Ruby on Rails Contract Job Trends in London

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 331 356
Rank change year-on-year -30 +25 +157
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 19 21 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 0.58% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 22
10th Percentile £325 £300 £388
25th Percentile £400 £419 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% -1.12%
75th Percentile £594 £594 £597
90th Percentile £629 £658 £700
England median daily rate £513 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +5.13% -11.36% -2.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Ruby on Rails falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,786 3,602 4,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.44% 25.81% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,562 2,357 3,405
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -2.13% -3.69%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £761 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £42.19 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -7.60% +16.82% -17.69%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ruby on Rails relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Ruby on Rails job vacancy trend in London

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ruby on Rails.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby on Rails in London

Ruby on Rails
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ruby on Rails.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) GitHub
3 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
4 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (15.79%) Serverless
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
6 1 (5.26%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
2 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) Redis
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (10.53%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Ruby Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Ruby Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Node.js
1 8 (42.11%) React
2 7 (36.84%) CSS
2 7 (36.84%) HTML
3 6 (31.58%) AngularJS
4 5 (26.32%) Spring
5 4 (21.05%) Vue
6 3 (15.79%) RESTful
7 2 (10.53%) Django
7 2 (10.53%) Serverless Framework
7 2 (10.53%) Sidekiq
8 1 (5.26%) .NET
8 1 (5.26%) Sass
8 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
3 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (31.58%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) AI
6 4 (21.05%) Code Quality
6 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.79%) API Design
7 3 (15.79%) Web Development
8 2 (10.53%) Fintech
8 2 (10.53%) Front End Development
8 2 (10.53%) TDD
9 1 (5.26%) Chat Support
9 1 (5.26%) Continuous Deployment
9 1 (5.26%) Database Optimisation
9 1 (5.26%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Ruby
2 10 (52.63%) JavaScript
3 7 (36.84%) Python
3 7 (36.84%) TypeScript
4 6 (31.58%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) Rust
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Argo
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.79%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Genesys
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Virgin Media