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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 483 530
Rank change year-on-year -121 +47 -248
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 132 165 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 1.24% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 100 96 300
10th Percentile £52,212 - £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £94,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,625 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -16.03%

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 16,262 13,258 32,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.53% 31.10% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,226 8,942 24,877
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 £86,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 23 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 23 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 -141 88 £75,000 +3.45% 81
Work from Home -21 67 £55,000 -21.43% 56
UK excluding London -90 56 £67,500 -3.57% 39
London -46 34 £75,000 -6.25% 47
South East -29 21 £75,000 -9.09% 10
North of England -69 12 £55,000 -21.43% 14
East of England -4 10 £100,000 - 5
North West -16 8 £55,000 -21.43% 10
Isle of Man - 6 - - 1
Yorkshire -46 4 - - 3
South West -51 4 £44,100 +10.25% 2
Wales -35 3 £51,619 +36.80% 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:

Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 71 (53.79%) AWS
2 29 (21.97%) Serverless
3 24 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 24 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 24 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
3 24 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (12.88%) PaaS
4 17 (12.88%) SaaS
5 8 (6.06%) Azure
6 6 (4.55%) GCP
7 4 (3.03%) GitHub
7 4 (3.03%) Heroku
8 3 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.52%) Datadog
9 2 (1.52%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.76%) dbt
10 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.27%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.55%) Redis
4 2 (1.52%) Big Data
4 2 (1.52%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (18.18%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.27%) Git
3 2 (1.52%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.52%) GitLab
4 1 (0.76%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) Metasploit
General
1 26 (19.70%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.67%) Finance
3 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.55%) Legal
5 5 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Banking
6 4 (3.03%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Marketing
8 2 (1.52%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (45.45%) Developer
2 34 (25.76%) Full-Stack Developer
2 34 (25.76%) Software Engineer
3 33 (25.00%) Senior
4 21 (15.91%) Lead
4 21 (15.91%) Ruby Developer
5 16 (12.12%) Senior Software Engineer
6 12 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.58%) Lead Software Engineer
8 9 (6.82%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 8 (6.06%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 7 (5.30%) Ruby Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.03%) Architect
13 3 (2.27%) Penetration Tester
13 3 (2.27%) Principal Developer
13 3 (2.27%) Python Software Engineer
13 3 (2.27%) Software Developer
13 3 (2.27%) Tester
13 3 (2.27%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 40 (30.30%) React
3 35 (26.52%) Node.js
4 24 (18.18%) Jest
5 13 (9.85%) React Native
6 9 (6.82%) Next.js
7 6 (4.55%) .NET
7 6 (4.55%) JSON
7 6 (4.55%) JWT
7 6 (4.55%) RESTful
7 6 (4.55%) Sidekiq
8 5 (3.79%) GraphQL
9 4 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (3.03%) REST
9 4 (3.03%) Visualforce
10 3 (2.27%) OpenAPI
10 3 (2.27%) Spring
10 3 (2.27%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.76%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.58%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.27%) Educational Technology
5 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.76%) Blog
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.30%) Linux
2 4 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.76%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (43.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 41 (31.06%) Software Engineering
3 28 (21.21%) Microservices
4 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (18.18%) Mob Programming
6 22 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 19 (14.39%) Agile
8 18 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 18 (13.64%) Customer-Centricity
9 15 (11.36%) Roadmaps
10 14 (10.61%) Containerisation
11 13 (9.85%) Test Automation
12 12 (9.09%) Clean Code
12 12 (9.09%) Scrum
13 10 (7.58%) API Design
13 10 (7.58%) DevOps
14 9 (6.82%) Product Strategy
15 8 (6.06%) Architectural Patterns
15 8 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (6.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.52%) Python
2 32 (24.24%) JavaScript
3 14 (10.61%) Java
4 13 (9.85%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.82%) C#
6 8 (6.06%) Bash
7 7 (5.30%) Rust
8 6 (4.55%) Go
8 6 (4.55%) Perl
8 6 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.03%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.03%) C
9 4 (3.03%) C++
9 4 (3.03%) Elixir
9 4 (3.03%) Scala
10 3 (2.27%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.27%) SQL
11 1 (0.76%) F#
11 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (9.85%) Degree
2 6 (4.55%) OSCP
3 4 (3.03%) GPEN
3 4 (3.03%) GXPN
4 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.27%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.27%) CISSP
4 3 (2.27%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.27%) OSCE
4 3 (2.27%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.27%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.52%) CEH
5 2 (1.52%) CISA
5 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.52%) PhD
6 1 (0.76%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.03%) QA
2 3 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (9.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.55%) Terraform
3 4 (3.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.52%) Grafana
4 2 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.76%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (3.03%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.52%) Google
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle
4 1 (0.76%) Splunk