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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 540 524
Rank change year-on-year +31 -16 -195
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 321 132 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 1.06% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 251 69 167
10th Percentile £30,000 £52,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,373 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +7.69% -5.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +4.00%

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 18,379 12,501 22,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 25.43% 31.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,019 8,080 13,499
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,611 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,112
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.97% -2.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -22 247 £75,000 +7.14% 217
UK excluding London -54 187 £55,000 -21.43% 64
London +7 101 £85,000 +6.25% 162
Work from Home -40 96 £73,750 +9.26% 93
South East +18 93 £50,000 -28.57% 21
Wales -28 41 £55,810 -25.59% 7
North of England -77 21 £55,000 -21.43% 17
North West -40 15 £55,000 -18.52% 8
Midlands -52 15 £30,000 -53.85% 5
East of England -27 14 £80,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands -36 14 £30,000 -60.00% 4
Yorkshire -49 6 £90,000 +22.03% 2
South West -70 3 £42,500 -43.33% 2
East Midlands -42 1 £41,000 -25.45% 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 29 (9.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.36%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.36%) Skype for Business
3 8 (2.49%) Confluence
4 6 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.93%) WordPress
6 2 (0.62%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.49%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 161 (50.16%) AWS
2 85 (26.48%) Serverless
3 69 (21.50%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (14.95%) Amazon ECS
5 42 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (12.46%) GitHub
7 34 (10.59%) Azure
8 33 (10.28%) Amazon S3
8 33 (10.28%) SaaS
9 31 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
11 28 (8.72%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (6.23%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (4.36%) AWS Control Tower
15 14 (4.36%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (3.43%) GCP
17 8 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (2.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.72%) Firewall
1 28 (8.72%) Network Security
2 17 (5.30%) DNS
2 17 (5.30%) LAN
2 17 (5.30%) WAN
3 14 (4.36%) Cisco Wireless
3 14 (4.36%) Skype
3 14 (4.36%) VLAN
3 14 (4.36%) Wireless
4 13 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.12%) DHCP
6 8 (2.49%) FIX Connectivity
6 8 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (2.49%) VoIP
7 6 (1.87%) BGP
7 6 (1.87%) IPsec
7 6 (1.87%) VPN
8 4 (1.25%) Internet
9 2 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.63%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.85%) MongoDB
3 21 (6.54%) Redis
4 17 (5.30%) MySQL
5 16 (4.98%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.49%) Big Data
7 7 (2.18%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.87%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.87%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.87%) HBase
8 6 (1.87%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.31%) Adabas
12 1 (0.31%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (9.97%) Cypress.io
2 24 (7.48%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.61%) Git
4 13 (4.05%) JIRA
5 8 (2.49%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.49%) Selenium
6 7 (2.18%) GitLab
6 7 (2.18%) JUnit
6 7 (2.18%) RSpec
7 5 (1.56%) Postman
7 5 (1.56%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.25%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.25%) minitest
8 4 (1.25%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.93%) Newman
9 3 (0.93%) TestRail
10 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.31%) Gatling
10 1 (0.31%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 70 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.51%) Public Sector
3 47 (14.64%) Finance
4 21 (6.54%) Legal
5 14 (4.36%) Automotive
5 14 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.05%) Legal Technology
6 13 (4.05%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.74%) Banking
8 10 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.18%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.87%) Marketing
10 6 (1.87%) Military
11 5 (1.56%) Local Government
12 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.25%) Public Speaking
12 4 (1.25%) Publishing
13 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 123 (38.32%) Developer
2 83 (25.86%) Senior
3 50 (15.58%) Full-Stack Developer
4 43 (13.40%) Ruby Developer
5 36 (11.21%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 35 (10.90%) Software Engineer
7 34 (10.59%) Senior Developer
8 33 (10.28%) Lead
