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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 411 376
Rank change year-on-year -128 -35 -11
Contract jobs citing Ruby 77 97 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.35% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 1.07% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 80 106
10th Percentile £413 £332 £350
25th Percentile £453 £379 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -12.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £688
90th Percentile £635 £675 £810
UK median daily rate £478 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +0.63% -13.64% -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 £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 11,968 9,094 10,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.03% 32.77% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,757 6,197 7,439
10th Percentile £363 £348 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +3.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 266 316
10th Percentile £29.97 £30.61 £32.16
25th Percentile £52.00 £42.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £79.38 £78.75
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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -80 58 £475 -9.52% 60
Yorkshire -46 6 £501 +35.55% 1
North of England -87 6 £501 +30.34% 5
East of England - 3 - - 1
South East -66 2 £450 - 15
South West -42 1 - - 3
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 4 (5.19%) Apache
2 2 (2.60%) CMS
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (42.86%) AWS
2 21 (27.27%) GitHub
3 12 (15.58%) Azure
3 12 (15.58%) PaaS
4 10 (12.99%) GCP
5 9 (11.69%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.49%) Serverless
7 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.19%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (5.19%) Sentry
8 3 (3.90%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.90%) IaaS
9 2 (2.60%) Figma
9 2 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.30%) Heroku
10 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.30%) SaaS
10 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.30%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.49%) MySQL
2 5 (6.49%) Redis
3 4 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.60%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (25.97%) Git
2 7 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.79%) Selenium
4 5 (6.49%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.19%) CircleCI
5 4 (5.19%) Postman
6 3 (3.90%) GitLab
6 3 (3.90%) RSpec
6 3 (3.90%) Xcode
7 2 (2.60%) Capybara
7 2 (2.60%) JIRA
7 2 (2.60%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.30%) JMeter
8 1 (1.30%) JUnit
8 1 (1.30%) Maven
8 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.30%) TestNG
8 1 (1.30%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.30%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (33.77%) Public Sector
2 24 (31.17%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Finance
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (40.26%) Developer
2 22 (28.57%) Senior
3 13 (16.88%) Architect
4 12 (15.58%) Ruby Developer
4 12 (15.58%) Senior Developer
5 10 (12.99%) Technical Architect
6 7 (9.09%) Lead
6 7 (9.09%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (6.49%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.90%) iOS Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Software Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.08%) Ruby on Rails
2 13 (16.88%) RESTful
3 12 (15.58%) Terraform
4 11 (14.29%) Node.js
5 8 (10.39%) FastAPI
6 7 (9.09%) REST
7 6 (7.79%) Django
7 6 (7.79%) Nunjucks
8 5 (6.49%) CSS
8 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (6.49%) GraphQL
8 5 (6.49%) HTML
8 5 (6.49%) Spring
8 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.19%) Kafka
9 4 (5.19%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (3.90%) SwiftUI
11 2 (2.60%) AWS CDK
11 2 (2.60%) Phoenix
11 2 (2.60%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.17%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (19.48%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.79%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) Clustering
6 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.30%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.30%) PKI
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
2 4 (5.19%) Unix
3 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.60%) Debian
4 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.65%) CI/CD
2 27 (35.06%) TDD
3 24 (31.17%) Microservices
3 24 (31.17%) Software Engineering
4 21 (27.27%) Agile
4 21 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (24.68%) Containerisation
6 18 (23.38%) Observability
6 18 (23.38%) Test Automation
7 16 (20.78%) DevOps
8 15 (19.48%) API Design
8 15 (19.48%) ERP
9 14 (18.18%) Data Modelling
9 14 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (15.58%) Data Flow Diagram
10 12 (15.58%) Domain-Driven Design
10 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (15.58%) UML
11 11 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 11 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (58.44%) Python
2 30 (38.96%) Java
3 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
3 17 (22.08%) SQL
4 14 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 13 (16.88%) Bash
6 7 (9.09%) Go
7 6 (7.79%) Rust
8 5 (6.49%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.19%) C#
9 4 (5.19%) Perl
9 4 (5.19%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.90%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.90%) Objective-C
10 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.90%) Swift
11 2 (2.60%) Elixir
11 2 (2.60%) Scala
12 1 (1.30%) C++
12 1 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 31 (40.26%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) Degree
4 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.08%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.09%) QA
3 4 (5.19%) WCAG
4 3 (3.90%) GDPR
5 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.30%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 11 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Postfix
2 3 (3.90%) Varnish
3 2 (2.60%) NFS
3 2 (2.60%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.30%) GPFS
4 1 (1.30%) Lustre
4 1 (1.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.99%) Ansible
3 9 (11.69%) Prometheus
4 8 (10.39%) Grafana
5 6 (7.79%) Kibana
6 4 (5.19%) Consul
7 3 (3.90%) HAProxy
7 3 (3.90%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.90%) Puppet
8 2 (2.60%) logstash
9 1 (1.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Oracle
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.19%) Splunk
3 3 (3.90%) Checkmarx
3 3 (3.90%) New Relic
4 2 (2.60%) Google
5 1 (1.30%) SaltStack