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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 537 545
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 -210
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 311 123 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 0.94% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 253 61 170
10th Percentile £30,100 £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,618 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.64% +16.67% -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 18,839 13,029 23,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.10% 26.45% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 13,310 8,426 14,516
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,644 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,886 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 24 September 2026.

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 24 September 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 -10 237 £75,000 +7.14% 231
UK excluding London -48 177 £56,250 -19.64% 86
Work from Home -28 101 £72,500 +7.41% 106
London +17 99 £85,000 - 171
South East +7 89 £60,000 -14.29% 21
Wales - 39 £55,810 - 11
North of England -78 21 £55,000 -18.52% 23
North West -35 15 £55,000 -18.52% 12
East of England -24 14 £80,000 -20.00% 1
Midlands -63 11 £30,000 - 8
West Midlands -48 10 £30,000 - 6
Yorkshire -45 6 £90,000 +28.57% 4
South West - 3 £42,500 - 6
East Midlands -38 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 26 (8.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.86%) Skype for Business
3 8 (2.57%) Confluence
4 6 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.96%) WordPress
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.57%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.93%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 168 (54.02%) AWS
2 86 (27.65%) Serverless
3 70 (22.51%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (15.76%) Amazon ECS
5 39 (12.54%) GitHub
5 39 (12.54%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (11.58%) Azure
7 35 (11.25%) Amazon S3
8 33 (10.61%) SaaS
9 32 (10.29%) Amazon SQS
10 31 (9.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (8.36%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (8.36%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (6.43%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (4.50%) AWS Control Tower
14 14 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (4.18%) GCP
16 9 (2.89%) PaaS
17 8 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.00%) Network Security
2 25 (8.04%) Firewall
3 17 (5.47%) DNS
4 15 (4.82%) LAN
4 15 (4.82%) WAN
5 13 (4.18%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.86%) Cisco Wireless
6 12 (3.86%) Skype
6 12 (3.86%) VLAN
6 12 (3.86%) Wireless
7 10 (3.22%) DHCP
8 8 (2.57%) FIX Connectivity
8 8 (2.57%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (2.25%) VoIP
10 6 (1.93%) BGP
10 6 (1.93%) IPsec
10 6 (1.93%) VPN
11 4 (1.29%) Internet
12 2 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (21.22%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.72%) MongoDB
3 22 (7.07%) Redis
4 17 (5.47%) MySQL
5 16 (5.14%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.57%) Big Data
7 7 (2.25%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.93%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.93%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.93%) HBase
8 6 (1.93%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.32%) Adabas
12 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (10.61%) Cypress.io
2 23 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.11%) Git
4 13 (4.18%) JIRA
5 8 (2.57%) Selenium
6 7 (2.25%) Cucumber
6 7 (2.25%) GitLab
6 7 (2.25%) JUnit
6 7 (2.25%) RSpec
7 5 (1.61%) Postman
7 5 (1.61%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.29%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.29%) minitest
8 4 (1.29%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.96%) Newman
9 3 (0.96%) TestRail
10 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.32%) Gatling
10 1 (0.32%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 72 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.40%) Public Sector
3 49 (15.76%) Finance
4 22 (7.07%) Legal
5 14 (4.50%) Banking
6 13 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.18%) Legal Technology
6 13 (4.18%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.86%) Automotive
8 10 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.25%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.93%) Marketing
10 6 (1.93%) Military
11 5 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.29%) Local Government
13 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.64%) Publishing
15 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (37.94%) Developer
2 83 (26.69%) Senior
3 53 (17.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 44 (14.15%) Ruby Developer
5 35 (11.25%) Software Engineer
6 33 (10.61%) Senior Developer
7 32 (10.29%) Lead
