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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 55 55
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -
Contract jobs citing Ruby 10 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.07% 0.19% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.37% 0.78% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £375 - £305
25th Percentile £444 £463 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £326
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% +45.93% -
75th Percentile £520 £488 £326
90th Percentile £533 - £472
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -12.00%

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 157 128 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.44% 24.11% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 104 131
10th Percentile £324 £313 £325
25th Percentile £358 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £494 £580 £575
90th Percentile £599 £614 £638
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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% +73.91%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £80.75 £48.43 £46.18
% change year-on-year +66.74% +4.87% -10.07%

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 29 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 29 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 - 8 £492 - 4
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Gradle
2 3 (30.00%) Xcode
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Database Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Android
3 3 (30.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) BDD
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (30.00%) iOS Development
3 3 (30.00%) Mobile Development
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) UX Design
4 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (30.00%) C
3 3 (30.00%) C++
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Kotlin
3 3 (30.00%) Objective-C
3 3 (30.00%) Scala
3 3 (30.00%) Swift
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Imperva
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk