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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 260 266
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 -44
Contract jobs citing Ruby 100 252 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.97% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.56% 2.42% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 165 303
10th Percentile £350 £435 £438
25th Percentile £417 £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 £670
90th Percentile £780 £738 £749
England median daily rate £519 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -12.82% +3.48% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.22%

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 6,395 10,434 16,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.63% 40.32% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,885 7,812 12,407
10th Percentile £381 £413 £416
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 £835 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 113
10th Percentile £23.80 £30.30 £31.05
25th Percentile £40.77 £49.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 0 6 £475 -17.39% 7
South London +3 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 9 (9.00%) Apache
2 7 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.00%) WordPress
4 3 (3.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (2.00%) Apache Solr
5 2 (2.00%) CMS
6 1 (1.00%) Confluence
6 1 (1.00%) Ethereum
6 1 (1.00%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.00%) AWS
2 20 (20.00%) GCP
3 17 (17.00%) Azure
4 12 (12.00%) GitHub
5 7 (7.00%) dbt
6 4 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.00%) Akamai
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.00%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.00%) IaaS
8 2 (2.00%) PaaS
8 2 (2.00%) Serverless
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.00%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.00%) BigCommerce
9 1 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) DNS
1 5 (5.00%) Intranet
2 3 (3.00%) DHCP
2 3 (3.00%) Firewall
3 2 (2.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.00%) Internet
3 2 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (2.00%) Wireless
4 1 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) MySQL
2 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.00%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (7.00%) Apache Arrow
3 7 (7.00%) Apache Ignite
3 7 (7.00%) Dremio
4 3 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (3.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.00%) Redis
5 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) Git
2 8 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.00%) JIRA
4 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.00%) GitLab
4 2 (2.00%) JUnit
4 2 (2.00%) Maven
4 2 (2.00%) Postman
4 2 (2.00%) Selenium
4 2 (2.00%) TestNG
4 2 (2.00%) Travis CI
4 2 (2.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (2.00%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.00%) Subversion
5 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.00%) Finance
2 12 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.00%) Banking
4 8 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.00%) Front Office
6 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Legal
8 1 (1.00%) Marketing
8 1 (1.00%) Military
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (51.00%) Developer
2 25 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
3 10 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 9 (9.00%) Lead
5 8 (8.00%) Senior
6 7 (7.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 7 (7.00%) Software Developer
7 6 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Architect
8 5 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.00%) React Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 4 (4.00%) WordPress Developer
10 3 (3.00%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (33.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 12 (12.00%) .NET
3 10 (10.00%) CSS
3 10 (10.00%) HTML
4 8 (8.00%) React
5 7 (7.00%) gRPC
5 7 (7.00%) Node.js
5 7 (7.00%) NumPy
5 7 (7.00%) Pandas
5 7 (7.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (7.00%) SciPy
6 6 (6.00%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.00%) Kafka
7 4 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (4.00%) REST
7 4 (4.00%) RESTful
8 3 (3.00%) Web Services
9 2 (2.00%) LDAP
10 1 (1.00%) jQuery
10 1 (1.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.00%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (6.00%) Derivative
3 6 (6.00%) Equities
3 6 (6.00%) Fixed Income
3 6 (6.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (6.00%) Hedge funds
4 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.00%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.00%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Linux
1 3 (3.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.00%) Unix
2 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.00%) Agile
2 25 (25.00%) DevOps
3 20 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 19 (19.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
5 10 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (9.00%) Analytics
6 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (9.00%) Mentoring
7 8 (8.00%) Asset Management
7 8 (8.00%) Open Source
8 7 (7.00%) Configuration Management
8 7 (7.00%) Data Architecture
8 7 (7.00%) Microservices
8 7 (7.00%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (7.00%) Test Automation
9 6 (6.00%) Investment Management
9 6 (6.00%) Product Management
9 6 (6.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.00%) Python
2 32 (32.00%) Java
3 28 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 25 (25.00%) Go
5 12 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.00%) Bash
7 8 (8.00%) C#
7 8 (8.00%) Scala
8 7 (7.00%) Perl
9 6 (6.00%) SQL
10 5 (5.00%) PHP
10 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
11 4 (4.00%) Rust
12 3 (3.00%) C++
12 3 (3.00%) Groovy
13 2 (2.00%) C
14 1 (1.00%) Korn
14 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 1 (1.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.00%) Degree
3 2 (2.00%) CCNP
3 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.00%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.00%) OSCP
4 1 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (1.00%) COPPA
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.00%) NIST
3 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.00%) Firmware
2 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (16.00%) Terraform
2 12 (12.00%) Ansible
2 12 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.00%) Progress Chef
3 8 (8.00%) Puppet
4 4 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.00%) Opsgenie
6 2 (2.00%) Grafana
7 1 (1.00%) HP ALM
7 1 (1.00%) Kibana
7 1 (1.00%) logstash
7 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.00%) Salt
7 1 (1.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (9.00%) Virgin Media
2 8 (8.00%) Splunk
3 5 (5.00%) PagerDuty
4 4 (4.00%) Cisco
5 3 (3.00%) Adobe
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.00%) SAP
6 2 (2.00%) AlgoSec
6 2 (2.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.00%) F5
6 2 (2.00%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.00%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.00%) New Relic
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle
7 1 (1.00%) Rollbar
7 1 (1.00%) Terracotta
7 1 (1.00%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.00%) Turbonomic