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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 514 531
Rank change year-on-year -77 +17 -210
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 150 163 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.37% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 1.16% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 119 97 315
10th Percentile £47,594 £52,500 £43,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £113,750
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 16,402 14,006 33,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.66% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,467 9,215 25,436
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £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 £110,000 £98,612
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 June 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 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 -106 102 £75,000 +7.14% 51
Work from Home -14 71 £55,000 -21.43% 30
UK excluding London -104 71 £60,000 -14.29% 36
London -56 42 £75,000 - 24
South East -20 26 £75,000 +7.14% 19
North of England -58 14 £55,000 -21.43% 6
East of England -2 11 £100,000 - 2
North West -5 11 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Wales -30 10 £51,619 +36.80% 2
Isle of Man - 6 - -
South West -40 4 £44,100 +10.25% 1
Yorkshire -48 3 - - 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 3 (2.00%) Confluence
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (58.67%) AWS
2 36 (24.00%) Serverless
3 31 (20.67%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (17.33%) Amazon S3
5 25 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
6 24 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (13.33%) SaaS
8 18 (12.00%) PaaS
9 14 (9.33%) Azure
10 10 (6.67%) GitHub
11 9 (6.00%) GCP
12 6 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.00%) Heroku
13 5 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (1.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 2 (1.33%) Anthropic Claude
15 2 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (1.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) Network Security
2 1 (0.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (28.67%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (16.00%) MongoDB
3 9 (6.00%) MySQL
4 8 (5.33%) Redis
5 2 (1.33%) Big Data
5 2 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.67%) Adabas
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (17.33%) Cypress.io
2 6 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.33%) Git
3 5 (3.33%) JIRA
4 4 (2.67%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.67%) GitLab
5 3 (2.00%) Selenium
6 2 (1.33%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.33%) JUnit
6 2 (1.33%) Postman
6 2 (1.33%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.33%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.67%) Gatling
7 1 (0.67%) JMeter
7 1 (0.67%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.67%) Newman
7 1 (0.67%) Pa11y
7 1 (0.67%) RSpec
7 1 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.67%) Finance
3 14 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.33%) Legal
5 5 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.67%) Banking
6 4 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.00%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.67%) Automotive
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 68 (45.33%) Developer
2 36 (24.00%) Senior
3 35 (23.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 32 (21.33%) Software Engineer
5 25 (16.67%) Ruby Developer
6 24 (16.00%) Lead
7 15 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 10 (6.67%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 9 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Ruby Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.00%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.33%) 1st Line Support
12 5 (3.33%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) Python Software Engineer
13 4 (2.67%) Architect
13 4 (2.67%) Senior Software Developer
14 3 (2.00%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (78.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 55 (36.67%) React
3 41 (27.33%) Node.js
4 26 (17.33%) Jest
5 14 (9.33%) React Native
6 13 (8.67%) Next.js
7 10 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 9 (6.00%) REST
8 9 (6.00%) RESTful
9 8 (5.33%) JSON
9 8 (5.33%) JWT
9 8 (5.33%) Sidekiq
9 8 (5.33%) Spring
10 6 (4.00%) .NET
11 5 (3.33%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.67%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (2.67%) Visualforce
13 3 (2.00%) CSS
13 3 (2.00%) HTML
13 3 (2.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 8 (5.33%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.33%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.00%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.00%) Educational Technology
7 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.67%) Blog
8 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.67%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.33%) Linux
2 4 (2.67%) Windows
3 2 (1.33%) AIX
4 1 (0.67%) Android
4 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.67%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (38.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 34 (22.67%) Microservices
4 33 (22.00%) Agile
5 30 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 27 (18.00%) Mentoring
7 24 (16.00%) Mob Programming
8 23 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (14.67%) Roadmaps
10 18 (12.00%) Containerisation
10 18 (12.00%) Scrum
10 18 (12.00%) Test Automation
11 17 (11.33%) Customer-Centricity
12 16 (10.67%) DevOps
13 14 (9.33%) Clean Code
14 13 (8.67%) AI
15 12 (8.00%) API Design
15 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (7.33%) Migration
17 10 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.67%) JavaScript
2 36 (24.00%) Python
3 21 (14.00%) Java
4 14 (9.33%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.00%) C#
6 8 (5.33%) SQL
7 7 (4.67%) Bash
7 7 (4.67%) Rust
8 5 (3.33%) Go
8 5 (3.33%) Perl
8 5 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.67%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.67%) C
9 4 (2.67%) C++
9 4 (2.67%) Elixir
9 4 (2.67%) Scala
10 3 (2.00%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.67%) COBOL
11 1 (0.67%) F#
11 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (10.00%) Degree
2 6 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.33%) OSCP
4 4 (2.67%) GPEN
4 4 (2.67%) GXPN
5 3 (2.00%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.00%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.00%) OSCE
6 2 (1.33%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.33%) CISSP
6 2 (1.33%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.67%) CEH
7 1 (0.67%) CISA
7 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.67%) QA
2 4 (2.67%) WCAG
3 3 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) NCSC
4 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (8.00%) Terraform
2 9 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.67%) Ansible
4 2 (1.33%) Grafana
4 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.67%) Nessus
5 1 (0.67%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.00%) OneLogin
3 3 (2.00%) Oracle
3 3 (2.00%) Splunk
4 2 (1.33%) New Relic
4 2 (1.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.67%) Google