Ruby Job Trends

Ruby
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Ruby skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 563 339
Rank change year-on-year +10 -224 -168
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 123 235 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.30% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 0.97% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 62 166 401
10th Percentile £52,500 £33,750 £46,350
25th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £81,875 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -

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 13,110 24,157 24,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.51% 30.93% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,456 15,118 20,186
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,557
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,025 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +27 120 £70,000 +7.69% 41
UK excluding London +98 97 £70,000 +16.67% 32
Work from Home +75 84 £67,500 +3.85% 30
North of England +23 40 £67,500 +3.85% 7
South East +47 27 £70,000 +75.00% 7
North West +6 27 £67,500 +3.85% 3
London -9 26 £85,000 +30.77% 24
Midlands +71 24 - - 3
West Midlands +55 12 - - 1
East Midlands +44 12 - - 2
Yorkshire +34 12 £70,000 +55.56% 3
East of England -13 5 £100,000 +270.37% 3
North East +18 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.69%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.95%) AWS
2 8 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (4.88%) Amazon S3
3 6 (4.88%) Azure
3 6 (4.88%) GitHub
4 5 (4.07%) Amazon ELB
4 5 (4.07%) Amazon Glacier
4 5 (4.07%) AWS KMS
4 5 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (3.25%) SaaS
5 4 (3.25%) Serverless
6 3 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.63%) Figma
7 2 (1.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.88%) HTTP
2 4 (3.25%) Firewall
3 3 (2.44%) DNS
3 3 (2.44%) Internet
3 3 (2.44%) SSL
4 2 (1.63%) FTP
4 2 (1.63%) SMTP
4 2 (1.63%) SSH
5 1 (0.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.63%) MySQL
3 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.07%) Vagrant
3 4 (3.25%) Git
4 3 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.44%) GitLab
4 3 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.63%) JIRA
5 2 (1.63%) RSpec
5 2 (1.63%) Subversion
6 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.81%) Gradle
6 1 (0.81%) Maven
6 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (13.01%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.69%) Tech for Good
3 6 (4.88%) Finance
4 3 (2.44%) Games
5 2 (1.63%) Banking
5 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Advertising
6 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 30 (24.39%) Senior
2 27 (21.95%) Developer
3 23 (18.70%) Software Engineer
4 14 (11.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (10.57%) Ruby Developer
6 12 (9.76%) Ruby Engineer
7 9 (7.32%) Backend Developer
7 9 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.32%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.88%) Lead
9 5 (4.07%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Backend Developer
10 3 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (2.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.44%) Lead Developer
10 3 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.44%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.44%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (2.44%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (44.72%) HTML
2 39 (31.71%) Ruby on Rails
3 16 (13.01%) React
4 8 (6.50%) React Native
5 7 (5.69%) Node.js
6 6 (4.88%) .NET
6 6 (4.88%) CSS
7 5 (4.07%) RESTful
8 3 (2.44%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.44%) REST
9 2 (1.63%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.63%) jQuery
9 2 (1.63%) Spring
9 2 (1.63%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.63%) YAML
10 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.81%) Flutter
10 1 (0.81%) JPA
10 1 (0.81%) Micronaut
10 1 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) IoT
2 5 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.81%) Educational Technology
3 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.81%) NHS
3 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.81%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.50%) Windows
2 7 (5.69%) Linux
3 6 (4.88%) VMS
4 3 (2.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (41.46%) Computer Science
2 49 (39.84%) Artificial Intelligence
2 49 (39.84%) Data Privacy
2 49 (39.84%) Machine Learning
3 27 (21.95%) Agile
4 26 (21.14%) Software Engineering
5 22 (17.89%) DevOps
6 20 (16.26%) CI/CD
7 16 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 11 (8.94%) Clean Code
11 10 (8.13%) Roadmaps
12 9 (7.32%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (7.32%) Product Roadmap
12 9 (7.32%) TDD
13 8 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (5.69%) Containerisation
15 6 (4.88%) Critical Thinking
15 6 (4.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 74 (60.16%) Python
2 63 (51.22%) JavaScript
3 60 (48.78%) C#
3 60 (48.78%) Java
3 60 (48.78%) SQL
4 54 (43.90%) TypeScript
5 52 (42.28%) C++
6 51 (41.46%) PHP
7 49 (39.84%) C
7 49 (39.84%) Dart
7 49 (39.84%) MATLAB
7 49 (39.84%) R
7 49 (39.84%) Rust
8 9 (7.32%) Groovy
9 8 (6.50%) Elixir
9 8 (6.50%) Go
10 6 (4.88%) Bash
10 6 (4.88%) Perl
10 6 (4.88%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (42.28%) Degree
2 51 (41.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.44%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.50%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.13%) Docker
2 4 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (8.13%) Terraform
2 8 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.88%) Grafana
4 5 (4.07%) Ansible
4 5 (4.07%) Nagios
5 3 (2.44%) Nessus
5 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.44%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (2.44%) Cribl.io
1 3 (2.44%) Juniper
1 3 (2.44%) Sonatype
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle
2 2 (1.63%) Splunk
3 1 (0.81%) Adobe
3 1 (0.81%) Google
3 1 (0.81%) SendGrid