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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 557 533
Rank change year-on-year +51 -24 -206
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 318 123 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 0.96% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 253 60 166
10th Percentile £30,000 £52,500 £34,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £59,688 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,373 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +7.69% -6.81%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% +4.00%

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 18,350 12,783 22,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 25.68% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,988 8,186 13,630
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,264
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.21% -2.67%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -12 244 £75,000 +7.14% 263
UK excluding London -43 185 £55,000 -18.52% 70
London +9 100 £85,000 +6.25% 204
Work from Home -22 95 £73,750 +9.26% 113
South East +15 94 £55,000 -21.43% 24
Wales - 41 £55,810 - 7
North of England -90 21 £55,000 -18.52% 19
North West -33 15 £55,000 -18.52% 9
East of England -29 14 £80,000 -20.00% 2
Midlands -56 12 £30,000 -45.45% 6
West Midlands -40 11 £30,000 - 4
Yorkshire -41 6 £90,000 +28.57% 3
South West - 3 £42,500 - 2
East Midlands -46 1 £41,000 -25.45% 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 29 (9.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.40%) Skype for Business
3 8 (2.52%) Confluence
4 6 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.94%) WordPress
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.52%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 161 (50.63%) AWS
2 85 (26.73%) Serverless
3 69 (21.70%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (15.09%) Amazon ECS
5 42 (13.21%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (12.58%) GitHub
7 34 (10.69%) Azure
8 33 (10.38%) Amazon S3
8 33 (10.38%) SaaS
9 31 (9.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
11 28 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (6.29%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (4.40%) AWS Control Tower
15 14 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (3.46%) GCP
17 8 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (2.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.81%) Firewall
1 28 (8.81%) Network Security
2 17 (5.35%) DNS
2 17 (5.35%) LAN
2 17 (5.35%) WAN
3 14 (4.40%) Cisco Wireless
3 14 (4.40%) Skype
3 14 (4.40%) VLAN
3 14 (4.40%) Wireless
4 13 (4.09%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.14%) DHCP
6 8 (2.52%) FIX Connectivity
6 8 (2.52%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (2.52%) VoIP
7 6 (1.89%) BGP
7 6 (1.89%) IPsec
7 6 (1.89%) VPN
8 4 (1.26%) Internet
9 2 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.81%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.92%) MongoDB
3 21 (6.60%) Redis
4 17 (5.35%) MySQL
5 16 (5.03%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.52%) Big Data
7 7 (2.20%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.89%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.89%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.89%) HBase
8 6 (1.89%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.31%) Adabas
12 1 (0.31%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (10.06%) Cypress.io
2 24 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.66%) Git
4 13 (4.09%) JIRA
5 8 (2.52%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.52%) Selenium
6 7 (2.20%) GitLab
6 7 (2.20%) JUnit
6 7 (2.20%) RSpec
7 5 (1.57%) Postman
7 5 (1.57%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.26%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.26%) minitest
8 4 (1.26%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.94%) Newman
9 3 (0.94%) TestRail
10 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.31%) Gatling
10 1 (0.31%) Mocha
10 1 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 70 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.35%) Public Sector
3 47 (14.78%) Finance
4 21 (6.60%) Legal
5 14 (4.40%) Automotive
5 14 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.09%) Legal Technology
6 13 (4.09%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.77%) Banking
8 10 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.20%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.89%) Marketing
10 6 (1.89%) Military
11 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.26%) Local Government
12 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.94%) Public Speaking
12 3 (0.94%) Publishing
13 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (38.05%) Developer
2 83 (26.10%) Senior
3 51 (16.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 44 (13.84%) Ruby Developer
5 35 (11.01%) Software Engineer
6 34 (10.69%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 34 (10.69%) Senior Developer
