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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 511 538
Rank change year-on-year -33 +27 -207
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 193 149 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 1.06% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 153 88 307
10th Percentile £37,600 £52,500 £43,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £81,788 £85,000 £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% -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 17,088 14,028 33,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 30.80% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,120 9,259 25,320
10th Percentile £36,795 £35,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 27 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 27 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 -80 136 £75,000 +7.14% 39
UK excluding London -47 101 £60,000 -14.29% 27
Work from Home -3 81 £55,000 -21.43% 23
London -18 54 £75,000 +11.11% 21
South East -15 41 £75,000 +7.14% 18
Wales -33 17 £72,500 +92.14% 3
North of England -45 16 £55,000 -21.43% 2
North West -8 14 £55,000 -21.43% 1
East of England -8 14 £80,000 -20.00% 1
South West -49 6 £42,500 +6.25%
Isle of Man - 6 - -
Yorkshire -41 2 - - 1
East Midlands -35 1 £41,000 - 1
Midlands -53 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 (2.07%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) WordPress
3 2 (1.04%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (60.62%) AWS
2 49 (25.39%) Serverless
3 42 (21.76%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (17.10%) Amazon ECS
5 31 (16.06%) Amazon S3
6 27 (13.99%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (12.95%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (12.95%) SaaS
8 22 (11.40%) GitHub
8 22 (11.40%) PaaS
9 20 (10.36%) Azure
10 13 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (5.18%) GCP
13 9 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (3.63%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (3.11%) Heroku
16 5 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
17 4 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.66%) Network Security
2 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.04%) BGP
3 2 (1.04%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (1.04%) DNS
3 2 (1.04%) Firewall
3 2 (1.04%) IPsec
3 2 (1.04%) LAN
3 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.04%) Skype
3 2 (1.04%) VLAN
3 2 (1.04%) VPN
3 2 (1.04%) WAN
3 2 (1.04%) Wireless
4 1 (0.52%) Internet
4 1 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (26.94%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (12.44%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.70%) MySQL
3 11 (5.70%) Redis
4 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.07%) Big Data
5 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.04%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.04%) HBase
6 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.52%) Adabas
7 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 27 (13.99%) Cypress.io
2 11 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.66%) Git
4 7 (3.63%) JIRA
5 5 (2.59%) GitLab
5 5 (2.59%) Selenium
6 4 (2.07%) Claude Code
6 4 (2.07%) JUnit
7 3 (1.55%) Postman
7 3 (1.55%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.55%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.04%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.04%) Newman
8 2 (1.04%) TestRail
9 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.52%) Gatling
9 1 (0.52%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.52%) Mocha
9 1 (0.52%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.52%) RSpec
General
1 43 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.10%) Finance
3 26 (13.47%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.74%) Legal
5 10 (5.18%) Legal Technology
6 7 (3.63%) Banking
7 6 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.07%) Automotive
10 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Marketing
11 2 (1.04%) Military
11 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (40.41%) Developer
2 48 (24.87%) Senior
3 39 (20.21%) Full-Stack Developer
4 35 (18.13%) Software Engineer
5 31 (16.06%) Lead
5 31 (16.06%) Ruby Developer
6 18 (9.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 17 (8.81%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.70%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 10 (5.18%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 9 (4.66%) Architect
10 9 (4.66%) Ruby Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.15%) Software Developer
12 7 (3.63%) 1st Line Support
12 7 (3.63%) Lead Software Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (2.59%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (71.50%) Ruby on Rails
2 66 (34.20%) React
3 51 (26.42%) Node.js
4 27 (13.99%) Jest
5 19 (9.84%) Next.js
6 17 (8.81%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.29%) React Native
8 13 (6.74%) REST
8 13 (6.74%) Spring
9 12 (6.22%) RESTful
10 11 (5.70%) AWS CDK
10 11 (5.70%) JSON
10 11 (5.70%) JWT
10 11 (5.70%) Sidekiq
11 7 (3.63%) .NET
11 7 (3.63%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.11%) FastAPI
13 5 (2.59%) CSS
13 5 (2.59%) HTML
13 5 (2.59%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.06%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.22%) Mainframe
4 9 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.66%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.66%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.59%) Educational Technology
7 4 (2.07%) Digital Wallet
7 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) Blog
8 3 (1.55%) Clustering
8 3 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.04%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.04%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.88%) Linux
2 10 (5.18%) Windows
3 6 (3.11%) Debian
4 5 (2.59%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.55%) AIX
5 3 (1.55%) Gentoo
6 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.52%) Android
7 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.52%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.20%) Full-Stack Development
2 55 (28.50%) Software Engineering
3 49 (25.39%) Agile
4 47 (24.35%) CI/CD
5 41 (21.24%) Microservices
6 34 (17.62%) Mentoring
7 31 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.51%) Containerisation
8 28 (14.51%) DevOps
9 27 (13.99%) Roadmaps
10 26 (13.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (13.47%) Scrum
11 25 (12.95%) AI
12 24 (12.44%) Mob Programming
13 20 (10.36%) Test Automation
14 18 (9.33%) Clean Code
14 18 (9.33%) Customer-Centricity
15 17 (8.81%) Architectural Patterns
15 17 (8.81%) Migration
16 15 (7.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.98%) Python
2 44 (22.80%) JavaScript
3 38 (19.69%) Java
4 18 (9.33%) Bash
5 16 (8.29%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.25%) SQL
7 11 (5.70%) C#
8 10 (5.18%) PHP
9 9 (4.66%) PowerShell
10 8 (4.15%) Perl
11 7 (3.63%) Rust
12 6 (3.11%) C
12 6 (3.11%) Go
13 4 (2.07%) Apex Code
13 4 (2.07%) C++
13 4 (2.07%) COBOL
13 4 (2.07%) Elixir
13 4 (2.07%) Scala
14 3 (1.55%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (11.40%) Degree
2 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.22%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.07%) A+ Certification
6 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.07%) GPEN
6 4 (2.07%) GXPN
6 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.07%) OSCP
6 4 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.55%) CCSAM
7 3 (1.55%) CREST Certified
7 3 (1.55%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (1.55%) OSCE
8 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.66%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.15%) WCAG
3 5 (2.59%) QA
4 4 (2.07%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.07%) NCSC
5 3 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) GDPR
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (17.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (15.03%) Terraform
2 18 (9.33%) Ansible
3 11 (5.70%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.55%) Grafana
4 3 (1.55%) Podman
4 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.55%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.55%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.04%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.04%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.52%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (6.74%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.15%) Oracle
3 6 (3.11%) Splunk
4 4 (2.07%) Cisco
4 4 (2.07%) HP
4 4 (2.07%) OneLogin
4 4 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.04%) IBM
5 2 (1.04%) New Relic
5 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.04%) SAP
5 2 (1.04%) VMware
6 1 (0.52%) Google