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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 394 399
Rank change year-on-year -62 +5 -82
Contract jobs citing Ruby 116 82 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 0.99% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 57 107
10th Percentile £397 £359 £388
25th Percentile £466 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £642 £615 £600
90th Percentile £669 £650 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
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 10,956 8,270 10,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.42% 33.80% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,279 5,716 7,904
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 216 441
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.96 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -39 84 £575 +21.05% 17
North of England -56 22 £537 +41.78% 9
Yorkshire -53 12 £513 +38.96% 1
North West -32 8 £650 +30.00% 7
North East - 4 £498 - 1
South West -29 3 £693 +15.42% 4
East of England -32 3 - - 5
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 3 (2.59%) Apache
2 2 (1.72%) CMS
2 2 (1.72%) nginx
3 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.86%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (45.69%) AWS
2 24 (20.69%) GitHub
3 21 (18.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (16.38%) Serverless
5 14 (12.07%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (10.34%) Azure
6 12 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.76%) GCP
8 8 (6.90%) PaaS
9 7 (6.03%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.72%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.72%) Dataform
11 2 (1.72%) Figma
11 2 (1.72%) IaaS
11 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.62%) DNS
2 5 (4.31%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.72%) Firewall
3 2 (1.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.76%) Data Hub
2 5 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.59%) MySQL
4 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.72%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.86%) Metadata
6 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (37.93%) Git
2 12 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.62%) GitLab
4 8 (6.90%) Cucumber
5 6 (5.17%) JIRA
6 5 (4.31%) Postman
6 5 (4.31%) Selenium
7 3 (2.59%) Hudson
7 3 (2.59%) Subversion
8 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.72%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (1.72%) JMeter
8 2 (1.72%) Newman
8 2 (1.72%) Pa11y
8 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.86%) Capybara
9 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.86%) minitest
9 1 (0.86%) RSpec
9 1 (0.86%) Snyk
General
1 43 (37.07%) Public Sector
2 28 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.76%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.17%) Finance
6 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.45%) Banking
7 2 (1.72%) Legal
7 2 (1.72%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (36.21%) Developer
2 38 (32.76%) Senior
3 25 (21.55%) Senior Developer
4 19 (16.38%) Ruby Developer
5 18 (15.52%) Lead
6 17 (14.66%) Architect
7 15 (12.93%) Technical Architect
8 14 (12.07%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 10 (8.62%) Site Engineer
9 10 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (7.76%) Software Developer
11 8 (6.90%) Python Developer
11 8 (6.90%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 8 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
12 7 (6.03%) Senior Python Developer
13 6 (5.17%) Test Engineer
14 5 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (4.31%) Technical Leader
14 5 (4.31%) Test Automation Engineer
15 4 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.93%) Ruby on Rails
2 11 (9.48%) Node.js
3 9 (7.76%) CSS
3 9 (7.76%) HTML
3 9 (7.76%) Web Services
3 9 (7.76%) YAML
4 5 (4.31%) Gherkin
4 5 (4.31%) React
5 3 (2.59%) .NET
5 3 (2.59%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.59%) Kafka
5 3 (2.59%) Playwright
5 3 (2.59%) RESTful
5 3 (2.59%) Spring
6 2 (1.72%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.72%) REST
7 1 (0.86%) CSS3
7 1 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.59%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.86%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.59%) Linux
2 10 (8.62%) Ubuntu
3 8 (6.90%) CentOS
3 8 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.59%) VMS
5 2 (1.72%) Debian
5 2 (1.72%) Unix
6 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 40 (34.48%) Containerisation
3 36 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (28.45%) Agile
5 27 (23.28%) DevOps
5 27 (23.28%) Technical Leadership
6 25 (21.55%) Microservices
6 25 (21.55%) Software Engineering
7 24 (20.69%) Observability
8 22 (18.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (18.10%) TDD
10 19 (16.38%) Test Automation
11 14 (12.07%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.21%) API Design
12 13 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (10.34%) Data Flow Diagram
13 12 (10.34%) Roadmaps
13 12 (10.34%) UML
14 11 (9.48%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 81 (69.83%) Python
2 26 (22.41%) Java
3 18 (15.52%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.48%) Perl
5 7 (6.03%) Bash
5 7 (6.03%) SQL
6 5 (4.31%) Go
6 5 (4.31%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.72%) Elixir
8 2 (1.72%) Rust
9 1 (0.86%) C#
9 1 (0.86%) C++
9 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (47.41%) Security Cleared
2 46 (39.66%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.90%) RHCE
5 6 (5.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.72%) Degree
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) QA
2 9 (7.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.59%) WCAG
4 2 (1.72%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.86%) P3O
5 1 (0.86%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (22.41%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.72%) NFS
3 2 (1.72%) Postfix
3 2 (1.72%) Sendmail
3 2 (1.72%) Varnish
3 2 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.86%) GPFS
4 1 (0.86%) Lustre
4 1 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 40 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 34 (29.31%) Terraform
3 15 (12.93%) Ansible
4 10 (8.62%) Puppet
5 4 (3.45%) Grafana
5 4 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.59%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.72%) Consul
7 2 (1.72%) Kibana
7 2 (1.72%) logstash
8 1 (0.86%) Nessus
8 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.86%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (8.62%) Oracle
2 9 (7.76%) Red Hat
3 7 (6.03%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (1.72%) Splunk
6 1 (0.86%) Brio
6 1 (0.86%) Databricks
6 1 (0.86%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.86%) VMware