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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 372 372
Rank change year-on-year -77 0 -84
Contract jobs citing Ruby 127 97 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.39% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.16% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 64 133
10th Percentile £368 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% -6.08% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £620
90th Percentile £650 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.51% -3.08% -8.33%
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 10,724 8,335 10,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.69% 33.76% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,149 5,641 7,882
10th Percentile £352 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -5.70%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 218 442
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.05
25th Percentile £55.61 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -5.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -22 86 £575 - 25
North of England -55 24 £537 +36.29% 5
Yorkshire -57 12 £513 +38.77% 1
North West -23 10 £638 +57.60% 4
South West -19 6 £650 -16.13% 1
North East - 4 £498 -
West Midlands -62 3 - -
Midlands -67 3 - - 2
East of England -26 2 £469 - 2
South East -61 1 £500 - 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 3 (2.36%) CMS
2 2 (1.57%) Drupal
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) nginx
3 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.79%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (48.03%) AWS
2 29 (22.83%) GitHub
3 23 (18.11%) Azure
4 21 (16.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (14.17%) Serverless
6 17 (13.39%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (12.60%) GCP
8 14 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (7.87%) OpenShift
11 7 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (5.51%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (3.94%) PaaS
13 4 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.15%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.57%) BlazeMeter
14 2 (1.57%) BrowserStack
14 2 (1.57%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.09%) DNS
2 5 (3.94%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (3.15%) Firewall
4 1 (0.79%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.79%) Network Security
4 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.09%) Data Hub
3 6 (4.72%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.36%) MySQL
7 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.79%) Metadata
8 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (43.31%) Git
2 13 (10.24%) GitLab
3 12 (9.45%) Jenkins
4 11 (8.66%) JIRA
5 7 (5.51%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.94%) Postman
7 4 (3.15%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.15%) Selenium
7 4 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.36%) Hudson
8 3 (2.36%) Subversion
9 2 (1.57%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (1.57%) JMeter
9 2 (1.57%) Newman
9 2 (1.57%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.79%) Snyk
10 1 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (35.43%) Public Sector
2 37 (29.13%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (4.72%) Finance
5 5 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.94%) Banking
6 3 (2.36%) Military
7 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 53 (41.73%) Developer
2 34 (26.77%) Senior
3 22 (17.32%) Ruby Developer
3 22 (17.32%) Senior Developer
4 19 (14.96%) Lead
5 14 (11.02%) Architect
6 13 (10.24%) Technical Architect
7 12 (9.45%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 9 (7.09%) Site Engineer
8 9 (7.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (7.09%) Software Developer
9 8 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (6.30%) Python Developer
9 8 (6.30%) Senior Software Developer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Python Developer
11 6 (4.72%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 6 (4.72%) Test Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.11%) Ruby on Rails
2 22 (17.32%) Node.js
3 16 (12.60%) CSS
3 16 (12.60%) HTML
4 13 (10.24%) React
5 12 (9.45%) Web Services
6 11 (8.66%) Spring
7 9 (7.09%) YAML
8 8 (6.30%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.30%) Vue
9 6 (4.72%) RESTful
10 5 (3.94%) Gherkin
11 3 (2.36%) .NET
11 3 (2.36%) Playwright
12 2 (1.57%) ADO
12 2 (1.57%) Drush
13 1 (0.79%) CSS3
13 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
13 1 (0.79%) REST
13 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.02%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.36%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.57%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.57%) NHS
5 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.79%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.98%) Linux
2 8 (6.30%) CentOS
2 8 (6.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (6.30%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.57%) VMS
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (51.18%) CI/CD
2 46 (36.22%) Agile
3 45 (35.43%) Containerisation
4 40 (31.50%) DevOps
5 33 (25.98%) Microservices
6 32 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (21.26%) Technical Leadership
9 23 (18.11%) Software Engineering
10 21 (16.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (15.75%) Observability
12 19 (14.96%) TDD
13 17 (13.39%) Test Automation
14 14 (11.02%) Code Quality
15 13 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (10.24%) Full-Stack Development
16 12 (9.45%) Mentoring
17 11 (8.66%) API Design
17 11 (8.66%) Data Modelling
17 11 (8.66%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 88 (69.29%) Python
2 37 (29.13%) Java
3 26 (20.47%) JavaScript
4 14 (11.02%) Perl
5 12 (9.45%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.94%) Bash
6 5 (3.94%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.15%) Go
7 4 (3.15%) SQL
8 2 (1.57%) C#
8 2 (1.57%) C++
8 2 (1.57%) Elixir
8 2 (1.57%) PHP
8 2 (1.57%) Rust
8 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.79%) C
Qualifications
1 61 (48.03%) Security Cleared
2 52 (40.94%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.30%) Degree
4 8 (6.30%) RHCE
5 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.72%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.87%) QA
2 7 (5.51%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.36%) WCAG
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) P3O
4 1 (0.79%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (29.92%) Docker
2 5 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.15%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.79%) GPFS
4 1 (0.79%) Lustre
4 1 (0.79%) NFS
4 1 (0.79%) Postfix
4 1 (0.79%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.79%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 51 (40.16%) Kubernetes
2 32 (25.20%) Terraform
3 12 (9.45%) Ansible
4 10 (7.87%) Puppet
5 8 (6.30%) Argo
6 2 (1.57%) Grafana
6 2 (1.57%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.79%) Consul
7 1 (0.79%) Nessus
7 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.79%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (13.39%) Red Hat
2 12 (9.45%) Google
3 8 (6.30%) Oracle
4 6 (4.72%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.57%) Brio
5 2 (1.57%) Splunk
6 1 (0.79%) Databricks
6 1 (0.79%) Genesys
6 1 (0.79%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.79%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.79%) VMware