Senior Ruby Developer Contracts in Belfast

Senior Ruby Developer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Senior Ruby Developer daily rate in Belfast is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Ruby Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 0.49% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% - -
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 Contract IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Belfast. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Belfast with a recognized job title 179 109 128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 90.08% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 66 65
10th Percentile £260 £155 £164
25th Percentile £325 £200 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% +7.81% -15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £533
90th Percentile £625 £626 £614
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £431 £400
% change year-on-year +10.14% +7.81% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 6
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £13.60 £14.48 £13.40
Median hourly rate £15.05 £22.56 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -33.29% +62.19% +32.48%
75th Percentile £21.31 £24.18 £16.77
90th Percentile £25.42 - £17.86
County Antrim median hourly rate £15.33 £24.18 £13.91
% change year-on-year -36.60% +73.83% +26.63%

Senior Ruby Developer Skill Set
Top 8 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 17 August 2025, Senior Ruby Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Belfast region featuring Senior Ruby Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development

Senior Ruby Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
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
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby