Ruby Job Trends

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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 491 335
Rank change year-on-year -52 -156 -136
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 133 263 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 1.23% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 70 182 366
10th Percentile £48,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -10.34%
75th Percentile £76,875 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £94,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -

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 12,398 21,465 22,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.60% 31.57% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,293 12,813 18,307
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 1 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 17 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 1 November 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 -7 125 £70,000 +7.69% 90
UK excluding London +24 95 £70,000 +7.69% 63
Work from Home +35 86 £67,500 -3.57% 44
North of England +12 41 £70,000 +7.69% 9
London -37 29 £75,000 +15.38% 60
North West +6 26 £68,750 +5.77% 3
Midlands +62 24 £55,000 -8.33% 2
South East +15 24 £70,000 -33.33% 43
Yorkshire +26 14 £73,750 +63.89% 4
East Midlands +21 14 £52,500 -22.22% 2
West Midlands +47 10 £75,000 +25.00%
Northern Ireland - 2 £75,000 -
South West +21 1 £75,000 +26.99% 1
East of England +11 1 £50,000 +85.19%
North East +9 1 - - 2
Wales -1 1 £75,000 +38.25% 3
Scotland -20 1 £75,000 +25.00% 6

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 5 (3.76%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Shopify
2 3 (2.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.05%) AWS
2 9 (6.77%) GitHub
3 8 (6.02%) Azure
4 6 (4.51%) SaaS
5 5 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (3.76%) Figma
5 5 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (3.01%) GCP
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.26%) Heroku
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (1.50%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.50%) Serverless
8 2 (1.50%) Stripe
8 2 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) HTTP
2 3 (2.26%) DNS
3 2 (1.50%) FTP
3 2 (1.50%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.50%) Internet
3 2 (1.50%) SMTP
3 2 (1.50%) SSH
4 1 (0.75%) Broadband
4 1 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.75%) Looker
3 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.75%) Redis
3 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (9.02%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.02%) Git
3 3 (2.26%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.26%) GitLab
3 3 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.50%) JIRA
4 2 (1.50%) RSpec
4 2 (1.50%) Subversion
4 2 (1.50%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.75%) Gradle
5 1 (0.75%) Maven
5 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (16.54%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.03%) Finance
3 5 (3.76%) Tech for Good
4 3 (2.26%) Games
4 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.50%) Banking
5 2 (1.50%) Law
5 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.50%) Publishing
6 1 (0.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 33 (24.81%) Developer
2 28 (21.05%) Senior
3 27 (20.30%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.53%) Ruby Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) Ruby Developer
6 11 (8.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Backend Developer
9 5 (3.76%) Senior Backend Developer
10 3 (2.26%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (2.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.26%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (2.26%) Lead
10 3 (2.26%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.26%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (2.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 2 (1.50%) Azure Engineer
11 2 (1.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (43.61%) HTML
2 35 (26.32%) Ruby on Rails
3 16 (12.03%) React
4 14 (10.53%) Node.js
5 10 (7.52%) CSS
5 10 (7.52%) React Native
6 6 (4.51%) GraphQL
7 5 (3.76%) REST
8 4 (3.01%) .NET
9 3 (2.26%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.26%) CSS3
9 3 (2.26%) HTML5
9 3 (2.26%) Spring
10 2 (1.50%) jQuery
10 2 (1.50%) JSON
10 2 (1.50%) RESTful
10 2 (1.50%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.50%) YAML
11 1 (0.75%) Grails
11 1 (0.75%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.77%) IoT
2 4 (3.01%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.50%) Blog
4 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.75%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.02%) Linux
2 5 (3.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.26%) VMS
4 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.50%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.85%) AI
2 52 (39.10%) Computer Science
3 49 (36.84%) Data Privacy
3 49 (36.84%) Machine Learning
4 34 (25.56%) Agile
5 31 (23.31%) Software Engineering
6 24 (18.05%) CI/CD
7 22 (16.54%) DevOps
8 19 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (12.03%) Mentoring
11 13 (9.77%) Clean Code
12 11 (8.27%) TDD
13 9 (6.77%) Collaborative Culture
13 9 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (6.77%) Microservices
14 8 (6.02%) Product Roadmap
14 8 (6.02%) Roadmaps
14 8 (6.02%) User Experience
15 7 (5.26%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 72 (54.14%) Java
2 71 (53.38%) Python
3 68 (51.13%) JavaScript
4 60 (45.11%) SQL
5 59 (44.36%) C#
6 57 (42.86%) TypeScript
7 52 (39.10%) C++
8 51 (38.35%) PHP
9 49 (36.84%) C
9 49 (36.84%) Dart
9 49 (36.84%) MATLAB
9 49 (36.84%) R
9 49 (36.84%) Rust
10 14 (10.53%) Kotlin
10 14 (10.53%) Scala
11 8 (6.02%) Elixir
11 8 (6.02%) Go
12 7 (5.26%) PowerShell
13 6 (4.51%) Groovy
14 5 (3.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (39.85%) Degree
2 52 (39.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.02%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.51%) Grafana
2 6 (4.51%) Terraform
3 3 (2.26%) Ansible
3 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.50%) Nagios
4 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (2.26%) Cribl.io
1 3 (2.26%) Google
1 3 (2.26%) Sonatype
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle
2 2 (1.50%) Splunk
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe
3 1 (0.75%) GoCardless
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.75%) OneTrust
3 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.75%) SendGrid