Ruby on Rails Contracts in England

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Ruby on Rails skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 580 592
Rank change year-on-year +77 +12 -137
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 47 85 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.17% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.72% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 66 159
10th Percentile £380 £413 £410
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £628
90th Percentile £605 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £486 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.64% - +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Ruby on Rails is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,511 11,830 19,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.18% 23.22% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,348 8,740 14,514
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £428 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +0.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 139 218
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £21.70
25th Percentile £39.92 £45.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ruby on Rails as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails in England

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails in England.

Daily rate trend for Ruby on Rails in England

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby on Rails in England

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby on Rails in England

Ruby on Rails
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 Ruby on Rails within the England region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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 +95 35 £513 +0.49% 27
North West +18 5 £350 -33.33% 3
North of England +17 5 £350 -50.00% 4
West Midlands +22 3 £999 +42.71% 2
Midlands +21 3 £999 +42.71% 3
South East +19 3 £450 -18.18% 2
Ruby on Rails
UK

Ruby on Rails
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.13%) Ethereum
1 1 (2.13%) Hyperledger
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) AWS
2 4 (8.51%) Azure
3 3 (6.38%) GitHub
3 3 (6.38%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.13%) Heroku
4 1 (2.13%) NuGet
4 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.40%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.51%) MySQL
3 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Git
General
1 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (78.72%) Developer
2 23 (48.94%) Ruby Developer
3 12 (25.53%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 8 (17.02%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (6.38%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Lead
5 3 (6.38%) Team Leader
6 2 (4.26%) Backend Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (4.26%) Senior
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 1 (2.13%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (2.13%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Open Source Developer
7 1 (2.13%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) .NET
2 5 (10.64%) Node.js
3 4 (8.51%) CSS
3 4 (8.51%) HTML
3 4 (8.51%) React
3 4 (8.51%) REST
3 4 (8.51%) RESTful
4 3 (6.38%) Web Services
5 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.13%) jQuery
6 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.13%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Full Stack Development
2 10 (21.28%) Agile
3 5 (10.64%) Microservices
3 5 (10.64%) TDD
3 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
4 4 (8.51%) Containerisation
4 4 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (6.38%) Defect Management
5 3 (6.38%) Front End Development
5 3 (6.38%) Open Source
5 3 (6.38%) OWASP
5 3 (6.38%) Pair Programming
5 3 (6.38%) Software Engineering
5 3 (6.38%) Web Accessibility
6 2 (4.26%) CI/CD
6 2 (4.26%) Decision-Making
6 2 (4.26%) DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) Fintech
6 2 (4.26%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (4.26%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 47 (100.00%) Ruby
2 9 (19.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.64%) Python
4 4 (8.51%) Java
4 4 (8.51%) PHP
5 3 (6.38%) Go
5 3 (6.38%) Rust
6 2 (4.26%) C#
7 1 (2.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.13%) C++
7 1 (2.13%) Perl
7 1 (2.13%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) Splunk