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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 399 399
Rank change year-on-year -105 0 -72
Contract jobs citing Ruby 94 96 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 1.13% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 74 99
10th Percentile £400 £353 £380
25th Percentile £453 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £603
90th Percentile £625 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £33.13 - £53.39
25th Percentile £37.06 £39.25 £54.73
Median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 £58.22
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -23.56% -
75th Percentile £53.06 £49.75 £60.45
90th Percentile £57.38 - £61.04
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 £58.22
% change year-on-year +0.56% -23.56% -

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 11,549 8,459 11,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.71% 33.92% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,549 5,878 8,187
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -3.35% -3.93%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 198 501
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.13 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.88 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.33% -12.01% +1.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +3.69%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -57 69 £525 +1.20% 16
North of England -71 18 £508 +4.69% 2
Yorkshire -44 16 £508 +37.60% 1
East of England -25 3 - -
North West -51 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £450 -
South West -29 1 - - 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 5 (5.32%) Apache
2 2 (2.13%) CMS
3 1 (1.06%) nginx
3 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.06%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.62%) AWS
2 22 (23.40%) GitHub
3 15 (15.96%) Azure
4 12 (12.77%) GCP
5 11 (11.70%) PaaS
6 8 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.38%) Serverless
8 5 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.26%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (4.26%) IaaS
9 4 (4.26%) Sentry
10 2 (2.13%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (2.13%) BrowserStack
10 2 (2.13%) Dataform
10 2 (2.13%) Figma
10 2 (2.13%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) DNS
2 2 (2.13%) Network Security
2 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.06%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.26%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.19%) MySQL
3 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.13%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.13%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (21.28%) Git
2 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.51%) GitLab
4 6 (6.38%) Selenium
5 4 (4.26%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.26%) Postman
6 2 (2.13%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (2.13%) JMeter
6 2 (2.13%) Newman
6 2 (2.13%) Pa11y
6 2 (2.13%) Xcode
7 1 (1.06%) Capybara
7 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.06%) JIRA
7 1 (1.06%) minitest
7 1 (1.06%) RSpec
7 1 (1.06%) Snyk
General
1 38 (40.43%) Public Sector
2 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.64%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Banking
7 4 (4.26%) Finance
8 2 (2.13%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Military
9 1 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (41.49%) Developer
2 29 (30.85%) Senior
3 18 (19.15%) Senior Developer
4 16 (17.02%) Lead
4 16 (17.02%) Ruby Developer
5 15 (15.96%) Architect
6 11 (11.70%) Technical Architect
7 10 (10.64%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 7 (7.45%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Technical Leader
10 5 (5.32%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) Azure Architect
12 3 (3.19%) Backend Developer
12 3 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
12 3 (3.19%) Senior Delivery Manager
12 3 (3.19%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.02%) Ruby on Rails
2 12 (12.77%) Node.js
3 9 (9.57%) YAML
4 7 (7.45%) CSS
4 7 (7.45%) HTML
4 7 (7.45%) Spring
5 6 (6.38%) Nunjucks
5 6 (6.38%) RESTful
6 5 (5.32%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.26%) Django
7 4 (4.26%) FastAPI
7 4 (4.26%) Web Services
8 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.19%) Kafka
9 2 (2.13%) .NET
9 2 (2.13%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.13%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.13%) Gherkin
9 2 (2.13%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.34%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (12.77%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.06%) Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.06%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Linux
2 10 (10.64%) Ubuntu
3 8 (8.51%) CentOS
3 8 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.26%) Unix
5 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.13%) Debian
6 1 (1.06%) VMS
6 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (52.13%) CI/CD
2 27 (28.72%) Agile
2 27 (28.72%) Containerisation
2 27 (28.72%) Microservices
3 24 (25.53%) TDD
4 23 (24.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (23.40%) DevOps
6 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (19.15%) Observability
7 18 (19.15%) Software Engineering
8 16 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (15.96%) Test Automation
10 13 (13.83%) API Design
10 13 (13.83%) ERP
11 12 (12.77%) Data Flow Diagram
11 12 (12.77%) Migration
11 12 (12.77%) UML
12 11 (11.70%) Data Modelling
12 11 (11.70%) Mentoring
12 11 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (58.51%) Python
2 27 (28.72%) Java
3 26 (27.66%) JavaScript
4 14 (14.89%) SQL
5 13 (13.83%) TypeScript
6 12 (12.77%) Perl
7 10 (10.64%) Bash
8 6 (6.38%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.32%) Go
10 4 (4.26%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
11 3 (3.19%) Rust
12 2 (2.13%) Elixir
12 2 (2.13%) Objective-C
12 2 (2.13%) Swift
13 1 (1.06%) C#
13 1 (1.06%) C++
13 1 (1.06%) Kotlin
13 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (43.62%) Security Cleared
2 31 (32.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) RHCE
4 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.13%) Degree
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.96%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.45%) QA
3 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.19%) WCAG
4 2 (2.13%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) P3O
5 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (23.40%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) Postfix
2 4 (4.26%) Varnish
3 3 (3.19%) NFS
3 3 (3.19%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.06%) GPFS
4 1 (1.06%) Lustre
4 1 (1.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 18 (19.15%) Ansible
2 18 (19.15%) Terraform
3 11 (11.70%) Puppet
4 8 (8.51%) Grafana
4 8 (8.51%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.38%) Kibana
6 4 (4.26%) HAProxy
7 3 (3.19%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.13%) Consul
8 2 (2.13%) logstash
9 1 (1.06%) Nessus
9 1 (1.06%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (13.83%) Oracle
2 9 (9.57%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.32%) Google
4 4 (4.26%) Splunk
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.13%) Checkmarx
6 2 (2.13%) New Relic
7 1 (1.06%) SaltStack