Ruby Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Ruby
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ruby 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 0.48% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median daily rate £450 - -

All Programming Languages
Belfast

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 47 45 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 22.49% 28.13% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 30
10th Percentile £309 £293 £200
25th Percentile £400 £434 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £611 £522 £500
90th Percentile £690 £560 £543
County Antrim median daily rate £456 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -3.95% +18.75% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £16.12
Median % change year-on-year - +163.65% -
County Antrim median hourly rate - £42.50 £16.12
% change year-on-year - +163.65% -

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ruby relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Ruby job vacancy trend in Belfast

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Ruby

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD