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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 519 521
Rank change year-on-year -73 +2 -233
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 123 129 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.30% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 0.93% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 93 108 308
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,500 £95,313 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,125 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +21.74% -17.20%

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 16,003 13,944 32,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.60% 32.04% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,964 9,705 24,890
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 12 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 15 May 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 -75 80 £75,000 +1.69% 66
Work from Home +44 62 £55,000 -24.14% 39
UK excluding London -60 48 £75,000 +7.14% 35
London -60 32 £75,000 -6.25% 34
South East -14 21 £75,000 -21.05% 13
East of England -9 9 £100,000 - 3
North of England -42 6 £55,000 -21.43% 15
Isle of Man - 6 - -
North West -12 4 £55,000 -21.43% 12
South West -49 4 £44,100 +10.25% 1
Wales -32 2 £51,619 +36.80% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 1 (0.81%) Apache
1 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.81%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 61 (49.59%) AWS
2 28 (22.76%) Serverless
3 24 (19.51%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (19.51%) Amazon ECS
3 24 (19.51%) Amazon S3
3 24 (19.51%) Amazon SQS
3 24 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (13.82%) PaaS
4 17 (13.82%) SaaS
5 6 (4.88%) Azure
5 6 (4.88%) GCP
6 3 (2.44%) GitHub
6 3 (2.44%) Heroku
6 3 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.63%) dbt
7 2 (1.63%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (1.63%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.44%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (19.51%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.07%) Redis
4 2 (1.63%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.81%) MySQL
5 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (19.51%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.25%) Git
3 2 (1.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.81%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Finance
3 6 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.25%) Banking
5 4 (3.25%) Legal
5 4 (3.25%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.63%) Marketing
6 2 (1.63%) Public Speaking
7 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (44.72%) Developer
2 33 (26.83%) Full-Stack Developer
3 32 (26.02%) Software Engineer
4 26 (21.14%) Senior
5 19 (15.45%) Lead
6 18 (14.63%) Ruby Developer
7 13 (10.57%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (8.13%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.32%) Lead Software Engineer
9 9 (7.32%) Ruby Engineer
9 9 (7.32%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 7 (5.69%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 6 (4.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.25%) Architect
13 3 (2.44%) 1st Line Support
13 3 (2.44%) Penetration Tester
13 3 (2.44%) Principal Developer
13 3 (2.44%) Tester
13 3 (2.44%) Testing Manager
14 2 (1.63%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (73.98%) Ruby on Rails
2 38 (30.89%) React
3 36 (29.27%) Node.js
4 24 (19.51%) Jest
5 9 (7.32%) React Native
6 6 (4.88%) .NET
7 5 (4.07%) GraphQL
7 5 (4.07%) JSON
7 5 (4.07%) JWT
7 5 (4.07%) RESTful
7 5 (4.07%) Sidekiq
8 4 (3.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (3.25%) Next.js
8 4 (3.25%) Visualforce
9 3 (2.44%) REST
9 3 (2.44%) Spring
10 2 (1.63%) OpenAPI
10 2 (1.63%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.69%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.25%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.25%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.63%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) Blog
6 1 (0.81%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.88%) Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Android
3 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.81%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 38 (30.89%) Software Engineering
3 29 (23.58%) Microservices
4 24 (19.51%) Mob Programming
5 19 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (14.63%) Customer-Centricity
7 17 (13.82%) CI/CD
7 17 (13.82%) Mentoring
8 15 (12.20%) Agile
9 13 (10.57%) Containerisation
10 12 (9.76%) Clean Code
11 10 (8.13%) Roadmaps
11 10 (8.13%) Scrum
11 10 (8.13%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.32%) DevOps
12 9 (7.32%) TDD
13 8 (6.50%) API Design
13 8 (6.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 7 (5.69%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (5.69%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.39%) JavaScript
2 28 (22.76%) Python
3 14 (11.38%) Java
4 13 (10.57%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.50%) C#
6 7 (5.69%) Bash
6 7 (5.69%) Rust
7 6 (4.88%) Go
7 6 (4.88%) Perl
8 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.25%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.25%) C
9 4 (3.25%) C++
9 4 (3.25%) Elixir
9 4 (3.25%) Scala
10 3 (2.44%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.63%) SQL
12 1 (0.81%) F#
12 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (10.57%) Degree
2 6 (4.88%) OSCP
3 4 (3.25%) GPEN
3 4 (3.25%) GXPN
4 3 (2.44%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.44%) CISSP
4 3 (2.44%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.44%) OSCE
5 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.63%) CEH
5 2 (1.63%) CISA
5 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.63%) PhD
5 2 (1.63%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.63%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (8.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.07%) Terraform
3 3 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (0.81%) Argo
4 1 (0.81%) Grafana
4 1 (0.81%) Nessus
4 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.63%) Google
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat