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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 390 380
Rank change year-on-year -71 -10 -75
Contract jobs citing Ruby 121 86 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.35% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 1.05% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 57 122
10th Percentile £400 £363 £389
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £606
90th Percentile £650 £685 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.81% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £33.13 - -
25th Percentile £37.06 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% - -
75th Percentile £53.06 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £57.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 -
% change year-on-year +0.56% - -

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 10,902 8,205 10,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.20% 33.66% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,285 5,627 7,849
10th Percentile £355 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -4.87%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 213 430
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -27 87 £575 +2.22% 29
North of England -60 22 £537 +41.78% 5
Yorkshire -46 12 £513 +40.96% 1
North West -36 8 £650 +22.64% 4
North East - 4 £498 -
West Midlands -60 3 - -
Midlands -72 3 - - 2
South West -24 2 £693 +15.42% 1
East of England -30 2 - - 2
South East -59 1 £500 - 9
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 (1.65%) Apache
1 2 (1.65%) Drupal
2 1 (0.83%) CMS
2 1 (0.83%) nginx
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (47.93%) AWS
2 23 (19.01%) GitHub
3 21 (17.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (15.70%) Serverless
5 17 (14.05%) Azure
6 15 (12.40%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (10.74%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.26%) GCP
10 8 (6.61%) PaaS
11 7 (5.79%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (1.65%) BlazeMeter
14 2 (1.65%) BrowserStack
14 2 (1.65%) Figma
14 2 (1.65%) IaaS
14 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.26%) DNS
2 5 (4.13%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.65%) Firewall
3 2 (1.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.44%) Data Hub
2 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.96%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.13%) MySQL
4 5 (4.13%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.65%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.65%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.83%) Metadata
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (39.67%) Git
2 12 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.26%) GitLab
4 7 (5.79%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.79%) JIRA
5 5 (4.13%) Postman
6 4 (3.31%) Selenium
7 3 (2.48%) Hudson
7 3 (2.48%) Subversion
8 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.65%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (1.65%) JMeter
8 2 (1.65%) Newman
8 2 (1.65%) Pa11y
8 2 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.83%) Snyk
9 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (37.19%) Public Sector
2 33 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.26%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (6.61%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.13%) Finance
6 4 (3.31%) Banking
7 3 (2.48%) Military
8 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Legal
8 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (35.54%) Developer
2 37 (30.58%) Senior
3 24 (19.83%) Senior Developer
4 20 (16.53%) Lead
5 19 (15.70%) Ruby Developer
6 17 (14.05%) Architect
7 15 (12.40%) Technical Architect
8 14 (11.57%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 10 (8.26%) Site Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (7.44%) Software Developer
11 8 (6.61%) Python Developer
11 8 (6.61%) Senior Software Developer
12 7 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.79%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 7 (5.79%) Senior Python Developer
13 6 (4.96%) Test Engineer
14 5 (4.13%) Software Engineer
14 5 (4.13%) Technical Leader
15 4 (3.31%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.22%) Ruby on Rails
2 13 (10.74%) Node.js
3 12 (9.92%) Web Services
4 9 (7.44%) CSS
4 9 (7.44%) HTML
4 9 (7.44%) YAML
5 6 (4.96%) React
5 6 (4.96%) RESTful
6 5 (4.13%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.48%) .NET
7 3 (2.48%) AWS CDK
7 3 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.48%) Kafka
7 3 (2.48%) Playwright
7 3 (2.48%) Spring
8 2 (1.65%) ADO
8 2 (1.65%) Drush
8 2 (1.65%) REST
9 1 (0.83%) CSS3
9 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.53%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.26%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.65%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.65%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.27%) Linux
2 10 (8.26%) Ubuntu
3 8 (6.61%) CentOS
3 8 (6.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.48%) VMS
5 2 (1.65%) Debian
5 2 (1.65%) Unix
6 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (50.41%) CI/CD
2 41 (33.88%) Containerisation
3 36 (29.75%) Agile
4 35 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (25.62%) DevOps
6 29 (23.97%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (22.31%) Microservices
8 26 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (21.49%) Software Engineering
9 24 (19.83%) Observability
10 22 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (17.36%) TDD
12 19 (15.70%) Test Automation
13 15 (12.40%) Mentoring
14 14 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (10.74%) API Design
15 13 (10.74%) Data Modelling
16 12 (9.92%) Data Flow Diagram
16 12 (9.92%) UML
17 11 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (69.42%) Python
2 28 (23.14%) Java
3 19 (15.70%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.26%) Perl
5 7 (5.79%) Bash
6 6 (4.96%) Go
7 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.13%) SQL
8 4 (3.31%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.48%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.65%) C#
10 2 (1.65%) Elixir
10 2 (1.65%) PHP
10 2 (1.65%) Rust
11 1 (0.83%) C
11 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (47.11%) Security Cleared
2 47 (38.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.61%) RHCE
5 6 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) QA
2 7 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.48%) WCAG
4 2 (1.65%) GDPR
4 2 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.83%) NIST
5 1 (0.83%) P3O
5 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (23.14%) Docker
2 5 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.65%) NFS
3 2 (1.65%) Postfix
3 2 (1.65%) Sendmail
3 2 (1.65%) Varnish
3 2 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (33.88%) Kubernetes
2 35 (28.93%) Terraform
3 14 (11.57%) Ansible
4 9 (7.44%) Puppet
5 4 (3.31%) Grafana
5 4 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.48%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.65%) Kibana
7 2 (1.65%) logstash
8 1 (0.83%) Consul
8 1 (0.83%) Nessus
8 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (8.26%) Oracle
2 9 (7.44%) Red Hat
3 8 (6.61%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.96%) Google
5 2 (1.65%) Brio
5 2 (1.65%) Splunk
6 1 (0.83%) Databricks
6 1 (0.83%) Genesys
6 1 (0.83%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.83%) VMware