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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 551 570
Rank change year-on-year +45 +19 -242
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 297 141 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.60% 1.02% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 230 82 188
10th Percentile £30,500 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,007 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -

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 18,579 13,866 25,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.43% 27.81% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,144 9,096 17,696
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 15 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 15 August 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 +3 221 £75,000 +7.14% 184
UK excluding London -25 167 £60,000 -14.29% 50
Work from Home -20 105 £72,500 +7.41% 81
London +10 97 £75,000 - 155
South East +16 70 £60,000 -14.29% 15
Wales - 37 £60,000 - 10
East of England -3 21 £82,500 -17.50% 5
North of England -61 21 £55,000 -18.52% 4
North West -21 15 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Midlands -49 7 £35,000 - 3
West Midlands -34 6 £32,500 - 3
Yorkshire -35 6 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Isle of Man - 6 - -
South West -70 5 £42,500 +6.25% 5
East Midlands -34 1 £41,000 -

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 16 (5.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.69%) Confluence
2 8 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.69%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.01%) WordPress
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.68%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 176 (59.26%) AWS
2 86 (28.96%) Serverless
3 71 (23.91%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (16.50%) Amazon ECS
5 45 (15.15%) SaaS
6 36 (12.12%) Amazon S3
6 36 (12.12%) GitHub
7 35 (11.78%) Azure
8 33 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (10.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (8.08%) PaaS
12 22 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (6.73%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (4.71%) AWS Control Tower
14 14 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (4.71%) GCP
15 7 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.42%) Network Security
2 15 (5.05%) Firewall
3 13 (4.38%) DNS
4 11 (3.70%) LAN
4 11 (3.70%) WAN
5 10 (3.37%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.69%) Cisco Wireless
6 8 (2.69%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (2.69%) Skype
6 8 (2.69%) VLAN
6 8 (2.69%) Wireless
7 7 (2.36%) DHCP
8 6 (2.02%) BGP
8 6 (2.02%) IPsec
8 6 (2.02%) VPN
9 5 (1.68%) FIX Connectivity
10 3 (1.01%) Internet
10 3 (1.01%) VoIP
11 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (22.90%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.42%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.74%) Redis
4 17 (5.72%) MySQL
5 13 (4.38%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.69%) Big Data
7 7 (2.36%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.02%) Apache Hive
8 6 (2.02%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.02%) HBase
8 6 (2.02%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.34%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 34 (11.45%) Cypress.io
2 21 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.06%) Git
4 12 (4.04%) JIRA
5 7 (2.36%) RSpec
5 7 (2.36%) Selenium
6 6 (2.02%) GitLab
6 6 (2.02%) JUnit
7 4 (1.35%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.35%) minitest
7 4 (1.35%) Postman
7 4 (1.35%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.35%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.01%) Newman
8 3 (1.01%) TestRail
9 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.34%) Gatling
9 1 (0.34%) Mocha
9 1 (0.34%) Pa11y
General
1 71 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.21%) Finance
3 51 (17.17%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.07%) Legal
5 13 (4.38%) Legal Technology
5 13 (4.38%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.04%) Banking
6 12 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.36%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.02%) Automotive
9 6 (2.02%) Marketing
9 6 (2.02%) Military
10 5 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.35%) Local Government
12 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (37.04%) Developer
2 74 (24.92%) Senior
3 52 (17.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 44 (14.81%) Ruby Developer
5 42 (14.14%) Lead
6 38 (12.79%) Software Engineer
7 27 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 22 (7.41%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 15 (5.05%) Ruby Engineer
