Ruby Contracts in the South East

Ruby
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 206 229
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 -48
Contract jobs citing Ruby 8 14 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.24% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.67% 0.84% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 20
10th Percentile - £401 £341
25th Percentile £425 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% +21.11%
75th Percentile £592 £645 £647
90th Percentile £631 £760 £800
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.22%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,193 1,657 2,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.28% 27.98% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 1,173 1,416
10th Percentile £325 £350 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
England median daily rate £540 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 88
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.25 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £22.18 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.07 £54.98 £46.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% +17.34% +15.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.31
90th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £67.58
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the South East

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the South East

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +8 5 £450 -10.00% 9
Berkshire -6 5 £450 -37.93% 5
Hampshire +8 3 £593 +0.85%
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) SaaS
3 3 (37.50%) Datadog
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (25.00%) IaaS
4 2 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Ruby Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) BDD
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Key Management
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
3 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Nagios
2 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) New Relic
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware