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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 405 386
Rank change year-on-year -132 -19 -40
Contract jobs citing Ruby 81 101 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.36% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.67% 1.11% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 82 94
10th Percentile £413 £334 £350
25th Percentile £453 £408 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £650
90th Percentile £625 £675 £807
UK median daily rate £475 £489 £550
% change year-on-year -2.76% -11.18% -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 £57.50 £56.00 £58.22
% change year-on-year +2.68% -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 12,039 9,108 10,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.44% 32.80% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,812 6,280 7,647
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 228 364
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.11
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.14 £83.42 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -58 65 £478 -7.95% 56
Yorkshire -42 7 £500 +35.48% 1
North of England -80 7 £500 +3.14% 6
East of England - 3 - - 4
South West -38 1 - - 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 5 (6.17%) Apache
2 2 (2.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) nginx
3 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.98%) AWS
2 23 (28.40%) GitHub
3 13 (16.05%) Azure
3 13 (16.05%) GCP
3 13 (16.05%) PaaS
4 9 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (7.41%) Serverless
6 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.94%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (4.94%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (4.94%) IaaS
6 4 (4.94%) Sentry
7 2 (2.47%) Dataform
7 2 (2.47%) Figma
7 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.23%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) DNS
2 2 (2.47%) Network Security
2 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.23%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.94%) MySQL
3 3 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.70%) Redis
3 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.47%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Git
2 9 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.41%) Selenium
4 5 (6.17%) GitLab
5 4 (4.94%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.94%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.94%) Postman
6 3 (3.70%) RSpec
6 3 (3.70%) Xcode
7 2 (2.47%) Capybara
7 2 (2.47%) JIRA
7 2 (2.47%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.23%) JMeter
8 1 (1.23%) JUnit
8 1 (1.23%) Maven
8 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.23%) TestNG
8 1 (1.23%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (34.57%) Public Sector
2 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.94%) Banking
7 3 (3.70%) Finance
8 2 (2.47%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Military
9 1 (1.23%) Law
9 1 (1.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 32 (39.51%) Developer
2 23 (28.40%) Senior
3 14 (17.28%) Architect
4 13 (16.05%) Senior Developer
5 12 (14.81%) Ruby Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Technical Architect
7 7 (8.64%) Lead
7 7 (8.64%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (6.17%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Test Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Azure Architect
11 3 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
11 3 (3.70%) iOS Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Senior Manager
11 3 (3.70%) Senior Software Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Site Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.52%) Ruby on Rails
2 12 (14.81%) Node.js
3 10 (12.35%) RESTful
4 6 (7.41%) CSS
4 6 (7.41%) FastAPI
4 6 (7.41%) HTML
4 6 (7.41%) Nunjucks
5 5 (6.17%) REST
5 5 (6.17%) Spring
5 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.94%) Django
6 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.94%) Kafka
7 3 (3.70%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.70%) Phoenix
7 3 (3.70%) Phoenix Framework
7 3 (3.70%) SwiftUI
8 2 (2.47%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.47%) Playwright
8 2 (2.47%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.86%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (19.75%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.23%) Clustering
6 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.23%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.58%) Linux
2 5 (6.17%) Unix
3 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.47%) Debian
4 2 (2.47%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.47%) VMS
5 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.91%) CI/CD
2 26 (32.10%) TDD
3 25 (30.86%) Agile
3 25 (30.86%) Microservices
4 22 (27.16%) Containerisation
5 21 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (24.69%) Software Engineering
7 19 (23.46%) Observability
8 18 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 16 (19.75%) API Design
10 15 (18.52%) DevOps
10 15 (18.52%) ERP
11 14 (17.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (14.81%) Data Flow Diagram
13 12 (14.81%) Data Modelling
13 12 (14.81%) Domain-Driven Design
13 12 (14.81%) Event-Driven
13 12 (14.81%) Mentoring
13 12 (14.81%) UML
Programming Languages
1 47 (58.02%) Python
2 27 (33.33%) Java
3 20 (24.69%) JavaScript
4 17 (20.99%) SQL
5 14 (17.28%) TypeScript
6 11 (13.58%) Bash
7 7 (8.64%) Go
7 7 (8.64%) Shell Script
8 5 (6.17%) Rust
9 4 (4.94%) Elixir
9 4 (4.94%) Perl
9 4 (4.94%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.70%) C#
10 3 (3.70%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.70%) Objective-C
10 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.70%) Swift
11 2 (2.47%) Scala
12 1 (1.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 36 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) Degree
4 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.99%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.41%) QA
3 4 (4.94%) WCAG
4 3 (3.70%) GDPR
5 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.23%) P3O
6 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (19.75%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Postfix
2 4 (4.94%) Varnish
3 3 (3.70%) NFS
3 3 (3.70%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.23%) GPFS
4 1 (1.23%) Lustre
4 1 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (18.52%) Kubernetes
1 15 (18.52%) Terraform
2 10 (12.35%) Ansible
3 9 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 8 (9.88%) Grafana
5 6 (7.41%) Kibana
6 4 (4.94%) HAProxy
7 3 (3.70%) Consul
7 3 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.70%) Puppet
8 2 (2.47%) logstash
9 1 (1.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Oracle
2 5 (6.17%) Google
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.94%) Splunk
4 3 (3.70%) Checkmarx
4 3 (3.70%) New Relic
5 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.23%) SaltStack