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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 111 118
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing Ruby 6 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.25% 0.41% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.01% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile - £328 £425
25th Percentile £453 £358 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.30% -13.16% -19.76%
75th Percentile £468 £488 £606
90th Percentile £487 £578 £685
Central London median daily rate £455 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +7.06% -10.53% -20.83%

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 627 694 782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.92% 40.16% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 468 549
10th Percentile £363 £404 £411
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £690
90th Percentile £763 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £26.32 £25.45 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £38.88 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.87% -7.62%
75th Percentile £56.11 £76.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 £83.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £51.44 £48.50
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.06% -7.62%

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 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Phoenix
1 1 (16.67%) Phoenix Framework
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 3 (50.00%) API Design
3 3 (50.00%) Community of Practice
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (50.00%) ERP
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Google