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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 382 362
Rank change year-on-year -43 -20 -23
Contract jobs citing Ruby 89 146 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.45% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 1.38% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 104 175
10th Percentile £331 £350 £421
25th Percentile £405 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £613 £688 £706
90th Percentile £675 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -
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 8,983 10,542 13,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.62% 32.42% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,087 7,231 9,968
10th Percentile £345 £353 £374
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 304 419
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.73 £32.32
25th Percentile £42.25 £50.94 £48.32
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +10.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £71.22
90th Percentile £79.00 £79.75 £83.27
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +11.61%

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
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 September 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 September 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 -14 58 £525 -4.55% 27
North of England -1 17 £489 +2.84% 8
North West 0 15 £489 +22.28% 5
South East +20 7 £450 -21.74% 5
West Midlands -10 3 £450 +63.64%
Midlands -11 3 £450 +63.64% 2
Yorkshire -13 2 £460 -29.31% 2
South West +1 1 £425 -34.62% 3
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 2 (2.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) CMS
2 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.21%) AWS
2 12 (13.48%) GitHub
3 10 (11.24%) Azure
4 9 (10.11%) GCP
4 9 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.74%) Serverless
6 5 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (3.37%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.37%) SaaS
9 2 (2.25%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.25%) Sentry
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.12%) Figma
10 1 (1.12%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) IPv4
1 1 (1.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (12.36%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.24%) MySQL
4 4 (4.49%) Redis
5 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.12%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (19.10%) Git
2 14 (15.73%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.87%) Gradle
3 7 (7.87%) Xcode
4 5 (5.62%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.49%) JIRA
6 3 (3.37%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.37%) Selenium
7 2 (2.25%) Vagrant
7 2 (2.25%) Vite
7 2 (2.25%) webpack
7 2 (2.25%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.12%) GitLab
8 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Finance
3 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.87%) Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Military
6 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.12%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 53 (59.55%) Developer
2 23 (25.84%) Ruby Developer
3 15 (16.85%) Senior
4 10 (11.24%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (6.74%) iOS Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Lead
6 6 (6.74%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 5 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Ruby Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.49%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (40.45%) Ruby on Rails
2 20 (22.47%) Node.js
3 14 (15.73%) React
3 14 (15.73%) RESTful
4 13 (14.61%) CSS
4 13 (14.61%) GraphQL
4 13 (14.61%) HTML
5 9 (10.11%) .NET
6 7 (7.87%) REST
6 7 (7.87%) Web Services
7 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.62%) Django
8 4 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.49%) Sidekiq
8 4 (4.49%) Spring
8 4 (4.49%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.37%) Apache Axis
9 3 (3.37%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.37%) SOAP
10 2 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Mobile App
2 7 (7.87%) Mobile Banking
3 5 (5.62%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.25%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) Blog
7 1 (1.12%) CCTV
7 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) IoT
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.11%) Linux
2 7 (7.87%) Android
2 7 (7.87%) Apple iOS
3 6 (6.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.49%) Windows
4 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.12%) CentOS
6 1 (1.12%) Debian
6 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.83%) Agile
2 21 (23.60%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (21.35%) DevOps
4 18 (20.22%) Software Engineering
5 16 (17.98%) CI/CD
5 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.73%) TDD
7 13 (14.61%) Computer Science
7 13 (14.61%) Front End Development
8 12 (13.48%) Roadmaps
9 11 (12.36%) Scrum
10 9 (10.11%) Containerisation
11 8 (8.99%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (8.99%) OO
11 8 (8.99%) User Experience
11 8 (8.99%) UX Design
12 7 (7.87%) BDD
12 7 (7.87%) Microservices
12 7 (7.87%) Mobile Development
12 7 (7.87%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (57.30%) Python
2 30 (33.71%) JavaScript
3 25 (28.09%) Java
4 12 (13.48%) SQL
4 12 (13.48%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.24%) PHP
6 9 (10.11%) Kotlin
7 8 (8.99%) Scala
8 7 (7.87%) Bash
8 7 (7.87%) C
8 7 (7.87%) C++
8 7 (7.87%) Objective-C
8 7 (7.87%) Shell Script
8 7 (7.87%) Swift
9 5 (5.62%) C#
9 5 (5.62%) PowerShell
10 4 (4.49%) Go
11 3 (3.37%) Rust
12 2 (2.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Degree
2 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.62%) RHCE
6 3 (3.37%) CISSP
6 3 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.25%) SLA
4 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) Firmware
3 1 (1.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.99%) Ansible
2 8 (8.99%) Terraform
3 6 (6.74%) Puppet
4 5 (5.62%) Grafana
4 5 (5.62%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.12%) Graphite
6 1 (1.12%) Kibana
6 1 (1.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) Virgin Media
2 6 (6.74%) Google
2 6 (6.74%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.49%) YouTube
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Splunk