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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 518 519
Rank change year-on-year -88 +1 -227
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 121 136 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.31% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.97% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 90 115 314
10th Percentile - £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £93,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,051 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +21.74% -14.81%

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 15,896 13,992 32,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.54% 32.15% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10,864 10,014 24,981
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 12 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 9 May 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 -68 79 £75,000 - 60
Work from Home +20 59 £55,000 -24.14% 36
UK excluding London -68 46 £75,000 +7.14% 41
London -56 32 £75,000 -6.25% 23
South East -13 21 £75,000 -21.05% 10
East of England -4 9 £100,000 - 3
Isle of Man - 6 - -
North of England -71 5 £55,000 -21.43% 20
South West -46 4 £44,100 -11.80% 3
North West -30 3 £55,000 -21.43% 14
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
Wales -34 1 £51,619 +5.63% 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 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.83%) Apache
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 58 (47.93%) AWS
2 27 (22.31%) Serverless
3 24 (19.83%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (19.83%) Amazon ECS
3 24 (19.83%) Amazon S3
3 24 (19.83%) Amazon SQS
3 24 (19.83%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (15.70%) SaaS
5 17 (14.05%) PaaS
6 8 (6.61%) GCP
7 7 (5.79%) Azure
8 5 (4.13%) GitHub
9 4 (3.31%) dbt
9 4 (3.31%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.65%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.83%) Datadog
11 1 (0.83%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) Network Security
2 1 (0.83%) Internet
2 1 (0.83%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.45%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (19.83%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.31%) Redis
4 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.65%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.65%) Power BI
6 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.83%) MySQL
6 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (19.83%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.31%) Git
3 2 (1.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.83%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.18%) Finance
3 5 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.31%) Banking
4 4 (3.31%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.65%) Legal
5 2 (1.65%) Marketing
5 2 (1.65%) Public Speaking
6 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (43.80%) Developer
2 33 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 30 (24.79%) Software Engineer
4 25 (20.66%) Senior
5 19 (15.70%) Lead
6 15 (12.40%) Ruby Developer
7 11 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 11 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Lead Software Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Ruby Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Architect
12 3 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.48%) Data Engineer
12 3 (2.48%) Penetration Tester
12 3 (2.48%) Principal Developer
12 3 (2.48%) Tester
12 3 (2.48%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (72.73%) Ruby on Rails
2 40 (33.06%) React
3 38 (31.40%) Node.js
4 24 (19.83%) Jest
5 8 (6.61%) React Native
6 6 (4.96%) .NET
7 5 (4.13%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.31%) JSON
8 4 (3.31%) JWT
8 4 (3.31%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (3.31%) RESTful
8 4 (3.31%) Sidekiq
8 4 (3.31%) Spring
8 4 (3.31%) Visualforce
9 3 (2.48%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.48%) CSS
9 3 (2.48%) HTML
9 3 (2.48%) Next.js
9 3 (2.48%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.96%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.31%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) Blog
6 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.83%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.96%) Linux
2 4 (3.31%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Android
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (46.28%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (29.75%) Software Engineering
3 31 (25.62%) Microservices
4 24 (19.83%) Mob Programming
5 20 (16.53%) CI/CD
6 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (14.88%) Customer-Centricity
8 16 (13.22%) Mentoring
9 15 (12.40%) Agile
10 14 (11.57%) Containerisation
11 11 (9.09%) Clean Code
11 11 (9.09%) DevOps
12 9 (7.44%) Roadmaps
12 9 (7.44%) Scrum
12 9 (7.44%) TDD
12 9 (7.44%) Test Automation
13 8 (6.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 7 (5.79%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (5.79%) E-Commerce
15 6 (4.96%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.62%) JavaScript
2 30 (24.79%) Python
3 17 (14.05%) Java
4 15 (12.40%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.61%) Go
6 7 (5.79%) Bash
6 7 (5.79%) C#
6 7 (5.79%) Rust
7 6 (4.96%) Perl
8 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.31%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.31%) C
9 4 (3.31%) C++
9 4 (3.31%) Elixir
9 4 (3.31%) Scala
10 3 (2.48%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.65%) SQL
12 1 (0.83%) F#
12 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (12.40%) Degree
2 6 (4.96%) OSCP
3 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.31%) GPEN
3 4 (3.31%) GXPN
4 3 (2.48%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.48%) CISSP
4 3 (2.48%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.48%) OSCE
4 3 (2.48%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.48%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.65%) CEH
5 2 (1.65%) CISA
5 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.65%) PhD
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.13%) Terraform
3 3 (2.48%) Ansible
3 3 (2.48%) Argo
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) Nessus
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (3.31%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.48%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.65%) Google
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle