) Debian
6 5 (1.89%) AIX
6 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.13%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.75%) CentOS
8 2 (0.75%) Rocky
8 2 (0.75%) Unix
9 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (30.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 79 (29.81%) Agile
3 73 (27.55%) CI/CD
4 69 (26.04%) Software Engineering
5 50 (18.87%) Microservices
6 44 (16.60%) AI
6 44 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (16.60%) Mentoring
7 43 (16.23%) Scrum
8 41 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (14.34%) Containerisation
10 37 (13.96%) DevOps
10 37 (13.96%) Roadmaps
11 32 (12.08%) Architectural Patterns
12 29 (10.94%) Clean Code
13 27 (10.19%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 26 (9.81%) OOP
15 25 (9.43%) Test Automation
16 22 (8.30%) Mob Programming
17 21 (7.92%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 78 (29.43%) Python
2 67 (25.28%) Java
3 62 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 29 (10.94%) Bash
5 25 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.06%) PHP
7 23 (8.68%) SQL
8 19 (7.17%) Perl
9 17 (6.42%) C#
10 9 (3.40%) C
10 9 (3.40%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.64%) Go
11 7 (2.64%) Rust
12 6 (2.26%) COBOL
13 5 (1.89%) Scala
14 4 (1.51%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.51%) Elixir
15 3 (1.13%) C++
15 3 (1.13%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.38%) Natural
Qualifications
1 30 (11.32%) Degree
1 30 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.06%) AWS Certification
3 21 (7.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (6.04%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.40%) A+ Certification
7 6 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.51%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (1.13%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.13%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.13%) GPEN
10 3 (1.13%) GXPN
10 3 (1.13%) OSCE
10 3 (1.13%) OSCP
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.42%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.66%) WCAG
3 13 (4.91%) QA
4 8 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.26%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (2.26%) NCSC
6 3 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (17.36%) Docker
2 8 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (16.98%) Terraform
2 17 (6.42%) Ansible
3 15 (5.66%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.26%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (2.26%) ZABBIX
5 5 (1.89%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.13%) Podman
6 3 (1.13%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.13%) SCCM
7 2 (0.75%) Grafana
7 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.38%) Bugsnag
8 1 (0.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.42%) Oracle
3 13 (4.91%) Cisco
4 11 (4.15%) HP
5 8 (3.02%) VMware
6 7 (2.64%) OneLogin
6 7 (2.64%) SAP
7 6 (2.26%) IBM
7 6 (2.26%) Splunk
8 5 (1.89%) Google
8 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.13%) Citrix
9 3 (1.13%) New Relic
9 3 (1.13%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.75%) CQG
10 2 (0.75%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.75%) Patsystems
10 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.75%) Reuters