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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 500 376
Rank change year-on-year -60 -124 -161
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 87 260 389
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.41% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% 1.24% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 70 188 327
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,821 £67,500 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -2.88% -4.14%
75th Percentile £81,258 £85,625 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £102,525 £107,000
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 11,647 20,935 20,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.86% 33.33% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,496 12,564 16,964
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,131
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 £108,750 £106,250
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 6 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 15 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 6 December 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 -53 74 £72,642 +5.66% 97
Work from Home +12 40 £67,500 -10.00% 161
UK excluding London -2 39 £70,000 +7.69% 99
London -19 28 £86,000 +22.86% 13
North of England +28 24 £70,000 +7.69% 20
North West +33 17 £70,000 +7.69% 9
Yorkshire +6 7 £73,750 +63.89% 10
South East -8 6 £72,500 -30.95% 21
Midlands +27 5 £55,000 -10.20% 15
West Midlands +32 3 £75,000 +25.00% 7
East Midlands +14 2 £52,500 -22.22% 7
South West +20 1 £75,000 +25.00% 17
Scotland +1 1 £75,000 +25.00% 9
Wales -3 1 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 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 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Shopify
2 3 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.44%) AWS
2 12 (13.79%) GitHub
3 8 (9.20%) Azure
3 8 (9.20%) SaaS
4 6 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 6 (6.90%) GCP
4 6 (6.90%) Serverless
5 5 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.60%) Figma
6 4 (4.60%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (3.45%) dbt
8 2 (2.30%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.30%) Heroku
8 2 (2.30%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) FTP
2 2 (2.30%) HTTP
2 2 (2.30%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.30%) SMTP
2 2 (2.30%) SSH
3 1 (1.15%) Broadband
3 1 (1.15%) Firewall
3 1 (1.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.30%) Power BI
5 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.15%) Looker
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.20%) Git
3 4 (4.60%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.45%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.45%) GitLab
4 3 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.30%) JIRA
5 2 (2.30%) Subversion
5 2 (2.30%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 27 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.69%) Finance
3 4 (4.60%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.30%) Banking
4 2 (2.30%) Games
4 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.30%) Law
4 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.30%) Publishing
5 1 (1.15%) Advertising
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Legal
5 1 (1.15%) Marketing
5 1 (1.15%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 31 (35.63%) Developer
2 29 (33.33%) Senior
2 29 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 16 (18.39%) Ruby Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Senior Developer
6 9 (10.34%) Backend Developer
7 7 (8.05%) Ruby Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (3.45%) Lead
9 3 (3.45%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (43.68%) Ruby on Rails
2 22 (25.29%) Node.js
3 19 (21.84%) React
4 12 (13.79%) CSS
4 12 (13.79%) React Native
5 11 (12.64%) HTML
6 10 (11.49%) GraphQL
7 5 (5.75%) Spring
8 4 (4.60%) .NET
8 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.60%) Jest
8 4 (4.60%) REST
8 4 (4.60%) Vue
9 3 (3.45%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.45%) CSS3
9 3 (3.45%) HTML5
9 3 (3.45%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.30%) JSON
10 2 (2.30%) YAML
11 1 (1.15%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.34%) IoT
3 2 (2.30%) Blog
3 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.15%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.15%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 5 (5.75%) Windows
3 3 (3.45%) VMS
4 2 (2.30%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.30%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.93%) Agile
2 32 (36.78%) Software Engineering
3 28 (32.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (28.74%) CI/CD
4 25 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (27.59%) DevOps
6 17 (19.54%) Mentoring
7 14 (16.09%) Microservices
8 13 (14.94%) Clean Code
9 9 (10.34%) Containerisation
9 9 (10.34%) Roadmaps
10 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.20%) Product Roadmap
10 8 (9.20%) TDD
11 7 (8.05%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (8.05%) User Experience
12 6 (6.90%) Analytics
12 6 (6.90%) Critical Thinking
12 6 (6.90%) Front End Development
12 6 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.89%) Java
2 23 (26.44%) JavaScript
2 23 (26.44%) Python
3 14 (16.09%) Kotlin
3 14 (16.09%) Scala
4 11 (12.64%) Go
4 11 (12.64%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.34%) C#
6 8 (9.20%) Elixir
6 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
7 7 (8.05%) SQL
8 6 (6.90%) Bash
9 5 (5.75%) Groovy
10 3 (3.45%) C++
10 3 (3.45%) Perl
11 2 (2.30%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
1 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.05%) Degree
3 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) CEH
5 1 (1.15%) CISA
5 1 (1.15%) CISSP
5 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.15%) OSCP
5 1 (1.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) QA
2 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.05%) Terraform
3 6 (6.90%) Grafana
4 4 (4.60%) Ansible
4 4 (4.60%) Argo
5 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.30%) Nagios
6 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (4.60%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.45%) Cribl.io
2 3 (3.45%) Google
2 3 (3.45%) Sonatype
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle
3 2 (2.30%) Splunk
4 1 (1.15%) GoCardless
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.15%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.15%) SendGrid