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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 451 413
Rank change year-on-year -126 -38 -125
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 105 209 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 1.37% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 77 159 412
10th Percentile £51,350 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,418 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -4.00%

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 13,176 15,212 29,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.10% 34.64% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,255 10,302 24,196
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,096
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -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 March 2026.

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 10 March 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 -111 68 £77,500 +6.90% 54
Work from Home -1 48 £77,500 +3.33% 28
UK excluding London -82 37 £75,000 +7.14% 35
London -61 22 £85,000 +13.33% 24
South East -38 9 £75,000 -28.57% 10
East of England +5 6 £100,000 +42.86% 3
North of England -54 6 £75,000 +7.14% 8
South West -27 5 £59,550 -0.75% 6
Isle of Man - 5 - - 6
Yorkshire -45 4 £75,000 +66.67% 1
Midlands -24 3 £55,000 -10.20% 1
East Midlands -28 2 £52,500 -17.65%
North West -31 2 £75,000 +5.26% 6
West Midlands -7 1 £75,000 +22.45% 1
Wales -19 1 £75,000 +53.48% 1
Scotland -20 1 £75,000 +30.43% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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 3 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) Apache
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.95%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Shopify
2 3 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.67%) AWS
2 18 (17.14%) SaaS
2 18 (17.14%) Serverless
3 16 (15.24%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (15.24%) Amazon ECS
3 16 (15.24%) Amazon S3
3 16 (15.24%) Amazon SQS
3 16 (15.24%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (11.43%) PaaS
5 7 (6.67%) Azure
5 7 (6.67%) GCP
5 7 (6.67%) GitHub
6 5 (4.76%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.81%) dbt
7 4 (3.81%) Figma
8 3 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.86%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.95%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (15.24%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.86%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.90%) MySQL
4 2 (1.90%) Power BI
5 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.95%) Looker
5 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (15.24%) Cypress.io
2 9 (8.57%) Git
3 4 (3.81%) CircleCI
3 4 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.90%) GitLab
5 1 (0.95%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.95%) Metasploit
General
1 26 (24.76%) Finance
2 24 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.81%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.90%) Law
5 2 (1.90%) Marketing
5 2 (1.90%) Public Speaking
5 2 (1.90%) Publishing
6 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.95%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (36.19%) Software Engineer
2 33 (31.43%) Developer
3 23 (21.90%) Senior
4 17 (16.19%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (15.24%) Ruby Engineer
6 14 (13.33%) Lead
6 14 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Ruby Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Architect
9 4 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (2.86%) GCP Architect
10 3 (2.86%) Penetration Tester
10 3 (2.86%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 3 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (60.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 29 (27.62%) Node.js
3 28 (26.67%) React
4 16 (15.24%) Jest
5 12 (11.43%) GraphQL
6 11 (10.48%) CSS
7 10 (9.52%) HTML
8 8 (7.62%) React Native
9 4 (3.81%) .NET
9 4 (3.81%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.81%) Spring
9 4 (3.81%) Vue
10 3 (2.86%) CSS3
10 3 (2.86%) HTML5
10 3 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (2.86%) REST
10 3 (2.86%) Visualforce
11 2 (1.90%) JSON
11 2 (1.90%) Spring Boot
12 1 (0.95%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.86%) Blog
2 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.95%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.95%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.62%) Linux
2 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.90%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.90%) Unix
4 1 (0.95%) Android
4 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.95%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.90%) Software Engineering
2 39 (37.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 24 (22.86%) Microservices
4 23 (21.90%) CI/CD
5 22 (20.95%) Agile
6 18 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.24%) Customer-Centricity
7 16 (15.24%) Mob Programming
8 15 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 14 (13.33%) DevOps
10 11 (10.48%) TDD
11 9 (8.57%) Clean Code
11 9 (8.57%) Containerisation
12 7 (6.67%) AI
12 7 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (6.67%) User Experience
13 6 (5.71%) Analytics
13 6 (5.71%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (5.71%) E-Commerce
13 6 (5.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 31 (29.52%) JavaScript
2 26 (24.76%) Java
3 21 (20.00%) Python
4 17 (16.19%) Scala
5 14 (13.33%) Kotlin
6 9 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.76%) Go
8 4 (3.81%) Bash
8 4 (3.81%) C#
8 4 (3.81%) SQL
9 3 (2.86%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.86%) Elixir
9 3 (2.86%) Perl
9 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.86%) Rust
10 1 (0.95%) C
10 1 (0.95%) C++
10 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (10.48%) Degree
2 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.86%) CISSP
4 3 (2.86%) OSCP
5 2 (1.90%) CEH
5 2 (1.90%) CISA
5 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.90%) PhD
6 1 (0.95%) GPEN
6 1 (0.95%) GWAPT
6 1 (0.95%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.95%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.71%) Terraform
3 4 (3.81%) Ansible
3 4 (3.81%) Argo
4 1 (0.95%) Grafana
4 1 (0.95%) Nessus
4 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (3.81%) Google
1 4 (3.81%) Red Hat
1 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.95%) GoCardless
2 1 (0.95%) OneTrust