Ruby Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Ruby
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 85 113
Rank change year-on-year -29 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing Ruby 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.19% 0.051%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 0.62% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 434 322 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.52% 31.32% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 180 183
10th Percentile £342 £312 £315
25th Percentile £413 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £573
90th Percentile £650 £650 £635
England median daily rate £513 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -1.30% -3.30% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 55 153
10th Percentile £56.18 £31.64 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £53.13 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £74.25 £82.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £88.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the East of England

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ruby

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ruby.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ruby

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. 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
Norfolk - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 1
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) Data Vault
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Grid Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) GPFS
1 1 (33.33%) Lustre
1 1 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Consul
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle