Ruby Contracts in England

Ruby
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 409 331
Rank change year-on-year +15 -78 +35
Contract jobs citing Ruby 104 143 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.38% 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 1.24% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 93 236
10th Percentile £332 £400 £413
25th Percentile £406 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £40.63 £53.39 -
25th Percentile £42.69 £54.73 -
Median hourly rate £50.25 £58.22 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% - -
75th Percentile £56.69 £60.45 -
90th Percentile £58.08 £61.04 -
UK median hourly rate £50.25 £58.22 -
% change year-on-year -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 8,918 11,499 16,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.58% 30.90% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,152 8,222 11,956
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 480 416
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.52 £30.38
25th Percentile £36.25 £49.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +17.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.38 £80.69
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in England.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in England

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ruby in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 July 2025. 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 -1 65 £525 +1.20% 520
North of England +11 18 £485 +4.86% 118
North West +16 13 £500 +14.29% 85
South East +41 7 £450 -10.00% 85
Midlands +14 5 £450 -54.95% 38
West Midlands +9 5 £450 -54.95% 20
Yorkshire +5 5 £369 -38.50% 32
East of England +29 2 - - 36
South West +25 1 £425 -34.62% 43
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.85%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) CMS
3 1 (0.96%) JBoss
3 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.92%) AWS
2 17 (16.35%) Azure
3 7 (6.73%) GitHub
3 7 (6.73%) Serverless
4 6 (5.77%) GCP
5 5 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.85%) SaaS
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.92%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.92%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) IPv4
1 1 (0.96%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.50%) MySQL
2 11 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.58%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.92%) Power BI
5 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.96%) DB2
6 1 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.96%) Redis
6 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.96%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (19.23%) Git
2 14 (13.46%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.69%) GitLab
3 8 (7.69%) JIRA
4 7 (6.73%) Selenium
5 5 (4.81%) CircleCI
5 5 (4.81%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.85%) Appium
6 4 (3.85%) Gatling
6 4 (3.85%) Gradle
6 4 (3.85%) JMeter
6 4 (3.85%) NeoLoad
6 4 (3.85%) SpecFlow
6 4 (3.85%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.85%) Xcode
7 3 (2.88%) Vagrant
8 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.92%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.96%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.35%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.42%) Finance
4 6 (5.77%) Banking
5 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.88%) Military
6 2 (1.92%) Front Office
6 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Back Office
7 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (59.62%) Developer
2 26 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
3 21 (20.19%) Senior
4 14 (13.46%) Senior Developer
5 9 (8.65%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.65%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 8 (7.69%) Lead
7 7 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (6.73%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.81%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 5 (4.81%) Site Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Architect
10 4 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) iOS Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Software Test Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (31.73%) Ruby on Rails
2 17 (16.35%) Node.js
3 16 (15.38%) .NET
4 14 (13.46%) React
5 13 (12.50%) GraphQL
6 12 (11.54%) CSS
6 12 (11.54%) HTML
7 11 (10.58%) RESTful
8 8 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (7.69%) Web Services
9 7 (6.73%) REST
10 6 (5.77%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.81%) Gherkin
12 4 (3.85%) Django
12 4 (3.85%) OAuth
12 4 (3.85%) Play Framework
12 4 (3.85%) SOAP
12 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
12 4 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.62%) Mobile App
2 6 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.85%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.92%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.96%) Blog
7 1 (0.96%) CCTV
7 1 (0.96%) Derivative
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.96%) Equities
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.96%) PKI
7 1 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.46%) Linux
2 9 (8.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.77%) Windows
4 4 (3.85%) Android
4 4 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.92%) Debian
6 2 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.96%) CentOS
7 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.81%) Agile
2 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (24.04%) DevOps
4 23 (22.12%) CI/CD
5 17 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 13 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 13 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 12 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 10 (9.62%) Scrum
8 10 (9.62%) TDD
9 9 (8.65%) Configuration Management
9 9 (8.65%) Microservices
9 9 (8.65%) Roadmaps
10 8 (7.69%) Front End Development
10 8 (7.69%) OO
11 7 (6.73%) Clean Code
11 7 (6.73%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (5.77%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 64 (61.54%) Python
2 35 (33.65%) Java
2 35 (33.65%) JavaScript
3 17 (16.35%) PHP
4 16 (15.38%) SQL
5 15 (14.42%) C#
6 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.65%) C++
7 9 (8.65%) Scala
7 9 (8.65%) Shell Script
8 8 (7.69%) Bash
8 8 (7.69%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.81%) C
9 5 (4.81%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.85%) Objective-C
10 4 (3.85%) Swift
11 3 (2.88%) Go
11 3 (2.88%) Rust
12 2 (1.92%) Perl
12 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.54%) Degree
4 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.77%) RHCE
5 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.88%) CISSP
5 3 (2.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.92%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.96%) GPEN
7 1 (0.96%) GWAPT
7 1 (0.96%) OSCE
7 1 (0.96%) OSCP
7 1 (0.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.92%) SLA
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) EMIR
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.96%) MiFID
4 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (16.35%) Docker
2 7 (6.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.88%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.54%) Ansible
3 11 (10.58%) Puppet
4 9 (8.65%) Terraform
5 8 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 8 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.81%) Grafana
7 4 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.92%) Kibana
9 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.96%) Graphite
9 1 (0.96%) logstash
9 1 (0.96%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 7 (6.73%) Virgin Media
3 6 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.77%) Oracle
4 5 (4.81%) Splunk
5 4 (3.85%) YouTube
6 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.96%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.96%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.96%) CQG
7 1 (0.96%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.96%) IBM
7 1 (0.96%) Imperva
7 1 (0.96%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.96%) Reuters
7 1 (0.96%) TOWER Software