Senior Ruby on Rails Developer Contract Job Trends in Brighton

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer (Senior RoR Developer)
East Sussex > Brighton

The median Senior Ruby on Rails Developer (Senior RoR Developer) daily rate in Brighton is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Brighton 2.04% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Sussex median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Brighton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Brighton. 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 Brighton with a recognized job title 49 42 47
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 76.36% 97.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 35
10th Percentile £220 £319 £380
25th Percentile £350 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% +5.88% -34.62%
75th Percentile £606 £498 £489
90th Percentile £630 £675 £618
East Sussex median daily rate £483 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +7.33% -1.10% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 0
10th Percentile - £18.04 -
25th Percentile £61.87 £20.61 -
Median hourly rate £63.73 £26.29 -
Median % change year-on-year +142.46% - -
75th Percentile £65.60 £31.24 -
90th Percentile - £32.12 -
East Sussex median hourly rate £63.73 £16.07 £52.50
% change year-on-year +296.52% -69.39% +150.30%

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Ruby on Rails Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton.

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer job vacancy trend in Brighton

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton

For the 6 months to 7 August 2026, Senior Ruby on Rails Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Brighton region featuring Senior Ruby on Rails Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton 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
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA