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 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 401 409
Rank change year-on-year -125 +8 -74
Contract jobs citing Ruby 89 105 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 1.16% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 80 90
10th Percentile £431 £332 £395
25th Percentile £454 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £597 £613 £638
90th Percentile £625 £675 £809
UK median daily rate £479 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.20% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £35.65 £40.63 £53.39
25th Percentile £43.38 £42.69 £54.73
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.25 £58.22
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -13.68% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £56.69 £60.45
90th Percentile £59.95 £58.08 £61.04
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £50.25 £58.22
% change year-on-year +14.43% -13.68% -

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 12,058 9,070 11,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.75% 33.25% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 6,249 8,186
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £737 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 232 464
10th Percentile £34.57 £28.48 £35.74
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.25 £49.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -10.66% +3.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 July 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -53 69 £513 -2.33% 30
North of England -84 12 £500 +3.14% 18
Yorkshire -44 11 £500 +35.57% 2
East of England -22 3 - - 2
North East - 2 £450 - 9
South West -35 1 - -
North West -58 1 - - 7
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 5 (5.62%) Apache
2 2 (2.25%) CMS
3 1 (1.12%) nginx
3 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.49%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (41.57%) AWS
2 24 (26.97%) GitHub
3 14 (15.73%) Azure
4 13 (14.61%) PaaS
5 12 (13.48%) GCP
6 9 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.74%) Serverless
8 5 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.49%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (4.49%) IaaS
9 4 (4.49%) Sentry
10 2 (2.25%) Dataform
10 2 (2.25%) Figma
10 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.12%) Heroku
11 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) DNS
2 2 (2.25%) Network Security
2 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.12%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.37%) MySQL
2 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.25%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.25%) Redis
3 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.12%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (22.47%) Git
2 9 (10.11%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.87%) GitLab
4 6 (6.74%) Selenium
5 4 (4.49%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.49%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.49%) Postman
6 3 (3.37%) Xcode
7 2 (2.25%) JIRA
7 2 (2.25%) RSpec
7 2 (2.25%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.12%) Capybara
8 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.12%) JMeter
8 1 (1.12%) JUnit
8 1 (1.12%) Maven
8 1 (1.12%) minitest
8 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.12%) TestNG
8 1 (1.12%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (38.20%) Public Sector
2 23 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.49%) Banking
6 4 (4.49%) Finance
7 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Legal
7 2 (2.25%) Military
8 1 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (42.70%) Developer
2 28 (31.46%) Senior
3 17 (19.10%) Ruby Developer
3 17 (19.10%) Senior Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Architect
5 11 (12.36%) Technical Architect
6 10 (11.24%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 9 (10.11%) Lead
8 6 (6.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (5.62%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Test Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Azure Architect
11 3 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
11 3 (3.37%) iOS Developer
11 3 (3.37%) Senior Manager
11 3 (3.37%) Site Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.85%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (15.73%) Node.js
3 9 (10.11%) RESTful
4 7 (7.87%) Spring
5 6 (6.74%) CSS
5 6 (6.74%) HTML
5 6 (6.74%) Nunjucks
6 5 (5.62%) REST
6 5 (5.62%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.49%) Django
7 4 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (4.49%) FastAPI
7 4 (4.49%) Kafka
8 3 (3.37%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.37%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.37%) Phoenix
8 3 (3.37%) Phoenix Framework
8 3 (3.37%) SwiftUI
8 3 (3.37%) YAML
9 2 (2.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.09%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (17.98%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.62%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.12%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.48%) Linux
2 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
2 4 (4.49%) Unix
3 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.25%) CentOS
4 2 (2.25%) Debian
4 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.25%) VMS
5 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (44.94%) CI/CD
2 28 (31.46%) Microservices
3 26 (29.21%) TDD
4 25 (28.09%) Agile
5 22 (24.72%) Containerisation
5 22 (24.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (21.35%) Observability
6 19 (21.35%) Software Engineering
7 18 (20.22%) Test Automation
8 17 (19.10%) DevOps
9 15 (16.85%) API Design
9 15 (16.85%) ERP
10 14 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (15.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (13.48%) Data Flow Diagram
11 12 (13.48%) Domain-Driven Design
11 12 (13.48%) Event-Driven
11 12 (13.48%) Mentoring
11 12 (13.48%) Migration
11 12 (13.48%) UML
Programming Languages
1 50 (56.18%) Python
2 30 (33.71%) Java
3 20 (22.47%) JavaScript
4 16 (17.98%) TypeScript
5 15 (16.85%) SQL
6 11 (12.36%) Bash
7 7 (7.87%) Go
7 7 (7.87%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.74%) Perl
9 5 (5.62%) Rust
10 4 (4.49%) Elixir
10 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.37%) C#
11 3 (3.37%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.37%) Objective-C
11 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
11 3 (3.37%) Swift
12 2 (2.25%) Scala
13 1 (1.12%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (44.94%) Security Cleared
2 31 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.25%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) RHCE
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.98%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.74%) QA
3 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.37%) WCAG
4 2 (2.25%) GDPR
4 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (1.12%) P3O
5 1 (1.12%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (22.47%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) Postfix
2 4 (4.49%) Varnish
3 3 (3.37%) NFS
3 3 (3.37%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.12%) GPFS
4 1 (1.12%) Lustre
4 1 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (21.35%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.22%) Terraform
3 13 (14.61%) Ansible
4 9 (10.11%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.99%) Grafana
6 6 (6.74%) Kibana
7 5 (5.62%) Puppet
8 4 (4.49%) HAProxy
9 3 (3.37%) Consul
9 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.25%) logstash
11 1 (1.12%) Nessus
11 1 (1.12%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (16.85%) Oracle
2 5 (5.62%) Google
2 5 (5.62%) Splunk
3 3 (3.37%) Checkmarx
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.37%) New Relic
3 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.12%) SaltStack