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Ruby

Ruby appeared in 1 hiring posts in September 2026 — roughly 0.2% of all jobs. Currently #21 of 23 languages.

Mentions · September 2026-50%vs prior

mentions

this month

12-Mo TrendOct '25 → Sep '26

Share of All Jobs

0.2%

All-Time Peak

48mentions · August 2015

First Seen

April 2011

Month Momentum

Declining-50%

§ 01Demand Signal

Mention history

Annual averages give the long-run shape without the monthly noise; the last two years are zoomed in below.

All-time mentions

3,188since April 2011 · 186 months

-12% YoY2025 vs 2024

366

'15

355

'16

420

PEAK

'17

310

'18

217

'19

174

'20

201

'21

107

'22

'23

'24

'25

'26

Total mentions, by year · hatched column = year still in progress

All-time

3,188186 mo

↑ Best year

2017420

↓ Quietest full year

202538

Latest full year

2025-12% YoY

§ 02Compensation

What Ruby jobs pay

Disclosed USD pay over the past 3 years (2023–Present). Single months are too sparse to band.

Pay over the past 3 years · 2023–Present

USD165Kmedian

$131k – $169k middle 50% · n=92

By seniority

Junior$165k – $165k n=30

Mid— n=1

Senior$63k – $180k n=28

Staff+$170k – $200k n=16

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick = median. Mid shown hatched below the 10-sample floor.

Disclosed

92of 260 posts

Disclosure rate

35.4%

Senior eng median · languages · 2023–Present

Where Ruby sits in the pay distribution

−11%vs PHP+20%vs C#

LanguageMedianvs Ruby

PHP

$163k+12.1%

Java

$160k+10.3%

HTML/CSS

$150k+3.4%

Rubyyou are here

$145k—

$121k−16.4%

Senior eng disclosed pay · 2023–Present

§ 03Footprint

Where Ruby is hired

Regions

Top geographies

Share of Ruby posts by where the role is based.

United States36.4%

United States36.4%4

Europe (EU)27.3%

Europe (EU)27.3%3

Unspecified27.3%

Unspecified27.3%3

Canada9.1%

Canada9.1%1

Remote Policy

91%remote

Remote

90.9%

Hybrid

9.1%

On-site

0.0%

§ 04Composition

Who hires for Ruby

By Seniority

Roles by level

Junior45.5%

Junior45.5%5

Principal27.3%

Principal27.3%3

By Function

Roles by function

Engineering63.6%

Engineering63.6%7

Other27.3%

Other27.3%3

Product9.1%

Product9.1%1

§ 05Technical Skills

Ruby on Rails is the skill most co-mentioned with Ruby.

#01

Signature Stack

Ruby’s strongest
pairings

Skills with the highest lift when co-listed with Ruby over 2023–Present.

Top-Lift Pairs · 2023–Present

Ruby on Rails

18.8×

MongoDB

8.1×

Kotlin

5.6×

Lift = how much more likely to co-appear than by chance

Common Stacks · Top co-mentioned skills2023–Present

01Ruby on Rails41070%

02React25143%

03JavaScript16328%

04Python15025%

05Go12722%

06PostgreSQL11019%

07TypeScript10017%

08GitHub9616%

09AWS9516%

10Docker9115%

11MongoDB8514%

12Kubernetes8014%

13Kotlin7513%

14Rust7012%

15Terraform6511%

% of Ruby jobs also mentioning the skill · 2023–Present

Peer Comparison · LanguagesWhere Ruby stands among languages

SkillMentionsYoYMarket share

Python

38+15%

7.1%

TypeScript

30-27%

5.6%

14-6.7%

2.6%

Rust

13+160%

2.4%

GraphQL

8+60%

1.5%

SQL

8+60%

1.5%

JavaScript

7-30%

1.3%

C++

5-17%

0.9%

4-20%

0.7%

HTML/CSS

3-40%

0.6%

Rubyyou are here

1-50%

0.2%

Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill · September 2026

§ 06Sponsorship

Visa support stays a minority signal across the thread.

Visa Sponsorship

14 posts offer sponsorship

2.6%

Offer sponsorship

142.6%

Explicitly decline

234.3%

Don’t mention

50293.1%

Based on 539 HN job posts in September 2026. Visa policy is not broken down per language — these rates cover all postings in the thread.