9 19 (5.92%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
10 18 (5.61%) 1st Line Support
11 16 (4.98%) IT Support
12 15 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (4.36%) Consultant
13 14 (4.36%) Network Support
13 14 (4.36%) Security Consultant
13 14 (4.36%) Senior Consultant
13 14 (4.36%) Senior Security Consultant
13 14 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (4.05%) Software Developer
14 13 (4.05%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (53.58%) Ruby on Rails
2 90 (28.04%) React
3 58 (18.07%) Node.js
4 50 (15.58%) Terraform
5 32 (9.97%) Jest
5 32 (9.97%) Spring Boot
6 28 (8.72%) Next.js
7 26 (8.10%) AWS CDK
7 26 (8.10%) RESTful
7 26 (8.10%) Spring
8 21 (6.54%) Sidekiq
9 18 (5.61%) REST
10 17 (5.30%) CSS
11 16 (4.98%) JSON
12 15 (4.67%) JWT
12 15 (4.67%) React Native
13 14 (4.36%) .NET
13 14 (4.36%) Kafka
14 13 (4.05%) HTML
14 13 (4.05%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.46%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.66%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.79%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.85%) Mainframe
5 18 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (4.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (3.74%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.80%) Digital Wallet
8 9 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.49%) Eurex
10 7 (2.18%) Blog
10 7 (2.18%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.18%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.87%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.87%) NHS
11 6 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.56%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.25%) Educational Technology
14 3 (0.93%) Replication
14 3 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.64%) Windows
2 44 (13.71%) Linux
3 22 (6.85%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (4.05%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.80%) Unix
7 8 (2.49%) CentOS
7 8 (2.49%) Rocky
8 7 (2.18%) AIX
9 6 (1.87%) Debian
10 5 (1.56%) Solaris
11 4 (1.25%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.93%) Gentoo
13 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 87 (27.10%) Agile
2 87 (27.10%) CI/CD
3 73 (22.74%) Software Engineering
4 67 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (17.13%) Microservices
6 51 (15.89%) AI
6 51 (15.89%) Mentoring
7 49 (15.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (14.64%) Scrum
9 39 (12.15%) DevOps
10 37 (11.53%) Roadmaps
11 36 (11.21%) Architectural Patterns
12 35 (10.90%) Containerisation
13 32 (9.97%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 31 (9.66%) Clean Code
14 31 (9.66%) Test Automation
15 29 (9.03%) ITIL
16 27 (8.41%) OOP
17 23 (7.17%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 88 (27.41%) Python
2 76 (23.68%) JavaScript
3 74 (23.05%) Java
4 33 (10.28%) Bash
4 33 (10.28%) SQL
5 29 (9.03%) TypeScript
6 26 (8.10%) Perl
7 23 (7.17%) PHP
8 22 (6.85%) C#
9 11 (3.43%) C
9 11 (3.43%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.18%) Go
11 6 (1.87%) COBOL
12 4 (1.25%) C++
13 3 (0.93%) Rust
14 2 (0.62%) R
14 2 (0.62%) Scala
15 1 (0.31%) Groovy
15 1 (0.31%) Natural
Qualifications
1 44 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.10%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.48%) AWS Certification
4 23 (7.17%) Degree
5 21 (6.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.80%) A+ Certification
9 8 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.87%) CISSP
10 6 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.25%) CEH
11 4 (1.25%) CHECK Team Leader
11 4 (1.25%) CHECK Team Member
11 4 (1.25%) CISA
11 4 (1.25%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (1.25%) OSCP
12 3 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.79%) Accessibility
2 19 (5.92%) WCAG
3 17 (5.30%) QA
4 8 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.87%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.87%) NCSC
6 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) PERC
7 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 47 (14.64%) Docker
2 29 (9.03%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.18%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (5.61%) Ansible
2 15 (4.67%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.36%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.87%) Hadoop YARN
4 6 (1.87%) ZABBIX
5 3 (0.93%) Grafana
5 3 (0.93%) Podman
5 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.93%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.93%) SCCM
6 2 (0.62%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.62%) Packer
Vendors
1 66 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.79%) Oracle
3 22 (6.85%) Cisco
4 20 (6.23%) HP
5 17 (5.30%) VMware
6 11 (3.43%) OneLogin
7 8 (2.49%) Bloomberg
7 8 (2.49%) CQG
7 8 (2.49%) ION Trading
7 8 (2.49%) Patsystems
7 8 (2.49%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.49%) Reuters
7 8 (2.49%) Trayport
8 7 (2.18%) SAP
9 6 (1.87%) Google
9 6 (1.87%) IBM
9 6 (1.87%) Splunk
10 4 (1.25%) New Relic
10 4 (1.25%) QNAP
11 3 (0.93%) Thycotic