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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 367 330
Rank change year-on-year -67 -37 -46
Contract jobs citing Ruby 107 127 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 1.42% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 91 179
10th Percentile £373 £317 £459
25th Percentile £459 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -0.86% -5.69%
75th Percentile £649 £756 £694
90th Percentile £669 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £580
% change year-on-year - -5.17% -3.33%

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 9,720 8,915 10,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.71% 32.60% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,466 5,755 7,873
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £774 £769
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 211 391
10th Percentile £39.31 £25.26 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.00 £46.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% -0.91%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -47 67 £620 +3.33% 18
North of England -40 21 £537 +34.25% 9
North West -22 12 £625 +75.56% 2
Yorkshire -45 7 £525 -8.70% 5
South West -7 6 £650 -16.13% 6
South East -20 3 £525 -4.55% 23
West Midlands -40 3 - - 4
Midlands -44 3 - - 6
North East - 2 £545 - 2
East of England - 2 £469 - 12
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 (1.87%) CMS
1 2 (1.87%) Drupal
2 1 (0.93%) nginx
2 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.93%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (48.60%) AWS
2 30 (28.04%) GitHub
3 22 (20.56%) Azure
4 21 (19.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (17.76%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (16.82%) Serverless
7 17 (15.89%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (14.95%) GCP
9 15 (14.02%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (10.28%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.54%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (6.54%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.74%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.80%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (1.87%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (1.87%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) DNS
2 5 (4.67%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (3.74%) Firewall
4 1 (0.93%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.48%) Data Hub
3 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.67%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.67%) MySQL
4 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.80%) Redis
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (48.60%) Git
2 17 (15.89%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.28%) JIRA
4 8 (7.48%) GitLab
5 7 (6.54%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.67%) Postman
7 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.74%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.80%) Gradle
8 3 (2.80%) Hudson
8 3 (2.80%) Selenium
8 3 (2.80%) Subversion
8 3 (2.80%) Xcode
9 2 (1.87%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (1.87%) JMeter
9 2 (1.87%) Newman
9 2 (1.87%) Pa11y
9 2 (1.87%) Vite
9 2 (1.87%) webpack
General
1 32 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.04%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.48%) Finance
4 7 (6.54%) Banking
5 6 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (42.99%) Developer
2 19 (17.76%) Senior
3 16 (14.95%) Ruby Developer
4 13 (12.15%) Lead
4 13 (12.15%) Senior Developer
5 12 (11.21%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Python Developer
6 8 (7.48%) Site Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Software Developer
7 7 (6.54%) Architect
7 7 (6.54%) Senior Software Developer
7 7 (6.54%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.61%) Senior Python Developer
8 6 (5.61%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 5 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Ruby Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.30%) Node.js
2 25 (23.36%) Ruby on Rails
3 19 (17.76%) React
4 18 (16.82%) CSS
4 18 (16.82%) HTML
5 11 (10.28%) Web Services
6 10 (9.35%) AngularJS
6 10 (9.35%) RESTful
6 10 (9.35%) Spring
7 8 (7.48%) Vue
8 6 (5.61%) YAML
9 5 (4.67%) Gherkin
10 3 (2.80%) .NET
10 3 (2.80%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.87%) ADO
11 2 (1.87%) Django
11 2 (1.87%) Redux
11 2 (1.87%) Serverless Framework
11 2 (1.87%) Sidekiq
11 2 (1.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.80%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.87%) NHS
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.10%) Linux
2 6 (5.61%) CentOS
2 6 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (5.61%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.80%) Android
3 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) CI/CD
2 45 (42.06%) Agile
3 41 (38.32%) DevOps
4 34 (31.78%) Containerisation
5 29 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (22.43%) Technical Leadership
7 21 (19.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (19.63%) Software Engineering
8 20 (18.69%) Microservices
9 19 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (13.08%) Observability
10 14 (13.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (13.08%) TDD
11 12 (11.21%) Code Quality
11 12 (11.21%) Roadmaps
12 11 (10.28%) Computer Science
13 10 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (9.35%) Open Source
13 10 (9.35%) Scrum
13 10 (9.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (71.03%) Python
2 29 (27.10%) Java
2 29 (27.10%) JavaScript
3 16 (14.95%) TypeScript
4 12 (11.21%) Perl
5 5 (4.67%) C++
5 5 (4.67%) Go
6 4 (3.74%) Bash
6 4 (3.74%) C
6 4 (3.74%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.74%) SQL
7 3 (2.80%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.80%) Scala
7 3 (2.80%) Swift
8 2 (1.87%) C#
8 2 (1.87%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) Rust
9 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (39.25%) Security Cleared
2 40 (37.38%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.21%) Degree
4 11 (10.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (10.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.61%) RHCE
6 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (29.91%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.74%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.93%) GPFS
4 1 (0.93%) Lustre
4 1 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 44 (41.12%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.43%) Terraform
3 8 (7.48%) Argo
4 7 (6.54%) Ansible
4 7 (6.54%) Puppet
5 1 (0.93%) Consul
5 1 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (13.08%) Red Hat
2 12 (11.21%) Google
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.67%) Oracle
4 2 (1.87%) Brio
5 1 (0.93%) Databricks
5 1 (0.93%) Genesys
5 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.93%) VMware