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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 529 544
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 -202
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 243 144 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 1.00% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 187 81 276
10th Percentile £35,350 £53,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -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 17,734 14,421 30,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.78% 29.29% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,707 9,589 22,724
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,200 £35,212
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -26 177 £75,000 +7.14% 52
UK excluding London -42 133 £60,000 -14.29% 32
Work from Home -5 86 £75,000 +7.14% 39
London -9 76 £75,000 - 31
South East -3 56 £60,000 -14.29% 12
Wales - 28 £72,500 - 5
East of England -6 17 £80,000 -20.00% 3
North of England -50 17 £55,000 -21.43% 2
North West -20 14 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South West -58 6 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Isle of Man - 6 - -
Yorkshire -39 3 £90,000 +33.33% 1
Midlands -49 3 £35,000 - 8
West Midlands -26 2 £32,500 - 7
East Midlands -26 1 £41,000 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.47%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.06%) Confluence
3 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.65%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.23%) WordPress
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.47%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 150 (61.73%) AWS
2 68 (27.98%) Serverless
3 57 (23.46%) AWS Lambda
4 44 (18.11%) Amazon ECS
5 33 (13.58%) Amazon S3
6 31 (12.76%) SaaS
7 29 (11.93%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (11.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (11.52%) Azure
8 28 (11.52%) GitHub
9 24 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (9.88%) PaaS
10 22 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (8.23%) Amazon EventBridge
12 18 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (6.17%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (5.76%) AWS Control Tower
16 12 (4.94%) GCP
17 6 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.64%) Network Security
2 7 (2.88%) DNS
3 6 (2.47%) BGP
3 6 (2.47%) IPsec
3 6 (2.47%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (2.47%) VPN
4 5 (2.06%) Firewall
4 5 (2.06%) LAN
4 5 (2.06%) WAN
5 4 (1.65%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (1.65%) Skype
5 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.65%) VLAN
5 4 (1.65%) Wireless
6 1 (0.41%) DHCP
6 1 (0.41%) Internet
6 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (23.46%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.05%) MongoDB
3 16 (6.58%) Redis
4 15 (6.17%) MySQL
5 8 (3.29%) Big Data
6 7 (2.88%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.47%) Apache Hive
7 6 (2.47%) Hadoop
7 6 (2.47%) HBase
7 6 (2.47%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.41%) Adabas
11 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 26 (10.70%) Cypress.io
2 16 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.76%) Git
4 9 (3.70%) JIRA
5 7 (2.88%) GitLab
5 7 (2.88%) Selenium
6 6 (2.47%) JUnit
7 4 (1.65%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.65%) Postman
7 4 (1.65%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.65%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.23%) Newman
8 3 (1.23%) RSpec
8 3 (1.23%) TestRail
9 2 (0.82%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.82%) minitest
10 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.41%) Gatling
10 1 (0.41%) Pa11y
General
1 64 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.99%) Finance
3 43 (17.70%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.17%) Legal
5 11 (4.53%) Legal Technology
6 10 (4.12%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.88%) Banking
9 6 (2.47%) Automotive
9 6 (2.47%) Marketing
9 6 (2.47%) Military
9 6 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.23%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 87 (35.80%) Developer
2 62 (25.51%) Senior
3 40 (16.46%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (15.64%) Lead
5 36 (14.81%) Ruby Developer
6 33 (13.58%) Software Engineer
7 21 (8.64%) Senior Developer
8 15 (6.17%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 14 (5.76%) Consultant
9 14 (5.76%) Security Consultant
9 14 (5.76%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (5.76%) Senior Security Consultant
9 14 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (5.35%) Ruby Engineer
11 12 (4.94%) Architect
12 11 (4.53%) 1st Line Support
12 11 (4.53%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.12%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.12%) Senior Ruby Developer
14 9 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (63.79%) Ruby on Rails
2 73 (30.04%) React
3 60 (24.69%) Node.js
4 26 (10.70%) AWS CDK
4 26 (10.70%) Jest
5 24 (9.88%) Spring Boot
6 20 (8.23%) Next.js
7 18 (7.41%) Spring
8 17 (7.00%) REST
8 17 (7.00%) RESTful
9 16 (6.58%) Sidekiq
10 15 (6.17%) JSON
10 15 (6.17%) React Native
11 14 (5.76%) JWT
12 13 (5.35%) Kafka
13 10 (4.12%) GraphQL
14 8 (3.29%) .NET
14 8 (3.29%) CSS
14 8 (3.29%) HTML
15 7 (2.88%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.23%) Onboarding
3 19 (7.82%) Mainframe
3 19 (7.82%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.76%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.47%) Digital Wallet
8 5 (2.06%) Educational Technology
9 4 (1.65%) Blog
10 3 (1.23%) Clustering
10 3 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.23%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.23%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.58%) Linux
2 19 (7.82%) Windows
3 7 (2.88%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.47%) Debian
4 6 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.65%) AIX
5 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.23%) Gentoo
7 1 (0.41%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (30.04%) Full-Stack Development
2 69 (28.40%) Agile
3 66 (27.16%) CI/CD
4 62 (25.51%) Software Engineering
5 46 (18.93%) Microservices
6 43 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (16.87%) AI
8 39 (16.05%) Mentoring
9 38 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (15.64%) Scrum
10 36 (14.81%) Roadmaps
11 35 (14.40%) Containerisation
11 35 (14.40%) DevOps
12 29 (11.93%) Architectural Patterns
13 24 (9.88%) Clean Code
14 23 (9.47%) Test Automation
14 23 (9.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 22 (9.05%) Mob Programming
15 22 (9.05%) OOP
16 21 (8.64%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 74 (30.45%) Python
2 62 (25.51%) Java
3 51 (20.99%) JavaScript
4 29 (11.93%) Bash
5 24 (9.88%) PHP
6 20 (8.23%) SQL
7 18 (7.41%) Perl
7 18 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.17%) C#
9 10 (4.12%) C
10 9 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.88%) Go
11 7 (2.88%) Rust
12 6 (2.47%) COBOL
13 4 (1.65%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.65%) C++
13 4 (1.65%) Elixir
13 4 (1.65%) Scala
14 3 (1.23%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (12.35%) Degree
2 26 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.88%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (4.94%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.29%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.65%) GPEN
9 4 (1.65%) GXPN
9 4 (1.65%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 4 (1.65%) OSCP
10 3 (1.23%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.23%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.23%) OSCE
11 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.41%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.17%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.35%) WCAG
3 9 (3.70%) QA
4 6 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.47%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (2.47%) NCSC
5 3 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (17.28%) Docker
2 6 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (18.93%) Terraform
2 18 (7.41%) Ansible
3 15 (6.17%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.47%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (2.06%) ZABBIX
6 4 (1.65%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.23%) Grafana
7 3 (1.23%) Podman
7 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.23%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.82%) SCCM
9 1 (0.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 28 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.76%) Oracle
3 10 (4.12%) Cisco
3 10 (4.12%) HP
4 7 (2.88%) SAP
5 6 (2.47%) IBM
5 6 (2.47%) Splunk
5 6 (2.47%) VMware
6 5 (2.06%) OneLogin
6 5 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.23%) Google
8 2 (0.82%) Citrix
8 2 (0.82%) New Relic
8 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.82%) Thycotic
9 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.41%) Informatica
9 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow