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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 547 554
Rank change year-on-year +27 +7 -226
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 251 142 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 0.99% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 194 81 236
10th Percentile £35,850 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,373 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% - -
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 17,963 14,344 27,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 29.20% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,792 9,520 20,263
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 25 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 25 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 -37 181 £75,000 +7.14% 85
UK excluding London -35 142 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Work from Home -13 87 £75,000 +7.14% 50
London 0 75 £75,000 - 66
South East -8 60 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Wales - 32 £66,250 - 2
East of England +2 18 £80,000 -20.00% 5
North of England -50 17 £55,000 -21.43% 2
North West -21 14 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South West -59 6 £42,500 +6.25% 2
Isle of Man - 6 - -
Yorkshire -45 3 £90,000 +33.33%
Midlands -57 3 £35,000 - 5
West Midlands -32 2 £32,500 - 5
East Midlands -42 1 £41,000 -

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 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.39%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.39%) Confluence
3 5 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.99%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.20%) WordPress
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.39%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.80%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 159 (63.35%) AWS
2 70 (27.89%) Serverless
3 59 (23.51%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (17.93%) Amazon ECS
5 34 (13.55%) SaaS
6 33 (13.15%) Amazon S3
7 32 (12.75%) GitHub
8 31 (12.35%) Azure
9 30 (11.95%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (10.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (9.56%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (9.56%) PaaS
12 22 (8.76%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (7.97%) Amazon EventBridge
13 20 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (7.97%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (5.58%) AWS Control Tower
14 14 (5.58%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (4.78%) GCP
16 7 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.76%) Network Security
2 8 (3.19%) DNS
3 7 (2.79%) Firewall
3 7 (2.79%) LAN
3 7 (2.79%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (2.79%) WAN
4 6 (2.39%) BGP
4 6 (2.39%) IPsec
4 6 (2.39%) VPN
5 5 (1.99%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (1.99%) Skype
5 5 (1.99%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.99%) VLAN
5 5 (1.99%) Wireless
6 2 (0.80%) DHCP
7 1 (0.40%) Internet
7 1 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (24.30%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.76%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.97%) Redis
4 18 (7.17%) MySQL
5 8 (3.19%) Big Data
6 7 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.39%) Apache Hive
7 6 (2.39%) Hadoop
7 6 (2.39%) HBase
7 6 (2.39%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.59%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.40%) Adabas
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (11.16%) Cypress.io
2 18 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.77%) Git
4 10 (3.98%) JIRA
5 7 (2.79%) GitLab
5 7 (2.79%) Selenium
6 6 (2.39%) JUnit
6 6 (2.39%) RSpec
7 4 (1.59%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.59%) minitest
7 4 (1.59%) Postman
7 4 (1.59%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.59%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.20%) Newman
8 3 (1.20%) TestRail
9 2 (0.80%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.40%) Gatling
10 1 (0.40%) JMeter
10 1 (0.40%) Mocha
General
1 64 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.72%) Finance
3 44 (17.53%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.98%) Legal
5 11 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.38%) Legal Technology
5 11 (4.38%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.79%) Banking
7 6 (2.39%) Automotive
7 6 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.39%) Marketing
7 6 (2.39%) Military
7 6 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 90 (35.86%) Developer
2 65 (25.90%) Senior
3 40 (15.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (15.14%) Lead
4 38 (15.14%) Ruby Developer
5 33 (13.15%) Software Engineer
6 23 (9.16%) Senior Developer
7 14 (5.58%) Consultant
7 14 (5.58%) Ruby Engineer
7 14 (5.58%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 14 (5.58%) Security Consultant
7 14 (5.58%) Senior Consultant
7 14 (5.58%) Senior Security Consultant
8 13 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (5.18%) Software Developer
9 11 (4.38%) 1st Line Support
9 11 (4.38%) Architect
9 11 (4.38%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.98%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 9 (3.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (63.75%) Ruby on Rails
2 77 (30.68%) React
3 60 (23.90%) Node.js
4 28 (11.16%) Jest
5 26 (10.36%) AWS CDK
5 26 (10.36%) Spring Boot
6 22 (8.76%) Next.js
6 22 (8.76%) RESTful
7 20 (7.97%) Sidekiq
7 20 (7.97%) Spring
8 17 (6.77%) REST
9 16 (6.37%) JSON
10 15 (5.98%) JWT
10 15 (5.98%) React Native
11 14 (5.58%) Kafka
12 12 (4.78%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.98%) CSS
13 10 (3.98%) HTML
14 9 (3.59%) .NET
15 7 (2.79%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.16%) Product Ownership
3 20 (7.97%) Mainframe
3 20 (7.97%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.58%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.59%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.59%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.79%) Digital Wallet
6 7 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.79%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.99%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.59%) Blog
9 3 (1.20%) Clustering
9 3 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.20%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.20%) Replication
9 3 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.14%) Linux
2 22 (8.76%) Windows
3 8 (3.19%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.39%) Debian
5 5 (1.99%) AIX
5 5 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.20%) Gentoo
7 1 (0.40%) Android
7 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (30.28%) Agile
1 76 (30.28%) Full-Stack Development
2 71 (28.29%) CI/CD
3 65 (25.90%) Software Engineering
4 49 (19.52%) Microservices
5 42 (16.73%) AI
5 42 (16.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.33%) Scrum
7 40 (15.94%) Mentoring
8 36 (14.34%) Containerisation
8 36 (14.34%) Roadmaps
9 35 (13.94%) DevOps
10 29 (11.55%) Architectural Patterns
11 27 (10.76%) Clean Code
11 27 (10.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 25 (9.96%) OOP
12 25 (9.96%) Test Automation
13 22 (8.76%) Mob Programming
14 21 (8.37%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 73 (29.08%) Python
2 64 (25.50%) Java
3 57 (22.71%) JavaScript
4 27 (10.76%) Bash
5 24 (9.56%) PHP
6 23 (9.16%) TypeScript
7 19 (7.57%) SQL
8 18 (7.17%) Perl
9 15 (5.98%) C#
10 10 (3.98%) C
11 8 (3.19%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.79%) Rust
13 6 (2.39%) COBOL
13 6 (2.39%) Go
14 4 (1.59%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.59%) C++
14 4 (1.59%) Elixir
14 4 (1.59%) Scala
15 3 (1.20%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 29 (11.55%) Degree
2 28 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.56%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.58%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.19%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.59%) GPEN
10 4 (1.59%) GXPN
10 4 (1.59%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 4 (1.59%) OSCP
11 3 (1.20%) CCSAM
11 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.20%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.20%) OSCE
12 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.77%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.98%) WCAG
3 13 (5.18%) QA
4 7 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.39%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (2.39%) NCSC
6 3 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (17.93%) Docker
2 8 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (17.53%) Terraform
2 17 (6.77%) Ansible
3 15 (5.98%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.39%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (2.39%) ZABBIX
5 5 (1.99%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.20%) Podman
6 3 (1.20%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.20%) SCCM
7 2 (0.80%) Grafana
7 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.40%) Bugsnag
8 1 (0.40%) Nessus
8 1 (0.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.98%) Oracle
3 12 (4.78%) Cisco
4 11 (4.38%) HP
5 8 (3.19%) VMware
6 7 (2.79%) OneLogin
6 7 (2.79%) SAP
7 6 (2.39%) IBM
7 6 (2.39%) Splunk
8 5 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.59%) Google
10 3 (1.20%) Citrix
10 3 (1.20%) New Relic
10 3 (1.20%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.40%) Informatica
12 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow