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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 372 337
Rank change year-on-year -58 -35 -34
Contract jobs citing Ruby 103 146 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.48% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 1.47% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 101 198
10th Percentile £359 £324 £463
25th Percentile £438 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £600 £582
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £700
90th Percentile £669 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £545 £575 £582
% change year-on-year -5.22% -1.20% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 - -

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 9,785 9,951 11,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.45% 32.55% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,510 6,469 8,619
10th Percentile £345 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 257 401
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.36
Median % change year-on-year - +4.24% -1.02%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £63.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +1.19% +4.13% -3.20%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -34 70 £618 +2.92% 10
North of England -44 14 £548 +36.88% 20
North West -22 11 £625 +75.56% 9
South West -19 6 £650 -3.70% 17
South East -3 3 £525 -4.55% 21
West Midlands -27 3 - - 7
Midlands -37 3 - - 15
North East - 2 £545 - 1
East of England - 2 £469 - 12
Yorkshire -37 1 £550 -4.35% 10
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 (1.94%) CMS
1 2 (1.94%) Drupal
2 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.97%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.97%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Shopify
2 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (46.60%) AWS
2 28 (27.18%) GitHub
3 22 (21.36%) Azure
4 20 (19.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (17.48%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (16.50%) GCP
6 17 (16.50%) Serverless
7 15 (14.56%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (13.59%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (10.68%) OpenShift
10 6 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.83%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.88%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.91%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (1.94%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (1.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.80%) DNS
2 4 (3.88%) Firewall
2 4 (3.88%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.97%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.53%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.80%) Data Hub
2 7 (6.80%) MySQL
3 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.91%) Redis
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.97%) Metadata
7 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (45.63%) Git
2 16 (15.53%) Jenkins
3 14 (13.59%) JIRA
4 7 (6.80%) Cucumber
5 6 (5.83%) GitLab
6 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.88%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.91%) Gradle
7 3 (2.91%) Hudson
7 3 (2.91%) Postman
7 3 (2.91%) Selenium
7 3 (2.91%) Subversion
7 3 (2.91%) Xcode
8 2 (1.94%) Vite
8 2 (1.94%) webpack
8 2 (1.94%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.97%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.97%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.30%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.59%) Finance
4 7 (6.80%) Banking
5 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Military
6 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 50 (48.54%) Developer
2 20 (19.42%) Ruby Developer
3 19 (18.45%) Senior
4 14 (13.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (11.65%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.74%) Site Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Python Developer
8 7 (6.80%) Lead
8 7 (6.80%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Ruby Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Architect
11 4 (3.88%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.91%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (31.07%) Node.js
2 31 (30.10%) Ruby on Rails
3 21 (20.39%) React
4 16 (15.53%) CSS
4 16 (15.53%) HTML
5 14 (13.59%) RESTful
6 13 (12.62%) Web Services
7 11 (10.68%) GraphQL
8 10 (9.71%) AngularJS
8 10 (9.71%) Spring
9 8 (7.77%) Vue
10 7 (6.80%) .NET
11 6 (5.83%) REST
12 5 (4.85%) Gherkin
13 4 (3.88%) Sidekiq
14 2 (1.94%) CSS3
14 2 (1.94%) Playwright
14 2 (1.94%) Redux
14 2 (1.94%) Serverless Framework
14 2 (1.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.80%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.91%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.94%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.94%) NHS
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.94%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.97%) Grid Computing
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.33%) Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Android
2 3 (2.91%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.94%) VMS
4 1 (0.97%) Debian
4 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (41.75%) Agile
2 39 (37.86%) CI/CD
3 38 (36.89%) DevOps
4 28 (27.18%) Containerisation
5 24 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (23.30%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (19.42%) Software Engineering
7 19 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (16.50%) Computer Science
9 17 (16.50%) Microservices
10 14 (13.59%) Code Quality
10 14 (13.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (12.62%) Roadmaps
12 12 (11.65%) Scrum
13 11 (10.68%) Observability
14 10 (9.71%) TDD
14 10 (9.71%) Test Automation
15 9 (8.74%) Web Development
16 8 (7.77%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 70 (67.96%) Python
2 30 (29.13%) Java
3 29 (28.16%) JavaScript
4 18 (17.48%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.77%) PHP
6 7 (6.80%) SQL
7 6 (5.83%) Perl
8 5 (4.85%) Bash
8 5 (4.85%) C++
8 5 (4.85%) Go
8 5 (4.85%) Kotlin
8 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.88%) C
9 4 (3.88%) Scala
10 3 (2.91%) C#
10 3 (2.91%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.91%) Swift
11 2 (1.94%) VB
12 1 (0.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (36.89%) Security Cleared
2 36 (34.95%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.50%) Degree
4 12 (11.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (10.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.94%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.83%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) SLA
3 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (31.07%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.88%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.97%) GPFS
3 1 (0.97%) Lustre
3 1 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 39 (37.86%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.33%) Terraform
3 8 (7.77%) Argo
4 3 (2.91%) Ansible
5 2 (1.94%) Grafana
5 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.97%) Consul
6 1 (0.97%) Graphite
6 1 (0.97%) Kibana
6 1 (0.97%) logstash
6 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.97%) Puppet
6 1 (0.97%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) Google
2 8 (7.77%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.85%) Oracle
5 2 (1.94%) Brio
5 2 (1.94%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.94%) YouTube
6 1 (0.97%) Databricks
6 1 (0.97%) Genesys
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow