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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 546 547
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 -213
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 299 141 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 1.02% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 232 82 186
10th Percentile £30,500 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £59,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £91,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 18,593 13,805 25,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.31% 27.63% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,204 9,058 17,573
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,747 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 18 August 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 18 August 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 0 224 £75,000 +7.14% 154
UK excluding London -30 168 £60,000 -14.29% 46
Work from Home -9 104 £72,500 +7.41% 57
London +26 99 £75,000 - 122
South East +17 70 £60,000 -14.29% 18
Wales - 37 £60,000 - 6
East of England -12 22 £85,000 -15.00% 4
North of England -59 21 £55,000 -18.52% 4
North West -15 15 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Midlands -51 7 £35,000 - 3
West Midlands -31 6 £32,500 - 3
Yorkshire -36 6 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Isle of Man - 6 - -
South West -62 5 £42,500 +6.25% 6
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 16 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.68%) Confluence
2 8 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.68%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.00%) WordPress
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.67%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 174 (58.19%) AWS
2 85 (28.43%) Serverless
3 70 (23.41%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (16.05%) Amazon ECS
5 46 (15.38%) SaaS
6 36 (12.04%) GitHub
7 35 (11.71%) Amazon S3
7 35 (11.71%) Azure
8 32 (10.70%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (10.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (8.03%) PaaS
13 22 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (6.69%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (4.68%) AWS Control Tower
15 14 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (4.68%) GCP
16 7 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.36%) Network Security
2 15 (5.02%) Firewall
3 13 (4.35%) DNS
4 11 (3.68%) LAN
4 11 (3.68%) WAN
5 10 (3.34%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.68%) Cisco Wireless
6 8 (2.68%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (2.68%) Skype
6 8 (2.68%) VLAN
6 8 (2.68%) Wireless
7 7 (2.34%) DHCP
8 6 (2.01%) BGP
8 6 (2.01%) IPsec
8 6 (2.01%) VPN
9 5 (1.67%) FIX Connectivity
10 3 (1.00%) Internet
10 3 (1.00%) VoIP
11 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.41%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (8.03%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.69%) Redis
4 17 (5.69%) MySQL
5 13 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.68%) Big Data
7 7 (2.34%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.01%) Apache Hive
8 6 (2.01%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.01%) HBase
8 6 (2.01%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.33%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 33 (11.04%) Cypress.io
2 21 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.02%) Git
4 12 (4.01%) JIRA
5 7 (2.34%) RSpec
5 7 (2.34%) Selenium
6 6 (2.01%) GitLab
6 6 (2.01%) JUnit
7 4 (1.34%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.34%) minitest
7 4 (1.34%) Postman
7 4 (1.34%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.34%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.00%) Newman
8 3 (1.00%) TestRail
9 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.33%) Gatling
9 1 (0.33%) JMeter
9 1 (0.33%) Pa11y
General
1 70 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.07%) Finance
3 51 (17.06%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.02%) Legal
5 13 (4.35%) Legal Technology
5 13 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.01%) Banking
6 12 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.34%) Tech for Good
10 6 (2.01%) Automotive
10 6 (2.01%) Marketing
10 6 (2.01%) Military
11 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.34%) Local Government
13 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.33%) Public Speaking
14 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (36.79%) Developer
2 76 (25.42%) Senior
3 51 (17.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 44 (14.72%) Ruby Developer
5 42 (14.05%) Lead
6 37 (12.37%) Software Engineer
7 28 (9.36%) Senior Developer
