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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 385 403
Rank change year-on-year -99 +18 -91
Contract jobs citing Ruby 108 88 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.98% 1.08% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 66 94
10th Percentile £404 £363 £350
25th Percentile £462 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -1.23% -15.63%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £796
UK median daily rate £520 £506 £519
% change year-on-year +2.72% -2.41% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £33.13 - -
25th Percentile £37.06 £39.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -19.09% -
75th Percentile £53.06 £49.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £57.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.56% -19.09% -

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 11,002 8,125 10,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.47% 33.87% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,234 5,652 7,983
10th Percentile £355 £360 £350
25th Percentile £416 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -4.55% -2.54%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £651
90th Percentile £721 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £526
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.62% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 190 453
10th Percentile £39.15 £28.16 £37.51
25th Percentile £54.66 £36.06 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.09
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -35 76 £563 -4.26% 34
North of England -74 21 £515 +17.98% 13
Yorkshire -47 16 £508 +37.60% 3
North West -48 5 £650 +30.00% 9
South West -28 3 £693 +62.94% 2
East of England -33 3 - - 4
North East - 2 £450 - 1
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 5 (4.63%) Apache
2 2 (1.85%) CMS
2 2 (1.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.93%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.52%) AWS
2 25 (23.15%) GitHub
3 14 (12.96%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (12.96%) Azure
3 14 (12.96%) Serverless
4 12 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (9.26%) GCP
5 10 (9.26%) PaaS
6 9 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 9 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (3.70%) IaaS
8 3 (2.78%) Sentry
9 2 (1.85%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.85%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.85%) Dataform
9 2 (1.85%) Figma
9 2 (1.85%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.26%) DNS
2 4 (3.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.85%) Network Security
3 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.93%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) Data Hub
1 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.63%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.78%) MySQL
3 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.85%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (30.56%) Git
2 11 (10.19%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.41%) GitLab
4 6 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 6 (5.56%) Selenium
5 4 (3.70%) Postman
6 3 (2.78%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.78%) JIRA
7 2 (1.85%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (1.85%) Hudson
7 2 (1.85%) JMeter
7 2 (1.85%) Newman
7 2 (1.85%) Pa11y
7 2 (1.85%) Subversion
8 1 (0.93%) Capybara
8 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.93%) minitest
8 1 (0.93%) RSpec
8 1 (0.93%) Snyk
8 1 (0.93%) Xcode
General
1 44 (40.74%) Public Sector
2 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Banking
5 4 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.78%) Finance
7 2 (1.85%) Legal
7 2 (1.85%) Military
8 1 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 41 (37.96%) Developer
2 35 (32.41%) Senior
3 22 (20.37%) Senior Developer
4 18 (16.67%) Architect
5 17 (15.74%) Lead
5 17 (15.74%) Ruby Developer
6 14 (12.96%) Technical Architect
7 11 (10.19%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 7 (6.48%) Software Developer
10 6 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (5.56%) Site Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (4.63%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.63%) Test Engineer
12 4 (3.70%) Python Developer
12 4 (3.70%) Python Engineer
12 4 (3.70%) Senior Python Developer
12 4 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.81%) Ruby on Rails
2 12 (11.11%) Node.js
3 9 (8.33%) YAML
4 8 (7.41%) CSS
4 8 (7.41%) HTML
5 7 (6.48%) Web Services
6 6 (5.56%) Spring
7 5 (4.63%) Nunjucks
8 4 (3.70%) Gherkin
8 4 (3.70%) RESTful
8 4 (3.70%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.78%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.78%) Django
9 3 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.78%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.78%) Kafka
9 3 (2.78%) React
10 2 (1.85%) .NET
10 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.19%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.63%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.85%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.85%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.93%) Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.93%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.00%) Linux
2 10 (9.26%) Ubuntu
3 8 (7.41%) CentOS
3 8 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.70%) Unix
5 2 (1.85%) Debian
6 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.93%) VMS
6 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.93%) CI/CD
2 34 (31.48%) Containerisation
3 32 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (27.78%) Agile
5 26 (24.07%) TDD
6 25 (23.15%) Microservices
7 23 (21.30%) DevOps
8 21 (19.44%) Observability
8 21 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (18.52%) Software Engineering
10 16 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (14.81%) Test Automation
11 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (12.96%) Mentoring
13 13 (12.04%) API Design
14 12 (11.11%) Data Flow Diagram
14 12 (11.11%) Migration
14 12 (11.11%) UML
15 11 (10.19%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 69 (63.89%) Python
2 27 (25.00%) Java
3 25 (23.15%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.11%) Perl
4 12 (11.11%) SQL
5 10 (9.26%) Bash
5 10 (9.26%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.70%) Go
8 3 (2.78%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.85%) Elixir
9 2 (1.85%) Rust
10 1 (0.93%) C++
10 1 (0.93%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 52 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 42 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.41%) RHCE
4 6 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.85%) Degree
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.96%) Accessibility
2 9 (8.33%) QA
3 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.78%) WCAG
4 2 (1.85%) GDPR
4 2 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) P3O
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (20.37%) Docker
2 4 (3.70%) Postfix
2 4 (3.70%) Varnish
2 4 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.78%) NFS
3 3 (2.78%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.93%) GPFS
4 1 (0.93%) Lustre
4 1 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 27 (25.00%) Terraform
3 18 (16.67%) Ansible
4 11 (10.19%) Puppet
5 7 (6.48%) Grafana
5 7 (6.48%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.63%) HAProxy
6 5 (4.63%) Kibana
7 3 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.85%) Consul
8 2 (1.85%) logstash
9 1 (0.93%) Nessus
9 1 (0.93%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (10.19%) Oracle
2 9 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 5 (4.63%) Google
4 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.78%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.93%) New Relic
6 1 (0.93%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.93%) VMware