Ruby Contracts in England

Ruby
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 391 311
Rank change year-on-year -9 -80 +26
Contract jobs citing Ruby 85 151 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.41% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 1.38% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 107 279
10th Percentile £362 £383 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £684
90th Percentile £650 £743 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% - -
75th Percentile £49.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -19.09% - -

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 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -20 51 £488 -7.14% 221
North of England +8 14 £485 -9.77% 114
North West +7 9 £500 +11.11% 77
Midlands +24 7 £450 -54.95% 55
West Midlands +17 7 £450 -54.95% 22
South East +43 5 £500 +5.26% 108
Yorkshire +7 5 £369 -32.91% 30
South West +47 2 £600 - 20
East of England - 2 - - 13
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 5 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (1.18%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.18%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.94%) AWS
2 22 (25.88%) Azure
3 8 (9.41%) IaaS
3 8 (9.41%) PaaS
3 8 (9.41%) SaaS
4 7 (8.24%) GitHub
5 6 (7.06%) GCP
6 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.88%) Serverless
7 3 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.35%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) IPv4
1 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.18%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) MySQL
2 6 (7.06%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.35%) Power BI
5 2 (2.35%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.18%) DB2
6 1 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.18%) Redis
6 1 (1.18%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (22.35%) Git
2 12 (14.12%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.41%) GitLab
4 6 (7.06%) JIRA
4 6 (7.06%) Selenium
5 5 (5.88%) CircleCI
5 5 (5.88%) Gatling
5 5 (5.88%) JMeter
6 4 (4.71%) Appium
6 4 (4.71%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.71%) NeoLoad
6 4 (4.71%) SpecFlow
6 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.53%) Vagrant
8 2 (2.35%) Burp Suite
8 2 (2.35%) Metasploit
8 2 (2.35%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.18%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Finance
5 5 (5.88%) Legal
6 3 (3.53%) Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Front Office
7 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Military
8 1 (1.18%) Aviation
8 1 (1.18%) Back Office
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (42.35%) Developer
2 17 (20.00%) Senior
3 10 (11.76%) Ruby Developer
4 8 (9.41%) Tester
5 7 (8.24%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.24%) Software Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Lead
7 5 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Tester
7 5 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Developer in Test
8 4 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Software Test Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.53%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (16.47%) CSS
2 14 (16.47%) HTML
3 10 (11.76%) .NET
4 8 (9.41%) React
5 7 (8.24%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (8.24%) Node.js
6 6 (7.06%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.06%) ASP.NET
7 5 (5.88%) RESTful
8 4 (4.71%) Play Framework
8 4 (4.71%) Playwright
8 4 (4.71%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.53%) Apache Axis
9 3 (3.53%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.53%) Django
9 3 (3.53%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.53%) GraphQL
10 2 (2.35%) JSON
10 2 (2.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.35%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.18%) Blog
5 1 (1.18%) CCTV
5 1 (1.18%) Clustering
5 1 (1.18%) Derivative
5 1 (1.18%) Equities
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.29%) Linux
2 9 (10.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (9.41%) Windows
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.18%) CentOS
6 1 (1.18%) Debian
6 1 (1.18%) Solaris
6 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.12%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (25.88%) Agile
3 21 (24.71%) CI/CD
3 21 (24.71%) DevOps
4 16 (18.82%) Test Automation
5 12 (14.12%) Computer Science
5 12 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (14.12%) Mentoring
6 10 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 10 (11.76%) Microservices
7 9 (10.59%) Configuration Management
7 9 (10.59%) Software Engineering
8 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (8.24%) Information Security
8 7 (8.24%) OO
8 7 (8.24%) OWASP
8 7 (8.24%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (7.06%) High Availability
9 6 (7.06%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 58 (68.24%) Python
2 30 (35.29%) Java
3 28 (32.94%) JavaScript
4 19 (22.35%) SQL
5 16 (18.82%) C#
6 14 (16.47%) PHP
7 9 (10.59%) Bash
7 9 (10.59%) PowerShell
8 8 (9.41%) Shell Script
9 7 (8.24%) TypeScript
10 6 (7.06%) C++
11 5 (5.88%) Perl
12 4 (4.71%) Scala
13 3 (3.53%) Go
13 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
13 3 (3.53%) T-SQL
14 2 (2.35%) C
14 2 (2.35%) Rust
15 1 (1.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Degree
1 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.24%) GPEN
3 7 (8.24%) GWAPT
3 7 (8.24%) OSCP
4 5 (5.88%) CCSAS
4 5 (5.88%) CEH
4 5 (5.88%) CREST Certified
4 5 (5.88%) GIAC
4 5 (5.88%) RHCE
5 4 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.53%) CISSP
6 3 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.53%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.35%) OSCE
8 1 (1.18%) MCITP
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) GDPR
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) EMIR
4 1 (1.18%) MiFID
4 1 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) Docker
2 8 (9.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.53%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.18%) Firmware
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.94%) Ansible
2 11 (12.94%) Puppet
3 10 (11.76%) Terraform
4 8 (9.41%) Progress Chef
4 8 (9.41%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.71%) Grafana
5 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.18%) Control-M
6 1 (1.18%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.18%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.18%) Kibana
6 1 (1.18%) Nagios
6 1 (1.18%) QRadar
6 1 (1.18%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (9.41%) Oracle
1 8 (9.41%) Red Hat
2 6 (7.06%) Splunk
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.53%) Virgin Media
5 2 (2.35%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.35%) Google
5 2 (2.35%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.18%) BMC
6 1 (1.18%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.18%) CQG
6 1 (1.18%) EMC
6 1 (1.18%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.18%) Reuters
6 1 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) Serena
6 1 (1.18%) Sybase
6 1 (1.18%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.18%) VMware