Ruby
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 480 274
Rank change year-on-year -47 -206 -100
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 157 466 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.47% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.00% 1.40% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 127 329 679
10th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,625 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,367 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £56,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +27.23% -17.04% +12.50%

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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby.

Salary trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 14 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 30 April 2025. 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 +13 136 £76,250 -2.42% 414
London +22 78 £80,000 -11.11% 184
Work from Home +35 66 £72,500 +3.57% 303
UK excluding London +20 65 £71,250 +27.23% 247
South East +95 21 £105,000 +90.91% 68
North of England +44 16 £70,000 +27.27% 93
North West +17 16 £70,000 +27.27% 58
Midlands +53 9 £62,500 +16.82% 50
East of England +54 7 £100,000 +17.65% 5
West Midlands +52 7 £62,500 +6.38% 22
Wales +39 5 £48,867 +1.70% 5
Scotland +65 4 £63,750 +18.60% 4
South West +73 3 £60,000 -7.69% 14
East Midlands +40 2 £63,750 +19.16% 28

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.91%) CMS
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.27%) Apache
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 66 (42.04%) AWS
2 29 (18.47%) Azure
3 23 (14.65%) GitHub
4 11 (7.01%) Pulumi
5 10 (6.37%) GCP
6 9 (5.73%) SaaS
7 6 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.82%) Serverless
8 5 (3.18%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.18%) IaaS
9 4 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.55%) PaaS
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) Firewall
2 4 (2.55%) DHCP
2 4 (2.55%) DNS
2 4 (2.55%) HTTP
2 4 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.91%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (1.91%) Network Security
3 3 (1.91%) SSL
4 1 (0.64%) Internet
4 1 (0.64%) Multicast
4 1 (0.64%) SSH
4 1 (0.64%) Unicast
4 1 (0.64%) VLAN
4 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.92%) MySQL
2 17 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.91%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.91%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.91%) Tableau
5 2 (1.27%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.27%) Big Data
5 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.27%) Bigtable
5 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.27%) HBase
5 2 (1.27%) Impala
5 2 (1.27%) Metadata
6 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (13.38%) Jenkins
2 13 (8.28%) JIRA
3 11 (7.01%) TeamCity
4 9 (5.73%) Git
5 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (1.91%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.91%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.27%) fastlane
6 2 (1.27%) Gatling
6 2 (1.27%) GitLab
6 2 (1.27%) JMeter
6 2 (1.27%) JUnit
6 2 (1.27%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.27%) Selenium
6 2 (1.27%) Subversion
6 2 (1.27%) webpack
7 1 (0.64%) RSpec
General
1 26 (16.56%) Finance
2 17 (10.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.73%) Banking
6 8 (5.10%) Tech for Good
7 6 (3.82%) Legal
8 5 (3.18%) Law
9 3 (1.91%) Games
9 3 (1.91%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.91%) Marketing
9 3 (1.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.64%) Automotive
11 1 (0.64%) Publishing
11 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (28.66%) Lead
1 45 (28.66%) Senior
2 40 (25.48%) Developer
3 34 (21.66%) Software Engineer
4 29 (18.47%) Platform Engineer
5 22 (14.01%) Senior Developer
6 18 (11.46%) Ruby Developer
7 15 (9.55%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (8.92%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 13 (8.28%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (7.64%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 11 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (6.37%) Junior
12 10 (6.37%) Junior Linux Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Principal Software Engineer
14 7 (4.46%) Ruby Engineer
15 6 (3.82%) Lead Developer
15 6 (3.82%) Software Developer
16 5 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (43.95%) Ruby on Rails
2 53 (33.76%) React
3 22 (14.01%) jQuery
4 17 (10.83%) RESTful
5 16 (10.19%) Node.js
6 14 (8.92%) HTML
7 13 (8.28%) CSS
8 9 (5.73%) ADO
9 8 (5.10%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.10%) Flutter
9 8 (5.10%) YAML
10 7 (4.46%) .NET
11 5 (3.18%) JSON
12 4 (2.55%) REST
13 3 (1.91%) ARM Templates
13 3 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
13 3 (1.91%) FIX Protocol
13 3 (1.91%) React Native
14 2 (1.27%) Django
14 2 (1.27%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.56%) NHS
2 15 (9.55%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.55%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.55%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.55%) Housing Association
4 4 (2.55%) IoT
4 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.55%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.91%) Eurex
5 3 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.64%) Blog
7 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.65%) Linux
2 8 (5.10%) Windows
3 6 (3.82%) Android
3 6 (3.82%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.55%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.55%) Unix
5 3 (1.91%) CentOS
5 3 (1.91%) Solaris
5 3 (1.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (43.31%) Software Engineering
2 46 (29.30%) CI/CD
3 39 (24.84%) Roadmaps
4 33 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (19.75%) Platform Engineering
6 30 (19.11%) Mentoring
6 30 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (17.20%) Agile
8 26 (16.56%) DevOps
9 22 (14.01%) Product Roadmap
10 21 (13.38%) Microservices
11 17 (10.83%) Configuration Management
12 16 (10.19%) Design Patterns
13 15 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (9.55%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (8.92%) Fintech
14 14 (8.92%) Systems Engineering
15 13 (8.28%) Test Automation
16 12 (7.64%) Low Latency
16 12 (7.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 81 (51.59%) Python
2 43 (27.39%) JavaScript
3 29 (18.47%) Java
4 27 (17.20%) Go
5 22 (14.01%) C#
6 21 (13.38%) Bicep
7 18 (11.46%) Bash
8 15 (9.55%) Perl
9 13 (8.28%) SQL
10 11 (7.01%) PowerShell
10 11 (7.01%) Rust
11 10 (6.37%) C++
12 9 (5.73%) C
12 9 (5.73%) TypeScript
13 5 (3.18%) Groovy
14 4 (2.55%) Scala
15 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
16 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
16 2 (1.27%) Elixir
16 2 (1.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 12 (7.64%) Degree
1 12 (7.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.01%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.27%) CCNA
3 2 (1.27%) CCNP
3 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.10%) QA
2 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.64%) JTAG
4 1 (0.64%) MISRA
System Software
1 30 (19.11%) Docker
2 5 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (24.84%) Terraform
2 35 (22.29%) Kubernetes
3 33 (21.02%) Ansible
4 29 (18.47%) Progress Chef
5 24 (15.29%) Puppet
6 10 (6.37%) Podman
7 8 (5.10%) Grafana
8 4 (2.55%) Consul
8 4 (2.55%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.91%) Argo
9 3 (1.91%) Istio
9 3 (1.91%) Nagios
9 3 (1.91%) Nessus
9 3 (1.91%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.27%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (3.82%) Splunk
2 5 (3.18%) Google
3 4 (2.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle
4 3 (1.91%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.91%) Cloudera
4 3 (1.91%) CQG
4 3 (1.91%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.91%) Juniper
4 3 (1.91%) New Relic
4 3 (1.91%) Patsystems
4 3 (1.91%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.91%) Reuters
4 3 (1.91%) Trayport
5 2 (1.27%) F5
5 2 (1.27%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.27%) MapR
5 2 (1.27%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.27%) Snow