Ruby Contracts in Scotland

Ruby
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 119 162 151
Rank change year-on-year +43 -11 -4
Contract jobs citing Ruby 12 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.54% 0.070% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 0.20% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 14
10th Percentile £435 £455 £325
25th Percentile £531 £463 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +24.50% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £654 £538 £679
90th Percentile £675 £545 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +14.89%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 993 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 723 647
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in Scotland

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby in Scotland

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in Scotland

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 10 £623 - 3
Glasgow +2 1 £700 +40.00% 2
West Lothian +1 1 £650 +30.00%
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Maven
2 9 (75.00%) Gradle
3 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (50.00%) Git
5 2 (16.67%) Capybara
6 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (8.33%) gulp
6 1 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (8.33%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Site Manager
1 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) React
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (16.67%) WebKit
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Application Security
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (50.00%) OWASP
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (41.67%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (16.67%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
7 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 2 (16.67%) User Experience
7 2 (16.67%) UX Design
8 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
8 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (8.33%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Bash
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 8 (66.67%) Groovy
3 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
4 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (16.67%) Go
7 1 (8.33%) C#
7 1 (8.33%) Elixir
7 1 (8.33%) PHP
7 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (8.33%) SQL
7 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (83.33%) Terraform
3 8 (66.67%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) VMware