8 23 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 15 (5.02%) Ruby Engineer
9 15 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.68%) 1st Line Support
10 14 (4.68%) Consultant
10 14 (4.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (4.68%) Security Consultant
10 14 (4.68%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (4.68%) Senior Security Consultant
11 13 (4.35%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.01%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.34%) Architect
13 10 (3.34%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (60.54%) Ruby on Rails
2 95 (31.77%) React
3 65 (21.74%) Node.js
4 33 (11.04%) Jest
5 31 (10.37%) Spring Boot
6 27 (9.03%) Next.js
6 27 (9.03%) RESTful
7 26 (8.70%) AWS CDK
8 25 (8.36%) Spring
9 23 (7.69%) Sidekiq
10 18 (6.02%) JSON
11 17 (5.69%) JWT
11 17 (5.69%) REST
12 16 (5.35%) CSS
13 15 (5.02%) React Native
14 14 (4.68%) Kafka
15 13 (4.35%) .NET
16 12 (4.01%) GraphQL
16 12 (4.01%) HTML
17 11 (3.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 21 (7.02%) Mainframe
5 17 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (4.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (3.01%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.68%) Digital Wallet
8 8 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.68%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.68%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.34%) Blog
10 6 (2.01%) NHS
11 5 (1.67%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.67%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.67%) Eurex
12 3 (1.00%) Clustering
12 3 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.00%) Replication
12 3 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.38%) Linux
2 30 (10.03%) Windows
3 12 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.68%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.01%) AIX
6 6 (2.01%) Debian
7 5 (1.67%) CentOS
7 5 (1.67%) Rocky
7 5 (1.67%) Unix
8 3 (1.00%) Gentoo
8 3 (1.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (32.11%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (28.09%) Agile
3 80 (26.76%) CI/CD
4 71 (23.75%) Software Engineering
5 57 (19.06%) Microservices
6 49 (16.39%) Mentoring
7 48 (16.05%) AI
8 47 (15.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (15.38%) Scrum
10 40 (13.38%) Roadmaps
11 39 (13.04%) Containerisation
12 38 (12.71%) DevOps
13 37 (12.37%) Architectural Patterns
14 30 (10.03%) Clean Code
14 30 (10.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 27 (9.03%) OOP
15 27 (9.03%) Test Automation
16 24 (8.03%) Mob Programming
17 23 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.43%) Python
2 74 (24.75%) JavaScript
3 73 (24.41%) Java
4 34 (11.37%) TypeScript
5 32 (10.70%) Bash
6 28 (9.36%) SQL
7 23 (7.69%) Perl
7 23 (7.69%) PHP
8 22 (7.36%) C#
9 11 (3.68%) C
9 11 (3.68%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.68%) Go
11 7 (2.34%) Rust
12 6 (2.01%) COBOL
12 6 (2.01%) Scala
13 4 (1.34%) C++
13 4 (1.34%) Elixir
14 3 (1.00%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.67%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.03%) Degree
3 24 (8.03%) AWS Certification
3 24 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.01%) A+ Certification
7 8 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.34%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 4 (1.34%) OSCP
11 3 (1.00%) CCSAM
11 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.00%) GPEN
11 3 (1.00%) GXPN
11 3 (1.00%) OSCE
12 1 (0.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.69%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.02%) WCAG
3 14 (4.68%) QA
4 8 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.01%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (2.01%) NCSC
6 3 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 48 (16.05%) Docker
2 13 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (15.72%) Terraform
2 18 (6.02%) Ansible
3 14 (4.68%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.68%) FortiGate
5 6 (2.01%) Hadoop YARN
5 6 (2.01%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.00%) Podman
6 3 (1.00%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.00%) SCCM
7 2 (0.67%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.67%) Grafana
7 2 (0.67%) Packer
7 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.02%) Oracle
3 16 (5.35%) Cisco
4 14 (4.68%) HP
5 11 (3.68%) VMware
6 10 (3.34%) OneLogin
7 7 (2.34%) SAP
8 6 (2.01%) Google
8 6 (2.01%) IBM
8 6 (2.01%) Splunk
9 5 (1.67%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.67%) CQG
9 5 (1.67%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.67%) Patsystems
9 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.67%) Reuters
9 5 (1.67%) Trayport
10 4 (1.34%) New Relic
11 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.00%) Thycotic