7 32 (10.29%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 17 (5.47%) 1st Line Support
8 17 (5.47%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
9 15 (4.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 15 (4.82%) IT Support
10 14 (4.50%) Consultant
10 14 (4.50%) Security Consultant
10 14 (4.50%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (4.50%) Senior Security Consultant
10 14 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (4.18%) Ruby Engineer
11 13 (4.18%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (54.98%) Ruby on Rails
2 94 (30.23%) React
3 63 (20.26%) Node.js
4 49 (15.76%) Terraform
5 33 (10.61%) Jest
6 31 (9.97%) Spring Boot
7 27 (8.68%) Next.js
8 26 (8.36%) AWS CDK
8 26 (8.36%) RESTful
9 25 (8.04%) Spring
10 22 (7.07%) Sidekiq
11 18 (5.79%) REST
12 17 (5.47%) CSS
12 17 (5.47%) JSON
13 16 (5.14%) JWT
14 15 (4.82%) React Native
15 14 (4.50%) Kafka
16 13 (4.18%) HTML
17 12 (3.86%) GraphQL
17 12 (3.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.54%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.32%) Product Ownership
3 25 (8.04%) Onboarding
4 21 (6.75%) Mainframe
5 17 (5.47%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (4.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.22%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.57%) Digital Wallet
8 8 (2.57%) Eurex
8 8 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.57%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.57%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.25%) Blog
10 6 (1.93%) NHS
10 6 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.61%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.61%) Web Conferencing
12 4 (1.29%) Educational Technology
13 3 (0.96%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.79%) Linux
2 44 (14.15%) Windows
3 19 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.18%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (2.89%) Unix
7 8 (2.57%) CentOS
7 8 (2.57%) Rocky
8 6 (1.93%) AIX
8 6 (1.93%) Debian
9 5 (1.61%) Solaris
10 3 (0.96%) Gentoo
10 3 (0.96%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (33.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 86 (27.65%) Agile
2 86 (27.65%) CI/CD
3 70 (22.51%) Software Engineering
4 60 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (18.33%) Microservices
6 53 (17.04%) Mentoring
7 51 (16.40%) AI
8 48 (15.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (15.11%) Scrum
10 40 (12.86%) Roadmaps
11 39 (12.54%) DevOps
12 37 (11.90%) Architectural Patterns
12 37 (11.90%) Containerisation
13 31 (9.97%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 30 (9.65%) Clean Code
14 30 (9.65%) Test Automation
15 28 (9.00%) OOP
16 27 (8.68%) ITIL
17 24 (7.72%) Mob Programming
Programming Languages
1 88 (28.30%) Python
2 77 (24.76%) JavaScript
3 74 (23.79%) Java
4 35 (11.25%) Bash
5 32 (10.29%) TypeScript
6 30 (9.65%) SQL
7 26 (8.36%) Perl
8 23 (7.40%) PHP
9 22 (7.07%) C#
10 13 (4.18%) PowerShell
11 11 (3.54%) C
12 8 (2.57%) Go
13 6 (1.93%) COBOL
14 4 (1.29%) C++
15 3 (0.96%) Rust
16 2 (0.64%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.64%) R
16 2 (0.64%) Scala
17 1 (0.32%) Groovy
17 1 (0.32%) Natural
Qualifications
1 41 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.04%) Degree
2 25 (8.04%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.72%) AWS Certification
4 21 (6.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.89%) A+ Certification
8 7 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.29%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 4 (1.29%) OSCP
11 3 (0.96%) CISSP
11 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.64%) CCSAM
12 2 (0.64%) CHECK Team Leader
12 2 (0.64%) CHECK Team Member
12 2 (0.64%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.40%) Accessibility
2 18 (5.79%) WCAG
3 15 (4.82%) QA
4 8 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.93%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.93%) NCSC
6 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.32%) GDPR
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) PERC
8 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (15.43%) Docker
2 25 (8.04%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (5.79%) Ansible
2 15 (4.82%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.86%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.93%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (1.93%) ZABBIX
5 3 (0.96%) Grafana
5 3 (0.96%) Podman
5 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.96%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.96%) SCCM
6 2 (0.64%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 61 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.04%) Oracle
3 20 (6.43%) Cisco
4 18 (5.79%) HP
5 15 (4.82%) VMware
6 10 (3.22%) OneLogin
7 8 (2.57%) Bloomberg
7 8 (2.57%) CQG
7 8 (2.57%) ION Trading
7 8 (2.57%) Patsystems
7 8 (2.57%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.57%) Reuters
7 8 (2.57%) Trayport
8 7 (2.25%) SAP
9 6 (1.93%) Google
9 6 (1.93%) IBM
9 6 (1.93%) Splunk
10 4 (1.29%) New Relic
11 3 (0.96%) QNAP
11 3 (0.96%) Thycotic