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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 427 367
Rank change year-on-year -129 -60 +8
Contract jobs citing Ruby 75 94 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.34% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 1.04% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 78 105
10th Percentile £400 £332 £350
25th Percentile £453 £382 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £675
90th Percentile £638 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +1.05% -13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £35.65 - £53.39
25th Percentile £43.38 £53.00 £54.73
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.00 £58.22
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -3.80% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £59.00 £60.45
90th Percentile £59.95 - £61.04
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £56.00 £58.22
% change year-on-year -11.16% -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 11,947 9,016 10,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.99% 32.73% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,735 6,133 7,373
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £526
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.89% -4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 262 308
10th Percentile £29.96 £31.25 £32.52
25th Percentile £51.33 £42.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.50 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.80 £80.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -74 56 £473 -8.87% 142
Yorkshire -37 5 £493 +33.29% 1
North of England -86 5 £493 +26.93% 6
East of England - 3 - - 2
South East -77 2 £450 - 13
South West -39 1 - - 6
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 4 (5.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) CMS
2 1 (1.33%) nginx
2 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (5.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) AWS
2 21 (28.00%) GitHub
3 12 (16.00%) PaaS
4 10 (13.33%) Azure
4 10 (13.33%) GCP
5 9 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.67%) Serverless
7 4 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (5.33%) Sentry
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (4.00%) IaaS
9 2 (2.67%) Figma
9 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.33%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.33%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (1.33%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.33%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) DNS
2 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.33%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.00%) MySQL
2 6 (8.00%) Redis
3 4 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.67%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (25.33%) Git
2 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 5 (6.67%) Selenium
4 4 (5.33%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.33%) Postman
5 3 (4.00%) GitLab
5 3 (4.00%) RSpec
5 3 (4.00%) Xcode
6 2 (2.67%) Capybara
6 2 (2.67%) JIRA
6 2 (2.67%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.33%) JMeter
7 1 (1.33%) JUnit
7 1 (1.33%) Maven
7 1 (1.33%) Newman
7 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.33%) TestNG
7 1 (1.33%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (34.67%) Public Sector
2 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
5 3 (4.00%) Finance
6 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (41.33%) Developer
2 21 (28.00%) Senior
3 13 (17.33%) Architect
3 13 (17.33%) Senior Developer
4 11 (14.67%) Ruby Developer
5 10 (13.33%) Technical Architect
6 7 (9.33%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (8.00%) Lead
7 6 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Test Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) iOS Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Senior Manager
10 3 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Site Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (18.67%) RESTful
3 11 (14.67%) Node.js
3 11 (14.67%) Terraform
4 8 (10.67%) FastAPI
5 7 (9.33%) Django
5 7 (9.33%) REST
6 6 (8.00%) GraphQL
6 6 (8.00%) Nunjucks
7 5 (6.67%) CSS
7 5 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (6.67%) HTML
7 5 (6.67%) Spring
7 5 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.33%) Kafka
8 4 (5.33%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (4.00%) SwiftUI
10 2 (2.67%) AWS CDK
10 2 (2.67%) LangChain
10 2 (2.67%) Phoenix
Miscellaneous
1 23 (30.67%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.33%) Clustering
6 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.33%) PKI
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Unix
3 3 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.67%) Debian
4 2 (2.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 28 (37.33%) TDD
3 26 (34.67%) Software Engineering
4 24 (32.00%) Microservices
5 21 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (25.33%) Agile
6 19 (25.33%) Containerisation
7 18 (24.00%) Observability
8 17 (22.67%) Test Automation
9 15 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 15 (20.00%) DevOps
9 15 (20.00%) ERP
10 14 (18.67%) API Design
10 14 (18.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (16.00%) Data Flow Diagram
11 12 (16.00%) Domain-Driven Design
11 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (16.00%) UML
12 11 (14.67%) Event-Driven
12 11 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (61.33%) Python
2 30 (40.00%) Java
3 17 (22.67%) JavaScript
4 16 (21.33%) SQL
5 14 (18.67%) Bash
5 14 (18.67%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.33%) Go
7 6 (8.00%) Rust
8 5 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.33%) C#
9 4 (5.33%) Perl
9 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
10 3 (4.00%) Kotlin
10 3 (4.00%) Objective-C
10 3 (4.00%) Swift
11 2 (2.67%) Elixir
11 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.67%) Scala
12 1 (1.33%) C++
12 1 (1.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 28 (37.33%) Security Cleared
2 24 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.00%) QA
3 4 (5.33%) WCAG
4 3 (4.00%) GDPR
5 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.33%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) Postfix
2 3 (4.00%) Varnish
3 2 (2.67%) NFS
3 2 (2.67%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.33%) GPFS
4 1 (1.33%) Lustre
4 1 (1.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.33%) Ansible
3 9 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (10.67%) Grafana
5 6 (8.00%) Kibana
6 4 (5.33%) Consul
7 3 (4.00%) HAProxy
7 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.00%) Puppet
8 2 (2.67%) logstash
9 1 (1.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.33%) Splunk
3 3 (4.00%) Checkmarx
3 3 (4.00%) New Relic
4 2 (2.67%) Google
5 1 (1.33%) SaltStack