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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 361 335
Rank change year-on-year -72 -26 -46
Contract jobs citing Ruby 112 124 223
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 1.42% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 90 179
10th Percentile £369 £317 £450
25th Percentile £450 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £772 £663
90th Percentile £665 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 9,737 8,761 10,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 32.71% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,485 5,636 7,867
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 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 209 396
10th Percentile £39.80 £25.26 £35.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £47.22
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 £79.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.79%

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 14 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 14 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 -52 69 £620 +3.33% 24
North of England -41 24 £537 +42.06% 12
North West -23 12 £625 +75.56% 3
Yorkshire -38 10 £525 +5.00% 7
South West -23 6 £650 -16.13% 9
North East - 4 £498 - 2
South East -19 3 £525 -4.55% 31
West Midlands -38 3 - - 2
Midlands -44 3 - - 11
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 (1.79%) CMS
1 2 (1.79%) Drupal
2 1 (0.89%) nginx
2 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.89%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Shopify
2 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (49.11%) AWS
2 30 (26.79%) GitHub
3 22 (19.64%) Azure
4 21 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (16.96%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (16.07%) Serverless
7 17 (15.18%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (14.29%) GCP
9 15 (13.39%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (9.82%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.57%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.68%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (1.79%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (1.79%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) DNS
2 5 (4.46%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (3.57%) Firewall
4 1 (0.89%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.04%) Data Hub
3 6 (5.36%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.57%) MySQL
5 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.68%) Redis
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.89%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (46.43%) Git
2 17 (15.18%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.82%) JIRA
4 10 (8.93%) GitLab
5 7 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.46%) Postman
7 4 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.57%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.68%) Gradle
8 3 (2.68%) Hudson
8 3 (2.68%) Selenium
8 3 (2.68%) Subversion
8 3 (2.68%) Xcode
9 2 (1.79%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (1.79%) JMeter
9 2 (1.79%) Newman
9 2 (1.79%) Pa11y
9 2 (1.79%) Vite
9 2 (1.79%) webpack
General
1 34 (30.36%) Public Sector
1 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.14%) Finance
3 7 (6.25%) Banking
3 7 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (44.64%) Developer
2 21 (18.75%) Senior
3 18 (16.07%) Ruby Developer
4 15 (13.39%) Senior Developer
5 14 (12.50%) Lead
6 12 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (8.04%) Python Developer
7 9 (8.04%) Software Developer
8 8 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
8 8 (7.14%) Site Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) Architect
9 7 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
9 7 (6.25%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 7 (6.25%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Ruby Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (24.11%) Node.js
2 25 (22.32%) Ruby on Rails
3 19 (16.96%) CSS
3 19 (16.96%) HTML
3 19 (16.96%) React
4 12 (10.71%) Spring
4 12 (10.71%) Web Services
5 10 (8.93%) AngularJS
6 9 (8.04%) RESTful
7 8 (7.14%) Vue
8 7 (6.25%) YAML
9 5 (4.46%) Gherkin
10 3 (2.68%) .NET
11 2 (1.79%) ADO
11 2 (1.79%) CSS3
11 2 (1.79%) Django
11 2 (1.79%) Drush
11 2 (1.79%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.79%) HTML5
11 2 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.68%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.68%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.79%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.79%) NHS
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.79%) Linux
2 7 (6.25%) CentOS
2 7 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.68%) Android
3 3 (2.68%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (48.21%) CI/CD
2 46 (41.07%) Agile
3 42 (37.50%) DevOps
4 36 (32.14%) Containerisation
5 31 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (22.32%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (19.64%) Software Engineering
8 21 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (17.86%) Microservices
10 16 (14.29%) TDD
11 14 (12.50%) Observability
11 14 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (11.61%) Roadmaps
13 12 (10.71%) Code Quality
14 11 (9.82%) Computer Science
14 11 (9.82%) Design Patterns
14 11 (9.82%) Open Source
15 10 (8.93%) Scrum
15 10 (8.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (69.64%) Python
2 31 (27.68%) Java
3 30 (26.79%) JavaScript
4 18 (16.07%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.61%) Perl
6 5 (4.46%) C++
6 5 (4.46%) Go
7 4 (3.57%) Bash
7 4 (3.57%) C
7 4 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.57%) SQL
8 3 (2.68%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.68%) Scala
8 3 (2.68%) Swift
9 2 (1.79%) C#
9 2 (1.79%) PHP
10 1 (0.89%) Rust
10 1 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (38.39%) Security Cleared
2 41 (36.61%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.71%) Degree
4 11 (9.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.25%) RHCE
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 35 (31.25%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.89%) GPFS
4 1 (0.89%) Lustre
4 1 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 26 (23.21%) Terraform
3 8 (7.14%) Ansible
3 8 (7.14%) Argo
3 8 (7.14%) Puppet
4 1 (0.89%) Consul
4 1 (0.89%) Grafana
4 1 (0.89%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (13.39%) Red Hat
2 12 (10.71%) Google
3 5 (4.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle
4 2 (1.79%) Brio
5 1 (0.89%) Databricks
5 1 (0.89%) Genesys
5 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.89%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.89%) VMware