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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 432 375
Rank change year-on-year -162 -57 -24
Contract jobs citing Ruby 52 90 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.32% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.98% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 74 113
10th Percentile £400 £327 £329
25th Percentile £455 £376 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -9.61% -1.88%
75th Percentile £603 £620 £700
90th Percentile £638 £668 £810
UK median daily rate £485 £496 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% -9.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £53.39
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.00 £54.73
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.00 £58.22
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -3.80% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £59.00 £60.45
90th Percentile - - £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 12,004 9,223 10,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.91% 32.85% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,766 6,190 7,076
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
75th Percentile £634 £631 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.86% -3.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 269 300
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £78.75 £80.00
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 4 October 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
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 4 October 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 -105 35 £473 -9.95% 194
Yorkshire -37 5 £493 +7.18% 43
North of England -79 5 £493 +29.61% 124
South East -62 2 £450 -10.00% 93
East of England -21 1 - - 52
South West -35 1 - - 49
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 3 (5.77%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) CMS
2 1 (1.92%) nginx
2 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.85%) AWS
1 15 (28.85%) GitHub
2 8 (15.38%) GCP
2 8 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (13.46%) Azure
4 5 (9.62%) PaaS
5 4 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (7.69%) Sentry
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.85%) IaaS
7 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.92%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.92%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.92%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (13.46%) Redis
3 5 (9.62%) MySQL
4 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) Cucumber
2 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.62%) Selenium
3 4 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 4 (7.69%) Postman
4 3 (5.77%) RSpec
4 3 (5.77%) Xcode
5 2 (3.85%) Capybara
5 2 (3.85%) JIRA
5 2 (3.85%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.92%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.92%) GitLab
6 1 (1.92%) JMeter
6 1 (1.92%) JUnit
6 1 (1.92%) Maven
6 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.92%) TestNG
6 1 (1.92%) Travis CI
6 1 (1.92%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Finance
7 1 (1.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (44.23%) Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Senior
3 10 (19.23%) Senior Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Ruby Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.77%) iOS Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.85%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (26.92%) RESTful
3 10 (19.23%) Node.js
4 8 (15.38%) Django
4 8 (15.38%) FastAPI
5 7 (13.46%) GraphQL
6 6 (11.54%) Nunjucks
6 6 (11.54%) REST
7 5 (9.62%) Terraform
8 4 (7.69%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (7.69%) Spring
8 4 (7.69%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.77%) SwiftUI
10 2 (3.85%) CSS
10 2 (3.85%) HTML
10 2 (3.85%) LangChain
10 2 (3.85%) Phoenix
10 2 (3.85%) Phoenix Framework
10 2 (3.85%) PyTorch
10 2 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.92%) Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 19 (36.54%) TDD
3 17 (32.69%) Agile
3 17 (32.69%) Software Engineering
4 12 (23.08%) Microservices
5 11 (21.15%) AI
5 11 (21.15%) Observability
5 11 (21.15%) Test Automation
6 10 (19.23%) DevOps
7 9 (17.31%) Code Quality
7 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
7 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (15.38%) BDD
8 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
9 7 (13.46%) ERP
9 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (11.54%) Migration
10 6 (11.54%) SDLC
10 6 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (53.85%) Python
2 20 (38.46%) Java
3 14 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 14 (26.92%) TypeScript
4 13 (25.00%) SQL
5 9 (17.31%) Bash
6 7 (13.46%) Rust
7 5 (9.62%) Go
8 4 (7.69%) C#
8 4 (7.69%) Perl
8 4 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.77%) Kotlin
9 3 (5.77%) Objective-C
9 3 (5.77%) Swift
10 2 (3.85%) Elixir
11 1 (1.92%) C++
11 1 (1.92%) Scala
11 1 (1.92%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.92%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.62%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) FedRAMP
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Postfix
2 2 (3.85%) Varnish
3 1 (1.92%) GPFS
3 1 (1.92%) Lustre
3 1 (1.92%) NFS
3 1 (1.92%) Sendmail
3 1 (1.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.54%) Ansible
2 6 (11.54%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.62%) Grafana
4 4 (7.69%) Kibana
5 3 (5.77%) Consul
6 2 (3.85%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.85%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.85%) Puppet
7 1 (1.92%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Oracle
2 4 (7.69%) Splunk
3 3 (5.77%) Checkmarx
3 3 (5.77%) New Relic
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.92%) Google