Ruby Job Trends

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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 500 355
Rank change year-on-year -60 -145 -127
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 89 269 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.41% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% 1.25% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 74 195 350
10th Percentile £49,700 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,642 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% +3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £99,000 £103,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -

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 11,828 21,587 20,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.86% 32.58% 40.90%
Number of salaries quoted 8,566 12,935 17,272
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,418 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 16 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 29 November 2025. 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 -52 78 £71,250 +5.56% 38
UK excluding London -8 42 £70,000 +7.69% 42
Work from Home +23 41 £67,500 -10.00% 26
London -14 30 £86,000 +22.86% 15
North of England +41 25 £70,000 +7.69% 5
North West +46 19 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South East +11 7 £70,000 -33.33% 16
Yorkshire +5 6 £73,750 +63.89% 3
Midlands +53 5 £55,000 -8.33% 2
West Midlands +56 3 £75,000 +25.00% 1
East Midlands +24 2 £52,500 -22.22% 1
East of England +26 1 £50,000 +85.19%
South West +15 1 £75,000 +25.00% 10
Wales 0 1 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Scotland -3 1 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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 4 (4.49%) CMS
2 3 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Shopify
2 3 (3.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.09%) AWS
2 12 (13.48%) GitHub
3 8 (8.99%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) SaaS
4 6 (6.74%) GCP
5 5 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.62%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (5.62%) Serverless
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (4.49%) Figma
6 4 (4.49%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.37%) dbt
7 3 (3.37%) Heroku
8 2 (2.25%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.25%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) DNS
2 2 (2.25%) FTP
2 2 (2.25%) HTTP
2 2 (2.25%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.25%) SMTP
2 2 (2.25%) SSH
3 1 (1.12%) Broadband
3 1 (1.12%) Firewall
3 1 (1.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.12%) Looker
5 1 (1.12%) MySQL
5 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (11.24%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.99%) Git
3 3 (3.37%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.37%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.37%) GitLab
3 3 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.25%) JIRA
4 2 (2.25%) Subversion
4 2 (2.25%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.12%) RSpec
General
1 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.10%) Finance
3 5 (5.62%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.37%) Games
5 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Banking
5 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.25%) Law
5 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.25%) Publishing
6 1 (1.12%) Advertising
6 1 (1.12%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (37.08%) Developer
2 30 (33.71%) Senior
3 29 (32.58%) Software Engineer
4 18 (20.22%) Ruby Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (12.36%) Senior Developer
7 10 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (10.11%) Backend Developer
8 9 (10.11%) Ruby Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Lead
11 3 (3.37%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (44.94%) Ruby on Rails
2 21 (23.60%) Node.js
2 21 (23.60%) React
3 13 (14.61%) CSS
4 12 (13.48%) HTML
5 11 (12.36%) React Native
6 9 (10.11%) GraphQL
7 5 (5.62%) Spring
8 4 (4.49%) .NET
8 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.49%) REST
8 4 (4.49%) Vue
9 3 (3.37%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.37%) CSS3
9 3 (3.37%) HTML5
9 3 (3.37%) Jest
9 3 (3.37%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.25%) JSON
10 2 (2.25%) YAML
11 1 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.11%) IoT
3 2 (2.25%) Blog
3 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.12%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.12%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Linux
2 5 (5.62%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) VMS
4 2 (2.25%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.25%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.20%) Agile
2 32 (35.96%) Software Engineering
3 27 (30.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (28.09%) CI/CD
5 24 (26.97%) DevOps
5 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (19.10%) Mentoring
7 14 (15.73%) Microservices
8 13 (14.61%) Clean Code
9 9 (10.11%) Containerisation
9 9 (10.11%) Roadmaps
9 9 (10.11%) TDD
10 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.99%) Product Roadmap
10 8 (8.99%) User Experience
11 7 (7.87%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (6.74%) Analytics
12 6 (6.74%) Critical Thinking
12 6 (6.74%) Front End Development
12 6 (6.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.34%) Java
2 24 (26.97%) JavaScript
2 24 (26.97%) Python
3 14 (15.73%) Kotlin
3 14 (15.73%) Scala
4 11 (12.36%) Go
4 11 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.11%) C#
6 8 (8.99%) Elixir
6 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 8 (8.99%) SQL
7 6 (6.74%) Bash
8 5 (5.62%) Groovy
9 3 (3.37%) C++
10 2 (2.25%) Perl
10 2 (2.25%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) SC Cleared
1 10 (11.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.74%) Degree
3 5 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (10.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (15.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.87%) Terraform
3 6 (6.74%) Grafana
4 4 (4.49%) Ansible
4 4 (4.49%) Argo
5 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.25%) Nagios
6 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (4.49%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.37%) Cribl.io
2 3 (3.37%) Google
2 3 (3.37%) Sonatype
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle
3 2 (2.25%) Splunk
4 1 (1.12%) GoCardless
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.12%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.12%) SendGrid