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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 367 336
Rank change year-on-year -77 -31 -21
Contract jobs citing Ruby 101 156 250
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.50% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 1.54% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 109 200
10th Percentile £330 £324 £462
25th Percentile £409 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £583
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.00% -2.92%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £700
90th Percentile £654 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £509 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -11.48% -1.37% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £61.43 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% - -
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £61.43 -
% change year-on-year -8.84% - -

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 9,831 10,108 12,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.15% 32.33% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,546 6,568 8,925
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 261 419
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £64.57 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +4.84% -0.80%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £63.07 £62.50 £60.36
% change year-on-year +0.91% +3.55% -0.24%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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 -36 70 £575 -4.17% 89
North of England -35 12 £545 +35.49% 15
North West -23 9 £378 +2.44% 9
South East +2 5 £525 -12.50% 16
South West -23 4 £649 -3.85% 7
West Midlands -27 3 - - 1
Midlands -37 3 - - 1
East of England -12 2 £469 -33.04%
North East - 2 £545 -
Yorkshire -41 1 £550 -4.35% 6
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 (1.98%) CMS
1 2 (1.98%) Drupal
2 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.99%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Shopify
2 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (42.57%) AWS
2 23 (22.77%) GitHub
3 22 (21.78%) Azure
4 17 (16.83%) GCP
5 14 (13.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (12.87%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (11.88%) Serverless
8 11 (10.89%) OpenShift
9 9 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.96%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.97%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.97%) SaaS
14 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.98%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Firewall
2 3 (2.97%) DNS
3 1 (0.99%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.81%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.90%) MySQL
3 9 (8.91%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.96%) Data Hub
5 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.97%) Redis
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.99%) Metadata
8 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (36.63%) Git
2 15 (14.85%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.88%) JIRA
4 6 (5.94%) GitLab
5 5 (4.95%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.96%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.96%) Gradle
6 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.96%) Xcode
7 3 (2.97%) Postman
7 3 (2.97%) Selenium
8 2 (1.98%) Vite
8 2 (1.98%) webpack
8 2 (1.98%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.99%) Hudson
9 1 (0.99%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.99%) Subversion
9 1 (0.99%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Public Sector
3 16 (15.84%) Finance
4 8 (7.92%) Banking
5 3 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Military
6 2 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 58 (57.43%) Developer
2 27 (26.73%) Ruby Developer
3 20 (19.80%) Senior
4 14 (13.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (13.86%) Senior Developer
5 10 (9.90%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 8 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Lead
8 6 (5.94%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Ruby Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Java Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) iOS Developer
11 3 (2.97%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (39.60%) Ruby on Rails
2 35 (34.65%) Node.js
3 22 (21.78%) React
4 18 (17.82%) CSS
4 18 (17.82%) HTML
5 16 (15.84%) RESTful
6 13 (12.87%) GraphQL
7 12 (11.88%) AngularJS
7 12 (11.88%) Web Services
8 11 (10.89%) Spring
9 10 (9.90%) Vue
10 9 (8.91%) .NET
11 8 (7.92%) REST
12 4 (3.96%) Sidekiq
13 3 (2.97%) Django
13 3 (2.97%) Gherkin
13 3 (2.97%) Spring Boot
14 2 (1.98%) CSS3
14 2 (1.98%) HTML5
14 2 (1.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Mobile App
2 9 (8.91%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.96%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (3.96%) Web Conferencing
5 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.98%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.98%) NHS
7 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.99%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.85%) Linux
2 4 (3.96%) Android
2 4 (3.96%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.98%) VMS
4 1 (0.99%) Debian
4 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (43.56%) Agile
2 38 (37.62%) DevOps
3 33 (32.67%) CI/CD
4 24 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (22.77%) Containerisation
6 22 (21.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (18.81%) Computer Science
7 19 (18.81%) Software Engineering
8 17 (16.83%) Microservices
9 15 (14.85%) Code Quality
9 15 (14.85%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (13.86%) Roadmaps
11 13 (12.87%) Scrum
12 10 (9.90%) Front End Development
12 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (9.90%) TDD
13 9 (8.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (8.91%) Web Development
14 8 (7.92%) OO
14 8 (7.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (60.40%) Python
2 34 (33.66%) JavaScript
3 32 (31.68%) Java
4 20 (19.80%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.90%) PHP
6 8 (7.92%) SQL
7 6 (5.94%) C++
7 6 (5.94%) Kotlin
7 6 (5.94%) Perl
8 5 (4.95%) Bash
8 5 (4.95%) C
8 5 (4.95%) Go
8 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.95%) Scala
9 4 (3.96%) Objective-C
9 4 (3.96%) Swift
10 3 (2.97%) C#
11 2 (1.98%) Rust
11 2 (1.98%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 19 (18.81%) Degree
4 12 (11.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.98%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (32.67%) Docker
2 4 (3.96%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.99%) GPFS
3 1 (0.99%) Lustre
3 1 (0.99%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (32.67%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.85%) Terraform
3 8 (7.92%) Argo
4 3 (2.97%) Ansible
5 2 (1.98%) Grafana
5 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.99%) Consul
6 1 (0.99%) Graphite
6 1 (0.99%) Kibana
6 1 (0.99%) logstash
6 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.99%) Puppet
6 1 (0.99%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (11.88%) Google
2 8 (7.92%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.95%) Oracle
5 4 (3.96%) Virgin Media
5 4 (3.96%) YouTube
6 2 (1.98%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.98%) Brio
7 1 (0.99%) Databricks
7 1 (0.99%) Genesys
7 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow