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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 386 398
Rank change year-on-year -98 +12 -71
Contract jobs citing Ruby 105 86 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.04% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 61 99
10th Percentile £413 £363 £350
25th Percentile £475 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £33.13 - -
25th Percentile £37.06 £39.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -19.09% -
75th Percentile £53.06 £49.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £57.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.56% -19.09% -

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 10,932 8,268 10,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.79% 33.79% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,224 5,743 7,900
10th Percentile £353 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.54%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £656
90th Percentile £724 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 535 220 441
10th Percentile £41.94 £26.20 £37.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.18
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.52% +2.03%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -32 74 £575 +15.00% 27
North of England -54 21 £537 +9.93% 22
Yorkshire -49 12 £513 +38.96% 5
North West -41 7 £650 +30.00% 15
North East - 4 £498 - 2
East of England -31 3 - - 3
South West -34 3 £693 +62.94% 2
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 (3.81%) Apache
2 2 (1.90%) CMS
2 2 (1.90%) nginx
3 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.95%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (47.62%) AWS
2 25 (23.81%) GitHub
3 16 (15.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (14.29%) Serverless
5 13 (12.38%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (11.43%) Azure
7 10 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (8.57%) GCP
8 9 (8.57%) PaaS
9 8 (7.62%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (2.86%) IaaS
11 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.90%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (1.90%) Dataform
11 2 (1.90%) Figma
11 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.90%) Sentry
11 2 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.57%) DNS
2 4 (3.81%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.90%) Network Security
4 1 (0.95%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) Data Hub
2 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.86%) MySQL
4 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.90%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.90%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.95%) Metadata
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (31.43%) Git
2 10 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.62%) GitLab
4 7 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.76%) Postman
5 5 (4.76%) Selenium
6 3 (2.86%) JIRA
7 2 (1.90%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (1.90%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.90%) Hudson
7 2 (1.90%) JMeter
7 2 (1.90%) Newman
7 2 (1.90%) Pa11y
7 2 (1.90%) Subversion
8 1 (0.95%) Capybara
8 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.95%) minitest
8 1 (0.95%) RSpec
8 1 (0.95%) Snyk
General
1 40 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 27 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Finance
6 3 (2.86%) Banking
6 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.90%) Legal
7 2 (1.90%) Military
8 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (34.29%) Developer
2 31 (29.52%) Senior
3 18 (17.14%) Architect
3 18 (17.14%) Lead
3 18 (17.14%) Senior Developer
4 16 (15.24%) Ruby Developer
5 15 (14.29%) Technical Architect
6 10 (9.52%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 7 (6.67%) Site Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Technical Leader
10 5 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) Senior Python Developer
11 4 (3.81%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) Ruby on Rails
2 9 (8.57%) CSS
2 9 (8.57%) HTML
2 9 (8.57%) YAML
3 8 (7.62%) Node.js
4 7 (6.67%) Web Services
5 5 (4.76%) Spring
6 4 (3.81%) Gherkin
6 4 (3.81%) React
7 3 (2.86%) AWS CDK
7 3 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.86%) Kafka
7 3 (2.86%) Playwright
7 3 (2.86%) RESTful
7 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.90%) .NET
8 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.90%) Django
8 2 (1.90%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.48%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.86%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.90%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.90%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.95%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (26.67%) Linux
2 10 (9.52%) Ubuntu
3 8 (7.62%) CentOS
3 8 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.86%) Unix
5 2 (1.90%) Debian
5 2 (1.90%) VMS
6 1 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.19%) CI/CD
2 37 (35.24%) Containerisation
3 34 (32.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (26.67%) Agile
5 24 (22.86%) DevOps
5 24 (22.86%) Microservices
6 23 (21.90%) Observability
7 21 (20.00%) TDD
8 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (19.05%) Software Engineering
9 19 (18.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 19 (18.10%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
11 14 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.38%) API Design
12 13 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (11.43%) Data Flow Diagram
13 12 (11.43%) UML
14 11 (10.48%) Data Modelling
14 11 (10.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 71 (67.62%) Python
2 25 (23.81%) Java
3 20 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.52%) Perl
5 9 (8.57%) SQL
6 8 (7.62%) Bash
7 5 (4.76%) Go
7 5 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.81%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.90%) Elixir
10 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.90%) Rust
11 1 (0.95%) C++
11 1 (0.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 39 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (7.62%) RHCE
4 4 (3.81%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.90%) Degree
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) Accessibility
2 10 (9.52%) QA
3 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.86%) WCAG
4 2 (1.90%) GDPR
4 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.95%) NIST
5 1 (0.95%) P3O
5 1 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.86%) NFS
3 3 (2.86%) Postfix
3 3 (2.86%) Sendmail
3 3 (2.86%) Varnish
4 1 (0.95%) GPFS
4 1 (0.95%) Lustre
4 1 (0.95%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (31.43%) Kubernetes
2 31 (29.52%) Terraform
3 16 (15.24%) Ansible
4 10 (9.52%) Puppet
5 6 (5.71%) Grafana
5 6 (5.71%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.81%) HAProxy
6 4 (3.81%) Kibana
7 2 (1.90%) Consul
7 2 (1.90%) logstash
7 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.95%) Nessus
8 1 (0.95%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (9.52%) Oracle
2 9 (8.57%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.81%) Google
5 2 (1.90%) Splunk
6 1 (0.95%) Databricks
6 1 (0.95%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.95%) VMware