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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 527 540
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -200
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 226 150 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% 1.04% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 173 88 293
10th Percentile £37,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -1.06%
75th Percentile £81,788 £85,625 £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 17,623 14,419 32,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.00% 29.46% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,522 9,595 24,220
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 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 10 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 10 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 -42 165 £75,000 +7.14% 55
UK excluding London -47 120 £60,000 -14.29% 41
Work from Home 0 83 £75,000 +7.14% 41
London +3 70 £75,000 - 29
South East -18 51 £65,000 -7.14% 9
Wales -26 22 £72,500 +92.14% 7
North of England -55 17 £55,000 -21.43% 10
East of England 0 16 £80,000 -20.00% 2
North West -13 14 £55,000 -21.43% 4
South West -52 6 £42,500 +6.25% 2
Isle of Man - 6 - -
Yorkshire -36 3 £90,000 - 1
Midlands -51 2 £38,000 - 7
West Midlands -24 1 £35,000 - 6
East Midlands -33 1 £41,000 - 1

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 (2.21%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.21%) Confluence
1 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.77%) Skype for Business
3 3 (1.33%) WordPress
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.21%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 139 (61.50%) AWS
2 62 (27.43%) Serverless
3 52 (23.01%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (18.14%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (14.16%) Amazon S3
6 29 (12.83%) SaaS
7 26 (11.50%) Amazon SQS
7 26 (11.50%) GitHub
8 25 (11.06%) Azure
9 24 (10.62%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (10.62%) PaaS
10 23 (10.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (7.08%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (5.31%) AWS Control Tower
17 10 (4.42%) GCP
18 6 (2.65%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.41%) Network Security
2 6 (2.65%) DNS
3 5 (2.21%) BGP
3 5 (2.21%) Firewall
3 5 (2.21%) IPsec
3 5 (2.21%) LAN
3 5 (2.21%) VPN
3 5 (2.21%) WAN
4 4 (1.77%) Cisco Wireless
4 4 (1.77%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (1.77%) Skype
4 4 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.77%) VLAN
4 4 (1.77%) Wireless
5 1 (0.44%) DHCP
5 1 (0.44%) Internet
5 1 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (23.89%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.73%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.75%) MySQL
3 13 (5.75%) Redis
4 7 (3.10%) Big Data
5 6 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.21%) Apache Hive
6 5 (2.21%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.21%) HBase
7 4 (1.77%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.33%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.44%) Adabas
10 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 26 (11.50%) Cypress.io
2 14 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.31%) Git
4 9 (3.98%) JIRA
5 7 (3.10%) Selenium
6 6 (2.65%) GitLab
6 6 (2.65%) JUnit
7 4 (1.77%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.77%) Postman
7 4 (1.77%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.77%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.33%) Newman
8 3 (1.33%) TestRail
9 2 (0.88%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.44%) Gatling
10 1 (0.44%) JMeter
10 1 (0.44%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.44%) Mocha
10 1 (0.44%) RSpec
General
1 57 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.35%) Finance
3 39 (17.26%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.64%) Legal
5 11 (4.87%) Legal Technology
6 8 (3.54%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.10%) Banking
8 6 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.21%) Automotive
9 5 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.21%) Marketing
9 5 (2.21%) Military
9 5 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 83 (36.73%) Developer
2 59 (26.11%) Senior
3 39 (17.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (15.93%) Lead
5 34 (15.04%) Ruby Developer
5 34 (15.04%) Software Engineer
6 20 (8.85%) Senior Developer
7 16 (7.08%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (5.75%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 12 (5.31%) Consultant
9 12 (5.31%) Security Consultant
9 12 (5.31%) Senior Consultant
9 12 (5.31%) Senior Security Consultant
10 11 (4.87%) Architect
10 11 (4.87%) Ruby Engineer
11 10 (4.42%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (4.42%) Senior Ruby Developer
12 9 (3.98%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (64.60%) Ruby on Rails
2 68 (30.09%) React
3 56 (24.78%) Node.js
4 26 (11.50%) Jest
5 21 (9.29%) AWS CDK
5 21 (9.29%) Spring Boot
6 20 (8.85%) Next.js
7 16 (7.08%) React Native
7 16 (7.08%) REST
7 16 (7.08%) Spring
8 14 (6.19%) JSON
8 14 (6.19%) RESTful
9 13 (5.75%) JWT
9 13 (5.75%) Sidekiq
10 9 (3.98%) Kafka
11 8 (3.54%) .NET
11 8 (3.54%) CSS
11 8 (3.54%) GraphQL
11 8 (3.54%) HTML
12 6 (2.65%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.52%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.08%) Mainframe
3 16 (7.08%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.31%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.98%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.98%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.10%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.21%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (2.21%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.77%) Blog
9 3 (1.33%) Clustering
9 3 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.33%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.33%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.39%) Linux
2 16 (7.08%) Windows
3 7 (3.10%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.65%) Debian
5 5 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.77%) AIX
6 4 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.33%) Gentoo
8 1 (0.44%) Android
8 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (30.53%) Full-Stack Development
2 61 (26.99%) Agile
3 60 (26.55%) CI/CD
4 58 (25.66%) Software Engineering
5 43 (19.03%) Microservices
6 38 (16.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (16.81%) Mentoring
7 37 (16.37%) AI
8 35 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (15.04%) Scrum
10 33 (14.60%) DevOps
11 32 (14.16%) Containerisation
11 32 (14.16%) Roadmaps
12 26 (11.50%) Architectural Patterns
13 22 (9.73%) Clean Code
13 22 (9.73%) Mob Programming
13 22 (9.73%) Test Automation
14 19 (8.41%) Migration
15 18 (7.96%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (7.96%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 70 (30.97%) Python
2 55 (24.34%) Java
3 47 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 27 (11.95%) Bash
5 21 (9.29%) PHP
6 19 (8.41%) SQL
7 18 (7.96%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.08%) Perl
9 14 (6.19%) C#
10 9 (3.98%) C
10 9 (3.98%) PowerShell
11 7 (3.10%) Go
11 7 (3.10%) Rust
12 5 (2.21%) COBOL
13 4 (1.77%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.77%) C++
13 4 (1.77%) Elixir
13 4 (1.77%) Scala
14 3 (1.33%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.44%) Natural
Qualifications
1 28 (12.39%) Degree
2 24 (10.62%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.29%) AWS Certification
4 18 (7.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (5.31%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.10%) A+ Certification
8 5 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.77%) GPEN
9 4 (1.77%) GXPN
9 4 (1.77%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 4 (1.77%) OSCP
10 3 (1.33%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.33%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.33%) OSCE
11 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.44%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.31%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.87%) WCAG
3 6 (2.65%) QA
4 5 (2.21%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (2.21%) NCSC
5 4 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.44%) GDPR
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (17.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (18.14%) Terraform
2 18 (7.96%) Ansible
3 14 (6.19%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.21%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (1.77%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.77%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.33%) Grafana
6 3 (1.33%) Podman
6 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.33%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.44%) Nessus
7 1 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.75%) Oracle
3 9 (3.98%) HP
4 8 (3.54%) Cisco
5 6 (2.65%) SAP
5 6 (2.65%) Splunk
6 5 (2.21%) IBM
6 5 (2.21%) OneLogin
6 5 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.21%) VMware
7 2 (0.88%) New Relic
7 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.44%) Citrix
8 1 (0.44%) Google
8 1 (0.44%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.44%) Informatica
8 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.44%) Thycotic