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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 484 364
Rank change year-on-year -70 -120 -143
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 85 235 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.42% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.73% 1.24% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 67 162 314
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £82,125 £86,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,418 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +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 11,612 19,016 19,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.66% 33.90% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8,528 11,295 16,157
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,658
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
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 £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 22 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 22 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 -54 69 £75,000 +7.14% 50
Work from Home +8 43 £67,500 -10.00% 36
UK excluding London -44 35 £72,500 +11.54% 22
London -15 26 £86,000 +16.61% 36
North of England +13 19 £67,500 +3.85% 8
North West +24 11 £67,500 +3.85% 4
Yorkshire -2 8 £73,750 +63.89% 4
South East -5 7 £75,000 -28.57% 4
Midlands +21 5 £55,000 -10.20% 3
West Midlands +33 3 £75,000 +22.45% 1
East Midlands -6 2 £52,500 -17.65% 2
South West +5 1 £75,000 +25.00% 2
Scotland +1 1 £75,000 +27.66% 3
Wales -12 1 £75,000 +25.00%
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 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 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.35%) CMS
3 1 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Shopify
2 3 (3.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.06%) AWS
2 11 (12.94%) GitHub
3 8 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (9.41%) Amazon S3
4 7 (8.24%) SaaS
4 7 (8.24%) Serverless
5 6 (7.06%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.06%) Azure
6 5 (5.88%) GCP
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (4.71%) Figma
7 4 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.71%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.53%) dbt
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.35%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.35%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) DNS
2 2 (2.35%) FTP
2 2 (2.35%) HTTP
2 2 (2.35%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.35%) SMTP
2 2 (2.35%) SSH
3 1 (1.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.06%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.35%) Power BI
4 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.18%) Looker
5 1 (1.18%) MySQL
5 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Git
1 8 (9.41%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.06%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.53%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.35%) GitLab
4 2 (2.35%) JIRA
4 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.35%) Subversion
4 2 (2.35%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (5.88%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.35%) Banking
4 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.35%) Law
4 2 (2.35%) Marketing
4 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.35%) Public Speaking
4 2 (2.35%) Publishing
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (37.65%) Software Engineer
2 30 (35.29%) Developer
3 25 (29.41%) Senior
4 14 (16.47%) Ruby Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.41%) Backend Developer
7 8 (9.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Lead
10 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Ruby Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) AWS DevOps
12 2 (2.35%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 2 (2.35%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (47.06%) Ruby on Rails
2 22 (25.88%) Node.js
3 20 (23.53%) React
4 13 (15.29%) React Native
5 12 (14.12%) CSS
6 11 (12.94%) GraphQL
6 11 (12.94%) HTML
7 6 (7.06%) Jest
8 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.71%) REST
8 4 (4.71%) Spring
8 4 (4.71%) Vue
9 3 (3.53%) CSS3
9 3 (3.53%) HTML5
10 2 (2.35%) .NET
10 2 (2.35%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.35%) JSON
10 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.35%) YAML
11 1 (1.18%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.59%) IoT
3 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.35%) Blog
4 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Linux
2 5 (5.88%) Windows
3 2 (2.35%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.35%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.35%) Unix
3 2 (2.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (41.18%) Software Engineering
2 32 (37.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 31 (36.47%) Agile
4 25 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (27.06%) CI/CD
6 22 (25.88%) DevOps
7 18 (21.18%) Mentoring
8 16 (18.82%) Microservices
9 13 (15.29%) Clean Code
10 9 (10.59%) Roadmaps
11 8 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (9.41%) Product Roadmap
12 7 (8.24%) Collaborative Culture
12 7 (8.24%) Containerisation
12 7 (8.24%) TDD
12 7 (8.24%) User Experience
13 6 (7.06%) AI
13 6 (7.06%) Analytics
13 6 (7.06%) Front End Development
13 6 (7.06%) Mob Programming
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.24%) Java
1 24 (28.24%) JavaScript
2 20 (23.53%) Python
3 14 (16.47%) Kotlin
3 14 (16.47%) Scala
4 11 (12.94%) Go
5 10 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.41%) Elixir
7 6 (7.06%) C#
7 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.71%) Bash
8 4 (4.71%) Groovy
8 4 (4.71%) Perl
8 4 (4.71%) SQL
9 2 (2.35%) C++
9 2 (2.35%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.24%) Degree
3 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.35%) CEH
4 2 (2.35%) CISA
4 2 (2.35%) CISSP
4 2 (2.35%) OSCP
5 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (9.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.88%) Grafana
2 5 (5.88%) Terraform
3 4 (4.71%) Ansible
3 4 (4.71%) Argo
4 2 (2.35%) Nagios
4 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.53%) Google
3 2 (2.35%) Cribl.io
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle
3 2 (2.35%) Sonatype
3 2 (2.35%) Splunk
4 1 (1.18%) GoCardless
4 1 (1.18%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.18%) SendGrid