9 15 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.71%) 1st Line Support
10 14 (4.71%) Consultant
10 14 (4.71%) Security Consultant
10 14 (4.71%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (4.71%) Senior Security Consultant
11 13 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (4.38%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.04%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.37%) Architect
13 10 (3.37%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (60.94%) Ruby on Rails
2 96 (32.32%) React
3 66 (22.22%) Node.js
4 34 (11.45%) Jest
5 31 (10.44%) Spring Boot
6 27 (9.09%) Next.js
6 27 (9.09%) RESTful
7 26 (8.75%) AWS CDK
8 25 (8.42%) Spring
9 23 (7.74%) Sidekiq
10 18 (6.06%) JSON
11 17 (5.72%) JWT
11 17 (5.72%) REST
12 16 (5.39%) CSS
13 15 (5.05%) React Native
14 14 (4.71%) .NET
14 14 (4.71%) Kafka
15 12 (4.04%) GraphQL
15 12 (4.04%) HTML
16 11 (3.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.74%) Onboarding
4 21 (7.07%) Mainframe
5 17 (5.72%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (4.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (2.69%) Digital Wallet
7 8 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.69%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.69%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.36%) Blog
9 6 (2.02%) NHS
10 5 (1.68%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.68%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.68%) Eurex
11 3 (1.01%) Clustering
11 3 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.01%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.48%) Linux
2 29 (9.76%) Windows
3 12 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.70%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.02%) AIX
6 6 (2.02%) Debian
7 5 (1.68%) CentOS
7 5 (1.68%) Rocky
7 5 (1.68%) Unix
8 3 (1.01%) Gentoo
8 3 (1.01%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (32.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (28.62%) Agile
3 81 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 72 (24.24%) Software Engineering
5 58 (19.53%) Microservices
6 49 (16.50%) Mentoring
7 48 (16.16%) AI
7 48 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (15.82%) Scrum
9 45 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (13.47%) Containerisation
10 40 (13.47%) Roadmaps
11 39 (13.13%) DevOps
12 37 (12.46%) Architectural Patterns
13 31 (10.44%) Clean Code
14 30 (10.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 28 (9.43%) Test Automation
16 27 (9.09%) OOP
17 25 (8.42%) Mob Programming
18 24 (8.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.62%) Python
2 75 (25.25%) JavaScript
3 73 (24.58%) Java
4 34 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 32 (10.77%) Bash
6 28 (9.43%) SQL
7 23 (7.74%) PHP
8 22 (7.41%) Perl
9 21 (7.07%) C#
10 11 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.37%) C
12 8 (2.69%) Go
13 7 (2.36%) Rust
14 6 (2.02%) COBOL
14 6 (2.02%) Scala
15 4 (1.35%) Elixir
16 3 (1.01%) Apex Code
16 3 (1.01%) C++
16 3 (1.01%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.43%) Degree
3 24 (8.08%) AWS Certification
3 24 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.03%) A+ Certification
7 8 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.35%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (1.01%) CCSAM
11 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.01%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.01%) GPEN
11 3 (1.01%) GXPN
11 3 (1.01%) OSCE
11 3 (1.01%) OSCP
12 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.73%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.06%) WCAG
3 15 (5.05%) QA
4 8 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.02%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (2.02%) NCSC
6 3 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.34%) GRC
System Software
1 48 (16.16%) Docker
2 12 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (15.82%) Terraform
2 18 (6.06%) Ansible
3 14 (4.71%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.69%) FortiGate
5 6 (2.02%) Hadoop YARN
5 6 (2.02%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.01%) Podman
6 3 (1.01%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.01%) SCCM
7 2 (0.67%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.67%) Grafana
7 2 (0.67%) Packer
7 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.07%) Oracle
3 16 (5.39%) Cisco
4 14 (4.71%) HP
5 11 (3.70%) VMware
6 10 (3.37%) OneLogin
7 7 (2.36%) SAP
8 6 (2.02%) Google
8 6 (2.02%) IBM
8 6 (2.02%) Splunk
9 5 (1.68%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.68%) CQG
9 5 (1.68%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.68%) Patsystems
9 5 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.68%) Reuters
9 5 (1.68%) Trayport
10 4 (1.35%) New Relic
10 4 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.01%) Thycotic