Ruby Job Trends

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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 486 337
Rank change year-on-year -48 -149 -128
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 137 277 491
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.41% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 1.29% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73 195 360
10th Percentile £49,300 £37,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -10.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £97,000 £102,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -

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 12,014 21,544 21,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.68% 31.70% 41.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,603 12,806 17,835
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 17 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 November 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 -8 128 £70,000 +7.69% 116
UK excluding London +47 93 £70,000 +7.69% 50
Work from Home +58 89 £67,500 -10.00% 90
North of England +45 40 £70,000 +7.69% 8
London -27 32 £85,000 +25.93% 91
North West +37 25 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Midlands +70 24 £55,000 -8.33%
South East +12 23 £70,000 -33.33% 16
East Midlands +36 14 £52,500 -22.22%
Yorkshire +22 14 £73,750 +63.89% 3
West Midlands +47 10 £75,000 +25.00%
Northern Ireland - 2 £75,000 - 4
East of England +20 1 £50,000 +85.19%
South West +14 1 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North East +5 1 - -
Wales +1 1 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Scotland -4 1 £75,000 +25.00% 11

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 4 (2.92%) CMS
2 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Shopify
2 3 (2.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.25%) AWS
2 11 (8.03%) GitHub
3 9 (6.57%) Azure
4 8 (5.84%) SaaS
5 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (3.65%) Figma
5 5 (3.65%) GCP
5 5 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.19%) Heroku
7 3 (2.19%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.19%) Serverless
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (1.46%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.46%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.46%) Stripe
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) HTTP
2 3 (2.19%) DNS
3 2 (1.46%) FTP
3 2 (1.46%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.46%) Internet
3 2 (1.46%) SMTP
3 2 (1.46%) SSH
4 1 (0.73%) Broadband
4 1 (0.73%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.46%) Power BI
4 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.73%) Looker
4 1 (0.73%) MySQL
4 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.84%) Git
3 3 (2.19%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.19%) GitLab
3 3 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.46%) JIRA
4 2 (1.46%) RSpec
4 2 (1.46%) Subversion
4 2 (1.46%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.73%) Gradle
5 1 (0.73%) Maven
5 1 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (18.98%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.41%) Finance
3 4 (2.92%) Tech for Good
4 3 (2.19%) Games
4 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Banking
5 2 (1.46%) Law
5 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.46%) Publishing
6 1 (0.73%) Advertising
6 1 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (24.82%) Developer
2 31 (22.63%) Senior
3 28 (20.44%) Software Engineer
4 17 (12.41%) Ruby Engineer
5 12 (8.76%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (8.03%) Ruby Developer
7 10 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Backend Developer
9 5 (3.65%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (2.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (2.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (2.19%) Java Developer
11 3 (2.19%) Lead
11 3 (2.19%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (43.80%) HTML
2 38 (27.74%) Ruby on Rails
3 20 (14.60%) React
4 17 (12.41%) Node.js
5 12 (8.76%) CSS
6 11 (8.03%) React Native
7 8 (5.84%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.65%) REST
8 5 (3.65%) Spring
9 4 (2.92%) .NET
9 4 (2.92%) Spring Boot
10 3 (2.19%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.19%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.19%) CSS3
10 3 (2.19%) HTML5
10 3 (2.19%) Vue
11 2 (1.46%) jQuery
11 2 (1.46%) JSON
11 2 (1.46%) RESTful
11 2 (1.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.57%) IoT
2 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.46%) Blog
4 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.73%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.73%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.84%) Linux
2 5 (3.65%) Windows
3 3 (2.19%) VMS
4 2 (1.46%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.46%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.15%) AI
2 53 (38.69%) Computer Science
3 49 (35.77%) Data Privacy
3 49 (35.77%) Machine Learning
4 35 (25.55%) Agile
5 31 (22.63%) Software Engineering
6 26 (18.98%) CI/CD
7 23 (16.79%) DevOps
7 23 (16.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (12.41%) Mentoring
9 13 (9.49%) Clean Code
10 12 (8.76%) Microservices
11 10 (7.30%) TDD
12 9 (6.57%) Containerisation
12 9 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (5.84%) Product Roadmap
13 8 (5.84%) Roadmaps
13 8 (5.84%) User Experience
14 7 (5.11%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 76 (55.47%) Java
2 73 (53.28%) Python
3 71 (51.82%) JavaScript
4 59 (43.07%) C#
4 59 (43.07%) SQL
4 59 (43.07%) TypeScript
5 52 (37.96%) C++
6 51 (37.23%) PHP
7 49 (35.77%) C
7 49 (35.77%) Dart
7 49 (35.77%) MATLAB
7 49 (35.77%) R
7 49 (35.77%) Rust
8 14 (10.22%) Kotlin
8 14 (10.22%) Scala
9 10 (7.30%) Go
10 8 (5.84%) Elixir
11 7 (5.11%) PowerShell
12 6 (4.38%) Groovy
13 5 (3.65%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (39.42%) Degree
2 53 (38.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.30%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.30%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) QA
2 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.73%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (5.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.38%) Grafana
2 6 (4.38%) Terraform
3 3 (2.19%) Ansible
3 3 (2.19%) Argo
3 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.46%) Nagios
4 2 (1.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (2.19%) Cribl.io
1 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
1 3 (2.19%) Sonatype
2 2 (1.46%) Google
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle
2 2 (1.46%) Splunk
3 1 (0.73%) Adobe
3 1 (0.73%) GoCardless
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.73%) OneTrust
3 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.73%) SendGrid