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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 419 367
Rank change year-on-year -158 -52 -11
Contract jobs citing Ruby 59 92 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.33% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% 1.01% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 75 117
10th Percentile £400 £328 £332
25th Percentile £456 £378 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -9.61% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £700
90th Percentile £669 £665 £810
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +0.81% -9.82% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £53.39
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.00 £54.73
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.00 £58.22
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -3.80% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £59.00 £60.45
90th Percentile - - £61.04
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £56.00 £58.22
% change year-on-year -11.16% -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 12,049 9,103 10,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.05% 32.62% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,789 6,092 6,941
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £749 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 265 289
10th Percentile £22.33 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £49.50 £42.25 £47.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.40 £78.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -106 41 £480 -8.57% 163
North of England -76 6 £493 +29.61% 18
Yorkshire -27 5 £493 +7.18% 3
South East -69 2 £450 -10.00% 22
East of England -24 1 - - 2
South West -34 1 - - 2
North West -60 1 - - 8
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 (3.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.69%) CMS
2 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (5.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.51%) AWS
2 14 (23.73%) GitHub
3 8 (13.56%) GCP
3 8 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (11.86%) Azure
5 5 (8.47%) PaaS
6 4 (6.78%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (6.78%) Sentry
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.39%) IaaS
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.69%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.69%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) DNS
2 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.69%) HTTP
3 1 (1.69%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.56%) Redis
3 6 (10.17%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.69%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Git
2 5 (8.47%) Cucumber
2 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.78%) CircleCI
3 4 (6.78%) Postman
3 4 (6.78%) Selenium
4 3 (5.08%) Xcode
5 2 (3.39%) RSpec
5 2 (3.39%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.69%) Capybara
6 1 (1.69%) GitLab
6 1 (1.69%) JIRA
6 1 (1.69%) JUnit
6 1 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) Newman
6 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.69%) TestNG
6 1 (1.69%) Travis CI
6 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.42%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Finance
7 2 (3.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (49.15%) Developer
2 21 (35.59%) Senior
3 16 (27.12%) Senior Developer
4 7 (11.86%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Ruby Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.08%) iOS Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (38.98%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (23.73%) RESTful
3 9 (15.25%) Node.js
4 8 (13.56%) Django
4 8 (13.56%) FastAPI
5 7 (11.86%) GraphQL
6 6 (10.17%) Nunjucks
6 6 (10.17%) REST
7 4 (6.78%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (6.78%) Spring
7 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.78%) Terraform
8 3 (5.08%) React
8 3 (5.08%) SwiftUI
9 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (3.39%) Gherkin
9 2 (3.39%) Kafka
9 2 (3.39%) scikit-learn
9 2 (3.39%) TensorFlow
9 2 (3.39%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.69%) Blog
6 1 (1.69%) Clustering
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.69%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.69%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Unix
3 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.69%) AIX
4 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
2 20 (33.90%) TDD
3 18 (30.51%) Software Engineering
4 17 (28.81%) Agile
5 12 (20.34%) Observability
5 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
6 11 (18.64%) AI
6 11 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (18.64%) DevOps
6 11 (18.64%) Microservices
7 10 (16.95%) Code Quality
8 8 (13.56%) BDD
8 8 (13.56%) Containerisation
8 8 (13.56%) Data Modelling
8 8 (13.56%) Front End Development
9 7 (11.86%) ERP
9 7 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (11.86%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (10.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (49.15%) Python
2 22 (37.29%) Java
3 14 (23.73%) TypeScript
4 13 (22.03%) JavaScript
4 13 (22.03%) SQL
5 9 (15.25%) Bash
6 8 (13.56%) Rust
7 5 (8.47%) C#
7 5 (8.47%) Go
8 4 (6.78%) Perl
8 4 (6.78%) PL/SQL
8 4 (6.78%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.08%) Kotlin
9 3 (5.08%) Objective-C
9 3 (5.08%) Swift
10 2 (3.39%) C++
10 2 (3.39%) Elixir
11 1 (1.69%) C
11 1 (1.69%) Scala
11 1 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) Degree
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.47%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) FedRAMP
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Postfix
2 2 (3.39%) Varnish
3 1 (1.69%) GPFS
3 1 (1.69%) Lustre
3 1 (1.69%) NFS
3 1 (1.69%) Sendmail
3 1 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.86%) Ansible
3 6 (10.17%) Prometheus
4 5 (8.47%) Grafana
5 4 (6.78%) Kibana
6 3 (5.08%) Consul
7 2 (3.39%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.39%) Puppet
8 1 (1.69%) BladeLogic
8 1 (1.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Oracle
2 5 (8.47%) Splunk
3 3 (5.08%) Checkmarx
3 3 (5.08%) New Relic
4 2 (3.39%) Google
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.69%) Glassbox
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) NetScout
5 1 (1.69%) Remedy
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow