Ruby Contracts in London

Ruby
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Ruby skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 247 267
Rank change year-on-year -40 +20 -48
Contract jobs citing Ruby 107 274 397
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 1.01% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.68% 2.48% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 184 311
10th Percentile £381 £450 £450
25th Percentile £450 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
England median daily rate £525 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -11.76% +3.48% +14.77%

All Programming Languages
London

Ruby is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,358 11,052 16,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 40.82% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,852 8,230 12,504
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 87 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.70 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £84.25 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in London

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in London.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in London

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in London

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in London.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in London

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +2 6 £475 -17.39% 7
South London +9 1 £475 -5.00%
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (10.28%) Apache
2 8 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.67%) WordPress
4 3 (2.80%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.80%) Confluence
5 2 (1.87%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.87%) CMS
6 1 (0.93%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.93%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.32%) AWS
2 18 (16.82%) GCP
3 14 (13.08%) Azure
3 14 (13.08%) GitHub
4 8 (7.48%) dbt
5 7 (6.54%) SaaS
6 4 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.80%) Akamai
7 3 (2.80%) IaaS
7 3 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.80%) PaaS
7 3 (2.80%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.87%) Serverless
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.93%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) DNS
2 5 (4.67%) Intranet
3 4 (3.74%) DHCP
4 3 (2.80%) Firewall
4 3 (2.80%) HTTP
4 3 (2.80%) Internet
5 2 (1.87%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.87%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.87%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.87%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.87%) Wireless
6 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.93%) VSAN
6 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.08%) MySQL
2 11 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.48%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (7.48%) Apache Arrow
3 8 (7.48%) Apache Ignite
3 8 (7.48%) Dremio
4 4 (3.74%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.80%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.80%) Redis
6 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.54%) JIRA
3 4 (3.74%) GitLab
4 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.87%) JUnit
4 2 (1.87%) Maven
4 2 (1.87%) Postman
4 2 (1.87%) Selenium
4 2 (1.87%) TestNG
4 2 (1.87%) WebDriver
4 2 (1.87%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.93%) Subversion
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (16.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.02%) Finance
3 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
4 13 (12.15%) Banking
5 11 (10.28%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.48%) Front Office
7 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.80%) German Language
9 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Police
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (53.27%) Developer
2 31 (28.97%) Ruby Developer
3 12 (11.21%) Senior
4 10 (9.35%) Lead
4 10 (9.35%) Senior Developer
5 9 (8.41%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 8 (7.48%) Software Developer
7 7 (6.54%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 7 (6.54%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Architect
10 4 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) React Developer
10 4 (3.74%) WordPress Developer
11 3 (2.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (32.71%) Ruby on Rails
2 13 (12.15%) CSS
2 13 (12.15%) HTML
3 12 (11.21%) .NET
4 10 (9.35%) Node.js
4 10 (9.35%) React
5 8 (7.48%) gRPC
5 8 (7.48%) NumPy
5 8 (7.48%) Pandas
5 8 (7.48%) Protocol Buffers
5 8 (7.48%) SciPy
6 7 (6.54%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.54%) REST
7 5 (4.67%) Kafka
8 4 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.74%) RESTful
9 3 (2.80%) OAuth
9 3 (2.80%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.80%) OpenID
9 3 (2.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.35%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.61%) Derivative
2 6 (5.61%) Equities
2 6 (5.61%) Fixed Income
2 6 (5.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.61%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.87%) Social Media
6 1 (0.93%) CBDC
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Linux
1 6 (5.61%) Windows
1 6 (5.61%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Rocky
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.10%) Agile
2 26 (24.30%) DevOps
3 21 (19.63%) Software Engineering
4 19 (17.76%) CI/CD
5 14 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (11.21%) Containerisation
7 11 (10.28%) Asset Management
7 11 (10.28%) Microservices
8 10 (9.35%) Analytics
8 10 (9.35%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (9.35%) Mentoring
9 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (8.41%) Product Management
9 9 (8.41%) Test Automation
10 8 (7.48%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (7.48%) Data Architecture
10 8 (7.48%) Open Source
10 8 (7.48%) Technology Transformation
11 7 (6.54%) Configuration Management
11 7 (6.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (44.86%) Python
2 39 (36.45%) Java
3 28 (26.17%) JavaScript
4 21 (19.63%) Go
5 12 (11.21%) C#
5 12 (11.21%) TypeScript
6 11 (10.28%) Bash
7 9 (8.41%) Perl
7 9 (8.41%) Scala
8 8 (7.48%) PHP
9 6 (5.61%) SQL
10 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.74%) Rust
12 3 (2.80%) C++
12 3 (2.80%) Groovy
12 3 (2.80%) Korn
13 2 (1.87%) C
13 2 (1.87%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.93%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 10 (9.35%) SC Cleared
1 10 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.54%) Degree
3 2 (1.87%) CCNP
3 2 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) CREST Certified
4 1 (0.93%) OSCP
4 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.74%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) COPPA
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Docker
2 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.87%) vSphere
4 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (13.08%) Ansible
2 13 (12.15%) Terraform
3 12 (11.21%) Kubernetes
4 11 (10.28%) Puppet
5 8 (7.48%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.74%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.80%) Grafana
7 3 (2.80%) Opsgenie
7 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.93%) Kibana
8 1 (0.93%) logstash
8 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (11.21%) Virgin Media
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.61%) Splunk
3 5 (4.67%) PagerDuty
4 4 (3.74%) Adobe
4 4 (3.74%) Cisco
4 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.74%) SAP
5 3 (2.80%) Sun
5 3 (2.80%) TOWER Software
5 3 (2.80%) VMware
6 2 (1.87%) AlgoSec
6 2 (1.87%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.87%) F5
6 2 (1.87%) Infoblox
6 2 (1.87%) New Relic
7 1 (0.93%) Terracotta
7 1 (0.93%) Turbonomic