Ruby Contracts in England

Ruby
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Ruby skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 317 334
Rank change year-on-year -70 +17 -67
Contract jobs citing Ruby 148 402 569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.80% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 2.25% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 282 417
10th Percentile £388 £413 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +3.48% +14.77%
75th Percentile £600 £680 £650
90th Percentile £758 £712 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.45
25th Percentile - - £32.88
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
75th Percentile - - £47.88
90th Percentile - - £52.15
UK median hourly rate - - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Programming Languages
England

Ruby is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in England.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in England

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 27 April 2024. 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 -40 107 £525 -12.50% 63
North of England -12 25 £538 -14.00% 9
North West -15 19 £450 -26.53% 5
South East +19 8 £475 -13.64% 9
Yorkshire +7 6 £550 -21.43% 2
West Midlands +16 4 £999 +42.71% 6
Midlands +7 4 £999 +42.71% 8
South West +19 1 - - 10
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (7.43%) Apache
1 11 (7.43%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.38%) nginx
2 5 (3.38%) WordPress
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.03%) CMS
3 3 (2.03%) Confluence
3 3 (2.03%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.35%) Traefik
5 1 (0.68%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.68%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.59%) AWS
2 24 (16.22%) Azure
2 24 (16.22%) GCP
3 14 (9.46%) GitHub
4 12 (8.11%) SaaS
5 9 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (5.41%) dbt
7 6 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.38%) CloudBees
8 5 (3.38%) IaaS
8 5 (3.38%) PaaS
8 5 (3.38%) Serverless
9 4 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.70%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.70%) Datadog
9 4 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.03%) Akamai
10 3 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.41%) DNS
2 7 (4.73%) DSL
3 6 (4.05%) Firewall
4 5 (3.38%) Intranet
5 4 (2.70%) DHCP
6 3 (2.03%) HTTP
6 3 (2.03%) Internet
6 3 (2.03%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.35%) BIG-IP
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.35%) Network Security
7 2 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.35%) VPN
7 2 (1.35%) Wireless
8 1 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.68%) VSAN
8 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.46%) MySQL
3 8 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (5.41%) Apache Arrow
3 8 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
3 8 (5.41%) Apache Ignite
3 8 (5.41%) Dremio
4 7 (4.73%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.03%) ClickHouse
7 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.03%) Redis
8 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (18.24%) Jenkins
2 15 (10.14%) Git
2 15 (10.14%) JIRA
3 9 (6.08%) GitLab
4 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.35%) JUnit
4 2 (1.35%) Maven
4 2 (1.35%) Postman
4 2 (1.35%) Selenium
4 2 (1.35%) TestNG
4 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.35%) WebDriver
4 2 (1.35%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.68%) Subversion
5 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.89%) Finance
3 21 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.14%) Banking
5 14 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.43%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.41%) Front Office
8 3 (2.03%) German Language
9 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Military
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Police
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (46.62%) Developer
2 40 (27.03%) Ruby Developer
3 19 (12.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (10.81%) Lead
5 14 (9.46%) Senior
6 12 (8.11%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (8.11%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 10 (6.76%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.41%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 8 (5.41%) Software Developer
9 7 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Team Leader
11 5 (3.38%) Architect
12 4 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.70%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (31.76%) Ruby on Rails
2 18 (12.16%) .NET
3 14 (9.46%) CSS
3 14 (9.46%) HTML
4 10 (6.76%) Node.js
4 10 (6.76%) React
5 8 (5.41%) AngularJS
5 8 (5.41%) gRPC
5 8 (5.41%) Kafka
5 8 (5.41%) NumPy
5 8 (5.41%) Pandas
5 8 (5.41%) Protocol Buffers
5 8 (5.41%) REST
5 8 (5.41%) SciPy
6 5 (3.38%) Web Services
7 4 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.70%) RESTful
8 3 (2.03%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.03%) Keycloak
8 3 (2.03%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.46%) Public Cloud
2 11 (7.43%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.73%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.05%) Derivative
4 6 (4.05%) Equities
4 6 (4.05%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.05%) Hedge funds
5 5 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.03%) PKI
7 3 (2.03%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.35%) Clustering
8 2 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.84%) Linux
2 13 (8.78%) Windows
3 8 (5.41%) Unix
4 6 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.14%) DevOps
2 43 (29.05%) Agile
3 38 (25.68%) CI/CD
4 25 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (14.86%) Software Engineering
6 20 (13.51%) Configuration Management
6 20 (13.51%) Containerisation
7 16 (10.81%) Full Stack Development
8 15 (10.14%) Open Source
8 15 (10.14%) Test Automation
9 14 (9.46%) Microservices
10 13 (8.78%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (8.78%) Mentoring
11 11 (7.43%) Analytics
11 11 (7.43%) Asset Management
12 10 (6.76%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (6.08%) High Availability
13 9 (6.08%) Product Management
13 9 (6.08%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 66 (44.59%) Python
2 51 (34.46%) Java
3 33 (22.30%) JavaScript
4 28 (18.92%) Go
5 17 (11.49%) Bash
6 16 (10.81%) Perl
7 14 (9.46%) C#
8 13 (8.78%) Scala
9 12 (8.11%) TypeScript
10 10 (6.76%) PHP
11 9 (6.08%) PowerShell
12 8 (5.41%) C++
13 7 (4.73%) C
13 7 (4.73%) Groovy
14 6 (4.05%) SQL
15 4 (2.70%) Rust
16 3 (2.03%) Korn
17 2 (1.35%) Kotlin
17 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.68%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 12 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 12 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.73%) Degree
3 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.35%) CCNP
4 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.35%) CREST Certified
4 2 (1.35%) OSCP
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.38%) QA
3 3 (2.03%) SLA
4 2 (1.35%) NCSC
4 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.68%) COPPA
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (21.62%) Docker
2 7 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.35%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.35%) vSphere
5 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (20.95%) Ansible
2 28 (18.92%) Kubernetes
3 26 (17.57%) Terraform
4 24 (16.22%) Puppet
5 19 (12.84%) Progress Chef
6 7 (4.73%) CFEngine
6 7 (4.73%) PowerBroker
7 6 (4.05%) Grafana
7 6 (4.05%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.70%) Nagios
8 4 (2.70%) Opsgenie
9 3 (2.03%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.35%) Consul
10 2 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.35%) Istio
10 2 (1.35%) linkerd
10 2 (1.35%) Packer
10 2 (1.35%) Podman
10 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (8.78%) Splunk
1 13 (8.78%) Virgin Media
2 9 (6.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.41%) PagerDuty
4 7 (4.73%) Atlassian
4 7 (4.73%) VMware
5 6 (4.05%) New Relic
6 5 (3.38%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.70%) Adobe
7 4 (2.70%) Cisco
7 4 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.70%) SAP
8 3 (2.03%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.03%) Sun
8 3 (2.03%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.35%) AlgoSec
9 2 (1.35%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.35%) F5
9 2 (1.35%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.68%) Terracotta