Ray Contract Job Trends in England

Ray
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Ray skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 466 564
Rank change year-on-year -78 +98 +156
Contract jobs citing Ray 2 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.034% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.029% 0.15% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £815 -
25th Percentile - £819 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £850 £375
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +126.67% -40.00%
75th Percentile - £913 £388
90th Percentile - £935 -
UK median daily rate £663 £850 £375
% change year-on-year -21.97% +126.67% -40.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Ray falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,940 5,824 7,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.16% 21.91% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,633 3,724 5,599
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £636 £663 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 68 164
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.87
25th Percentile £44.63 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.48 £74.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%

Ray
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Ray job vacancy trend in England

Ray
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ray.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ray

Ray
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ray within the England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
London -41 2 £600 -29.41% 4
Ray
UK

Ray
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) ClickHouse
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) HiveQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP