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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 464 464
Rank change year-on-year -137 0 -185
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 113 172 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.42% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 1.27% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 81 138 374
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £93,000 £92,813 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,025 £113,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +25.00% -13.85%

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 14,882 13,499 31,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 32.99% 34.72%
Number of salaries quoted 10,286 10,249 24,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £55,565 £54,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.90% -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 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 13 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 10 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 -140 74 £77,500 +3.33% 43
Work from Home -12 53 £75,000 +3.45% 25
UK excluding London -127 37 £75,000 +7.14% 20
London -62 29 £80,000 - 29
South East -38 14 £75,000 -28.57% 9
East of England -35 9 £100,000 - 2
Isle of Man - 6 - -
South West -47 4 £44,100 -26.50% 1
Yorkshire -54 2 - - 1
North of England -88 2 - - 5
Wales -36 1 £75,000 +53.48%
East Midlands -54 1 £50,000 -21.57% 2
Midlands -59 1 £50,000 -18.37% 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 3 (2.65%) 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 43 (38.05%) AWS
2 22 (19.47%) Serverless
3 21 (18.58%) SaaS
4 20 (17.70%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (17.70%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (17.70%) Amazon S3
4 20 (17.70%) Amazon SQS
4 20 (17.70%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (15.04%) PaaS
6 9 (7.96%) GCP
7 8 (7.08%) Azure
8 4 (3.54%) dbt
8 4 (3.54%) GitHub
8 4 (3.54%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.65%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.88%) Datadog
11 1 (0.88%) Figma
11 1 (0.88%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) Network Security
2 2 (1.77%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.01%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (17.70%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.65%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.77%) MySQL
4 2 (1.77%) Power BI
4 2 (1.77%) Redis
5 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.88%) Looker
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (17.70%) Cypress.io
2 6 (5.31%) Git
3 2 (1.77%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (21.24%) Finance
1 24 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.54%) Tech for Good
4 3 (2.65%) Banking
5 2 (1.77%) Legal
5 2 (1.77%) Marketing
5 2 (1.77%) Public Speaking
5 2 (1.77%) Publishing
6 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (38.05%) Developer
2 31 (27.43%) Software Engineer
3 25 (22.12%) Senior
4 24 (21.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (15.04%) Lead
6 13 (11.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (8.85%) Ruby Developer
8 9 (7.96%) Ruby Engineer
8 9 (7.96%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Architect
11 4 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (2.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.65%) Penetration Tester
12 3 (2.65%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (2.65%) Tester
12 3 (2.65%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (69.91%) Ruby on Rails
2 33 (29.20%) Node.js
3 32 (28.32%) React
4 20 (17.70%) Jest
5 9 (7.96%) GraphQL
6 7 (6.19%) CSS
6 7 (6.19%) React Native
7 6 (5.31%) .NET
7 6 (5.31%) HTML
8 4 (3.54%) JSON
8 4 (3.54%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (3.54%) Visualforce
9 3 (2.65%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.65%) Spring
9 3 (2.65%) Vue
10 2 (1.77%) JWT
10 2 (1.77%) RESTful
10 2 (1.77%) Sidekiq
10 2 (1.77%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.88%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.54%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.54%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.65%) Blog
3 3 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.65%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.85%) Linux
2 4 (3.54%) Windows
3 3 (2.65%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (41.59%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (31.86%) Software Engineering
3 29 (25.66%) Microservices
4 23 (20.35%) CI/CD
5 20 (17.70%) Customer-Centricity
5 20 (17.70%) Mob Programming
6 19 (16.81%) Agile
7 18 (15.93%) Mentoring
8 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.39%) DevOps
10 12 (10.62%) Containerisation
11 10 (8.85%) Clean Code
12 9 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (7.96%) TDD
13 8 (7.08%) Test Automation
14 7 (6.19%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (6.19%) E-Commerce
14 7 (6.19%) Scrum
15 6 (5.31%) Analytics
15 6 (5.31%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.43%) JavaScript
2 28 (24.78%) Python
3 17 (15.04%) Java
4 11 (9.73%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.08%) Go
6 7 (6.19%) Bash
6 7 (6.19%) C#
6 7 (6.19%) Rust
7 6 (5.31%) Perl
7 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.42%) Scala
9 4 (3.54%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.54%) C
9 4 (3.54%) C++
9 4 (3.54%) Elixir
9 4 (3.54%) SQL
10 3 (2.65%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.88%) F#
11 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (13.27%) Degree
2 6 (5.31%) OSCP
3 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.54%) GPEN
3 4 (3.54%) GXPN
4 3 (2.65%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.65%) CISSP
4 3 (2.65%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.65%) OSCE
5 2 (1.77%) CEH
5 2 (1.77%) CISA
5 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.77%) PhD
5 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.54%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.77%) 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 (6.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.31%) Terraform
3 4 (3.54%) Ansible
4 3 (2.65%) Argo
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Nessus
5 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.65%) Google
2 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.88%) GoCardless
3 1 (0.88%) OneTrust
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle