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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 89 120
Rank change year-on-year -4 +31 +14
Contract jobs citing Ruby 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.070% 0.053%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% 0.30% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £342 - -
25th Percentile £386 - £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £700 £495
Median % change year-on-year -33.04% +41.41% -19.18%
75th Percentile £548 - £518
90th Percentile £591 - -
England median daily rate £520 £575 £586
% change year-on-year -9.61% -1.88% -2.33%

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 408 337 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.18% 23.52% 28.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 152 297
10th Percentile £322 £298 £312
25th Percentile £419 £330 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £693
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 64 111
10th Percentile £33.70 £48.63 £53.75
25th Percentile £52.39 £59.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.80% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72.81 £67.50 £84.36
90th Percentile £78.25 £81.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the East of England

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 18 October 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 £469 -
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 (50.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) GPFS
2 1 (50.00%) Lustre
2 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Salt
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform