Ruby Contracts in the North of England

Ruby
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 154 196
Rank change year-on-year -9 +42 -51
Contract jobs citing Ruby 20 58 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.43% 1.02% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 3.50% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 48 40
10th Percentile £356 £326 £496
25th Percentile £413 £472 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +38.89%
75th Percentile £558 £682 £650
90th Percentile £582 £700 £689
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +14.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,182 1,655 2,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.28% 29.11% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,216 1,720
10th Percentile £324 £350 £326
25th Percentile £400 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 29 40
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £38.50 £18.47
Median hourly rate £47.75 £49.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +46.27% +28.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £52.03
90th Percentile £74.97 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the North of England

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the North of England

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the North of England

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the North of England

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West -9 15 £450 -26.83% 5
Yorkshire +6 5 £600 -14.29% 5
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (25.00%) nginx
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (15.00%) Jupyter
3 2 (10.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (25.00%) GCP
3 4 (20.00%) CloudBees
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) DSL
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.00%) ClickHouse
2 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) GitLab
3 3 (15.00%) Git
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cassandra Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Cassandra Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Database Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior UX Designer
6 1 (5.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Beam
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) Keycloak
3 2 (10.00%) cloud-init
4 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Clustering
1 2 (10.00%) PKI
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) CentOS
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Configuration Management
2 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.00%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Open Source
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) Go
3 4 (20.00%) Groovy
3 4 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) Scala
4 3 (15.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Ansible
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (20.00%) Puppet
4 3 (15.00%) Grafana
5 2 (10.00%) CFEngine
5 2 (10.00%) Consul
5 2 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (10.00%) Graphite
5 2 (10.00%) HAProxy
5 2 (10.00%) Istio
5 2 (10.00%) linkerd
5 2 (10.00%) Packer
5 2 (10.00%) Podman
5 2 (10.00%) PowerBroker
5 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (10.00%) PagerDuty
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Virgin Media