Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

ruby

293 live US technical postings name ruby in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 293 postings naming ruby that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer58%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer17.7%
  3. 3Security Engineer7.2%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer6.8%
  5. 5Backend Engineer5.5%
  6. 6AI Engineer1.7%
  7. 7Data Analyst1%
  8. 8Data Engineer1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where ruby is named
n = 207
10th
$134k
25th
$155k
Median
$189k
75th
$210k
90th
$239k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA20.1%
  2. 2Remote18.8%
  3. 3New York, NY9.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.8%
  5. 5Chicago, IL4.8%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.7%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.4%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.