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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 483 519
Rank change year-on-year -136 +36 -230
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 125 174 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 1.25% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 94 104 303
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,625 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +7.14% +24.44% -19.00%

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 16,102 13,908 32,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.49% 31.56% 33.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,092 9,668 24,889
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 19 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 19 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 -144 83 £75,000 +1.69% 63
Work from Home -9 61 £55,000 -24.14% 33
UK excluding London -112 52 £75,000 +7.14% 40
London -54 32 £75,000 -6.25% 30
South East -31 20 £75,000 -21.05% 14
North of England -42 11 £55,000 -21.43% 14
East of England -14 9 £100,000 - 5
North West -5 8 £55,000 -21.43% 11
Isle of Man - 6 - - 2
South West -52 4 £44,100 +10.25% 3
Yorkshire -54 3 - - 1
Wales -35 2 £51,619 +36.80% 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 64 (51.20%) AWS
2 27 (21.60%) Serverless
3 23 (18.40%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (18.40%) Amazon ECS
3 23 (18.40%) Amazon S3
3 23 (18.40%) Amazon SQS
3 23 (18.40%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (13.60%) PaaS
4 17 (13.60%) SaaS
5 6 (4.80%) Azure
5 6 (4.80%) GCP
6 3 (2.40%) GitHub
6 3 (2.40%) Heroku
6 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.60%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.80%) Datadog
8 1 (0.80%) dbt
8 1 (0.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) Network Security
2 1 (0.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.60%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (18.40%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.00%) Redis
4 2 (1.60%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.80%) Big Data
5 1 (0.80%) MySQL
5 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (18.40%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.40%) Git
3 2 (1.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.80%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.80%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.80%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.60%) Finance
3 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Banking
5 4 (3.20%) Legal
5 4 (3.20%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.60%) Marketing
6 2 (1.60%) Public Speaking
7 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (44.00%) Developer
2 34 (27.20%) Software Engineer
3 32 (25.60%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (24.00%) Senior
5 20 (16.00%) Lead
6 18 (14.40%) Ruby Developer
7 15 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (8.80%) Senior Developer
9 10 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (7.20%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 8 (6.40%) Ruby Engineer
12 7 (5.60%) Ruby on Rails Developer
13 6 (4.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 4 (3.20%) Architect
15 3 (2.40%) 1st Line Support
15 3 (2.40%) Penetration Tester
15 3 (2.40%) Principal Developer
15 3 (2.40%) Python Engineer
15 3 (2.40%) Software Developer
15 3 (2.40%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (74.40%) Ruby on Rails
2 37 (29.60%) React
3 34 (27.20%) Node.js
4 23 (18.40%) Jest
5 13 (10.40%) React Native
6 8 (6.40%) Next.js
7 6 (4.80%) .NET
8 5 (4.00%) GraphQL
8 5 (4.00%) JSON
8 5 (4.00%) JWT
8 5 (4.00%) RESTful
8 5 (4.00%) Sidekiq
9 4 (3.20%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (3.20%) Visualforce
10 3 (2.40%) REST
11 2 (1.60%) OpenAPI
11 2 (1.60%) Spring
11 2 (1.60%) Spring Boot
12 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET
12 1 (0.80%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.00%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.20%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.20%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.60%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.60%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.80%) Blog
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.80%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.80%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.80%) Android
3 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.80%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.20%) Full-Stack Development
2 41 (32.80%) Software Engineering
3 27 (21.60%) Microservices
4 23 (18.40%) Mob Programming
5 22 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.80%) Mentoring
7 18 (14.40%) Customer-Centricity
8 15 (12.00%) Agile
8 15 (12.00%) CI/CD
9 14 (11.20%) Roadmaps
10 13 (10.40%) Test Automation
11 12 (9.60%) Containerisation
12 11 (8.80%) Clean Code
13 10 (8.00%) Scrum
14 9 (7.20%) DevOps
15 8 (6.40%) API Design
15 8 (6.40%) Architectural Patterns
15 8 (6.40%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (6.40%) Product Strategy
15 8 (6.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.60%) Python
2 28 (22.40%) JavaScript
3 13 (10.40%) Java
4 12 (9.60%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.40%) C#
6 7 (5.60%) Bash
6 7 (5.60%) Rust
7 6 (4.80%) Go
7 6 (4.80%) Perl
8 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.20%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.20%) C
9 4 (3.20%) C++
9 4 (3.20%) Elixir
9 4 (3.20%) Scala
10 3 (2.40%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.60%) SQL
12 1 (0.80%) F#
12 1 (0.80%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (10.40%) Degree
2 6 (4.80%) OSCP
3 4 (3.20%) GPEN
3 4 (3.20%) GXPN
4 3 (2.40%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.40%) CISSP
4 3 (2.40%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.40%) OSCE
5 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.60%) CEH
5 2 (1.60%) CISA
5 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.60%) PhD
5 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.60%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (7.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.00%) Terraform
3 4 (3.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.80%) Grafana
4 1 (0.80%) Nessus
4 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (3.20%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.60%) Google
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle
4 1 (0.80%) Splunk