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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 402 317
Rank change year-on-year +18 -85 +14
Contract jobs citing Ruby 92 135 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.37% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 1.22% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 94 240
10th Percentile £371 £358 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £597 £688
90th Percentile £675 £774 £738
UK median daily rate £506 £506 £595
% change year-on-year - -14.92% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £53.39 -
25th Percentile £39.25 £54.73 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £58.22 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.56% - -
75th Percentile £49.75 £60.45 -
90th Percentile - £61.04 -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £58.22 -
% change year-on-year -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 8,172 11,093 16,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.00% 30.16% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,675 8,031 11,991
10th Percentile £361 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -3.48% +2.66%
75th Percentile £643 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 464 401
10th Percentile £28.18 £36.19 £26.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £49.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.63% -0.40% +21.95%

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 30 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 30 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 0 53 £563 +7.14% 214
North of England +13 18 £485 +7.78% 450
North West +11 13 £500 +11.11% 237
South East +56 7 £450 -5.26% 487
Midlands +19 7 £450 -54.95% 353
West Midlands +19 7 £450 -54.95% 187
Yorkshire +19 5 £369 -38.50% 166
East of England - 2 - - 284
South West +44 1 £425 - 226
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 (5.43%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) CMS
3 1 (1.09%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.52%) AWS
2 20 (21.74%) Azure
3 7 (7.61%) Serverless
4 6 (6.52%) GCP
4 6 (6.52%) GitHub
5 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.17%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.17%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.17%) PaaS
7 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.17%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) IPv4
1 1 (1.09%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.09%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) MySQL
2 9 (9.78%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.61%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.17%) Power BI
5 2 (2.17%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.09%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.09%) Redis
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.09%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) Git
2 14 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.70%) GitLab
4 6 (6.52%) JIRA
4 6 (6.52%) Selenium
5 5 (5.43%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.35%) Appium
6 4 (4.35%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.35%) Gatling
6 4 (4.35%) Gradle
6 4 (4.35%) JMeter
6 4 (4.35%) NeoLoad
6 4 (4.35%) SpecFlow
6 4 (4.35%) Visual Studio
6 4 (4.35%) Xcode
7 3 (3.26%) Vagrant
8 2 (2.17%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.09%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.70%) Finance
4 7 (7.61%) Banking
5 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.17%) Front Office
6 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.17%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Back Office
7 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 53 (57.61%) Developer
2 22 (23.91%) Ruby Developer
3 17 (18.48%) Senior
4 12 (13.04%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.70%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 7 (7.61%) Lead
6 7 (7.61%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Software Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Architect
7 5 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Developer in Test
8 4 (4.35%) iOS Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.17%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (15.22%) CSS
2 14 (15.22%) HTML
3 12 (13.04%) React
4 10 (10.87%) .NET
4 10 (10.87%) Node.js
5 8 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 7 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (7.61%) RESTful
7 6 (6.52%) ASP.NET
8 4 (4.35%) Play Framework
8 4 (4.35%) Playwright
8 4 (4.35%) Vue
9 3 (3.26%) Apache Axis
9 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.26%) Django
9 3 (3.26%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.26%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.26%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.35%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.17%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.09%) Blog
5 1 (1.09%) CCTV
5 1 (1.09%) Clustering
5 1 (1.09%) Derivative
5 1 (1.09%) Equities
5 1 (1.09%) IoT
5 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.09%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.09%) PKI
5 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.13%) Linux
2 10 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.61%) Windows
4 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.35%) Android
5 4 (4.35%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.09%) CentOS
7 1 (1.09%) Debian
7 1 (1.09%) Solaris
7 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.43%) Agile
2 23 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (22.83%) CI/CD
3 21 (22.83%) DevOps
4 15 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (11.96%) Containerisation
6 10 (10.87%) TDD
6 10 (10.87%) Test Automation
7 9 (9.78%) Configuration Management
7 9 (9.78%) Front End Development
7 9 (9.78%) Microservices
7 9 (9.78%) OO
7 9 (9.78%) Software Engineering
8 8 (8.70%) Scrum
9 7 (7.61%) API Development
9 7 (7.61%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (6.52%) High Availability
10 6 (6.52%) Mentoring
10 6 (6.52%) OOP
10 6 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (60.87%) Python
2 31 (33.70%) Java
3 29 (31.52%) JavaScript
4 16 (17.39%) C#
5 15 (16.30%) SQL
6 9 (9.78%) C++
6 9 (9.78%) PHP
6 9 (9.78%) Shell Script
6 9 (9.78%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.70%) Bash
7 8 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.70%) Scala
8 5 (5.43%) C
9 4 (4.35%) Kotlin
9 4 (4.35%) Objective-C
9 4 (4.35%) Swift
10 3 (3.26%) Perl
10 3 (3.26%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.61%) Degree
4 6 (6.52%) RHCE
5 5 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.26%) CISSP
7 3 (3.26%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.09%) GPEN
8 1 (1.09%) GWAPT
8 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.09%) OSCE
8 1 (1.09%) OSCP
8 1 (1.09%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.09%) EMIR
4 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.09%) MiFID
4 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (15.22%) Docker
2 8 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.26%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.09%) Firmware
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.96%) Puppet
3 10 (10.87%) Ansible
4 8 (8.70%) Terraform
5 7 (7.61%) Progress Chef
5 7 (7.61%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.35%) Grafana
6 4 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.09%) Control-M
7 1 (1.09%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (1.09%) Kibana
7 1 (1.09%) Nagios
7 1 (1.09%) QRadar
7 1 (1.09%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 9 (9.78%) Red Hat
2 8 (8.70%) Oracle
3 6 (6.52%) Splunk
3 6 (6.52%) Virgin Media
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.17%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.17%) Google
5 2 (2.17%) IBM
6 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.09%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.09%) BMC
6 1 (1.09%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.09%) EMC
6 1 (1.09%) Imperva
6 1 (1.09%) Qualys
6 1 (1.09%) Reuters
6 1 (1.09%) SAP
6 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.09%) Sybase