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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 367 344
Rank change year-on-year -87 -23 -48
Contract jobs citing Ruby 110 117 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.45% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.34% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 83 173
10th Percentile £374 £324 £450
25th Percentile £500 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.14% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £756 £631
90th Percentile £652 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £44.50 -

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 10,066 8,749 11,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.19% 33.50% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,692 5,596 8,045
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £774 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 207 483
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 4 February 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
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 4 February 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 -55 67 £625 +8.61% 31
North of England -44 26 £531 +32.75% 3
North West -24 13 £625 +65.34% 3
Yorkshire -41 11 £525 +5.00%
South West -14 6 £650 -16.13% 4
North East - 4 £498 -
West Midlands -48 3 - - 1
Midlands -58 3 - - 3
East of England -25 2 £469 -
South East -26 1 £500 -9.09% 7
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 2 (1.82%) CMS
1 2 (1.82%) Drupal
2 1 (0.91%) nginx
2 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.91%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Shopify
2 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (45.45%) AWS
2 26 (23.64%) GitHub
3 20 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (18.18%) Azure
4 17 (15.45%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (14.55%) Serverless
6 15 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (12.73%) GCP
8 13 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (10.00%) OpenShift
10 7 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.36%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.82%) Azure Pipelines
13 2 (1.82%) BlazeMeter
13 2 (1.82%) BrowserStack
14 1 (0.91%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) DNS
2 5 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (3.64%) Firewall
4 1 (0.91%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.18%) Data Hub
3 5 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.73%) MySQL
6 1 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (46.36%) Git
2 17 (15.45%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.00%) GitLab
3 11 (10.00%) JIRA
4 7 (6.36%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.55%) Postman
6 4 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.73%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.73%) Gradle
7 3 (2.73%) Hudson
7 3 (2.73%) Selenium
7 3 (2.73%) Subversion
7 3 (2.73%) Xcode
8 2 (1.82%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (1.82%) JMeter
8 2 (1.82%) Newman
8 2 (1.82%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.91%) Snyk
General
1 37 (33.64%) Public Sector
2 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (6.36%) Banking
5 6 (5.45%) Finance
6 4 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Military
8 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (45.45%) Developer
2 26 (23.64%) Senior
3 22 (20.00%) Ruby Developer
4 19 (17.27%) Senior Developer
5 15 (13.64%) Lead
6 11 (10.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Site Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Software Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Architect
8 8 (7.27%) Python Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Senior Software Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Technical Architect
9 7 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 4 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.00%) Node.js
2 21 (19.09%) Ruby on Rails
3 17 (15.45%) CSS
3 17 (15.45%) HTML
4 14 (12.73%) React
5 12 (10.91%) Web Services
6 11 (10.00%) Spring
7 9 (8.18%) YAML
8 8 (7.27%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.27%) Vue
9 6 (5.45%) RESTful
10 5 (4.55%) Gherkin
11 2 (1.82%) .NET
11 2 (1.82%) ADO
11 2 (1.82%) CSS3
11 2 (1.82%) Drush
11 2 (1.82%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.82%) HTML5
11 2 (1.82%) Playwright
11 2 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.82%) NHS
5 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.91%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.09%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) CentOS
2 8 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.73%) Android
3 3 (2.73%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.82%) VMS
5 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (49.09%) CI/CD
2 42 (38.18%) Agile
3 39 (35.45%) DevOps
4 37 (33.64%) Containerisation
5 30 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
7 24 (21.82%) Microservices
8 21 (19.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (16.36%) Software Engineering
10 15 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 15 (13.64%) TDD
11 14 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (12.73%) Observability
12 13 (11.82%) Code Quality
12 13 (11.82%) Roadmaps
13 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.00%) Design Patterns
13 11 (10.00%) Open Source
14 10 (9.09%) Test Automation
15 9 (8.18%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 77 (70.00%) Python
2 30 (27.27%) Java
3 27 (24.55%) JavaScript
4 15 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.73%) Perl
6 5 (4.55%) C++
7 4 (3.64%) C
7 4 (3.64%) Go
7 4 (3.64%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.64%) SQL
8 3 (2.73%) Bash
8 3 (2.73%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.73%) Scala
8 3 (2.73%) Swift
9 2 (1.82%) C#
9 2 (1.82%) PHP
10 1 (0.91%) Rust
10 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.91%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (38.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (9.09%) Degree
5 9 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (7.27%) RHCE
7 5 (4.55%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (31.82%) Docker
2 5 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.64%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.91%) GPFS
4 1 (0.91%) Lustre
4 1 (0.91%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 26 (23.64%) Terraform
3 10 (9.09%) Ansible
4 9 (8.18%) Puppet
5 8 (7.27%) Argo
6 1 (0.91%) Consul
6 1 (0.91%) Grafana
6 1 (0.91%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.91%) Nessus
6 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.91%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Red Hat
2 10 (9.09%) Google
3 5 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.64%) Oracle
5 2 (1.82%) Brio
5 2 (1.82%) Splunk
6 1 (0.91%) Databricks
6 1 (0.91%) Genesys
6 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.91%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.91%) VMware