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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 379 354
Rank change year-on-year -74 -25 -57
Contract jobs citing Ruby 114 101 200
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.40% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 1.18% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 67 152
10th Percentile £368 £360 £425
25th Percentile £500 £431 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £620
90th Percentile £650 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.36% -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 10,709 8,545 10,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.49% 33.69% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,151 5,637 7,840
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.45% -5.43%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £663
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 210 467
10th Percentile £41.45 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.92
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.34%

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 5 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 5 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 -52 73 £620 +7.83% 40
North of England -45 24 £537 +32.76% 10
Yorkshire -56 12 £513 +2.55% 2
North West -33 10 £638 +58.48% 7
South West -24 6 £650 -16.13% 9
North East - 4 £498 - 1
West Midlands -57 3 - - 2
Midlands -63 3 - - 2
East of England -26 2 £469 - 8
South East -49 1 £500 -3.57% 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 3 (2.63%) CMS
2 2 (1.75%) Drupal
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) nginx
3 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.88%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.86%) AWS
2 25 (21.93%) GitHub
3 21 (18.42%) Azure
4 20 (17.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (14.91%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (14.91%) Serverless
6 16 (14.04%) GCP
7 13 (11.40%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (7.89%) OpenShift
10 7 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.14%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.51%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
13 2 (1.75%) BrowserStack
13 2 (1.75%) Dataform
14 1 (0.88%) Amazon Macie
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.89%) DNS
2 5 (4.39%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (3.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.88%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.88%) Network Security
4 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.89%) Data Hub
3 6 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.39%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.63%) MySQL
6 2 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.88%) Metadata
7 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (42.98%) Git
2 12 (10.53%) GitLab
2 12 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.65%) JIRA
4 7 (6.14%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.39%) Postman
6 4 (3.51%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.63%) Hudson
7 3 (2.63%) Selenium
7 3 (2.63%) Subversion
8 2 (1.75%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (1.75%) JMeter
8 2 (1.75%) Newman
8 2 (1.75%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.88%) Snyk
9 1 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (34.21%) Public Sector
2 32 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Finance
5 5 (4.39%) Banking
6 4 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Military
8 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (43.86%) Developer
2 30 (26.32%) Senior
3 23 (20.18%) Ruby Developer
4 21 (18.42%) Senior Developer
5 16 (14.04%) Lead
6 11 (9.65%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 9 (7.89%) Architect
7 9 (7.89%) Site Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Software Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Python Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Senior Software Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Technical Architect
9 7 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Senior Python Developer
10 6 (5.26%) Test Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.18%) Ruby on Rails
2 22 (19.30%) Node.js
3 14 (12.28%) CSS
3 14 (12.28%) HTML
4 13 (11.40%) React
5 12 (10.53%) Web Services
6 10 (8.77%) Spring
7 9 (7.89%) YAML
8 8 (7.02%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.02%) Vue
9 6 (5.26%) RESTful
10 5 (4.39%) Gherkin
11 3 (2.63%) .NET
12 2 (1.75%) ADO
12 2 (1.75%) Drush
12 2 (1.75%) Playwright
13 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET
13 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
13 1 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
13 1 (0.88%) Phoenix
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.75%) NHS
5 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.88%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.95%) Linux
2 8 (7.02%) CentOS
2 8 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (7.02%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.75%) VMS
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (48.25%) CI/CD
2 45 (39.47%) Agile
3 39 (34.21%) Containerisation
3 39 (34.21%) DevOps
4 30 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (22.81%) Microservices
5 26 (22.81%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (14.04%) Software Engineering
8 15 (13.16%) Observability
8 15 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 14 (12.28%) Code Quality
9 14 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (10.53%) TDD
10 12 (10.53%) Test Automation
11 11 (9.65%) Design Patterns
11 11 (9.65%) Open Source
12 10 (8.77%) Roadmaps
13 9 (7.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (66.67%) Python
2 27 (23.68%) Java
3 24 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.28%) Perl
5 12 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.51%) Bash
7 4 (3.51%) Go
7 4 (3.51%) SQL
8 2 (1.75%) C#
8 2 (1.75%) C++
8 2 (1.75%) Elixir
8 2 (1.75%) PHP
8 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.88%) C
9 1 (0.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 44 (38.60%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 8 (7.02%) RHCE
5 7 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) QA
2 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
3 1 (0.88%) P3O
3 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (32.46%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.51%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.88%) GPFS
4 1 (0.88%) Lustre
4 1 (0.88%) NFS
4 1 (0.88%) Postfix
4 1 (0.88%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.88%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 50 (43.86%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.32%) Terraform
3 11 (9.65%) Ansible
4 9 (7.89%) Puppet
5 8 (7.02%) Argo
6 2 (1.75%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.88%) Consul
7 1 (0.88%) Grafana
7 1 (0.88%) Nessus
7 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.88%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (14.91%) Red Hat
2 11 (9.65%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.51%) Oracle
5 2 (1.75%) Brio
5 2 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (0.88%) Databricks
6 1 (0.88%) Genesys
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.88%) VMware