Ruby on Rails Contracts in the North West

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Ruby on Rails skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 157 170
Rank change year-on-year +25 +13 -31
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 5 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.094% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 0.51% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile - £453 £570
25th Percentile - £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% - +92.31%
75th Percentile - £656 £669
90th Percentile - £668 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

Ruby on Rails is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 504 591 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.24% 18.50% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 464 748
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £588 £577 £588
90th Percentile £740 £647 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £39.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £41.40 £25.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £45.00 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% +10.80% +19.46%
75th Percentile £71.87 - £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails in the North West

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the North West

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the North West

Ruby on Rails
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Lancashire - 3 - -
Merseyside - 2 £350 - 1
Ruby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Ruby