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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 368 335
Rank change year-on-year -74 -33 -35
Contract jobs citing Ruby 102 151 257
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.49% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 1.52% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 107 205
10th Percentile £331 £324 £463
25th Percentile £380 £478 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £713
90th Percentile £669 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £586
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.79% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £61.43 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% - -
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £61.43 -
% change year-on-year -8.84% - -

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 9,697 9,965 12,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.40% 32.32% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,464 6,501 9,064
10th Percentile £350 £354 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £781
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 242 419
10th Percentile £31.22 £27.00 £32.24
25th Percentile £46.06 £45.30 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £64.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +4.03% -0.80%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £60.11
% change year-on-year +0.81% +3.15% +0.18%

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 12 November 2025.

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
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 12 November 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
London -27 72 £600 - 71
North of England -42 11 £375 -6.77% 8
North West -18 10 £375 +1.76% 4
South East +9 5 £525 -12.50% 18
South West -18 4 £649 -3.85% 5
Midlands -29 3 - -
West Midlands -30 3 - -
East of England -13 2 £469 -33.04%
Yorkshire -33 1 £550 -4.35% 3
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 2 (1.96%) CMS
1 2 (1.96%) Drupal
2 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.98%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.98%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (37.25%) AWS
2 22 (21.57%) Azure
3 20 (19.61%) GitHub
4 17 (16.67%) GCP
5 11 (10.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (10.78%) OpenShift
5 11 (10.78%) Serverless
6 10 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.94%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.94%) SaaS
13 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) Firewall
2 2 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.98%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.63%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.80%) MySQL
2 10 (9.80%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.94%) Data Hub
5 3 (2.94%) Redis
6 2 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (38.24%) Git
2 17 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.76%) JIRA
4 7 (6.86%) Gradle
4 7 (6.86%) Xcode
5 6 (5.88%) GitLab
6 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.92%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.94%) Selenium
8 2 (1.96%) Vite
8 2 (1.96%) webpack
8 2 (1.96%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.98%) Hudson
9 1 (0.98%) Postman
9 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.98%) Subversion
9 1 (0.98%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.71%) Finance
4 11 (10.78%) Banking
5 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Military
6 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 65 (63.73%) Developer
2 33 (32.35%) Ruby Developer
3 20 (19.61%) Senior
4 15 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (14.71%) Senior Developer
5 11 (10.78%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 8 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) Lead
7 6 (5.88%) iOS Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Lead Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Python Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Ruby Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Software Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Site Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (39.22%) Ruby on Rails
2 34 (33.33%) Node.js
3 21 (20.59%) React
4 20 (19.61%) CSS
4 20 (19.61%) HTML
5 16 (15.69%) RESTful
6 13 (12.75%) GraphQL
7 12 (11.76%) AngularJS
7 12 (11.76%) Web Services
8 11 (10.78%) Spring
9 10 (9.80%) Vue
10 9 (8.82%) .NET
11 8 (7.84%) REST
12 4 (3.92%) Sidekiq
13 3 (2.94%) Django
13 3 (2.94%) Gherkin
13 3 (2.94%) Spring Boot
14 2 (1.96%) ADO
14 2 (1.96%) OAuth
14 2 (1.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Mobile App
2 9 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.86%) Mobile Banking
4 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.92%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.96%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.96%) NHS
8 1 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.98%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.76%) Linux
2 7 (6.86%) Android
2 7 (6.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.98%) Debian
3 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.98%) Unix
3 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (44.12%) Agile
2 35 (34.31%) DevOps
3 26 (25.49%) CI/CD
4 24 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.61%) Containerisation
6 19 (18.63%) Computer Science
6 19 (18.63%) Software Engineering
7 17 (16.67%) Microservices
7 17 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 15 (14.71%) Code Quality
9 14 (13.73%) Scrum
10 13 (12.75%) Front End Development
11 12 (11.76%) TDD
12 11 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (8.82%) OO
13 9 (8.82%) User Experience
13 9 (8.82%) UX Design
13 9 (8.82%) Web Development
14 8 (7.84%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 58 (56.86%) Python
2 36 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 35 (34.31%) Java
4 19 (18.63%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.80%) PHP
6 9 (8.82%) C++
6 9 (8.82%) Kotlin
6 9 (8.82%) SQL
7 8 (7.84%) C
7 8 (7.84%) Scala
8 7 (6.86%) Objective-C
8 7 (6.86%) Swift
9 6 (5.88%) Perl
10 5 (4.90%) Bash
10 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.92%) Go
12 3 (2.94%) C#
13 2 (1.96%) Rust
13 2 (1.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 19 (18.63%) Degree
4 12 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.96%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) QA
1 2 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (31.37%) Docker
2 4 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.98%) GPFS
3 1 (0.98%) Lustre
3 1 (0.98%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (30.39%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.80%) Terraform
3 8 (7.84%) Argo
4 3 (2.94%) Ansible
5 2 (1.96%) Grafana
5 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.98%) Consul
6 1 (0.98%) Graphite
6 1 (0.98%) Kibana
6 1 (0.98%) logstash
6 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.98%) Puppet
6 1 (0.98%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (11.76%) Google
2 8 (7.84%) Red Hat
2 8 (7.84%) Virgin Media
3 5 (4.90%) Oracle
4 4 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.92%) YouTube
5 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.96%) Brio
6 1 (0.98%) Genesys
6 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow