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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 531 538
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -212
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 214 150 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 1.05% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 165 89 304
10th Percentile £37,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -11.11%

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 17,539 14,332 33,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.98% 29.83% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,477 9,540 24,828
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -38 153 £75,000 +7.14% 58
UK excluding London -54 112 £60,000 -14.29% 59
Work from Home -23 80 £55,000 -21.43% 636
London +1 65 £75,000 - 23
South East -8 47 £72,500 +3.57% 19
Wales -29 21 £72,500 +92.14% 6
North of England -62 16 £55,000 -21.43% 6
East of England -10 14 £80,000 -20.00% 4
North West -15 14 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South West -58 6 £42,500 +6.25% 5
Isle of Man - 6 - -
Yorkshire -32 2 - - 4
Midlands -43 2 £38,000 - 7
West Midlands -32 1 £35,000 - 5
East Midlands -34 1 £41,000 - 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 5 (2.34%) Confluence
2 4 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.40%) Skype for Business
3 3 (1.40%) WordPress
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 133 (62.15%) AWS
2 59 (27.57%) Serverless
3 50 (23.36%) AWS Lambda
4 40 (18.69%) Amazon ECS
5 33 (15.42%) Amazon S3
6 28 (13.08%) SaaS
7 27 (12.62%) Amazon SQS
8 25 (11.68%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (11.68%) GitHub
9 24 (11.21%) PaaS
10 23 (10.75%) Azure
11 21 (9.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (6.54%) Amazon EventBridge
14 13 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (5.14%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (4.67%) AWS Control Tower
16 10 (4.67%) GCP
17 6 (2.80%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.48%) Network Security
2 5 (2.34%) DNS
3 4 (1.87%) BGP
3 4 (1.87%) Firewall
3 4 (1.87%) IPsec
3 4 (1.87%) LAN
3 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.87%) VPN
3 4 (1.87%) WAN
4 3 (1.40%) Cisco Wireless
4 3 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (1.40%) Skype
4 3 (1.40%) VLAN
4 3 (1.40%) Wireless
5 1 (0.47%) DHCP
5 1 (0.47%) Internet
5 1 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (25.23%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.75%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.61%) Redis
4 11 (5.14%) MySQL
5 6 (2.80%) Big Data
6 5 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.34%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.87%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.87%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.87%) HBase
8 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.47%) Adabas
10 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 26 (12.15%) Cypress.io
2 13 (6.07%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.61%) Git
4 8 (3.74%) JIRA
5 6 (2.80%) Selenium
6 5 (2.34%) GitLab
6 5 (2.34%) JUnit
7 4 (1.87%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.40%) Postman
8 3 (1.40%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.40%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.93%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.93%) Newman
9 2 (0.93%) TestRail
10 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.47%) Gatling
10 1 (0.47%) Mocha
10 1 (0.47%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.47%) RSpec
General
1 51 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.63%) Finance
3 36 (16.82%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.01%) Legal
5 11 (5.14%) Legal Technology
6 7 (3.27%) Banking
6 7 (3.27%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.34%) Automotive
8 5 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.87%) Marketing
9 4 (1.87%) Military
9 4 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 81 (37.85%) Developer
2 54 (25.23%) Senior
3 40 (18.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 35 (16.36%) Lead
5 34 (15.89%) Software Engineer
6 33 (15.42%) Ruby Developer
7 18 (8.41%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (5.14%) Architect
9 11 (5.14%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 10 (4.67%) Consultant
10 10 (4.67%) Ruby Engineer
10 10 (4.67%) Security Consultant
10 10 (4.67%) Senior Consultant
10 10 (4.67%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 10 (4.67%) Senior Security Consultant
11 9 (4.21%) 1st Line Support
11 9 (4.21%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.21%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.74%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (66.36%) Ruby on Rails
2 68 (31.78%) React
3 55 (25.70%) Node.js
4 26 (12.15%) Jest
5 20 (9.35%) Next.js
5 20 (9.35%) Spring Boot
6 19 (8.88%) AWS CDK
7 16 (7.48%) REST
8 15 (7.01%) React Native
8 15 (7.01%) Spring
9 13 (6.07%) JSON
9 13 (6.07%) RESTful
10 12 (5.61%) JWT
10 12 (5.61%) Sidekiq
11 8 (3.74%) .NET
11 8 (3.74%) Kafka
12 7 (3.27%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.80%) CSS
13 6 (2.80%) FastAPI
13 6 (2.80%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.01%) Mainframe
4 14 (6.54%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (4.67%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (4.21%) Mobile App
7 9 (4.21%) Security Posture
8 7 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.27%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.34%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (2.34%) Educational Technology
10 4 (1.87%) Blog
11 3 (1.40%) Clustering
11 3 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.40%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.40%) Web Conferencing
12 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.21%) Linux
2 13 (6.07%) Windows
3 6 (2.80%) Debian
4 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.87%) AIX
6 3 (1.40%) Gentoo
6 3 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 57 (26.64%) Software Engineering
3 55 (25.70%) Agile
3 55 (25.70%) CI/CD
4 43 (20.09%) Microservices
5 36 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (16.82%) Mentoring
6 34 (15.89%) AI
7 33 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (14.95%) DevOps
9 31 (14.49%) Containerisation
10 30 (14.02%) Roadmaps
10 30 (14.02%) Scrum
11 24 (11.21%) Architectural Patterns
12 23 (10.75%) Mob Programming
13 21 (9.81%) Clean Code
13 21 (9.81%) Test Automation
14 19 (8.88%) Migration
15 18 (8.41%) Customer-Centricity
16 17 (7.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 65 (30.37%) Python
2 51 (23.83%) Java
3 46 (21.50%) JavaScript
4 25 (11.68%) Bash
5 18 (8.41%) PHP
5 18 (8.41%) SQL
6 16 (7.48%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.54%) Perl
8 13 (6.07%) C#
9 9 (4.21%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.74%) C
11 7 (3.27%) Go
11 7 (3.27%) Rust
12 5 (2.34%) COBOL
13 4 (1.87%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.87%) C++
13 4 (1.87%) Elixir
13 4 (1.87%) Scala
14 3 (1.40%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (12.15%) Degree
2 22 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.88%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (5.61%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.80%) A+ Certification
8 5 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.87%) GPEN
9 4 (1.87%) GXPN
9 4 (1.87%) OSCP
10 3 (1.40%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.40%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.40%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (1.40%) OSCE
11 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.14%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.67%) WCAG
3 6 (2.80%) QA
4 5 (2.34%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (2.34%) NCSC
5 3 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (16.82%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (18.22%) Terraform
2 18 (8.41%) Ansible
3 12 (5.61%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.87%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.40%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.40%) Grafana
5 3 (1.40%) Podman
5 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.40%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.40%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.47%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.61%) Oracle
3 7 (3.27%) HP
4 6 (2.80%) Cisco
4 6 (2.80%) Splunk
5 5 (2.34%) OneLogin
5 5 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.34%) SAP
6 4 (1.87%) IBM
7 3 (1.40%) VMware
8 2 (0.93%) New Relic
8 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.47%) Google
9 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.47%) Informatica
9 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow