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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 505 530
Rank change year-on-year -58 +25 -204
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 190 153 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 1.09% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 150 90 316
10th Percentile £41,025 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £81,788 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £114,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -11.11%

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 17,046 14,003 34,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.93% 30.96% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,082 9,257 25,783
10th Percentile £37,025 £35,000 £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 £98,474
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 24 June 2026.

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 24 June 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 -84 133 £75,000 +7.14% 27
UK excluding London -52 98 £60,000 -14.29% 23
Work from Home +2 82 £55,000 -21.43% 13
London -14 54 £75,000 +11.11% 11
South East -14 38 £75,000 +7.14% 18
Wales -30 17 £72,500 +92.14% 1
North of England -55 16 £55,000 -21.43% 2
East of England -11 14 £80,000 -20.00%
North West -14 14 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South West -58 6 £42,500 +6.25%
Isle of Man - 6 - -
Yorkshire -49 2 - - 1
East Midlands -38 1 £41,000 - 1
Midlands -44 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 4 (2.11%) Confluence
2 3 (1.58%) WordPress
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.58%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (61.58%) AWS
2 50 (26.32%) Serverless
3 43 (22.63%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (17.37%) Amazon ECS
5 31 (16.32%) Amazon S3
6 28 (14.74%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (12.63%) SaaS
9 21 (11.05%) PaaS
10 20 (10.53%) GitHub
11 19 (10.00%) Azure
12 13 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (5.26%) GCP
13 10 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (3.68%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (3.16%) Heroku
17 5 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
18 4 (2.11%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.74%) Network Security
2 3 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.05%) BGP
3 2 (1.05%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (1.05%) DNS
3 2 (1.05%) Firewall
3 2 (1.05%) IPsec
3 2 (1.05%) LAN
3 2 (1.05%) Skype
3 2 (1.05%) VLAN
3 2 (1.05%) VPN
3 2 (1.05%) WAN
3 2 (1.05%) Wireless
4 1 (0.53%) Internet
4 1 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (27.37%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.79%) MySQL
3 11 (5.79%) Redis
4 4 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.11%) Big Data
5 3 (1.58%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.05%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.05%) HBase
6 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) Adabas
7 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (14.74%) Cypress.io
2 10 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.21%) Git
4 7 (3.68%) JIRA
5 5 (2.63%) GitLab
5 5 (2.63%) Selenium
6 4 (2.11%) Claude Code
6 4 (2.11%) JUnit
7 3 (1.58%) Postman
7 3 (1.58%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.58%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.05%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.05%) Newman
8 2 (1.05%) TestRail
9 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.53%) Gatling
9 1 (0.53%) JMeter
9 1 (0.53%) Mocha
9 1 (0.53%) RSpec
General
1 41 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.84%) Finance
3 25 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.84%) Legal
5 10 (5.26%) Legal Technology
6 6 (3.16%) Banking
7 5 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.11%) Automotive
8 4 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (1.05%) Military
10 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 79 (41.58%) Developer
2 48 (25.26%) Senior
3 40 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 34 (17.89%) Software Engineer
5 31 (16.32%) Ruby Developer
6 30 (15.79%) Lead
7 18 (9.47%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (8.95%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.79%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 10 (5.26%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 9 (4.74%) Architect
11 9 (4.74%) Ruby Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Python Software Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.21%) Software Developer
13 7 (3.68%) Lead Software Engineer
14 6 (3.16%) 1st Line Support
15 5 (2.63%) Lead Developer
15 5 (2.63%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (73.16%) Ruby on Rails
2 67 (35.26%) React
3 52 (27.37%) Node.js
4 28 (14.74%) Jest
5 19 (10.00%) Next.js
6 17 (8.95%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.42%) React Native
8 13 (6.84%) REST
8 13 (6.84%) Spring
9 12 (6.32%) RESTful
10 11 (5.79%) AWS CDK
10 11 (5.79%) JSON
10 11 (5.79%) JWT
10 11 (5.79%) Sidekiq
11 7 (3.68%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.16%) .NET
12 6 (3.16%) FastAPI
13 5 (2.63%) CSS
13 5 (2.63%) HTML
13 5 (2.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.37%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.32%) Mainframe
4 9 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.74%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.74%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.63%) Educational Technology
7 4 (2.11%) Digital Wallet
7 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.58%) Blog
8 3 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.58%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.05%) Clustering
9 2 (1.05%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.00%) Linux
2 9 (4.74%) Windows
3 5 (2.63%) Debian
3 5 (2.63%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.58%) AIX
5 2 (1.05%) Gentoo
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.53%) Android
6 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (28.42%) Software Engineering
3 49 (25.79%) Agile
4 46 (24.21%) CI/CD
5 42 (22.11%) Microservices
6 32 (16.84%) Mentoring
7 30 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.21%) Containerisation
8 27 (14.21%) DevOps
8 27 (14.21%) Roadmaps
9 26 (13.68%) Scrum
10 25 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (13.16%) Mob Programming
11 24 (12.63%) AI
12 20 (10.53%) Test Automation
13 18 (9.47%) Clean Code
13 18 (9.47%) Customer-Centricity
14 17 (8.95%) Architectural Patterns
14 17 (8.95%) Migration
15 15 (7.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.37%) Python
2 44 (23.16%) JavaScript
3 37 (19.47%) Java
4 17 (8.95%) Bash
5 16 (8.42%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.37%) SQL
7 11 (5.79%) C#
8 10 (5.26%) PHP
9 9 (4.74%) PowerShell
10 8 (4.21%) Perl
11 7 (3.68%) Rust
12 6 (3.16%) C
13 5 (2.63%) Go
14 4 (2.11%) Apex Code
14 4 (2.11%) C++
14 4 (2.11%) COBOL
14 4 (2.11%) Elixir
14 4 (2.11%) Scala
15 3 (1.58%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 20 (10.53%) Degree
2 14 (7.37%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.32%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.11%) GPEN
6 4 (2.11%) GXPN
6 4 (2.11%) OSCP
6 4 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.58%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.58%) CCSAM
7 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.58%) CREST Certified
7 3 (1.58%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.58%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.58%) OSCE
8 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.74%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.21%) WCAG
3 5 (2.63%) QA
4 4 (2.11%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.11%) NCSC
5 3 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (16.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (14.74%) Terraform
2 17 (8.95%) Ansible
3 11 (5.79%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.58%) Grafana
4 3 (1.58%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.58%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.58%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.05%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.05%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (1.05%) Podman
6 1 (0.53%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (5.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.21%) Oracle
3 6 (3.16%) Splunk
4 4 (2.11%) HP
4 4 (2.11%) OneLogin
4 4 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.58%) Cisco
6 2 (1.05%) IBM
6 2 (1.05%) New Relic
6 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.05%) SAP
6 2 (1.05%) VMware
7 1 (0.53%) Google