7 33 (10.38%) Lead
8 19 (5.97%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
9 18 (5.66%) 1st Line Support
10 16 (5.03%) IT Support
11 15 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (4.40%) Consultant
12 14 (4.40%) Network Support
12 14 (4.40%) Security Consultant
12 14 (4.40%) Senior Consultant
12 14 (4.40%) Senior Security Consultant
12 14 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (4.09%) Software Developer
13 13 (4.09%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (53.46%) Ruby on Rails
2 91 (28.62%) React
3 59 (18.55%) Node.js
4 50 (15.72%) Terraform
5 32 (10.06%) Jest
5 32 (10.06%) Spring Boot
6 28 (8.81%) Next.js
7 26 (8.18%) AWS CDK
7 26 (8.18%) RESTful
7 26 (8.18%) Spring
8 21 (6.60%) Sidekiq
9 18 (5.66%) REST
10 17 (5.35%) CSS
11 16 (5.03%) JSON
12 15 (4.72%) JWT
12 15 (4.72%) React Native
13 14 (4.40%) Kafka
14 13 (4.09%) HTML
14 13 (4.09%) Playwright
15 12 (3.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.75%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.86%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.92%) Mainframe
5 18 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (4.40%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (3.46%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.83%) Digital Wallet
9 8 (2.52%) Eurex
9 8 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.20%) Blog
10 7 (2.20%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.89%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.89%) NHS
11 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.89%) Web Conferencing
12 5 (1.57%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.26%) Educational Technology
14 3 (0.94%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.78%) Windows
2 44 (13.84%) Linux
3 22 (6.92%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (4.09%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.83%) Unix
7 8 (2.52%) CentOS
7 8 (2.52%) Rocky
8 7 (2.20%) AIX
9 6 (1.89%) Debian
10 5 (1.57%) Solaris
11 4 (1.26%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.94%) Gentoo
13 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.39%) Full-Stack Development
2 87 (27.36%) Agile
3 86 (27.04%) CI/CD
4 72 (22.64%) Software Engineering
5 65 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (17.30%) Microservices
7 51 (16.04%) AI
7 51 (16.04%) Mentoring
8 49 (15.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (14.78%) Scrum
10 39 (12.26%) DevOps
11 37 (11.64%) Roadmaps
12 36 (11.32%) Architectural Patterns
13 35 (11.01%) Containerisation
14 32 (10.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 31 (9.75%) Clean Code
15 31 (9.75%) Test Automation
16 29 (9.12%) ITIL
17 27 (8.49%) OOP
18 23 (7.23%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 87 (27.36%) Python
2 76 (23.90%) JavaScript
3 73 (22.96%) Java
4 33 (10.38%) Bash
5 30 (9.43%) SQL
5 30 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 25 (7.86%) Perl
7 23 (7.23%) PHP
8 21 (6.60%) C#
9 11 (3.46%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.14%) C
11 7 (2.20%) Go
12 6 (1.89%) COBOL
13 3 (0.94%) C++
13 3 (0.94%) Rust
14 2 (0.63%) R
14 2 (0.63%) Scala
15 1 (0.31%) Groovy
15 1 (0.31%) Natural
Qualifications
1 43 (13.52%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.18%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.55%) AWS Certification
4 23 (7.23%) Degree
5 21 (6.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.83%) A+ Certification
9 8 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.57%) CISSP
12 4 (1.26%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.94%) CEH
13 3 (0.94%) CHECK Team Leader
13 3 (0.94%) CHECK Team Member
13 3 (0.94%) CISA
13 3 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.94%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.86%) Accessibility
2 19 (5.97%) WCAG
3 17 (5.35%) QA
4 8 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.89%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.89%) NCSC
6 4 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.63%) GDPR
7 2 (0.63%) PERC
7 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 47 (14.78%) Docker
2 29 (9.12%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (5.66%) Ansible
2 15 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.40%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.89%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (1.89%) ZABBIX
5 3 (0.94%) Grafana
5 3 (0.94%) Podman
5 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.94%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.94%) SCCM
6 2 (0.63%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 66 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.86%) Oracle
3 22 (6.92%) Cisco
4 20 (6.29%) HP
5 17 (5.35%) VMware
6 11 (3.46%) OneLogin
7 8 (2.52%) Bloomberg
7 8 (2.52%) CQG
7 8 (2.52%) ION Trading
7 8 (2.52%) Patsystems
7 8 (2.52%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.52%) Reuters
7 8 (2.52%) Trayport
8 7 (2.20%) SAP
9 6 (1.89%) Google
9 6 (1.89%) IBM
9 6 (1.89%) Splunk
10 4 (1.26%) New Relic
10 4 (1.26%) QNAP
11 3 (0.94%) Thycotic