Ruby Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Ruby
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol 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 63 66 77
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +24
Contract jobs citing Ruby 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.62% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.40% 0.47% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £649 - -
25th Percentile - £763 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £775 £725
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +6.90% -7.94%
75th Percentile £714 £788 £738
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £650 £650 £466
% change year-on-year - +39.63% -31.04%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 208 213 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 25.87% 28.51% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 90 185
10th Percentile £310 £355 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £624
90th Percentile £639 £676 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 54 40
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £55.88
25th Percentile - £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -0.76%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in Bristol

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Ruby

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Argo
3 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat