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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 473 396
Rank change year-on-year -74 -77 -115
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 88 229 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.44% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 1.30% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 71 166 362
10th Percentile - £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +4.87% -7.93%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,418 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -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 11,897 17,622 26,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.93% 33.71% 38.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,589 10,210 21,372
10th Percentile £32,821 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,623 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 27 January 2026.

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 27 January 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 -78 64 £75,000 +7.14% 84
Work from Home +15 47 £71,250 -3.39% 87
UK excluding London -38 30 £75,000 +15.38% 68
London -16 24 £85,000 +13.33% 31
North of England -1 14 £70,000 +3.70% 8
North West +7 8 £67,500 -3.57% 3
South East -13 7 £75,000 -28.57% 28
Yorkshire -9 6 £75,000 +66.67% 3
Midlands +1 5 £55,000 -10.20% 4
West Midlands +21 3 £75,000 +22.45% 2
East Midlands -14 2 £52,500 -17.65% 2
South West -2 1 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Wales -8 1 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Scotland -12 1 £75,000 +30.43% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 3

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 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) CMS
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Shopify
2 3 (3.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.14%) AWS
2 13 (14.77%) Amazon EC2
2 13 (14.77%) Amazon S3
2 13 (14.77%) Serverless
3 11 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (10.23%) GitHub
5 7 (7.95%) Azure
5 7 (7.95%) GCP
6 5 (5.68%) SaaS
7 4 (4.55%) Figma
7 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.41%) dbt
8 3 (3.41%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (2.27%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.27%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) DNS
2 2 (2.27%) FTP
2 2 (2.27%) HTTP
2 2 (2.27%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.27%) SMTP
2 2 (2.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.32%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.41%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.27%) Power BI
4 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.14%) Looker
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
5 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 8 (9.09%) Git
3 7 (7.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.55%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.27%) Subversion
5 2 (2.27%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 27 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Finance
3 5 (5.68%) Tech for Good
4 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.27%) Law
5 2 (2.27%) Marketing
5 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Public Speaking
5 2 (2.27%) Publishing
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (40.91%) Software Engineer
2 33 (37.50%) Developer
3 27 (30.68%) Senior
4 16 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (15.91%) Ruby Engineer
6 12 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (11.36%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Lead
10 4 (4.55%) Ruby Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Backend Developer
11 3 (3.41%) Architect
11 3 (3.41%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) GCP Architect
11 3 (3.41%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (54.55%) Ruby on Rails
2 25 (28.41%) Node.js
3 24 (27.27%) React
4 12 (13.64%) CSS
4 12 (13.64%) GraphQL
4 12 (13.64%) React Native
5 11 (12.50%) HTML
5 11 (12.50%) Jest
6 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.55%) REST
6 4 (4.55%) Spring
6 4 (4.55%) Vue
7 3 (3.41%) CSS3
7 3 (3.41%) HTML5
8 2 (2.27%) JSON
8 2 (2.27%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.14%) Django
9 1 (1.14%) jQuery
9 1 (1.14%) RESTful
9 1 (1.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.82%) IoT
3 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Blog
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.14%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Windows
3 2 (2.27%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.27%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.27%) Unix
3 2 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.32%) Software Engineering
2 37 (42.05%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (29.55%) Agile
4 23 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
6 20 (22.73%) Microservices
7 17 (19.32%) DevOps
7 17 (19.32%) Mentoring
8 11 (12.50%) Mob Programming
9 10 (11.36%) Clean Code
10 8 (9.09%) Roadmaps
11 7 (7.95%) User Experience
12 6 (6.82%) Analytics
12 6 (6.82%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (6.82%) Computer Science
12 6 (6.82%) Containerisation
12 6 (6.82%) Front End Development
12 6 (6.82%) High Availability
12 6 (6.82%) Product Roadmap
12 6 (6.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.55%) JavaScript
2 22 (25.00%) Java
3 17 (19.32%) Python
4 14 (15.91%) Kotlin
4 14 (15.91%) Scala
5 10 (11.36%) Go
6 9 (10.23%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.82%) Elixir
8 5 (5.68%) SQL
9 4 (4.55%) Bash
9 4 (4.55%) C#
9 4 (4.55%) Perl
10 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) SC Cleared
1 10 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) Degree
3 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.27%) CEH
4 2 (2.27%) CISA
4 2 (2.27%) CISSP
4 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.27%) OSCP
4 2 (2.27%) PhD
5 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.95%) Terraform
3 4 (4.55%) Ansible
3 4 (4.55%) Argo
4 2 (2.27%) Grafana
4 2 (2.27%) Nagios
5 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.55%) Google
1 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle
3 1 (1.14%) GoCardless
3 1 (1.14%) OneTrust
3 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.14%) SendGrid