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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 109 117
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +29
Contract jobs citing Ruby 5 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.48% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £515 £327 £390
25th Percentile £538 £341 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £371 £600
Median % change year-on-year +61.73% -38.17% -
75th Percentile £647 £407 £625
90th Percentile £660 £425 £678
Central London median daily rate £600 £371 £600
% change year-on-year +61.73% -38.17% -

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 582 676 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.99% 36.52% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 423 592
10th Percentile £356 £413 £405
25th Percentile £425 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £689
90th Percentile £788 £788 £823
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £27.70 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £29.50 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +133.33% -4.48%
75th Percentile £41.50 - £49.88
90th Percentile £45.10 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £76.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -55.70% +59.90% -4.48%

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
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 27 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the City of London

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 1 (20.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Shopify Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS3
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) SOA
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) UML
4 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform