Sign in

Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

ruby

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 291 postings naming ruby that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer61.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer19.6%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer6.2%
  4. 4Security Engineer6.2%
  5. 5Backend Engineer3.8%
  6. 6Data 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 = 213
10th
$133k
25th
$160k
Median
$189k
75th
$210k
90th
$239k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA17.9%
  2. 2Remote17.5%
  3. 3New York, NY10%
  4. 4Chicago, IL5.8%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA4.5%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.1%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.4%
  8. 8Washington, DC2.4%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.