Ruby
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 533 246
Rank change year-on-year -15 -287 -74
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 165 419 1,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.41% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 1.25% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 96 306 623
10th Percentile - £45,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,505 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -6.67% +6.53%
75th Percentile £94,375 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,625 £113,750 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% +16.67%

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 16,211 33,459 42,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.65% 32.75% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,556 25,024 27,148
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ruby.

Salary trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 16 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 28 May 2025. 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 +19 148 £72,500 -3.33% 1,912
UK excluding London +72 97 £70,000 +21.74% 1,850
Work from Home +42 93 £70,000 +7.69% 1,360
London +27 58 £75,000 -11.76% 298
North of England +22 29 £70,000 +27.27% 439
South East +86 28 £82,500 +53.49% 475
Midlands +72 26 £62,500 +12.61% 345
North West -10 20 £70,000 +16.67% 232
West Midlands +72 14 £62,500 +6.38% 186
East Midlands +43 12 - - 137
Yorkshire +57 8 - - 161
East of England +38 5 £100,000 +17.65% 271
Scotland +69 4 £63,750 +21.43% 80
Wales +47 4 £37,733 -21.47% 53
South West +78 1 £40,000 -42.86% 215
North East +45 1 - - 47

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.03%) CMS
2 2 (1.21%) Apache
2 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.12%) AWS
2 25 (15.15%) Azure
3 18 (10.91%) GitHub
4 9 (5.45%) SaaS
5 8 (4.85%) GCP
5 8 (4.85%) Pulumi
6 6 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.64%) Serverless
7 5 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.03%) IaaS
8 4 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.42%) PaaS
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) HTTP
2 3 (1.82%) Firewall
2 3 (1.82%) SSL
3 2 (1.21%) Internet
3 2 (1.21%) Network Security
4 1 (0.61%) DHCP
4 1 (0.61%) DNS
4 1 (0.61%) Multicast
4 1 (0.61%) SSH
4 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.61%) Unicast
4 1 (0.61%) VLAN
4 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.12%) MySQL
2 10 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.82%) Hadoop
3 3 (1.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.21%) Big Data
4 2 (1.21%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.21%) Bigtable
4 2 (1.21%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.21%) HBase
4 2 (1.21%) Impala
4 2 (1.21%) Metadata
4 2 (1.21%) Tableau
5 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) DB2
5 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.88%) JIRA
3 9 (5.45%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.42%) Git
5 3 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (1.82%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.82%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.21%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.21%) Gatling
6 2 (1.21%) GitLab
6 2 (1.21%) JMeter
6 2 (1.21%) JUnit
6 2 (1.21%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.21%) Selenium
6 2 (1.21%) Subversion
7 1 (0.61%) RSpec
General
1 17 (10.30%) Finance
2 14 (8.48%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.64%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.42%) Banking
7 3 (1.82%) Games
7 3 (1.82%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.82%) Law
7 3 (1.82%) Retail
8 2 (1.21%) Legal
8 2 (1.21%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (20.61%) Lead
2 29 (17.58%) Senior
3 26 (15.76%) Developer
4 22 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
5 21 (12.73%) Software Engineer
6 14 (8.48%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (7.27%) Ruby Developer
8 10 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Ruby Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) Senior Ruby Developer
10 8 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Junior
11 7 (4.24%) Junior Linux Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 5 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) Software Developer
13 3 (1.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 3 (1.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (37.58%) Ruby on Rails
2 55 (33.33%) HTML
3 44 (26.67%) React
4 18 (10.91%) jQuery
5 14 (8.48%) RESTful
6 10 (6.06%) Node.js
7 8 (4.85%) ADO
7 8 (4.85%) YAML
8 7 (4.24%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.64%) CSS
10 4 (2.42%) .NET
10 4 (2.42%) React Native
11 3 (1.82%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.82%) JSON
12 2 (1.21%) Django
12 2 (1.21%) Flutter
12 2 (1.21%) Guice
12 2 (1.21%) Playwright
12 2 (1.21%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.52%) NHS
2 12 (7.27%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.82%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.61%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.61%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.30%) Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Windows
3 3 (1.82%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.82%) VMS
4 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (32.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 52 (31.52%) Computer Science
3 50 (30.30%) Software Engineering
4 49 (29.70%) Data Privacy
4 49 (29.70%) Machine Learning
5 42 (25.45%) CI/CD
6 29 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (17.58%) Roadmaps
7 24 (14.55%) Agile
7 24 (14.55%) DevOps
7 24 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (11.52%) Mentoring
9 18 (10.91%) Product Roadmap
10 17 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (9.09%) Microservices
12 13 (7.88%) Design Patterns
13 12 (7.27%) Configuration Management
13 12 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (6.67%) Scrum
14 11 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (65.45%) Python
2 75 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 71 (43.03%) Java
4 67 (40.61%) C#
5 60 (36.36%) SQL
6 59 (35.76%) TypeScript
7 53 (32.12%) C++
7 53 (32.12%) Rust
8 51 (30.91%) C
9 49 (29.70%) Dart
9 49 (29.70%) MATLAB
9 49 (29.70%) PHP
9 49 (29.70%) R
10 16 (9.70%) Bicep
11 14 (8.48%) Go
12 12 (7.27%) Bash
13 7 (4.24%) Perl
13 7 (4.24%) PowerShell
14 4 (2.42%) Groovy
14 4 (2.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (33.33%) Degree
2 50 (30.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.21%) CCNA
4 2 (1.21%) CCNP
4 2 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.42%) QA
2 2 (1.21%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.21%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (13.94%) Docker
2 5 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (17.58%) Terraform
2 28 (16.97%) Ansible
3 24 (14.55%) Progress Chef
4 22 (13.33%) Kubernetes
5 19 (11.52%) Puppet
6 8 (4.85%) Grafana
7 7 (4.24%) Podman
8 4 (2.42%) Consul
8 4 (2.42%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.82%) Argo
9 3 (1.82%) Istio
9 3 (1.82%) Nagios
9 3 (1.82%) Nessus
9 3 (1.82%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.21%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (3.64%) Google
1 6 (3.64%) Splunk
2 3 (1.82%) Cloudera
2 3 (1.82%) Juniper
2 3 (1.82%) New Relic
3 2 (1.21%) Cisco
3 2 (1.21%) Dataiku
3 2 (1.21%) F5
3 2 (1.21%) Fortinet
3 2 (1.21%) MapR
3 2 (1.21%) Mercator
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.21%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.21%) Snow
4 1 (0.61%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.61%) IBM
4 1 (0.61%) Imperva
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle