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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 373 357
Rank change year-on-year -42 -16 -46
Contract jobs citing Ruby 97 163 251
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.51% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 1.56% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 118 192
10th Percentile £329 £333 £428
25th Percentile £380 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% -1.79% -2.42%
75th Percentile £620 £700 £703
90th Percentile £660 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £492 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -10.55% -5.17% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £53.39 -
25th Percentile £53.00 £54.73 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £58.22 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - -
75th Percentile £59.00 £60.45 -
90th Percentile - £61.04 -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £58.22 -
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -

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 9,210 10,426 13,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.65% 32.52% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,136 6,903 9,505
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £748 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 287 417
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.00 £34.70
25th Percentile £42.44 £47.00 £48.31
Median hourly rate £59.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.63 £75.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.85% +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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 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 -38 59 £525 -8.70% 12
North of England -15 18 £380 -5.53% 8
North West -8 16 £380 +3.12% 5
South East +13 6 £500 -6.98% 13
South West -7 4 £649 -0.15% 4
West Midlands -18 3 - - 1
Midlands -23 3 - - 3
East of England +1 2 £469 -33.04% 1
Yorkshire -27 2 £460 -20.09% 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 3 (3.09%) CMS
2 2 (2.06%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Drupal
3 1 (1.03%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.03%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.02%) AWS
2 20 (20.62%) GitHub
3 19 (19.59%) Azure
4 17 (17.53%) GCP
5 11 (11.34%) OpenShift
6 9 (9.28%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (8.25%) Serverless
8 7 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.09%) SaaS
12 2 (2.06%) Amazon MSK
12 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.06%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (1.03%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) InfiniBand
2 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.62%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.34%) MySQL
2 11 (11.34%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.09%) Redis
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (27.84%) Git
2 15 (15.46%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.31%) JIRA
4 7 (7.22%) Gradle
4 7 (7.22%) Xcode
5 4 (4.12%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.12%) GitLab
6 3 (3.09%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.09%) Selenium
7 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.06%) Vagrant
7 2 (2.06%) Vite
7 2 (2.06%) webpack
7 2 (2.06%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.46%) Public Sector
3 14 (14.43%) Finance
4 9 (9.28%) Banking
5 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Military
5 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.03%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (62.89%) Developer
2 29 (29.90%) Ruby Developer
3 15 (15.46%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (11.34%) Senior
5 7 (7.22%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.19%) iOS Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Lead
6 6 (6.19%) Ruby Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Automation Tester
9 3 (3.09%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (45.36%) Ruby on Rails
2 31 (31.96%) Node.js
3 22 (22.68%) React
4 19 (19.59%) CSS
4 19 (19.59%) HTML
5 16 (16.49%) RESTful
6 12 (12.37%) AngularJS
6 12 (12.37%) GraphQL
6 12 (12.37%) Spring
7 10 (10.31%) Vue
8 9 (9.28%) Web Services
9 7 (7.22%) .NET
9 7 (7.22%) REST
10 4 (4.12%) Django
10 4 (4.12%) Sidekiq
10 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
11 3 (3.09%) Gherkin
12 2 (2.06%) Drush
12 2 (2.06%) Resque
12 2 (2.06%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Mobile App
2 9 (9.28%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.22%) Mobile Banking
4 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.12%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (2.06%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.37%) Linux
2 7 (7.22%) Android
2 7 (7.22%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Debian
4 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Windows
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.21%) Agile
2 29 (29.90%) DevOps
3 26 (26.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (23.71%) CI/CD
6 19 (19.59%) Computer Science
7 16 (16.49%) Containerisation
7 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
8 15 (15.46%) Microservices
9 14 (14.43%) Roadmaps
10 13 (13.40%) Code Quality
10 13 (13.40%) Front End Development
10 13 (13.40%) Scrum
10 13 (13.40%) TDD
11 10 (10.31%) OO
12 9 (9.28%) User Experience
12 9 (9.28%) UX Design
12 9 (9.28%) Web Development
13 8 (8.25%) Continuous Deployment
13 8 (8.25%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 53 (54.64%) Python
2 35 (36.08%) JavaScript
3 33 (34.02%) Java
4 20 (20.62%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.34%) PHP
6 10 (10.31%) SQL
7 9 (9.28%) C++
7 9 (9.28%) Kotlin
8 8 (8.25%) C
8 8 (8.25%) Scala
9 7 (7.22%) Objective-C
9 7 (7.22%) Swift
10 5 (5.15%) Bash
10 5 (5.15%) Go
10 5 (5.15%) Shell Script
11 4 (4.12%) Perl
11 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
12 3 (3.09%) Rust
13 2 (2.06%) VB
14 1 (1.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Degree
2 15 (15.46%) Security Cleared
3 12 (12.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (12.37%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) RHCE
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) SLA
2 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 26 (26.80%) Docker
2 2 (2.06%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.03%) GPFS
3 1 (1.03%) Lustre
3 1 (1.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.03%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 23 (23.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.25%) Argo
3 6 (6.19%) Terraform
4 4 (4.12%) Ansible
5 2 (2.06%) Grafana
5 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.06%) Puppet
6 1 (1.03%) Consul
6 1 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.03%) Graphite
6 1 (1.03%) Kibana
6 1 (1.03%) logstash
6 1 (1.03%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Red Hat
2 12 (12.37%) Google
3 7 (7.22%) Virgin Media
4 4 (4.12%) YouTube
5 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle
6 2 (2.06%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.03%) Genesys
7 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) Splunk