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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 368 347
Rank change year-on-year -86 -21 -46
Contract jobs citing Ruby 107 116 215
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.44% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 1.33% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 82 169
10th Percentile £369 £324 £425
25th Percentile £500 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.14% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £645 £772 £625
90th Percentile £656 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £44.50 -

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 10,224 8,733 11,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.10% 33.49% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,793 5,629 7,964
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £660
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 203 471
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 February 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
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 February 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 -56 67 £624 +6.21% 20
North of England -51 23 £537 +34.25% 2
Yorkshire -49 11 £525 +5.00%
North West -24 10 £638 +68.65% 2
South West -16 6 £650 -16.13% 2
North East - 4 £498 -
West Midlands -55 3 - - 1
Midlands -58 3 - - 2
East of England -23 2 £469 - 1
South East -31 1 £500 -9.09% 6
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 (1.87%) CMS
1 2 (1.87%) Drupal
2 1 (0.93%) nginx
2 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.93%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (47.66%) AWS
2 25 (23.36%) GitHub
3 20 (18.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (18.69%) Azure
4 17 (15.89%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (15.89%) Serverless
5 14 (13.08%) GCP
6 13 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (9.35%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.54%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.54%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.87%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (1.87%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.93%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.93%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) DNS
2 5 (4.67%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (3.74%) Firewall
4 1 (0.93%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.41%) Data Hub
3 6 (5.61%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.80%) MySQL
6 1 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (43.93%) Git
2 12 (11.21%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.28%) GitLab
3 11 (10.28%) JIRA
4 7 (6.54%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.67%) Postman
6 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.80%) Hudson
7 3 (2.80%) Selenium
7 3 (2.80%) Subversion
8 2 (1.87%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (1.87%) JMeter
8 2 (1.87%) Newman
8 2 (1.87%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.93%) Snyk
9 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (33.64%) Public Sector
2 34 (31.78%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.48%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.61%) Finance
5 4 (3.74%) Banking
5 4 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (43.93%) Developer
2 28 (26.17%) Senior
3 21 (19.63%) Ruby Developer
4 19 (17.76%) Senior Developer
5 15 (14.02%) Lead
6 11 (10.28%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 9 (8.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (8.41%) Site Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Software Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Architect
8 8 (7.48%) Python Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Senior Software Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Technical Architect
9 7 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.56%) Node.js
1 22 (20.56%) Ruby on Rails
2 13 (12.15%) CSS
2 13 (12.15%) HTML
2 13 (12.15%) React
3 12 (11.21%) Web Services
4 11 (10.28%) Spring
5 9 (8.41%) YAML
6 8 (7.48%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.48%) Vue
7 6 (5.61%) RESTful
8 5 (4.67%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.80%) .NET
10 2 (1.87%) ADO
10 2 (1.87%) Drush
10 2 (1.87%) Playwright
11 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.93%) REST
11 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.87%) NHS
5 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.91%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) CentOS
2 8 (7.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.87%) VMS
4 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (51.40%) CI/CD
2 40 (37.38%) Agile
3 39 (36.45%) Containerisation
4 38 (35.51%) DevOps
5 31 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (23.36%) Microservices
6 25 (23.36%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (16.82%) Software Engineering
9 15 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (14.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (13.08%) Observability
11 13 (12.15%) Code Quality
12 12 (11.21%) TDD
13 11 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.28%) Design Patterns
13 11 (10.28%) Open Source
13 11 (10.28%) Test Automation
14 10 (9.35%) Roadmaps
15 8 (7.48%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 75 (70.09%) Python
2 28 (26.17%) Java
3 24 (22.43%) JavaScript
4 14 (13.08%) Perl
5 13 (12.15%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.74%) Go
6 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.74%) SQL
7 3 (2.80%) Bash
8 2 (1.87%) C#
8 2 (1.87%) C++
8 2 (1.87%) PHP
8 2 (1.87%) Rust
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (41.12%) Security Cleared
2 42 (39.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (8.41%) Degree
5 8 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.48%) RHCE
6 5 (4.67%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (32.71%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.74%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.93%) GPFS
4 1 (0.93%) Lustre
4 1 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (47.66%) Kubernetes
2 27 (25.23%) Terraform
3 10 (9.35%) Ansible
4 9 (8.41%) Puppet
5 8 (7.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.93%) Consul
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.93%) Nessus
6 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.93%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (15.89%) Red Hat
2 9 (8.41%) Google
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.74%) Oracle
5 2 (1.87%) Brio
5 2 (1.87%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Databricks
6 1 (0.93%) Genesys
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.93%) VMware