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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 482 349
Rank change year-on-year -78 -133 -131
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 90 272 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.40% 0.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 1.25% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 74 195 351
10th Percentile £49,700 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,571 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.51% +3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £99,000 £102,500
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 11,860 21,726 21,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 32.33% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,585 12,992 17,368
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,645
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £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 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 16 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 25 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 -47 80 £70,000 +3.70% 40
UK excluding London +2 44 £70,000 +7.69% 41
Work from Home +31 41 £67,500 -10.00% 61
London -21 31 £85,500 +22.14% 16
North of England +31 25 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North West +41 19 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South East +7 8 £70,000 -33.33% 16
Yorkshire +22 6 £73,750 +63.89% 2
Midlands +53 5 £55,000 -8.33% 2
West Midlands +52 3 £75,000 +25.00% 2
East Midlands +28 2 £52,500 -22.22%
Northern Ireland - 2 £75,000 - 2
South West +24 1 £75,000 +3.45% 7
East of England +14 1 £50,000 +85.19%
Wales +4 1 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Scotland +3 1 £75,000 +25.00% 7

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 4 (4.44%) CMS
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Shopify
2 3 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.89%) AWS
2 12 (13.33%) GitHub
3 8 (8.89%) Azure
3 8 (8.89%) SaaS
4 6 (6.67%) GCP
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.56%) Figma
5 5 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.44%) Serverless
7 3 (3.33%) dbt
7 3 (3.33%) Heroku
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.22%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.22%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) DNS
1 3 (3.33%) HTTP
2 2 (2.22%) FTP
2 2 (2.22%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.22%) SMTP
2 2 (2.22%) SSH
3 1 (1.11%) Broadband
3 1 (1.11%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.22%) Power BI
4 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.11%) Looker
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (3.33%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.33%) GitLab
3 3 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.22%) JIRA
4 2 (2.22%) RSpec
4 2 (2.22%) Subversion
4 2 (2.22%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.11%) Gradle
5 1 (1.11%) Maven
5 1 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.89%) Finance
3 5 (5.56%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.33%) Games
4 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Banking
5 2 (2.22%) Law
5 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.22%) Publishing
6 1 (1.11%) Advertising
6 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Developer
2 29 (32.22%) Senior
3 28 (31.11%) Software Engineer
4 18 (20.00%) Ruby Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.22%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Ruby Developer
7 9 (10.00%) Backend Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (3.33%) Lead
9 3 (3.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (44.44%) Ruby on Rails
2 21 (23.33%) React
3 20 (22.22%) Node.js
4 13 (14.44%) CSS
5 12 (13.33%) HTML
6 11 (12.22%) React Native
7 9 (10.00%) GraphQL
8 6 (6.67%) Spring
9 5 (5.56%) REST
10 4 (4.44%) .NET
10 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.44%) Spring Boot
10 4 (4.44%) Vue
11 3 (3.33%) .NET Framework
11 3 (3.33%) CSS3
11 3 (3.33%) HTML5
12 2 (2.22%) Jest
12 2 (2.22%) jQuery
12 2 (2.22%) JSON
12 2 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.00%) IoT
3 2 (2.22%) Blog
3 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.11%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.11%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Windows
3 3 (3.33%) VMS
4 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.22%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.89%) Agile
2 31 (34.44%) Software Engineering
3 26 (28.89%) CI/CD
4 25 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (26.67%) DevOps
6 17 (18.89%) Mentoring
7 14 (15.56%) Microservices
8 13 (14.44%) Clean Code
9 10 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 10 (11.11%) TDD
10 9 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.89%) Product Roadmap
11 8 (8.89%) User Experience
12 7 (7.78%) Collaborative Culture
12 7 (7.78%) Front End Development
13 6 (6.67%) Analytics
13 6 (6.67%) Project Delivery
13 6 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 28 (31.11%) Java
2 25 (27.78%) Python
3 24 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 14 (15.56%) Kotlin
4 14 (15.56%) Scala
5 11 (12.22%) Go
5 11 (12.22%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.00%) C#
6 9 (10.00%) SQL
7 8 (8.89%) Elixir
7 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.67%) Bash
8 6 (6.67%) Groovy
9 3 (3.33%) C++
10 2 (2.22%) Perl
10 2 (2.22%) PHP
10 2 (2.22%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.67%) Degree
3 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.89%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.78%) Terraform
3 6 (6.67%) Grafana
4 4 (4.44%) Ansible
4 4 (4.44%) Argo
5 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.22%) Nagios
6 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.33%) Cribl.io
2 3 (3.33%) Google
2 3 (3.33%) Sonatype
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle
3 2 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe
4 1 (1.11%) GoCardless
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.11%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.11%) SendGrid