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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 473 430
Rank change year-on-year -103 -43 -149
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 118 180 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.44% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.29% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 86 143 396
10th Percentile £51,062 - £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,078
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £89,375 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,418 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +21.74% -11.54%

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 13,780 13,999 30,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 33.84% 35.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9,641 10,181 24,482
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,534
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,253 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +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 24 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 17 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 24 March 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 -127 78 £75,000 +3.45% 42
Work from Home -19 50 £76,250 +5.17% 25
UK excluding London -93 44 £75,000 +7.14% 19
London -47 26 £80,000 +6.67% 29
South East -40 12 £75,000 -28.57% 8
East of England -12 9 £100,000 +42.86% 2
North of England -58 6 £75,000 +7.14% 5
Isle of Man - 6 - -
South West -26 5 £59,550 -0.75% 1
Yorkshire -43 4 £75,000 +66.67% 1
Midlands -35 3 £55,000 -10.20% 2
North West -37 2 £75,000 +5.26% 4
East Midlands -40 2 £52,500 -17.65% 2
West Midlands -10 1 £75,000 +22.45%
Wales -23 1 £75,000 +53.48%
Scotland -25 1 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.85%) Apache
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.51%) AWS
2 22 (18.64%) SaaS
3 20 (16.95%) Serverless
4 18 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (15.25%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (15.25%) Amazon S3
4 18 (15.25%) Amazon SQS
4 18 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (13.56%) PaaS
6 8 (6.78%) Azure
6 8 (6.78%) GCP
7 5 (4.24%) GitHub
7 5 (4.24%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.39%) dbt
9 3 (2.54%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.69%) Figma
10 2 (1.69%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.85%) Cloud Functions
11 1 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.34%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (15.25%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.69%) MySQL
4 2 (1.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.85%) Looker
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (15.25%) Cypress.io
2 7 (5.93%) Git
3 2 (1.69%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.69%) GitLab
3 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.85%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.85%) Metasploit
General
1 31 (26.27%) Finance
2 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.39%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.69%) Law
6 2 (1.69%) Marketing
6 2 (1.69%) Public Speaking
6 2 (1.69%) Publishing
7 1 (0.85%) Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (34.75%) Developer
2 40 (33.90%) Software Engineer
3 23 (19.49%) Senior
4 21 (17.80%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (14.41%) Lead
5 17 (14.41%) Ruby Engineer
6 13 (11.02%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Ruby Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Architect
10 4 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 3 (2.54%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (2.54%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.54%) GCP Architect
11 3 (2.54%) Penetration Tester
11 3 (2.54%) Software Developer
11 3 (2.54%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (62.71%) Ruby on Rails
2 31 (26.27%) Node.js
3 30 (25.42%) React
4 18 (15.25%) Jest
5 10 (8.47%) GraphQL
6 9 (7.63%) CSS
7 8 (6.78%) HTML
8 7 (5.93%) React Native
9 6 (5.08%) .NET
10 4 (3.39%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.39%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (3.39%) Spring
10 4 (3.39%) Visualforce
10 4 (3.39%) Vue
11 3 (2.54%) JSON
12 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
13 1 (0.85%) Django
13 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
13 1 (0.85%) JWT
13 1 (0.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.54%) Blog
2 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.63%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.69%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.69%) Unix
3 2 (1.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.85%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.85%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.98%) Software Engineering
2 43 (36.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 27 (22.88%) Microservices
4 23 (19.49%) CI/CD
5 22 (18.64%) Agile
6 20 (16.95%) Customer-Centricity
7 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (15.25%) Mob Programming
9 16 (13.56%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.71%) DevOps
11 11 (9.32%) Containerisation
11 11 (9.32%) TDD
12 10 (8.47%) Clean Code
13 8 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
14 7 (5.93%) AI
14 7 (5.93%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (5.93%) Test Automation
15 6 (5.08%) Analytics
15 6 (5.08%) High Availability
15 6 (5.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.12%) JavaScript
2 28 (23.73%) Java
3 25 (21.19%) Python
4 18 (15.25%) Scala
5 14 (11.86%) Kotlin
6 10 (8.47%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.08%) C#
7 6 (5.08%) Go
8 5 (4.24%) Bash
8 5 (4.24%) Rust
8 5 (4.24%) SQL
9 4 (3.39%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.39%) Elixir
9 4 (3.39%) Perl
9 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.69%) C
10 2 (1.69%) C++
11 1 (0.85%) F#
11 1 (0.85%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (11.86%) Degree
2 7 (5.93%) SC Cleared
2 7 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.39%) OSCP
5 3 (2.54%) CISSP
6 2 (1.69%) CEH
6 2 (1.69%) CISA
6 2 (1.69%) GPEN
6 2 (1.69%) GXPN
6 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.69%) PhD
7 1 (0.85%) CCSAM
7 1 (0.85%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.85%) GWAPT
7 1 (0.85%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.39%) QA
2 2 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.08%) Terraform
3 4 (3.39%) Ansible
3 4 (3.39%) Argo
4 1 (0.85%) Grafana
4 1 (0.85%) Nessus
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (4.24%) Salesforce
2 4 (3.39%) Google
2 4 (3.39%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.85%) GoCardless
3 1 (0.85%) OneTrust