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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 490 523
Rank change year-on-year -91 +33 -246
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 141 164 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.38% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.23% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 108 95 306
10th Percentile £51,637 - £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,505
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -17.86%

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 16,455 13,284 32,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.65% 31.10% 32.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,420 8,949 25,017
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 £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,704
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.41% -2.36%

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 28 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 28 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 -120 97 £75,000 +3.45% 65
Work from Home -16 72 £55,000 -21.43% 35
UK excluding London -100 62 £65,000 -7.14% 33
London -57 38 £75,000 -3.23% 38
South East -24 24 £75,000 -9.09% 14
North of England -56 14 £55,000 -21.43% 6
East of England -22 11 £100,000 - 3
North West -16 10 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Isle of Man - 6 - - 1
South West -54 4 £44,100 +10.25% 3
Yorkshire -55 4 - -
Wales -40 3 £51,619 +36.80% 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 2 (1.42%) Apache Solr
1 2 (1.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 78 (55.32%) AWS
2 29 (20.57%) Serverless
3 24 (17.02%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (17.02%) Amazon ECS
3 24 (17.02%) Amazon S3
3 24 (17.02%) Amazon SQS
3 24 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (14.18%) SaaS
5 18 (12.77%) PaaS
6 11 (7.80%) Azure
7 7 (4.96%) GCP
8 6 (4.26%) GitHub
9 5 (3.55%) Heroku
10 3 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.42%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.42%) Datadog
11 2 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.71%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.13%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) Internet
2 1 (0.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.37%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (17.02%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.96%) Redis
4 6 (4.26%) MySQL
5 2 (1.42%) Big Data
5 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (17.02%) Cypress.io
2 4 (2.84%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.13%) Git
3 3 (2.13%) GitLab
4 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.42%) JIRA
5 1 (0.71%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.71%) Metasploit
General
1 26 (18.44%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.02%) Finance
3 7 (4.96%) Legal
3 7 (4.96%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.84%) Banking
5 4 (2.84%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Marketing
7 2 (1.42%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (46.10%) Developer
2 35 (24.82%) Senior
3 34 (24.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (24.11%) Software Engineer
4 24 (17.02%) Ruby Developer
5 23 (16.31%) Lead
6 16 (11.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (9.93%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.09%) Lead Software Engineer
8 10 (7.09%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 9 (6.38%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 7 (4.96%) Ruby Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (2.84%) Python Engineer
12 4 (2.84%) Python Software Engineer
12 4 (2.84%) Software Developer
13 3 (2.13%) Architect
13 3 (2.13%) Penetration Tester
13 3 (2.13%) Senior Software Developer
13 3 (2.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (77.30%) Ruby on Rails
2 46 (32.62%) React
3 34 (24.11%) Node.js
4 24 (17.02%) Jest
5 14 (9.93%) React Native
6 12 (8.51%) Next.js
7 7 (4.96%) JSON
7 7 (4.96%) JWT
7 7 (4.96%) RESTful
7 7 (4.96%) Sidekiq
8 6 (4.26%) .NET
9 5 (3.55%) REST
10 4 (2.84%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.84%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (2.84%) Visualforce
11 3 (2.13%) OpenAPI
11 3 (2.13%) Spring
11 3 (2.13%) Spring Boot
12 2 (1.42%) FastAPI
13 1 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.80%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.13%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.13%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) Blog
8 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.71%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.67%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Android
3 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.71%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (29.79%) Software Engineering
3 28 (19.86%) Microservices
4 26 (18.44%) Mentoring
5 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.02%) Mob Programming
7 23 (16.31%) Agile
8 21 (14.89%) CI/CD
9 19 (13.48%) Roadmaps
10 18 (12.77%) Customer-Centricity
11 16 (11.35%) Containerisation
12 14 (9.93%) Test Automation
13 13 (9.22%) Clean Code
13 13 (9.22%) Scrum
14 11 (7.80%) API Design
14 11 (7.80%) DevOps
15 10 (7.09%) AI
15 10 (7.09%) Product Strategy
16 9 (6.38%) Architectural Patterns
17 8 (5.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.53%) Python
2 35 (24.82%) JavaScript
3 14 (9.93%) Java
3 14 (9.93%) TypeScript
4 9 (6.38%) C#
5 7 (4.96%) Bash
5 7 (4.96%) Rust
6 6 (4.26%) Perl
6 6 (4.26%) SQL
7 5 (3.55%) Go
7 5 (3.55%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.84%) Apex Code
8 4 (2.84%) C
8 4 (2.84%) C++
8 4 (2.84%) Elixir
8 4 (2.84%) Scala
9 3 (2.13%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.71%) F#
10 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (9.93%) Degree
2 6 (4.26%) OSCP
3 4 (2.84%) GPEN
3 4 (2.84%) GXPN
4 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.13%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.13%) CISSP
4 3 (2.13%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.13%) OSCE
4 3 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.13%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.42%) CEH
5 2 (1.42%) CISA
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.71%) GWAPT
6 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.84%) QA
2 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (11.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.96%) Terraform
3 5 (3.55%) Ansible
4 2 (1.42%) Grafana
4 2 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Nessus
5 1 (0.71%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (2.84%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.42%) New Relic
3 2 (1.42%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.42%) Splunk
4 1 (0.71%) Google
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle