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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 507 537
Rank change year-on-year -67 +30 -209
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 179 158 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 1.13% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 142 94 322
10th Percentile £39,225 £52,875 £42,675
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,688 £51,505
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £113,625
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 16,891 13,994 34,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 31.12% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,961 9,238 26,001
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -86 129 £75,000 +7.14% 31
UK excluding London -75 93 £60,000 -14.29% 26
Work from Home -5 79 £55,000 -21.43% 16
London -15 50 £75,000 - 15
South East -16 38 £75,000 +7.14% 17
North of England -48 16 £55,000 -21.43% 2
East of England -6 14 £80,000 -20.00%
North West -8 14 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Wales -39 12 £62,060 +64.47% 2
South West -54 6 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Isle of Man - 6 - -
Yorkshire -42 2 - - 1
East Midlands -36 1 £41,000 - 1
Midlands -41 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 3 (1.68%) Confluence
1 3 (1.68%) WordPress
2 2 (1.12%) Apache Solr
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.12%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 106 (59.22%) AWS
2 41 (22.91%) Serverless
3 35 (19.55%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (15.64%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (15.08%) Amazon S3
6 26 (14.53%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (13.41%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (13.41%) SaaS
8 20 (11.17%) PaaS
9 18 (10.06%) Azure
10 16 (8.94%) GitHub
11 10 (5.59%) GCP
12 8 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (3.35%) Heroku
15 4 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (2.23%) Amazon EventBridge
16 3 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (1.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.91%) Network Security
2 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.12%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (1.12%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) LAN
3 2 (1.12%) Skype
3 2 (1.12%) VLAN
3 2 (1.12%) WAN
3 2 (1.12%) Wireless
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) Internet
4 1 (0.56%) IPsec
4 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.56%) VoIP
4 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (27.93%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (13.41%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.15%) MySQL
4 10 (5.59%) Redis
5 3 (1.68%) Big Data
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.56%) Adabas
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) HBase
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (14.53%) Cypress.io
2 7 (3.91%) Git
2 7 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.79%) JIRA
4 4 (2.23%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.23%) GitLab
5 3 (1.68%) Selenium
6 2 (1.12%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.12%) JUnit
6 2 (1.12%) Postman
6 2 (1.12%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.12%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.56%) Gatling
7 1 (0.56%) JMeter
7 1 (0.56%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.56%) Mocha
7 1 (0.56%) Newman
7 1 (0.56%) Pa11y
7 1 (0.56%) TestRail
General
1 36 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.20%) Finance
3 18 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.70%) Legal
5 10 (5.59%) Legal Technology
6 6 (3.35%) Banking
7 5 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.23%) Automotive
8 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.12%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Military
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (42.46%) Developer
2 45 (25.14%) Senior
3 38 (21.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 34 (18.99%) Software Engineer
5 30 (16.76%) Ruby Developer
6 27 (15.08%) Lead
7 18 (10.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (8.94%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.15%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 9 (5.03%) Ruby Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Python Software Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.91%) Software Developer
14 6 (3.35%) 1st Line Support
14 6 (3.35%) Architect
15 5 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
15 5 (2.79%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (73.74%) Ruby on Rails
2 63 (35.20%) React
3 45 (25.14%) Node.js
4 26 (14.53%) Jest
5 19 (10.61%) Next.js
6 16 (8.94%) React Native
7 12 (6.70%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.15%) RESTful
9 10 (5.59%) JSON
9 10 (5.59%) JWT
9 10 (5.59%) REST
9 10 (5.59%) Sidekiq
9 10 (5.59%) Spring
10 6 (3.35%) .NET
10 6 (3.35%) AWS CDK
10 6 (3.35%) FastAPI
11 5 (2.79%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.23%) CSS
12 4 (2.23%) HTML
12 4 (2.23%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.03%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.03%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.91%) Mainframe
5 6 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.79%) Educational Technology
6 5 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.68%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.12%) Blog
8 2 (1.12%) Clustering
8 2 (1.12%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.06%) Linux
2 8 (4.47%) Windows
3 5 (2.79%) Debian
3 5 (2.79%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.12%) AIX
4 2 (1.12%) Gentoo
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (35.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 50 (27.93%) Software Engineering
3 42 (23.46%) Agile
4 39 (21.79%) CI/CD
5 36 (20.11%) Microservices
6 31 (17.32%) Mentoring
7 29 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (13.97%) Roadmaps
9 24 (13.41%) Containerisation
9 24 (13.41%) DevOps
9 24 (13.41%) Mob Programming
10 22 (12.29%) Scrum
11 19 (10.61%) AI
11 19 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (10.61%) Test Automation
12 18 (10.06%) Customer-Centricity
13 17 (9.50%) Clean Code
14 14 (7.82%) API Design
14 14 (7.82%) Migration
15 13 (7.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (26.82%) Python
2 43 (24.02%) JavaScript
3 28 (15.64%) Java
4 16 (8.94%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.38%) Bash
6 13 (7.26%) SQL
7 10 (5.59%) C#
8 9 (5.03%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.91%) PHP
9 7 (3.91%) Rust
10 6 (3.35%) Perl
11 5 (2.79%) C
11 5 (2.79%) Go
12 4 (2.23%) Apex Code
12 4 (2.23%) C++
12 4 (2.23%) Elixir
12 4 (2.23%) Scala
13 3 (1.68%) Objective-C
14 2 (1.12%) COBOL
15 1 (0.56%) Natural
Qualifications
1 19 (10.61%) Degree
2 10 (5.59%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.47%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.23%) GPEN
5 4 (2.23%) GXPN
5 4 (2.23%) OSCP
6 3 (1.68%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.68%) CCSAM
6 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.68%) CREST Certified
6 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.68%) OSCE
7 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.56%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.91%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.79%) QA
2 5 (2.79%) WCAG
3 3 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.12%) NCSC
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (16.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (12.29%) Terraform
2 17 (9.50%) Ansible
3 10 (5.59%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.68%) Grafana
4 3 (1.68%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.68%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.68%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.12%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.12%) Podman
6 1 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (5.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.35%) Splunk
3 5 (2.79%) Oracle
4 4 (2.23%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.68%) Cisco
5 3 (1.68%) HP
5 3 (1.68%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.12%) New Relic
6 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.12%) VMware
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) SAP