Ruby on Rails Contracts

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 530 590
Rank change year-on-year +30 +60 +24
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 26 60 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.67% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 78
10th Percentile £412 £350 £421
25th Percentile £422 £394 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £615 £538 £675
90th Percentile £675 £575 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £700
% change year-on-year - -35.71% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Ruby on Rails falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,621 8,922 13,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.63% 20.75% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,555 6,182 9,788
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 244 156
10th Percentile £29.45 £21.25 £30.38
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.79 £74.85 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +24.27%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ruby on Rails as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. 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
England +44 21 £463 -4.84% 211
London +14 13 £450 -10.00% 133
Work from Home +32 10 £450 -6.35% 185
UK excluding London +43 6 £450 - 118
West Midlands +20 2 £413 -58.71%
North of England +16 2 £500 +42.86% 47
Midlands +16 2 £413 -58.71%
North West +10 2 £500 +42.86% 38
South East +42 1 £450 - 58
Wales +3 1 £425 -12.82%

Ruby on Rails
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.85%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (15.38%) MySQL
2 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
4 1 (3.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
General
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Ruby Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Senior
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Ruby Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) CSS
1 4 (15.38%) HTML
1 4 (15.38%) React
2 3 (11.54%) Django
2 3 (11.54%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.69%) Blazor
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) OO
2 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
3 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 4 (15.38%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (15.38%) OOP
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (7.69%) Active Record
7 2 (7.69%) API Design
7 2 (7.69%) API Development
7 2 (7.69%) Code Quality
7 2 (7.69%) Customer Experience
7 2 (7.69%) Event-Driven
7 2 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (7.69%) Fintech
7 2 (7.69%) Front End Development
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (7.69%) Insurtech
7 2 (7.69%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Ruby
2 7 (26.92%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.69%) Rust
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle