Ruby Contracts in Cheshire

Ruby
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 51 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Ruby 7 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.56% 1.39% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.26% 5.43% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 12
10th Percentile £412 £566 £307
25th Percentile £474 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £582 £326
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +78.53% -
75th Percentile £520 - £624
90th Percentile £542 £583 £676
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £615
% change year-on-year +11.11% -26.83% -1.60%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 129 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.62% 25.60% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 146
10th Percentile £323 £311 £315
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in Cheshire

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in Cheshire

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in Cheshire

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -6 5 £492 -15.46% 2
Ruby
North West

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Database Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Database Security
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 1 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Imperva
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk