Ruby
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 558 267
Rank change year-on-year -30 -291 -108
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 148 361 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.35% 1.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 1.12% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 83 281 550
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 16,797 32,353 34,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.96% 31.36% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,741 23,717 25,237
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby.

Salary trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 16 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 16 July 2025. 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 +27 139 £70,000 -3.45% 148
UK excluding London +74 94 £70,000 +16.67% 69
Work from Home +59 88 £70,000 +16.67% 148
London +20 47 £70,000 -17.65% 93
North of England +43 33 £70,000 +7.69% 20
South East +74 29 £70,000 +27.27% 11
North West +2 24 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Midlands +88 23 - - 10
East Midlands +51 12 - - 2
West Midlands +75 11 - - 8
Yorkshire +45 8 - - 6
East of England +36 5 £100,000 +11.11% 5
Scotland +62 2 £70,000 +33.33% 4
South West +57 1 £40,000 -42.86% 7
North East +42 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland +26 1 - - 5

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.73%) CMS
2 2 (1.35%) Apache
2 2 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.68%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.03%) AWS
2 17 (11.49%) Azure
3 9 (6.08%) GitHub
3 9 (6.08%) SaaS
4 6 (4.05%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (3.38%) GCP
5 5 (3.38%) Serverless
6 4 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.03%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.03%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (2.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (2.03%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.03%) IaaS
7 3 (2.03%) PaaS
7 3 (2.03%) Pulumi
7 3 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.05%) HTTP
2 4 (2.70%) Firewall
3 3 (2.03%) Broadband
3 3 (2.03%) Internet
3 3 (2.03%) SSL
4 1 (0.68%) DHCP
4 1 (0.68%) DNS
4 1 (0.68%) Multicast
4 1 (0.68%) SSH
4 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) Unicast
4 1 (0.68%) VLAN
4 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) MySQL
2 6 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.35%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.35%) Big Data
5 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.35%) Bigtable
5 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.35%) HBase
5 2 (1.35%) Impala
5 2 (1.35%) Metadata
5 2 (1.35%) Tableau
6 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.68%) DB2
6 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.41%) JIRA
3 5 (3.38%) Git
3 5 (3.38%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.70%) GitLab
5 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.03%) RSpec
5 3 (2.03%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.35%) Gatling
6 2 (1.35%) JMeter
6 2 (1.35%) JUnit
6 2 (1.35%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.35%) Selenium
6 2 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.35%) Subversion
7 1 (0.68%) Gradle
7 1 (0.68%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.78%) Finance
3 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.41%) Tech for Good
5 7 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Games
7 3 (2.03%) Law
8 2 (1.35%) Banking
8 2 (1.35%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.68%) Publishing
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (21.62%) Developer
2 26 (17.57%) Senior
3 25 (16.89%) Lead
4 21 (14.19%) Software Engineer
5 18 (12.16%) Ruby Developer
6 15 (10.14%) Ruby Engineer
7 12 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.05%) Senior Ruby Developer
12 5 (3.38%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.38%) Linux Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.70%) Ruby on Rails Developer
14 3 (2.03%) Azure Engineer
14 3 (2.03%) Lead Software Engineer
14 3 (2.03%) Principal Engineer
14 3 (2.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (37.84%) Ruby on Rails
2 55 (37.16%) HTML
3 33 (22.30%) React
4 12 (8.11%) jQuery
4 12 (8.11%) RESTful
5 9 (6.08%) Node.js
6 6 (4.05%) .NET
6 6 (4.05%) CSS
7 5 (3.38%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.70%) ADO
8 4 (2.70%) Spring
8 4 (2.70%) YAML
9 3 (2.03%) JSON
9 3 (2.03%) REST
10 2 (1.35%) CSS3
10 2 (1.35%) Django
10 2 (1.35%) Guice
10 2 (1.35%) HTML5
10 2 (1.35%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.35%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) NHS
2 5 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.03%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.03%) IoT
4 3 (2.03%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.03%) Smart Home
5 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.43%) Linux
2 4 (2.70%) VMS
2 4 (2.70%) Windows
3 3 (2.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.81%) Artificial Intelligence
2 50 (33.78%) Computer Science
3 49 (33.11%) Data Privacy
3 49 (33.11%) Machine Learning
4 42 (28.38%) Software Engineering
5 31 (20.95%) CI/CD
6 30 (20.27%) Agile
7 21 (14.19%) DevOps
8 17 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (10.81%) Roadmaps
10 15 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (9.46%) Mentoring
11 14 (9.46%) Microservices
11 14 (9.46%) TDD
12 13 (8.78%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (7.43%) Product Roadmap
14 9 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (6.08%) Test Automation
15 8 (5.41%) Clean Code
15 8 (5.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 94 (63.51%) Python
2 70 (47.30%) JavaScript
3 68 (45.95%) Java
4 67 (45.27%) C#
5 62 (41.89%) SQL
6 59 (39.86%) TypeScript
7 53 (35.81%) PHP
8 51 (34.46%) C++
9 49 (33.11%) C
9 49 (33.11%) Dart
9 49 (33.11%) MATLAB
9 49 (33.11%) R
9 49 (33.11%) Rust
10 10 (6.76%) Bash
11 7 (4.73%) Groovy
11 7 (4.73%) PowerShell
12 6 (4.05%) Bicep
13 5 (3.38%) Perl
14 4 (2.70%) Go
14 4 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (35.81%) Degree
2 50 (33.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.73%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.70%) QA
2 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (9.46%) Docker
2 5 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (10.14%) Kubernetes
1 15 (10.14%) Terraform
2 13 (8.78%) Ansible
3 9 (6.08%) Progress Chef
4 6 (4.05%) Grafana
4 6 (4.05%) Puppet
5 3 (2.03%) Nagios
5 3 (2.03%) Nessus
5 3 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.03%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.35%) Hadoop YARN
6 2 (1.35%) Podman
7 1 (0.68%) Consul
7 1 (0.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (4.05%) Google
2 5 (3.38%) Splunk
3 3 (2.03%) Cloudera
3 3 (2.03%) Juniper
4 2 (1.35%) Cribl.io
4 2 (1.35%) Dataiku
4 2 (1.35%) MapR
4 2 (1.35%) Mercator
4 2 (1.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.35%) Sonatype
5 1 (0.68%) Adobe
5 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.68%) IBM
5 1 (0.68%) Imperva
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle
5 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.68%) Snow