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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 487 512
Rank change year-on-year -106 +25 -229
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 116 158 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.37% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 1.15% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 85 127 329
10th Percentile - £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,367 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +29.46% -17.04%

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 15,609 13,769 32,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.40% 32.51% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,631 10,111 24,929
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,810
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.21% -2.16%

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 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 11 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 April 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 -111 75 £77,500 - 43
Work from Home -16 56 £55,000 -24.14% 23
UK excluding London -93 42 £75,000 +3.45% 30
London -60 30 £75,000 -6.25% 20
South East -34 20 £75,000 -28.57% 8
East of England -16 9 £100,000 - 5
Isle of Man - 6 - -
South West -44 4 £44,100 -26.50% 2
North of England -67 2 - - 9
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
Wales -34 1 £51,619 +5.63% 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 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.86%) Apache
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.86%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (44.83%) AWS
2 25 (21.55%) Serverless
3 23 (19.83%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (19.83%) Amazon ECS
3 23 (19.83%) Amazon S3
3 23 (19.83%) Amazon SQS
3 23 (19.83%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (16.38%) SaaS
5 17 (14.66%) PaaS
6 8 (6.90%) Azure
6 8 (6.90%) GCP
7 5 (4.31%) GitHub
8 4 (3.45%) dbt
8 4 (3.45%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.72%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.72%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.86%) Datadog
10 1 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (19.83%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.59%) Redis
3 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.72%) MySQL
4 2 (1.72%) Power BI
5 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (19.83%) Cypress.io
2 5 (4.31%) Git
3 2 (1.72%) GitLab
4 1 (0.86%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.86%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.83%) Finance
3 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.45%) Banking
4 4 (3.45%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.72%) Legal
5 2 (1.72%) Marketing
5 2 (1.72%) Public Speaking
6 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (43.10%) Developer
2 32 (27.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 29 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 26 (22.41%) Senior
5 16 (13.79%) Lead
6 13 (11.21%) Ruby Developer
6 13 (11.21%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (8.62%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.76%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 8 (6.90%) Ruby Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 6 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Architect
13 3 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
13 3 (2.59%) Data Engineer
13 3 (2.59%) Penetration Tester
13 3 (2.59%) Principal Developer
13 3 (2.59%) Tester
13 3 (2.59%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (72.41%) Ruby on Rails
2 39 (33.62%) React
3 37 (31.90%) Node.js
4 23 (19.83%) Jest
5 8 (6.90%) GraphQL
6 6 (5.17%) .NET
6 6 (5.17%) React Native
7 4 (3.45%) CSS
7 4 (3.45%) HTML
7 4 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (3.45%) Spring
7 4 (3.45%) Visualforce
8 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.59%) JSON
8 3 (2.59%) JWT
8 3 (2.59%) RESTful
8 3 (2.59%) Sidekiq
8 3 (2.59%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.59%) Vue
9 1 (0.86%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.45%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.45%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.86%) Blog
5 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.17%) Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Windows
3 1 (0.86%) Android
3 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.86%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (45.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 34 (29.31%) Software Engineering
3 30 (25.86%) Microservices
4 23 (19.83%) Mob Programming
5 20 (17.24%) CI/CD
6 19 (16.38%) Customer-Centricity
7 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (12.93%) Mentoring
9 14 (12.07%) Agile
10 13 (11.21%) Containerisation
11 11 (9.48%) DevOps
12 10 (8.62%) Clean Code
13 9 (7.76%) TDD
14 8 (6.90%) E-Commerce
14 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (6.90%) Scrum
15 7 (6.03%) Continuous Integration
16 6 (5.17%) Penetration Testing
16 6 (5.17%) Roadmaps
16 6 (5.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.59%) JavaScript
2 27 (23.28%) Python
3 17 (14.66%) Java
4 15 (12.93%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.90%) Go
6 7 (6.03%) Bash
6 7 (6.03%) C#
6 7 (6.03%) Rust
7 6 (5.17%) Perl
8 5 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.45%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.45%) C
9 4 (3.45%) C++
9 4 (3.45%) Elixir
9 4 (3.45%) Scala
10 3 (2.59%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.59%) SQL
11 1 (0.86%) F#
11 1 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (12.93%) Degree
2 6 (5.17%) OSCP
3 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.45%) GPEN
3 4 (3.45%) GXPN
4 3 (2.59%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.59%) CISSP
4 3 (2.59%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.59%) OSCE
4 3 (2.59%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.59%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.72%) CEH
5 2 (1.72%) CISA
5 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.72%) PhD
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.86%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.45%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (7.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.31%) Terraform
3 3 (2.59%) Ansible
3 3 (2.59%) Argo
4 1 (0.86%) Grafana
4 1 (0.86%) Nessus
4 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (3.45%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.86%) OneTrust
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle