Ruby Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Ruby
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ruby 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.06% - 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.53% - 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £342 - -
25th Percentile £386 - £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - £495
75th Percentile £548 - £518
90th Percentile £591 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £469 - £495

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 79 72 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 41.80% 37.89% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 38 56
10th Percentile £238 £300 £413
25th Percentile £372 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -11.58% -6.86%
75th Percentile £620 £519 £550
90th Percentile £675 £595 £564
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £481 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +13.24% -10.53% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £44.10
25th Percentile £53.55 £51.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £54.70 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £55.85 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +16.67%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in Cambridge

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Ruby

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in Cambridge over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in Cambridge

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Ruby.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Ruby

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (50.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) GPFS
2 1 (50.00%) Lustre
2 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Salt
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform