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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 480 491
Rank change year-on-year -124 +11 -204
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 114 164 431
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.73% 1.17% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 83 133 345
10th Percentile - - £43,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,271
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £94,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,734 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +25.00% -17.04%

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 15,514 13,966 32,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 33.31% 34.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,536 10,257 25,061
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £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 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

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 23 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 10 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 23 April 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 -118 75 £77,500 +3.33% 43
Work from Home +1 53 £70,000 -3.45% 27
UK excluding London -96 39 £75,000 +7.14% 37
London -58 30 £75,000 -6.25% 15
South East -38 18 £75,000 -28.57% 11
East of England -36 9 £100,000 - 4
Isle of Man - 6 - -
South West -47 4 £44,100 -26.50% 5
Yorkshire -52 2 - - 1
North of England -79 2 - - 9

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 3 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (42.11%) AWS
2 24 (21.05%) Serverless
3 22 (19.30%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (19.30%) Amazon ECS
3 22 (19.30%) Amazon S3
3 22 (19.30%) Amazon SQS
3 22 (19.30%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (16.67%) SaaS
5 17 (14.91%) PaaS
6 9 (7.89%) GCP
7 7 (6.14%) Azure
8 5 (4.39%) GitHub
9 4 (3.51%) dbt
9 4 (3.51%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.63%) Google Compute Engine
11 2 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.88%) Cloud Functions
12 1 (0.88%) Figma
12 1 (0.88%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.68%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (19.30%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.63%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.75%) MySQL
4 2 (1.75%) Power BI
4 2 (1.75%) Redis
5 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.88%) Looker
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (19.30%) Cypress.io
2 5 (4.39%) Git
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Metasploit
General
1 23 (20.18%) Finance
1 23 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.51%) Banking
3 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.51%) Tech for Good
4 2 (1.75%) Legal
4 2 (1.75%) Marketing
4 2 (1.75%) Public Speaking
5 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 47 (41.23%) Developer
2 30 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
3 29 (25.44%) Software Engineer
4 26 (22.81%) Senior
5 16 (14.04%) Lead
6 13 (11.40%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (10.53%) Ruby Developer
8 10 (8.77%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.89%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 8 (7.02%) Ruby Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 6 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (4.39%) Architect
14 3 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
14 3 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
14 3 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 3 (2.63%) Penetration Tester
14 3 (2.63%) Tester
14 3 (2.63%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (71.05%) Ruby on Rails
2 37 (32.46%) React
3 36 (31.58%) Node.js
4 22 (19.30%) Jest
5 9 (7.89%) GraphQL
6 7 (6.14%) React Native
7 6 (5.26%) .NET
8 4 (3.51%) CSS
8 4 (3.51%) HTML
8 4 (3.51%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (3.51%) Visualforce
9 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.63%) Spring
9 3 (2.63%) Vue
10 2 (1.75%) JSON
10 2 (1.75%) JWT
10 2 (1.75%) RESTful
10 2 (1.75%) Sidekiq
10 2 (1.75%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.51%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) Blog
5 1 (0.88%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.14%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Android
3 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.88%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (45.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 34 (29.82%) Software Engineering
3 30 (26.32%) Microservices
4 22 (19.30%) Mob Programming
5 20 (17.54%) CI/CD
5 20 (17.54%) Customer-Centricity
6 17 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (14.04%) Mentoring
8 14 (12.28%) Agile
9 13 (11.40%) DevOps
10 12 (10.53%) Containerisation
11 9 (7.89%) Clean Code
11 9 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (7.89%) TDD
12 8 (7.02%) E-Commerce
13 7 (6.14%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (6.14%) Scrum
14 6 (5.26%) Penetration Testing
14 6 (5.26%) Roadmaps
14 6 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 28 (24.56%) Python
3 16 (14.04%) Java
4 14 (12.28%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.02%) Bash
5 8 (7.02%) Go
6 7 (6.14%) Rust
7 6 (5.26%) C#
7 6 (5.26%) Perl
7 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.51%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.51%) C
8 4 (3.51%) C++
8 4 (3.51%) Elixir
8 4 (3.51%) Scala
9 3 (2.63%) Objective-C
9 3 (2.63%) SQL
10 1 (0.88%) F#
10 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (13.16%) Degree
2 6 (5.26%) OSCP
3 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.51%) GPEN
3 4 (3.51%) GXPN
4 3 (2.63%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.63%) CISSP
4 3 (2.63%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.63%) OSCE
5 2 (1.75%) CEH
5 2 (1.75%) CISA
5 2 (1.75%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.75%) PhD
5 2 (1.75%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.75%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.26%) Terraform
3 4 (3.51%) Ansible
4 3 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Nessus
5 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (3.51%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.63%) Google
2 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.88%) OneTrust
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle