Ruby Contracts in the City of London

Ruby
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 125 121
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Ruby 6 5 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.33% 0.23% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.83% 0.64% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 16
10th Percentile £328 £425 £463
25th Percentile £358 £444 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -19.15% +6.82%
75th Percentile £488 £606 £644
90th Percentile £578 £685 £731
Central London median daily rate £425 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -10.53% -20.83% +9.09%

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 724 786 1,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.85% 36.75% 40.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 547 914
10th Percentile £404 £406 £420
25th Percentile £467 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £698 £689 £738
90th Percentile £775 £805 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £20.20 - £23.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £78.75 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +6.06% -26.79% +26.19%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the City of London

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the City of London

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the City of London

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (16.67%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Fidessa
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Travis CI
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Ruby Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Derivative
1 1 (16.67%) Equities
1 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (16.67%) API Design
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) CRUD
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) KYC
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) EMIR
1 1 (16.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
1 1 (16.67%) CQG
1 1 (16.67%) ION Trading
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Reuters
1 1 (16.67%) TOWER Software