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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 395 398
Rank change year-on-year -104 +3 -66
Contract jobs citing Ruby 103 92 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 1.12% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 68 95
10th Percentile £400 £371 £360
25th Percentile £455 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £594
90th Percentile £650 £675 £760
UK median daily rate £501 £506 £513
% change year-on-year -1.14% -1.22% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £33.13 - £53.39
25th Percentile £37.06 £39.25 £54.73
Median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 £58.22
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -23.56% -
75th Percentile £53.06 £49.75 £60.45
90th Percentile £57.38 - £61.04
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 £58.22
% change year-on-year +0.56% -23.56% -

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 11,213 8,246 11,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.70% 34.04% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,366 5,718 8,016
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.98%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 195 467
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.27 £35.52
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.50 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.15 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 74 £550 -2.22% 6
North of England -74 21 £515 +6.19% 4
Yorkshire -47 16 £508 +37.60%
North West -51 5 £650 +30.00% 4
East of England -30 3 - - 2
North East - 2 £450 -
South West -31 1 - - 2
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 5 (4.85%) Apache
2 2 (1.94%) CMS
2 2 (1.94%) nginx
3 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.97%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.91%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (43.69%) AWS
2 23 (22.33%) GitHub
3 14 (13.59%) Azure
4 11 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (10.68%) PaaS
4 11 (10.68%) Serverless
5 10 (9.71%) GCP
6 9 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (5.83%) AWS CodePipeline
7 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (3.88%) IaaS
9 3 (2.91%) Sentry
10 2 (1.94%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (1.94%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.94%) Dataform
10 2 (1.94%) Figma
10 2 (1.94%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) DNS
2 2 (1.94%) Network Security
2 2 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.97%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.88%) Data Hub
2 4 (3.88%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.91%) MySQL
3 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.94%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.94%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (28.16%) Git
2 11 (10.68%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.77%) GitLab
4 6 (5.83%) Cucumber
4 6 (5.83%) Selenium
5 4 (3.88%) Postman
6 3 (2.91%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.91%) JIRA
7 2 (1.94%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (1.94%) Hudson
7 2 (1.94%) JMeter
7 2 (1.94%) Newman
7 2 (1.94%) Pa11y
7 2 (1.94%) Subversion
8 1 (0.97%) Capybara
8 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.97%) minitest
8 1 (0.97%) RSpec
8 1 (0.97%) Snyk
8 1 (0.97%) Xcode
General
1 42 (40.78%) Public Sector
2 29 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.71%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Banking
6 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.91%) Finance
8 2 (1.94%) Legal
8 2 (1.94%) Military
9 1 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (37.86%) Developer
2 33 (32.04%) Senior
3 20 (19.42%) Senior Developer
4 17 (16.50%) Lead
4 17 (16.50%) Ruby Developer
5 16 (15.53%) Architect
6 12 (11.65%) Technical Architect
7 11 (10.68%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 8 (7.77%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Site Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Technical Leader
10 5 (4.85%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Test Automation Engineer
12 3 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (2.91%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.53%) Ruby on Rails
2 12 (11.65%) Node.js
3 9 (8.74%) YAML
4 8 (7.77%) CSS
4 8 (7.77%) HTML
5 6 (5.83%) Spring
6 5 (4.85%) Nunjucks
6 5 (4.85%) Web Services
7 4 (3.88%) Gherkin
7 4 (3.88%) RESTful
7 4 (3.88%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.91%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.91%) Django
8 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.91%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.91%) Kafka
8 3 (2.91%) React
9 2 (1.94%) .NET
9 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.39%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.65%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.85%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.94%) Legacy Code
4 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.97%) Clustering
5 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.97%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.30%) Linux
2 10 (9.71%) Ubuntu
3 8 (7.77%) CentOS
3 8 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Unix
5 2 (1.94%) Debian
6 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.97%) VMS
6 1 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (51.46%) CI/CD
2 33 (32.04%) Containerisation
3 30 (29.13%) Agile
3 30 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (26.21%) TDD
5 26 (25.24%) Microservices
6 23 (22.33%) DevOps
7 22 (21.36%) Observability
8 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (18.45%) Software Engineering
10 17 (16.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (16.50%) Test Automation
11 15 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (13.59%) API Design
13 13 (12.62%) Data Flow Diagram
13 13 (12.62%) UML
14 12 (11.65%) Data Modelling
14 12 (11.65%) ERP
14 12 (11.65%) Migration
15 11 (10.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (63.11%) Python
2 28 (27.18%) Java
3 25 (24.27%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.65%) Perl
4 12 (11.65%) SQL
5 10 (9.71%) Bash
5 10 (9.71%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.85%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.88%) Go
8 3 (2.91%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.94%) Elixir
9 2 (1.94%) Rust
10 1 (0.97%) C++
10 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.97%) Scala
10 1 (0.97%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (46.60%) Security Cleared
2 38 (36.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) RHCE
4 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Degree
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.59%) Accessibility
2 9 (8.74%) QA
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.91%) WCAG
4 2 (1.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.97%) NIST
5 1 (0.97%) P3O
5 1 (0.97%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (21.36%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Postfix
2 4 (3.88%) Varnish
3 3 (2.91%) NFS
3 3 (2.91%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.97%) GPFS
5 1 (0.97%) Lustre
5 1 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (29.13%) Kubernetes
2 24 (23.30%) Terraform
3 18 (17.48%) Ansible
4 11 (10.68%) Puppet
5 7 (6.80%) Grafana
5 7 (6.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.85%) HAProxy
6 5 (4.85%) Kibana
7 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.94%) Consul
8 2 (1.94%) logstash
9 1 (0.97%) Nessus
9 1 (0.97%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) Oracle
2 9 (8.74%) Red Hat
3 5 (4.85%) Google
4 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.91%) Splunk
6 1 (0.97%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.97%) New Relic
6 1 (0.97%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.97%) VMware