Ruby Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Ruby
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 118 123
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Ruby 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.47% 0.47% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £453 £321 £480
25th Percentile £454 £341 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £469 £431 £619
90th Percentile - £435 £690
Central London median daily rate £463 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +12.12% -17.50% -16.67%

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 643 642 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.89% 37.09% 35.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 451 503
10th Percentile £400 £385 £401
25th Percentile £459 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.87% -3.05%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.22% -4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 3
10th Percentile £15.55 £22.05 £51.80
25th Percentile £25.14 £26.00 £74.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -69.64% +796.00%
75th Percentile £46.87 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £61.49 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year -12.22% +2.94% +232.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the City of London

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ruby

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ruby.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ruby

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 3 (100.00%) ERP
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Thinking
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle