Ruby
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 586 509 274
Rank change year-on-year -77 -235 -97
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 131 434 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.44% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 1.31% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 110 313 658
10th Percentile - £45,000 £48,525
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,271 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,938 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £56,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +24.44% -16.67% +12.50%

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 16,444 33,203 43,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.83% 33.46% 43.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,541 24,989 27,864
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,195 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £106,925
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby.

Salary trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 14 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 12 May 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 -39 113 £75,000 -3.23% 449
London +27 68 £80,000 -5.88% 291
Work from Home +4 52 £72,500 +11.54% 289
UK excluding London -17 52 £70,000 +24.44% 232
South East +75 14 £95,000 +72.73% 94
North of England +26 14 £70,000 +28.62% 92
North West -15 14 £70,000 +27.27% 76
Midlands +63 9 £62,500 +16.82% 8
West Midlands +62 7 £62,500 +6.38% 5
East of England +41 6 £100,000 +17.65% 6
Scotland +55 4 £63,750 +21.43% 5
Wales +40 4 £37,733 -21.47% 3
East Midlands +34 2 £63,750 +19.16% 2
South West +66 1 £40,000 -42.86% 17

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.05%) CMS
2 2 (1.53%) Apache
2 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.51%) AWS
2 24 (18.32%) Azure
3 19 (14.50%) GitHub
4 10 (7.63%) Pulumi
5 9 (6.87%) SaaS
6 7 (5.34%) GCP
7 6 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.58%) Serverless
8 5 (3.82%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.82%) IaaS
9 4 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.05%) PaaS
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (2.29%) AWS KMS
10 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) Firewall
1 4 (3.05%) HTTP
2 3 (2.29%) Network Security
2 3 (2.29%) SSL
3 2 (1.53%) DHCP
3 2 (1.53%) DNS
3 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.76%) Internet
4 1 (0.76%) Multicast
4 1 (0.76%) SSH
4 1 (0.76%) Unicast
4 1 (0.76%) VLAN
4 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.56%) MySQL
2 15 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.05%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.29%) Tableau
5 2 (1.53%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.53%) Big Data
5 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.53%) Bigtable
5 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.53%) HBase
5 2 (1.53%) Impala
5 2 (1.53%) Metadata
5 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (15.27%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.92%) JIRA
3 10 (7.63%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.82%) Git
5 3 (2.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.29%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.29%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.53%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.53%) Gatling
6 2 (1.53%) GitLab
6 2 (1.53%) JMeter
6 2 (1.53%) JUnit
6 2 (1.53%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.53%) Selenium
6 2 (1.53%) Subversion
7 1 (0.76%) fastlane
7 1 (0.76%) RSpec
7 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 21 (16.03%) Finance
2 15 (11.45%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Banking
6 6 (4.58%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.29%) Games
7 3 (2.29%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.29%) Law
7 3 (2.29%) Marketing
7 3 (2.29%) Retail
8 2 (1.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Automotive
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (29.77%) Lead
2 33 (25.19%) Developer
2 33 (25.19%) Senior
3 26 (19.85%) Platform Engineer
4 23 (17.56%) Software Engineer
5 18 (13.74%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.69%) Ruby Developer
7 12 (9.16%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.63%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 9 (6.87%) Junior
10 9 (6.87%) Junior Linux Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 8 (6.11%) Ruby Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Principal Software Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
13 5 (3.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (48.85%) Ruby on Rails
2 48 (36.64%) React
3 20 (15.27%) jQuery
4 14 (10.69%) RESTful
5 13 (9.92%) Node.js
6 10 (7.63%) HTML
7 9 (6.87%) ADO
7 9 (6.87%) CSS
8 8 (6.11%) YAML
9 7 (5.34%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.82%) Flutter
11 4 (3.05%) .NET
11 4 (3.05%) JSON
12 3 (2.29%) ARM Templates
12 3 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (2.29%) React Native
12 3 (2.29%) REST
13 2 (1.53%) CSS3
13 2 (1.53%) HTML5
13 2 (1.53%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) NHS
2 14 (10.69%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.29%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.53%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.76%) Blog
6 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.76%) Eurex
6 1 (0.76%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.27%) Linux
2 6 (4.58%) Windows
3 4 (3.05%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.29%) VMS
5 2 (1.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) Android
6 1 (0.76%) CentOS
6 1 (0.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (41.22%) Software Engineering
2 42 (32.06%) CI/CD
3 35 (26.72%) Roadmaps
4 31 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (21.37%) Platform Engineering
6 24 (18.32%) Agile
7 23 (17.56%) DevOps
8 20 (15.27%) Mentoring
8 20 (15.27%) Product Roadmap
9 18 (13.74%) Microservices
9 18 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (9.92%) Design Patterns
10 13 (9.92%) Systems Engineering
11 12 (9.16%) Configuration Management
11 12 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (9.16%) Fintech
11 12 (9.16%) Scrum
11 12 (9.16%) Test Automation
12 11 (8.40%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (8.40%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 69 (52.67%) Python
2 32 (24.43%) JavaScript
3 25 (19.08%) Java
4 20 (15.27%) Go
5 19 (14.50%) Bicep
6 18 (13.74%) C#
7 15 (11.45%) Bash
8 12 (9.16%) SQL
9 11 (8.40%) Perl
10 10 (7.63%) TypeScript
11 9 (6.87%) PowerShell
11 9 (6.87%) Rust
12 8 (6.11%) C++
13 6 (4.58%) C
14 5 (3.82%) Groovy
15 4 (3.05%) Scala
16 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
17 2 (1.53%) Elixir
17 2 (1.53%) F#
17 2 (1.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (7.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) Degree
4 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.53%) CCNA
4 2 (1.53%) CCNP
4 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.05%) QA
2 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) JTAG
3 1 (0.76%) MISRA
System Software
1 28 (21.37%) Docker
2 5 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (25.95%) Terraform
2 31 (23.66%) Ansible
3 28 (21.37%) Kubernetes
4 27 (20.61%) Progress Chef
5 22 (16.79%) Puppet
6 9 (6.87%) Podman
7 8 (6.11%) Grafana
8 4 (3.05%) Consul
8 4 (3.05%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.29%) Argo
9 3 (2.29%) Istio
9 3 (2.29%) Nagios
9 3 (2.29%) Nessus
9 3 (2.29%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.53%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (4.58%) Splunk
2 5 (3.82%) Google
3 4 (3.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.29%) Cloudera
4 3 (2.29%) Juniper
4 3 (2.29%) New Relic
5 2 (1.53%) Cisco
5 2 (1.53%) Dataiku
5 2 (1.53%) F5
5 2 (1.53%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.53%) MapR
5 2 (1.53%) Mercator
5 2 (1.53%) Oracle
5 2 (1.53%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.53%) Snow
6 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.76%) CQG
6 1 (0.76%) IBM
6 1 (0.76%) Reuters