Ruby Contract Job Trends in England

Ruby
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 433 370
Rank change year-on-year -144 -63 -4
Contract jobs citing Ruby 58 90 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.32% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.48% 0.98% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 72 116
10th Percentile £400 £331 £337
25th Percentile £456 £379 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -9.61% -1.88%
75th Percentile £606 £620 £691
90th Percentile £640 £673 £810
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £550
% change year-on-year +1.63% -10.55% -5.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £35.65 - £53.39
25th Percentile £43.38 £53.00 £54.73
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.00 £58.22
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -3.80% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £59.00 £60.45
90th Percentile £59.95 - £61.04
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £56.00 £58.22
% change year-on-year -11.16% -3.80% -

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,027 9,170 10,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.94% 32.84% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,804 6,185 7,158
10th Percentile £363 £349 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.88% -3.74% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 260 309
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.44 £48.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -
75th Percentile £70.88 £67.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £76.50 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in England

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ruby

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in England over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in England

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ruby

Ruby
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ruby in England over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Ruby in England

Ruby
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 September 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 -95 41 £478 -9.05% 121
Yorkshire -43 5 £493 +7.18% 4
North of England -80 5 £493 +29.61% 23
South East -69 2 £450 -10.00% 22
South West -35 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 - - 1
Ruby
UK

Ruby
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 4 (6.90%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
2 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (5.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) AWS
2 15 (25.86%) GitHub
3 10 (17.24%) GCP
4 9 (15.52%) Azure
5 8 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.34%) PaaS
7 4 (6.90%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (6.90%) Sentry
8 3 (5.17%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (5.17%) IaaS
9 2 (3.45%) Serverless
10 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.72%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (1.72%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.72%) Network Security
3 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.34%) Redis
3 4 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.90%) MySQL
4 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Git
2 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) Cucumber
3 5 (8.62%) Selenium
4 4 (6.90%) CircleCI
4 4 (6.90%) Postman
5 3 (5.17%) RSpec
5 3 (5.17%) Xcode
6 2 (3.45%) Capybara
6 2 (3.45%) GitLab
6 2 (3.45%) JIRA
6 2 (3.45%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.72%) JMeter
7 1 (1.72%) JUnit
7 1 (1.72%) Maven
7 1 (1.72%) Newman
7 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.72%) TestNG
7 1 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (29.31%) Public Sector
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Finance
6 1 (1.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Developer
2 19 (32.76%) Senior
3 12 (20.69%) Senior Developer
4 10 (17.24%) Ruby Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Architect
5 6 (10.34%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (5.17%) iOS Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (24.14%) RESTful
3 11 (18.97%) Node.js
4 8 (13.79%) FastAPI
5 7 (12.07%) Django
5 7 (12.07%) REST
5 7 (12.07%) Terraform
6 6 (10.34%) GraphQL
6 6 (10.34%) Nunjucks
7 4 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (6.90%) Kafka
7 4 (6.90%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (6.90%) Spring
7 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
8 3 (5.17%) CSS
8 3 (5.17%) HTML
8 3 (5.17%) SwiftUI
9 2 (3.45%) LangChain
9 2 (3.45%) Phoenix
9 2 (3.45%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (15.52%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.17%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.72%) Clustering
6 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.72%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.72%) PKI
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Unix
3 3 (5.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.45%) Debian
4 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (46.55%) CI/CD
2 19 (32.76%) TDD
3 17 (29.31%) Agile
3 17 (29.31%) Software Engineering
4 14 (24.14%) DevOps
4 14 (24.14%) Microservices
5 12 (20.69%) Observability
6 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
6 11 (18.97%) Test Automation
7 10 (17.24%) AI
7 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.52%) Code Quality
8 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (13.79%) BDD
9 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (12.07%) Data Modelling
10 7 (12.07%) ERP
10 7 (12.07%) Migration
11 6 (10.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (53.45%) Python
2 20 (34.48%) Java
3 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
4 14 (24.14%) SQL
4 14 (24.14%) TypeScript
5 11 (18.97%) Bash
6 7 (12.07%) Go
7 6 (10.34%) Rust
8 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (6.90%) C#
9 4 (6.90%) Perl
9 4 (6.90%) PL/SQL
10 3 (5.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (5.17%) Objective-C
10 3 (5.17%) Swift
11 2 (3.45%) Elixir
11 2 (3.45%) Scala
12 1 (1.72%) C++
12 1 (1.72%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Degree
4 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.62%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) FedRAMP
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Postfix
2 3 (5.17%) Varnish
3 2 (3.45%) NFS
3 2 (3.45%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.72%) GPFS
4 1 (1.72%) Lustre
4 1 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.52%) Ansible
3 8 (13.79%) Prometheus
4 7 (12.07%) Grafana
5 6 (10.34%) Kibana
6 4 (6.90%) Consul
7 3 (5.17%) HAProxy
8 2 (3.45%) logstash
8 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.45%) Puppet
9 1 (1.72%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Oracle
2 4 (6.90%) Splunk
3 3 (5.17%) Checkmarx
3 3 (5.17%) New Relic
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) Google