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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 497 529
Rank change year-on-year -89 +32 -198
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 142 165 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.20% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 110 95 305
10th Percentile £49,455 £53,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,271
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £58,560
% change year-on-year -14.29% +19.54% -13.25%

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 16,440 13,774 33,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 31.48% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,471 9,240 25,152
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £111,250 £98,750
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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -108 100 £75,000 +7.14% 61
Work from Home -5 71 £55,000 -21.43% 33
UK excluding London -92 63 £60,000 -14.29% 36
London -44 40 £75,000 - 35
South East -11 25 £75,000 +7.14% 14
North of England -56 14 £55,000 -21.43% 5
East of England -12 11 £100,000 - 3
North West -14 10 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Isle of Man - 6 - - 1
Yorkshire -45 4 - -
South West -50 4 £44,100 +10.25% 3
Wales -39 3 £51,619 +36.80% 6

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 2 (1.41%) Apache Solr
1 2 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Trello
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.93%) AWS
2 29 (20.42%) Serverless
3 24 (16.90%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (16.90%) Amazon ECS
3 24 (16.90%) Amazon S3
3 24 (16.90%) Amazon SQS
3 24 (16.90%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (14.08%) SaaS
5 18 (12.68%) PaaS
6 13 (9.15%) Azure
7 9 (6.34%) GCP
8 6 (4.23%) GitHub
9 5 (3.52%) Heroku
10 4 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.41%) Datadog
11 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.70%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) Internet
2 1 (0.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.17%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (16.90%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.63%) MySQL
4 7 (4.93%) Redis
5 2 (1.41%) Big Data
5 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (16.90%) Cypress.io
2 4 (2.82%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.11%) Git
3 3 (2.11%) GitLab
4 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.41%) JIRA
5 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.70%) Metasploit
General
1 27 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.31%) Finance
3 7 (4.93%) Legal
3 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.82%) Banking
5 4 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (2.82%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.41%) Marketing
7 2 (1.41%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (45.07%) Developer
2 34 (23.94%) Full-Stack Developer
2 34 (23.94%) Senior
3 33 (23.24%) Software Engineer
4 23 (16.20%) Lead
4 23 (16.20%) Ruby Developer
5 15 (10.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (9.86%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.04%) Lead Software Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 9 (6.34%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 7 (4.93%) Ruby Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (2.82%) 1st Line Support
11 4 (2.82%) Python Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) Python Software Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.11%) Architect
12 3 (2.11%) Engineering Manager
12 3 (2.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (77.46%) Ruby on Rails
2 48 (33.80%) React
3 34 (23.94%) Node.js
4 24 (16.90%) Jest
5 14 (9.86%) React Native
6 12 (8.45%) Next.js
7 7 (4.93%) JSON
7 7 (4.93%) JWT
7 7 (4.93%) RESTful
7 7 (4.93%) Sidekiq
8 6 (4.23%) .NET
9 5 (3.52%) REST
10 4 (2.82%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.82%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (2.82%) Visualforce
11 3 (2.11%) OpenAPI
11 3 (2.11%) Spring
11 3 (2.11%) Spring Boot
12 2 (1.41%) FastAPI
13 1 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.75%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.34%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.63%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.11%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.11%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.70%) Blog
8 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.63%) Linux
2 4 (2.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Android
3 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.70%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (39.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 41 (28.87%) Software Engineering
3 28 (19.72%) Microservices
4 27 (19.01%) Mentoring
5 25 (17.61%) Agile
5 25 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (16.90%) Mob Programming
7 23 (16.20%) CI/CD
8 21 (14.79%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.68%) Customer-Centricity
10 16 (11.27%) Containerisation
11 14 (9.86%) Test Automation
12 13 (9.15%) Clean Code
12 13 (9.15%) DevOps
12 13 (9.15%) Scrum
13 11 (7.75%) API Design
14 10 (7.04%) AI
14 10 (7.04%) Product Strategy
15 9 (6.34%) Architectural Patterns
16 8 (5.63%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.35%) Python
2 35 (24.65%) JavaScript
3 14 (9.86%) Java
3 14 (9.86%) TypeScript
4 9 (6.34%) C#
5 8 (5.63%) SQL
6 7 (4.93%) Bash
6 7 (4.93%) Rust
7 6 (4.23%) Perl
8 5 (3.52%) Go
8 5 (3.52%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.82%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.82%) C
9 4 (2.82%) C++
9 4 (2.82%) Elixir
9 4 (2.82%) Scala
10 3 (2.11%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.70%) F#
11 1 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (10.56%) Degree
2 6 (4.23%) OSCP
3 4 (2.82%) GPEN
3 4 (2.82%) GXPN
4 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.11%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.11%) CISSP
4 3 (2.11%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.11%) OSCE
4 3 (2.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.11%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) CEH
5 2 (1.41%) CISA
6 1 (0.70%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) GWAPT
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.82%) QA
2 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (11.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.93%) Terraform
3 5 (3.52%) Ansible
4 2 (1.41%) Grafana
4 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.70%) Nessus
5 1 (0.70%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft
1 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
2 2 (1.41%) New Relic
2 2 (1.41%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.41%) Splunk
3 1 (0.70%) Google
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle